Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-02-19


vote of q to 10 the Senate today
killed the minimum wage bill of
fered by Senator r. c. Simmons
The Simmons anti-hand-book bill
which had passed the Senate was
called out of the committee in the
House this morning and given it
4rst reading.
Frankfort, KY, February 19-Pros-
poets that the Republican majority in
| the House would succeed in passing
the bill repeating the compulsory pri-
mary law with an emergency clause
faded when Representative Fred G.
Van Hoose, of johnson county, stated
that he would not support the measure
AS result the bill was sent back t.
the Statutes committee
Representative John I. Murphy
Democrat, failed in his efforts to
amend the bill to include congressman
as the measure provides that the
governing authority of any political
party in this state shall have the right
prescribe the manner and method Of
nominating its candidates forthe offices
If Governor, Lieutenant Governor
Secretary of State, Attorney-General,
Auditor of Public Accounts, State
Treasurer, Commissioner of Agricul
'ure. Superintendent of Public In
struction, Clerk of the Court of Ap-
peals and United States Senator'S.
The bill, Representative E. c. Hal-
din, Democrat, said was wrong in
principle. 'In every campaign the
people were told', he said, "that the
Government should be brought closer
to them, yet the members of the Leg
islature come here and try to take
it further away from them"
That a. convention was better able
to express the will of the people than
the people themselves, was the opin
ion expressed by Representative A.
NJ. Wash, Republican, of Mercer.
IT would be crime and calamity,
Representative c. M. Knott, Demo
rat said, for the Legislature to re-
peal the compulsory primary law in
order that a handful Of politicians
could control a convention.
The bill of Representative R. Lee
Stewart. to establish the Office of
State Geologist at an annual Salary
of' $4,000 and appropriating S27, so
for its maintenance, passed II to g.
The House recently passed bill
abolishing the Department of Fores-
try and Geology, and the Stewart
measure reinstates the Office of State
Geologist.
Representative G. M. Knott's bill.
to provide uniform certifieation of
teachers, passed SO to 16. The ex
animation of the teachers will be held
N each county Of the state, as 1T
present, but the papers will be graded
by the State Board of Education. The
certificates issued will entitlc teachers
to teach in the different counties of
the state.
Representative G.. T. Stites's meas
ure, to provide for the examination
and registration of practitioners,
passed 81 to s.
The bill of Representative j. F.
Carr, to established an open season on
ifur-bearing animals for November
81 to March 1, passed 55 to 13.
Bills killed by adverse reports fol-
low: To amend Section 1859, of
Kentucky Statues,i relating to cleo
ton Of members of Board of Educa-
ton; to require bids for position OF
County Treasurer, to levy tax of one
cent ton on coal production for state
purposes and half cent for county
roads of schools; to require the at
tendance at school of youths from Z
to Id years old, and to amend COM
pulsory school attendance.
Senator Swinford introduced bill
providing that where prisoners SEN
fenced to the penitentiary are detained,
unavoidably in Jail such detention
shall be deducted from their prison
sentences.