The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-16
KILL TEMPLE BILL TONG war is ON
Senate Does Not Favor Addi-
tional State Building.
Childrea's Code Measure Also
Dies Natural Death.


The Ridgway bill providing for the
appointment of a commission to start
work looking toward the building in
Topeka of temple of justice" which
was to have housed the state courts
and the state library, died an untimely
death in the senate committee on fed
eral and state affairs, according to a
report of that committee filed Tuesday
afternoon.
The same committee dealt the death
blow to another children's code COM
omission bill, which provided for the
lsuperintendents of welfare n each
county of the state. The welfare Of
ficers were to have administered many
of the functions which are now the
properties of the juvenile courts, the
truant officers, the boards OF health
the poor commissioners, and other
officials.
The matter of the designation of a
state flag for Kansas was checked uE
to the committee of the whole senate
A Substitute bill for the registration
and examination of architects was
! drafted and submitted to the senate in
place of the original billion that point
Recommend Fishers Act.
In the senate committee sof the
whole the Fisher bill which provides
for the establishment of free kinder
gartens in all the schools of the state
was recommended to. be passed, sub
ject to amendment and debate,
l. Senator Taylor,s bill which was de-
| signed to- make very severe the punish
ment of all parties who conspired te
Influence the granting of contracts fol
public work, was recommended fol
passage subject to amendment and de
bate, because of the wording of the
| BILL which made the conspiring to-
fgether of two or more persons to com
NIT and crime, felony in itself. I'm
| der the bill as drawn, two persons
| agreeing together to violate the mi,
nutest ordinance Sof any city. woule
have been subject to very heav,
penalty, altho the intent of the bill
| was to catch the men who censpire to
prevent the letting of contracts fol-
| public work. 1t is probable that the
bill. when it has been amended tt
make its severity in general applica'
| ton less. will be passed.
To Sell State Farms.
| ! Three bills which provide for the
sale Of the state irrigation farms IL
| Wichita, Scott and Wallace counties
were amended in the committee of the
whole, and recommended for passage
| in the form in which theys were
t2amended.
f EThe5 three bills which would place
| the division of irrigation of the state
| beard of agriculture, the state water
| Commission, the industrial welfare
commission and the state labor com
| mission under the regulation and dt-
rection of the industrial court whicf
have been set as special orders fol
Thursday have reached the senate
via another route. All the bills have
been passed by the house, and have
been messaged over to the senate by
h1hat body. 1t remains to. 9be seer
whether the senate Will act on its owr
bills, which are on the special orders
| of the day Thursday, or whether they
| will act on the house bills, which vii
go on second reading.
The probable course will be to sub
stitute the house bills for the senate
bills when. the time for the speeia
orders has arrived. That time viii
come ,befereE the house bills, in the
regular order OF procedure, have come
before thes senate.