The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-16
Fewer Freak and Foolish Bills
Than Ever Before Here.
Also Fewer Measures of Gem
eral State Importance.
TWO ADMINISTRATION BILLS
Industrial Court Divorce and
7 DOrmitory Go Thru.
May Recess Until Tomorrow
for the Final Cleanup.

IMPORTANT MEASURES PASSED.
Industrial court divorce.
Dormitory act.
Soldiers bonus submitted to voters.
Creating stnte aircraft board.
Firemen's pension act.
Revision motor license law.
Declaratory judgment act.
Terminal and local elevator act.
City home building law.
stock yards regulation act.
Prevention pollution of streams from oil
wells.
Giving married women right to sue for
Law requiring removal sharp turns in
highways.
IMPORTANT MEASURES DEFEATED.
Individual income tax bill.
Production tax.
Home rule control public utilities.
Three-fourths jury verdict.
Cooperative banking.
SIS. 600 state market highway.
state police bill.
Reduction Inheritance tax exemptions.
. Full crew bill.
Bill to prohibit picketinE.
Boiler inspection.
Anti home brew bill.
Bono dry ciearet bill
Initiative and referendum.
futures.
Anti-profiteering bill.
state banner and state song bills.
Municipai Ice plant bill.
Provision for state industrial insurance.
Blanket primary ballot.
state license for itinerant vendors.
Grand jury bilI.s
competitive insurance bill. 4.
Bill to prohibit splitting in church.
Repeal civil service law.
Creation partial state political conven-
! tion system.
Printing ballots and eounfv rec,xd. -
state. ~
Proposals for creation state road fund
No legislature in Kansas in a dozen
years has passed so few laws of gem
erai importance as the session which
is now in its last hours. On the other
hand no legislature in this state in a
generation has killed SO many foolish
! and freak bills and established a better
record for conservative action.
Working without a semblence of or
ganization the house and senate have
shown a general individual tendency
to go slow in new legislative ventures.
None of the really freak bills or radi-
cal legislative proposals have reached
| the governor for his signature. Some
thirty bills of general statewide inn
portance have been killed on the floor
, died on calendars or were slaughtered
| by committees.
No Constitutional Amc ns;ments
| None of the proposed constitutional
amendments are this afternoon in a
p, position to go to the voters. The SEN
ate has passed the proposals for in
creased pay lor legislators. 1t has also
sent to the house plan to resubmir
! the taxation amendment providing for
classification of intangible property
/ There is much doubt whether either
| OF these provisions can be pushed
thru the house owing to light attend
ance.
The industrial court divorce law and
the modified dormitory act are the two
measures to which the administration
may point with greatest pride Against
/ this record are a half dozen important
administration proposals which have
been placed on ice or deliberately slain
! in the house or senate. The work.
mems compensation, production tax.
revised inheritance tax. three-fourths
jury verdict and other administration
policies have fallen by the wayside
Just now the last hope of the ad-
nlinistration is in a prayer for favor
able senate action on the agricultural
consolidation bill The dope sheet
committee is opposed to the bill.
There are a few other important
measures on the calendars or in fav-
orab1e position to reach the session
laws.
Recess Until Thursday?
g. Possibilities of a recess session
Thursday were discussed by legislators
today. There is little chance tho, that
any action will be taken defining an
other legislative day or changing the
time of final adjournment. Should the
two houses work Thursday in cleaning
up their dockets, the records would
i doubtless show that they worked un-
der todays calendar.
X. C. Plans Entertainment for Legion.
Kansas City, Mo, March 16.-The
chamber of commerce has promised
to raise a budget of $4,000 for en-