The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-09

the city officials. The senate passed
the bill with the expressed hope that
it will be a long time before Senator
Gates leads any procession over the
road. no matter how good highway
it may be.
Elections in certain cities of Kan
sas with a population of less than 49,
600, which are now held in the fall,
will hereafter be held in the spring.
A bill introduced in the senate by SEN
ator Kimbafl to that effect was passed
by the upper body and, going to the
house, was passed, after certain cler-
ical errors had been remedied by
amendments. Tuesday the senate con-
CURED in the amendments of the
house.
A bill of interest only to the city of
Manhattan, introduced by Senator
Docking, of Riley county. was recon-
mended for passage in the committee
of the whole senate at Tuesday after
moons session. The bill provides that
the city officials may have the power
to dispose of certain market squares"
which were laid out with the town
when it was established, and which
are now useless. The city officials of
Manhattan wish to dispose of the
market squares" hich are valuable
property. tho not used for the purpose
for which they were intended. and use
the money derived from their sale in
the Improvement of the city park.
The bill gives them the authority
which they desire. No other city in
the state has the market squares"
purchase of equipment for Manhat-
tan's forty-acre city park.
If the house follows the action of
the senate, one of the CIVIC problems
of Arkansas City is by way of being
solved. Arkansas City doesn't know
what to do with its garbage, and wants
to build an incinerating plant to dis
pose of it. A bill by Senator Howard,
which was recommended in the COM
mittee of the whole senate for pas
sage at Tuesday afternoons session,
gives the city that power.
The Bill Hart controversy. pro and
con, between Senator Dick Howard
and Representative Bob Murray,
both of Arkansas City, still RACES un-
checked. Senator Howard has issued
ray makes a move toward the elimi-
nation of Bill Hart from the Kansas
screen, the senator will reveal some
thing which he knows about Murray's
taste in movies and preference for a
certain type of picture, which will get
Bill Hart. is pretty safe
rs far as Murray is concerned. And
anyhow, Murray has had to concede,
n the arguments with his colleague,
hat Hart pretty nearly always shoots
he right man."
An emergency was declared in the
senate Tuesday afternoon, and an
other of the small, routine appropria-
-ions-in this case $3.50 a year for the
care and maintenance of the historic
Pawnee Rock state park-was passed
by the senate, and will now go to the
house. The program of the ways and
means committee of the senate is now
we'll cleared of the minor matters
which they have before them in the
way of appropriations, and they are
ready to tackle the big job.
Senator Hegler presided in the chair
Turing the sitting of the senate as a
committee of the whole Tuesday af-
ernoon, and managed to hustle mat
.ers thu with rather more dispatch
han most of his predecessors, be-
cause he was always willing to put
he right motion, in routine matters,
whether it had yet been made or not.
Sufficient that it should have been
vote was called for Much
line was saved and more than the
usual amount of routine work ac-
IIldL TACT
A total of 26 books have been con-
ributed as a result of the "Spare-A- |
Book" movement started by Senator |
Docking, of Riley county, for the pur-
pose. of securing books for the boys |
1t the state Industrial school at To- |
,eka. One of the books has come all |
he way from California, from some |
me there interested in the work.
I'VE want books which will appeal |
o the boys and help them,'' Senator |
Docking said Tuesday in reporting the |
progress. He believes that the lads |
1t the state institution will get not |
'nly pleasure but benefit from the |
light sort of books. and there is no |
provision in the allowance which the |
Itate gives for the maintenance of the |
school, for the purchase of a library. /
Senator Docking believes that there
Will be at least 1000 volumes in the
school library before the movement |
,nds.