The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-21
ON SEVENTH WEEK
Legislature Reaches Night Ses-
sion Stages at Last.
Only Three More Weeks to
Clean Up the Calendars.
BIG MEASURES ARE IN DANGER
Bills Not Sidetracked Are
Passed Along to Senate.
Administration Issues Are Still
i'm Creative Cares.

Starting today on the seventh week
OF the 1921 session. the Kansas legis-
lature prepared to take such measures
as the revision committees might pre-
scribe. With perhaps three weeks of
work remaining, the lawmakers are
| leaving their affairs almost entirely
in the hands of the calendar COM
mfttee members. A resolution fix
ing time for final adjournment is GER
tain to make its appearance sometime
this week-probably in the next two or
three days
With the opening Of the seventh
week of the session legislators pre-
pared for the long, hard strenuous
hours which mark the closing days of
every assembly. The solons will this
week begin night sessions in an ef-
fort to clean the calendars and dispose
of the more important measures for
consideration.
Administration Measures.
Interest D. the closing of the session
isn't limited to the mere four walls
of the legislative halls. Down in
Governor Aliens office there is con-
Germ regarding a number of admins
tration bills which have neither passed
nor come within hailing distance of
roll call. The seventh week started
with the compensation bills tied up in
committees, the dormitory bill but half
way thru the legislature, farm ten
antry sidetracked and the rider bills
surrounding divorcing of the industrial
court in serious trouble in the senate.
The agricultural-lives consolida-
ton plan seems to hatch only trouble
and sorrow and administration propos-
ais for new taxation measures and
another taxation amendment are due
to encounter bad weather once they
start on h trip thru the two houses.
Buck to Senate.
Last week the house checked two
h f0r
settlement. In fact the house is rap
idly learning the art of sidestepping
| problems by giving the senate a final
guess on the trouble bills. And the
senate with it's free and easy manner
of refusing to worry, has several times
utter lack of responsibility in stopping
| the trouble bills
Just now the soldier and the CO.
operative banking questions are in the
hands of the upper house. The bonus
plan went thru the house with banners
and flags and music. 1t checks
a twenty-five million dollar bond issue
up to the people next year. The house
didn't want to stand in the way of any
guessing contest and gave the senate
a chance to decide. 1t showed supreme
confidence in the decision of the dear
voter and favored permitting persens
participating in the next election set
! ' Is
Cooperative Banking.
Co-operative banking is also a hard
nut for the senate. In spite of the
overwhelming farmer vote in the
| house, the new bank measure passed
the lower body without vote to
spare and only after a thirty minute
call of the house. Weakness which
the house showed in the final hour is
not the evidence of fine encourage
ment to the senate which friends of
| the bill had expected from the house.
In consequence supporters of the CO.
| operative banking plan will keep a
pulmotor within easy reach when the
bill comes out~on the floor of the SEN
ate-if 1T ever comes from the com
mittee.
Appropriation Hearings.
None of the big appropriations are
thru the two houses. 1t is proba BILE
they will have a hearing soon. Yet
the judicial, executive, educational and
penal bills have not come from the
mouse ways and means committee. The
senate committee has made greater
progress and will probably pass its
lorlg1nal bills before the house gets into
Iaet1on on the big money problems.
There is a wide difference between
the houses as to appropriations. In
consequence there is little question but
that the question of allowances to the
various Institutions and departments
viii be settled by the conference COM
mitteeS.
Both houses met this morning and
prepared for an all-day session-pos-
lsibly a night meeting. Sessions will
Iaiso be held Tuesday, according to the
: belief of legislative leaders. 1t is prob
able, tho, that the two houses will
merely recess when they quit work to-
night and that Tuesdays holiday work
will be in committee of the whole and
: shown on the official records as a por.
ton of today's activities.