The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-24
LEGISLATIVE. RECORD.


IMPORTANT BILLS PASSED.
Industrial court act and abolition public
utilities commission.
state control stock yards and packing
c,-.e free employment bureau act.
Antl-syndlcnlism act
Increased salaries for supreme court and
Psy of con,icts in coal mines.
Salary increases for officials in certain
cites.
Amendments insurance laws
Amendments highway enactInents.
Authorization certain railroad aid bonds.
Prohibit use of gas pumps
Prison sentence to Is years for stealing
motor ears.
IMPORTANT BILLS KILLED.
Extension of city manager plan to all
cities.
AntI-profiteerinE bill.
municipal ice plant bill.
Permitting establishment municipal fuel
yRrds.
Incorporation labor unions.
City ownership pine lines
Compel public utilities to take cases te
Btrtc supreme court.
Establishment township parks and ceme-
ter'cs.
war service men.
Municipal street railways.
Registration title In motor cars.
sixty-eight new laws is the record
OF the special session of the Kansas
legislature. OF these enactments,
Governor Allen today considered the
veto of the Disch bill providing in
creased salaries for city officials in
ATopeka, Parsons, Coffeyville and Pitts
burg The governor also vetoed a
duplication e-appropriation item in
the transfer of funds from the public
utilities commission to the new indus
trial court
The legislature passed at least thir-
teen laws of general state wide inn
portance. while at least a dozen gen.
eral bills were killed.
This afternoon Governor Allen con-
sidered sending a special message to
the legislature altho most OF the mem
bers have gone home. The MESA ge
for enactment of administration poll
cies.
All Allen Bnls Win.
When the legislature quit work
early this morning it had enacted
most of the bills urged by Governor
Allen in his special session program
and had created a mortuary list that
is marvel for three weeks meet
ing. In the last hours of the session
both houses made great records in
pushing thru important bills and also
in the display of slaughter house
tactics.
with Governor Aliens industrial
court bill in conference, both houses
jammed thru the spotlight bill of the
session on the final day when the con-
ference report was adopted. The
measure automatically abolishes the
public utilities commission and places
supervision of public utilities in the
hands of the new labor court. Both
the house and senate adopted the con-
ference report-the house by vote
of 30 to and the senate by vote
of 80 to 4.
Final sad rites were held over the
profiteering bills in the closing hours
of the session. The senate crimped
the Hopkins anti-profiteering bill and
aided the house in making the Hop
kins legislative score nothing flat
Then, lust to show there was nc
thought of discrimination. the upper
house took the enacting clause and all
of the effective machinery out of the
Simpson anti-profiteering bill. But
the senate wasn't the cold heartless
BODY. that one might assume. After
toying with the Burdick bill to regu-
late the stockyards and packing
houses. the senate relieved the tense
feelings of house farmers and passed
the bill with amendments which the
house readily accepted. Both houses
also got together on the anti-syndical-
ism and the state free employment
bureau bills = both administration
measures and contained in the gov
ernor's message.
Progress at Last Minute.
Rapid progress and real action
marked the work of both bodies dur.
ing the final hours of the special ses-
sion. When a bill aroused suspicion
the legislature promptly removed the
enacting clause and moved along tC
more interesting and popular pro-
lsbesals for laws. And just as num-
Der of members believed their ill-fate6
bills at the foot of the calendars might
be reached heartless wretches from
the revision committees moved TO wipe
out the remainder of the dockets.
Viewed from the standpoint of tht
state administration-and it is the ad-
ministration that wins praise or crit
icism thru special session-the legis
-. no ir,c