The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-23
Exodus May Endanger Passage
Important Measures.
May Forget Several Big Bills
Urged by Allen.
NIGHT SESSION IS FORECAST
Appropriations Must Be Pro-
vided at Last Minute.
Total Expenses of Session More
Than $500, 900.

The legislature is going home to-
night. The going home may endanger
final passage of half dozen important
measures. Several big bills of vital i'm
portance to the state administration
were far from becoming laws when the
two houses convened this morning. In
the judgment of a number of legisla-
tive leaders there is a strong proba-
bility that the legislature may cease
consideration of bills tonight and for
get final action on several measures
urged by Governor Allen and the vari-
Gus interests OF the state.
Only one vitality important bill is
thru the egislature-the industrial
court act. Conference recommends
tions on the enactment may be signed
by the governor today. 1t will prob
ably be published and become a law
not later than Monday.
State house concern, tho. is in the
big bills which hang in the balance
and fail to make progress thru the two
houses. In the house the free employ
ment bill is apparently out of the way
all except an appropriation. The
house passed the senate bill after it
had been strangled in the ways and
, means committee which is backward
| in urging the $4,000 fund for opera
tion of the department. Educational
enactments enabling payment OF in
creased salaries to teachers are thru
! the two houses. There Governor
Aliens program stops.
Many Dead or Mangled."
/ Appropriation bills. the anti-syndical-
ism measure, the stockyards bills. the
municipal ice plant. municipal fuel
yard, ti-profiteering and other i'm
portant proposed laws are either dead
and buried or so badly mangled that
their passage today is most uncertain.
Inc big appropriation bills must be
taken care Of today Expenses for the
session VIII total more than $500 600
IN view of added expenses for state
mouse departments. Just when the
big bills will be passed is a matter of
doubt. Much of the time of the ses-
p, sion this week has been devoted to
minor measures and somehow the
legislature seemed to thoughtlessIv
sidetrack the administration and state
| house program.
This morning the senate docket was
| cluttered with big house bfIIs-the
stockyards measure. the Simpson anti
profiteering bill. numerous highway
measures and educational bills. The
mousse has tackled almost every bill
messaged from the upper body and
mas passed the senate employment
bureau bill and several insurance
measures as well as substituting local
| oiils from the senate for house meas
ures. Revision committees are work
| ing Ioday In both houses.
Big Night Session Effort
Adjournment is scheduled to come
tonight at midnight. There is every
probability both houses will hold night
sessions and that a real effort will ba
made TO clean up the calendars and to
! bring the more important bills from
conference committee rooms. Not
since the special session convened has
a night session been held, but mem
bers in both houses today seemed to
favor such a course. Little discour-
asement is expected from administra-
tion sources. where there remains
much interest in the closing hours OF
the session.
Sine die adjournment of the session
comes next Tuesday. The sonly bills
of general Importance passed by the
two houses during the special session
are; Industrial court enactment.
creation of state free employment bu-
reau-with appropriation yet to come;
amendments to school laws permitting
| increases in levies to pay additional
teachers salaries; and provision for
pay of prisoners in coal mines at state
penitentiary who produce. more than
their weekly task"