The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-16
TO REVISE LIST
Revision Committee of House
Starts Its Work.
Prepare for Use of Sidings snd
House Tracks.
ZERO HOUR is At HAND
Kansas Bankers Tell Effects
of New Plan.
Bills of Money Lenders Are
Moved Over Night.

Zero hours for legislative pets
started today When the. house con-
vened this morning it began work on
the first hand picked calendar of the
session. The revision committee had
given its first open air exhibition of
just what can be done to pending
legislation when the committee doesn't
feel well. Until the session ends the
situation will continue thus-probably
worse.
Prepare Revision of Calendar.
Members of the calendar or revision
committee held their first session
endar and began preparing for use of
the siding and house tracks. The
members did their own switch engine
work. Bills which seemed certain to
have a hearing in a day or two are
now standing away out in the stock
yards district and without so much
as telephone connections with an early
session of the committee If the whole.
And bills which stood near the foot
of the calendar have been switched
to places near the freight depot.
Kansas bankers will feel the first
effects of the workings of the new
revision committee. There is enough
banking legislation pending at this ses-
sion to keep special meeting working
several days. Many of the bills are ad-
ministration measures, too. They do
all sorts of things. They affect the
rights and interests of the man who
forgets to pay rent on his safety de-
post box to reorgan zing the entire
state banking department.
Bankers Have ChiIls.
This morning the house bankers
had chills. All the bills defining
right and privileges of the money
lenders had been moved over night.
When the measures were finally found,
they We're so far down the calendar
that the interest collectors wondered
if the legislature would ever reach
that particular position. OF course
the bills may later be advanced. 1t is
probable they will be advanced But
the first returns were discouraging.
Then almost in defiance of the rich
and affluent, the revision committee
showed the Chandler income tax bill
right UP where the house couldn't
miss it when the first committee of
the whole session starts The bill al
lows persons with incomes in excess
of $36, 800 a year to retain a small
portion of their wealth. The remain
der is distributed to certain state and
local funds in the /form of taxes.
Blow to Representative JoIiiffe.
Chambers bill is a hard blow to
Representative Jolliffe, millionaire
Marion county oil magnate. It may
be necessary for the legislature to ap-
decorate representative hall when Jel-
life finishes his denunciation of this
bill. n
1t is probable the revision commit
advance all local bills to the head of
the calendar. Several days may be
spent on these bills.
Administration bills are expected to
go on the docket as special orders
banking bills trailing the parade. APP
right of-way when they come from
the ways and means committee.
No Time for Foolish Stuff.
Friends of the foolish stuff might
as well fold their tents, pay their bills
and go home. They may get their lily
white bills at the head of the house
calendar. But it will probably be some
day when the committee is suffering
from apoplexy or all other unfinished
business is out of the way and the
legislature wants to stay a few days
longer to make certain it has earned
it's pay. The revision committee has
started on its work by indicating that
the real business should be transacted
and other affairs permitted to rest.
Next Meeting Thursday.
The next meeting of the committee
will be held Thursday. Probably next
weeks docket will require daily ses-
sions. During the last week of the
session the committee may sit con-
stantly on the lid, A senate revision
| committee may be named late this
week, And yet the upper house has
not acted upon the house concurrent
resolution fixing time for final intro
lduction of individual bills. Under
the resolution. as drawn, such intro
| duction would stop tonight. The SEN
ate iSAexpected to amend the resolu-
ton establishing Friday or Saturday
as dead line.
Members of the house committee to
revise the calendar and select ma
terial for future legislative rows are:
Foster, of Ness, chairman; Brown. of
! Atchison, vice chairman; Noble, of La