The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-15
KILLING 800 BILLS
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bills which were in the hands If COM
mittees. A total of Ia original bills
died on the calendars of the two
houses.
There is little concern in legislative
circles concerning statewide laws
which may be affected by the actions
of the house and senate during the
next few days. Usually at this stage
of Kansas legislative proceedings a
half dozen provision IF general con-
Germ are tied up in conference or are
hanging in the balance on the calen-
dars. This year there is very little to
disturb the rest of any one.
Hold Up AppropriationNB Bills.
Many appropriation bills are being
held up-some of them rather inten-
tionally. If the appropriation bills
were passed today, it would be i'm
possible to muster quorum when the
two houses convened Monday. 1t is
the big financial budget which is
keeping the lawmakers in Topeka
not proposed laws which disturb gen.
eral conditions. To be sure the SEN
ate's primary bill will be before the
house and the house purity bill will
be before the senate On the other
hand there is little chance for a revi-
sion of the compensation laws, the
teachers insurance bill is dead, the
labor board bill has been slain and a
half dozen forward looking bills of
a North Dakota Nonpartisan league
type have smothered in committee
rooms.
Governor Aliens proposal to create
a board to handle the real estate bust
ness of the state found its way thru
the house in the final hours for con-
sideration of original bills. The in
determinate franchise had final
test in the senate and the house
sprayed vitriol on several sections of
the county fee and salary bills.
Salary Bill Undetermined.
The big salary bill is in a coma
tose condition. Many state house en-
ployes felt the senate had come to
their rescue when the upper house
magnanimously voted innumerable
the ship. Every increase drove the
ship farther from shore. Today there
is a possibility that a conference COM
mittee will work out a practically new
bill that will remove many of the in
creases voted by the senate. Such a
bill might pass. The house wouldn't
! pass the senate bill in, the face of a
musket. And if the conference meas
ure isn't approved by the two houses,
the old law remains in effect. 1t is
quite certain, tho, that the measure
increasing the salary of the secretary
of state superintendent of public in
Struction and state auditor, will pass.
Governor Aliens program has been
roughly handled. The constitutional
convention was beaten. The farm
tenantry went thru the legislature
wrapped in a flag as a bid for votes
| in November, 1920. The short ballot
was forgotten. The one man county
government system never set sail and
the proposed change in state govern
ment sunk miles from port. The three
fourths jury verdict was laid away for
another session and the teachers pen
sion and other measures labelled as
state reforms, failed to arouse the law
makers.
One Compliment to Allen.
The farm tenantry plan is the one
compliment to the state executive by
the legislature. The highway meas
ure will be submitted to the voters, as
will the provision to classify property
for taxation. Neither of the last two
measures. tho. were original policies
| of the governor.
Under the resolution controlling ad-
! journment, the legislature will cease
discussion of all bills at 10 O'Clock
Tuesday night 1t may be necessary
to stop the clocks in order to wind
up the business. But Wednesday
morning will see the legislative decks
cleared and most of the members on
their way home.
Sine die adjournment will come
Friday, March 21 A half dozen
members will remain in Topeka to re-
ceive messages from the governor
when the legislature is called together
twice each day during the remaining
three days of the official session.