The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-08

Political Kansas is on edge today.
She is waiting expectantly to welcome
the new state administration Monday.
She is watching the organization
fights With it ALL the state is wait
ing for Governor Aliens message and
the first indication of trend of legisla-
tive thought when bills so to the hop
per Wednesday.
An Important Session.
Out over the state there is a feeling
that this is to be an important winter
in the making of new laws Yet the
members who are coming to Topeka
today on every train are giving little
expression to their views. There is a
sort of undercurrent of watch and
wait. 1t is a seeming suspension of
Judgment until Governor Allen has
delivered his inaugural speech Mon
day noon and sends his message to the
house and senate Tuesday.
Things are happening in the hotel
lobbies today. 1t is the preliminary
caucusing which comes on the eve of
every legislative session. 1t Is tho
final marshalling of forces before the
party caucus decisions are made Mon
day afternoon. Sunday Will see many
| members in church. 1t will see many
other members at work in the plays
for position and counter-attacks
which are always staged before a
| legislature perfects its permanent or
| ganization.
lS+A society leaders Ready.
| Society leadership and political or
ganizers will rub elbows Monday when
the inaugural ceremonies are held in
representative hall The social queen
will attend the reception Monday
night in full evening dress And in
/, the same line will be the county chair
! man from Wichita county. the worker
from a city ward, the banker. the law
yer and the legislator. With the So
| cial and political leadership of tho
state will be the citizens on foot
hundreds Of men and women who
want a chance to shake hands with
| the men and women who are to meet
state problems in the next two years.
The inaugural ceremonies at the
state house Monday noon will be the
first of the series of important events.
| Governor Aliens inaugural address
outlining in a large measure his poll
cies and the problems before the state
in the next two years-will be the out
Johnston will preside. Justice Burcli
will administer the oath to the state
officials. Governor Allen will make
the only speech. He aspects to talk
thirty or forty minutes and has not
as yet made draft of his remarks.
The usual military salute will be fired
! by a battery of the national guards
! as Governor Allen takes his oath.
$50 Seats Reserved.
| A block of $50 seats in representa-
tive hall have been reserved for MEM
bers of families of state officials and
| for distinguished Kansans. The press
table is reserved for newspaper repre-
lsentatives under legislative assign
ments. Persons holding admittance
/ cards will be admitted from the stairs
at the rear of the state auditors office.
The general public will be admitted
hrrr n r1ni nj IN
lanc may occupy unreserved seats on
the first floor or in the galleries.
! Legislative caucuses will be held
Monday afternoon. Definite plans for
these meetings have noto been deter
mined. It is probable the senate eau
Gus for election of officers will he held
lin the senate chamber at 2 o'clock.
The house caucus will probably be
held in representative hall an hour
later Officers of the two legislative
bodies-fncluding speaker and speaker
pro tenn of the house, president pro
tenn cf the senate. secretary of the sem
ate and chief clerk of the house. as
l we'll as sergeants at arms. doorkeepers
and other officers-wiIl be named.
1t looks as tho the senate will break
) AWAY from it's rule of eight years
standing in the selection of commit
tees Back in 1912 the upper house
dehorned Richard ]. Hopkins. then
lieutenant governor, and applied the
,CannopfZed system In Kansas as rec
commended by Victor Murdoch and
others The senate body selected it's
own committee to name COMMITTEES
members Since that time the rule has
been followed except that the presid-
! ing officer has named the nominal ng
committee.
This year Lieut.. Gov. Charles s.
Huffman may name the committees.
Il Huffman Is serving his second term
as lieutenant governor and previously
SERVED sixteen years as member OF
the serate.
| The Monday night inaugural recep-
ition will be the dress show of the
; week. The reception will be held in
: the rotunda of the state house at 7:1s
o'clock. An eighteen piece orchestra
: and colored glee club from the
5 Santa Fe offices will provide music
t Punch will be served There will be
no dancing
Ali ground floors will be open ia
8 ! the PUBLIC State officials. legislators
: officers sf the G.. A r.. Spanish War
: VETERANS and American Legion, will
be admitted thru the north door on
] the second floor of the state house
. Members of the various reception
( Committees will meet in the rotunds
e at $50 O'Clock for a final conferences
: with Adjutant General Charles I
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