The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-11
KILL COLEMAN BILL
No More Boards Will Be EStab-
lished by House.
Senator Price Instrumental in
Death of New Act.

I four Coleman bills which provide for
the incorporation of several boards
the water commission, the division of
! irrigation of the department OF agrf-
culture. the Industrial welfare COM
mission and the commission of labor
and industry and killed 1t flat. OF,
third reading. The bill happened to
| be the one which places the admins
tration of minerals and agricultural
products grown in the beds of aban-
/ doned streams under the court of in
| dustrial relations.
| Whereupon Senator Coleman Sc
cured the placing of three more bills
| in this category which have been at
, the head of the senate calendar for
more than a week, waiting the dispo-
sition of the industrial court division
/ bill, on general orders for Thursday
February II.
Senator Price Fought Bill.
Senator Price of Clark county was
! largely instrumental in the death of
the bill which was killed this morn
! ing. He declared again that the con-
solidation of these boards and COM
missions was the weakest sort of sub
terfuge and camouflage," for the crea-
ton of another board of high salaried
judges. and an excuse for their exist
eEce.
/ He asserted that the state irrigation
board had never done the state any
good, as a result of the hundreds of
thousands of dollars which have been
spent in the western part of the state,
and that the only obstacle 10 its aboli-
ton is the "salaried job hold ers. He
reiterated the statement he made
when the bills were first considered
that the boards should be abolished
entirely Senator Gray of Kirwin
: agreed with Senator Price, and there
was a better following OF the senator
; from Clark county than he was able
to command when the bills first came
up. The final vote. which killed the
bill, was 81 to 9.
May Come Up Later.
l The question of concurring or nom
concurring with the house amend
ments to the industrial court divorce
bill and the public utilities commits
sion bill, may come up late this after
noon.
AS soon as opportunity is offered. a
resolution to non-concur will be intro
duced in the senate. That means, II
the resolution is passed that the mat
i, ter will go to a conference.
After recommending in committee
of the whole yesterday that the Wolf
bill for the designation of a state mill
tary academy be passed, the senate
this morning slaughtered the bill on
third reading. dozen senators chang
ing their votes-originally aye" TO
mo-.
No Six-Year Terms.
The senate likewise blighted the as
pirations of county commissioners to
serve six-year terms instead of four
: years. The bill was recommended for
: passage subject to amendment and
debate, in committee of the whole
Thursday afternoon. amended to clari-
fly its provisions this morning. and
then killed.
Thirteen New Measures.
Thirteen new bills were introduced
| in the senate this morning.
No. 409, by Senator Howard. pro-
vides that the state livestock sanitary
, commissioner must order the con-
demnation and destruction of all cat
tie found to be tubercular, and that
none of them may be kept for breed
ing purposes, as is possible under the
present law.
=; No. 400, by the banks and banking
1 committee, provides that all negotia
BILE instruments and papers, such a'
notes. shall be payable on the date
!, when they become due. and that there
shall be no more days of grace"
No. 410. by the same committee
: provide for the enforcement of lien.
: against the stock of banks organized
! under the Kansas laws, and the salt
OF such stock to collect such liens
Nos All and 412. also by the com
mittee on banks and banking, are di
rected against the bank robbers, and
: , authorize, respectively, the imposition
of a prison sentence of from ten II
{ fifty years for the crime of bank rob
berry and the payment of reward VI
to $1,000, by the state. for the arres
and conviction of bank robbers.
No. AIS, by Senator Docking, make
8 an appropriation of $1,000 for the re
S pair and maintenance of the old stat
capitol building at Fort Riley Kan.
New Ridgway Bill.
Undisturbed by the death of his bill
empowering Kansas City. Kan, to tax
over and operate by right of eminen
! domain, its street railway system, Sen
ator Ridgway this morning introduce,
a bill which would authorize exactI
e the same course with regard to the ga
e plant at Kansas City, Kan.
t No. 420, by Senator Fisher. provide
n that mutual telephone companies
may. under certain conditions. furnis
S service to other persons than stock
J holders in their companies.
Gulf Oil Takes New Drop.
Z Houston, Feb. 1.-THE Gulf Pip
I. Line COMPANY announced a cut of 2