The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-01
IN STATE SENATE

fare commission bills in both the |
house and the senate today. The SEN |
There are twenty-four of the bills al
together, Dr.. Florence Sherbon Brown
of the state board OF health says.
One of the bills will ask for the
money to establish home for wo
men at Rosedale. Another will cover
the creation of a permanent child
welfare research bureau. Provisions
for looking after children who have
been adopted in the homes of the
state is another feature which will be
incorporated in some of the bills.
The commission is asking for only
$4,000 in money, thru all the pro-
posed bills, and the welfare of 500, 900
children is affected by the measures
which the commission has proposed.
! The Introduction of the warehouse
receipt system, whereby local storage
houses for grain may be the agents of
terminal elevators, and a farmer in a
remote section of the state be accord
ed all the advantages of the terminal
warehouse system, is included in the
Culp bill which was brought into the
senate Monday
The measure is designed to relieve
the transportation and storage diff
| culties met with by the farmer in
marketing his wheat.
Petitions continue to come to the
/
| cigaret, who do not realize that the
| Kimball cigaret bill is a dead issue.
| since its downfall in the house. The
| usual ritual of the senate includes the
chaplain's prayer, and further petit
| tions "for the retention of the present
anti-cigaret law
| Senate bills which provide ,appro-
| priations. for the payment of the SAL
aries of the board of managers of the
| nd he oar
| and maintenance of the state his
torical park at Pawnee Rock were re-
ported back to the senate this morn
ing by the committee on ways and
means, with the recommendation that
they be passed.
| The committee on ways and means
Recommended that bills which, provide
for the payment of back salaries due
to Cora G. Lewis, E. H. Hoch and Ed
T. Hackney, as members Of the state
iboard of ADMINISTRATION, be referred to
the committee on claims and accounts.
and that the same action be taken with
bills providing for the recompenSe of
Mrs. George H. Roles and children,
land J. H. Mcguire, the judge pro tenn
lof the Twenty-third judicial district.
| The committee on military affairs
this morning reported for passage the
Ibill which designates a state military
academy, gives the board Of admins
Itration visitational powers there, and
lauthorizes county commissioners to Sc
llect and send to the academy, one boy
from their county, at Che county's eX-
lpense.
The Harley bill from the house re-
garding the examination and registra-
ltion of nurses was reported for
lance and hygiene. Senator Johnson,
Of Brown county, chairman of the
lcommittee, later submitted a minority
committee report on the bill, and sig
Unified his intention of asking that it
be substituted for the majority report.
There was an astounding dearth of
petitions. presented at the opening OF
, the senate this morning, only one be-
ing read. Another remarkable fea-
lnot refer to the cigaret law or the
Iprize fighting law. but instead was to
| urge the passage of the dormitory bill
1t was signed by a number of petition
ers from Salina.
On the request of Senator Snyder
chairman of the ways and means
, committee, to which the National
Guard bill had been referred, the bill
was today re-referred to the commit
tee on fees and salaries. The bill pro-
vides for the payment Of the national
guard of the state, under the present
, change provisions of the federal law
by the state of stockyards and the
livestock industry, has been reported
out OF the senate committee on live
stock with the recommendation that il
be passed as amended. The bill was
introduced this morning in the house
2 as committee bill from the livestock
committee of that body.
l The amendments which have beer
l tackled on by the committee are i'm
material, and make no change in the
2 general structure or operation of the
bill. Senator Burdick said this morn.
e ing.
The report of the committee or
= livestock has brought the bill under
Y the head of general orders on the
t senate calendar. and action. on it viii
l probably not be long deferred.
t Several other bills which will NEAR
e fighting are on the calendar ahead o.
the Burdick bill, however Among
them are the house bill setting aside
3 i Armistice Day as a legal holiday IL
e the state: two of the bills the re
: organization of the Industrial court
= and Highways bill for the consolida
2 ton of two cities whose boundarie:
touch.
l Tt has been indicated that there will
, be little opposition from the packers
and stockyard interests when thu
Y Burdick bill comes up. The bill ha!
= been gone over carefully by attorney:
representing those interests.
. New York Stock Market.
! Wall St. New York. Feb. 1-STOCKS-
Shorts controlled today's hstless stock mar
ket Losses of TO 3 points in the NOR,