The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-07
Court Divorce VIII Be Disposed
of This Week.
Administration To Be Able to
Determine Policy.
MAY CAUSE SPLIT IN HOUSES
Another Special Message May
Be Issued by Governor.
Compensation Bill Due in the
Upper House This Week.

Before the end of the present week
the state administration will doubt
less be able to determine the element
of success which it will have with the
Kansas legislature. Both houses
started today on the fifth week of the
session. Before them are a number
or b1lls in which there is much state
VIDE interest The course of the leg
islature as affecting the Industrial
court split and the shakeup of state
departments will probably define in
large measure the reception which
Will be given Governor Aliens general
policies.
To Test Strength.
The mere action of the legislature
In seemingly slipping thru the court
divorce bill didn't mean as much as
might seem at first glance. The
house has already slipped a provision
IN the Dill which must be removed in
conference or stand as a bar to some
perfectly good $4,000 jobs for Iaymen.
strength of the administration, as well
as Its ability at political maneuyerinp
may be tested in removing those sec
tons without arousing a disturbance.
me mouse amendments require of
court appointees the same qualifiea-
tions defined for justices of the SUI
preme court.
There is every probability that the
court hight will be finally disposed of
IN a few days, The house and senate
conterees will try to iron out the trou-
BILE which the house put in the divorce
Dill Tuesday the house will go fur
Iner INTO the home rule policy which
FRANK L. Martin recommended for the
public utilities commission bill.
May Be Split in House and Senate.
That there may be a split between
the mouse and senate ways and means
committees is one of the probabili-
No
were unable to agree on the old pol
Icy OF dividing the work. For many
years the senate ways and means COM
mlttee originated bills for certain in
dustrial institutions and departments
m; me mouse took the remaining work
Ihen the mouse adopted the senate
and the house pro-
posals were accepted in the senate
But this year both houses will act
on their own bills. There is already
evidence OF a clash. A big gap exists
as to the generosity which bouse
members display toward state insti
tut1ons and the state aid which the
committee from the senate proposes.
ne Iirsl break may come on the bows
industrial school at Topeka. House
eonnittee members have cut the
schools budget $4,000 while The
senate allowed almost all of the buiIdS
ing demands. The school is in a tunn
pie down condition and its pbysical
property is wreck, altho Superinten
cent MacLean has an organization
that Is fighting for his success.
House May Use Knife. /
a split on the appropriation bills
VIII mean that the administration will.
be drawn into the fight in a greater ~.
lesser degree. Most of the recommer,z
cations are from Governor Aliens an
polntees. In certain instances the
sorernor has urged that the
lesIslature show a broad Christian
spirit in the use of state funds srha
senate committee has indicated a viii
tfeness 10 meet demands in a general
way, Ihe mouse committee NAV use |
Tue khlIe. Both committees have re-
iu TS TO smile on salary boosts.
Ihere is a possibility that the conn /
pensation bill will get before fbe Iae1;a, |
azure before the end of the week. A
special order may be made of this hill.
I Two additional compensation proposals
from labor sources have been mem
TONED. Neither have appeared in the
May Issue Special Message,
Governor Allen may send special |
to the legislature this week |
urging laws for carrying out of pro- |
VISIONS OF the farm tenantry amend |
nent. 1t is quite certain, tho, that he |
VIII wait until the industrial court bills
are disposed of before asking for ten
antry action.
The governor is known to strongly
faVer the dormitory plan. Whether this |
Will be discussed in one of the several |
special messages expected before the |
close of the session, is not known. |
Aside from giving his support to the |
dormitory proposal the governor has
not discussed the plan.
Both houses convened this after |
noon. The house met at o'clock. |
The senate convened two hours later !