The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12

When the legislature quit business
Friday night. 213 original bills in
committee rooms or on the southeast
corner of the calendars, We're tagged
for the morgue. A number of impor-
tant measures went to final rest when
the house and senate stopped business
and ceased consideration of their own
bills. With but three days of next
week in which to complete the active
session. the legislature in nine weeks
has passed 1913 new laws and has
gagsed an aggregate of 925 of the
1893 proposed enactments. 1t is the
greatest mortuary record ever pre-
sented by a Kansas legislature.
Search for Their Bills.
Members unfamiliar with tornado
tactics of a legislature in final days
of a session are today looking thru
the debris of Friday nights stormy
finish in a weary search for some
familiar or pet bill. Under the rules
laid down in the closing decree legis-
lation which did not finish with safe
score in the house in which it orig
mated. was listed as dead when the
bell rang Friday night.
Both houses sought to override re-
vision committees in the closing hours
of Fridays hostilities Members with
bills which they wanted rushed thru
the session somehow, saw the session
laws fade away as the members ar
gued and quibbled regarding the
things which were passed or forgotten.
Unable to raise their bills to a posi-
ton near the top of the calendar, a
move was made to overrule the COM
mittees which prepared the legislative
switch lists and decided the measures
which should be discussed.
100 Committee Bills Die.
In the committee rooms nearly 100
bills had not received action or been
reported back to the house in which
they originated. The death decree
applied to these measures. also.
Compensation bills died in both
houses They were administration
pets. The anti-grain gambling, oleo-
margarine, home rule for public utili-
ties, and grand jury bills failed in the
senate. In the house gas was applied
to the state market bureau bill a flock
of banking measures. the boiler in
pection bill, a bunch of drainage and
bridge bills and the individual income
tax bill. The anti-home brew bill died
in both houses-in senate committee
and near foot of the house calendar.
Kill Administration Bills.
Many of the administration meas
ures are seemingly dead for the ses-
sion. The income, inheritance and
production tax bills died in the house
plans for increasing state revenues
thru source of indirect taxation have
seemingly failed for this session The
senate answered the governors de-
mand to resubmit the property classt-
fication amendment by limiting opera
ton to intangible property.
The administration compensation
bill was killed in the senate and failed
to receive consideration in the house,
No legislation was enacted under the
farm tenantry amendment to the state
constitution further than passage of
the Minnich-Finney bill permitting
town home building by cities.
Books Close Wednesday.
Both houses began work today on
bills which originated at the opposite
end of the hall. The house will con-
slider only senate bills until the legis-
lative books are closed next Wedues-
day night. During this time the SEN
ate will work only on house bills.
Original bills which failed to receive
action when adjournment came Fri
day night were today stricken from
the lists.
Adjourn Next Saturday.
Sine die adjournment comes next
Saturday. March 10. Active work OF
the session, tho, ends Wednesday. The
remaining three days will be given the
governor to sign or veto enactments
which find their way thru the two
houses in the closing hours of the
session.
Many bills are now tied up in con-
ference. Practically all of the his
appropriation measures have beer
checked up to conference committees
for compromise agreements.