The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-17
IN STATE SENATE

+ To Senator A. L. Brooke. of Grant
vile. Jefferson county. belongs the
i honor of being the oldest senator in
the state senate at the present ses-
sion. Senator Brooke is 10 years OF
age and his nearest competitor in the
age class is Senator Satterthwaite, OF
Butler county, 20 years of age.
Senator Brooke was one of the forty
seven Republicans elected when the
Populist legislature ran things in 1888,
and the resulting commotion caused
maintain order.
A state military academy for Kan
| sas is among the possibilities of the
present legislative session. Senator
o. O., Wolf of Ottawa, is consider ing
the introduction OF bill in the upper
house which will give state aid to the
Kelly Military academy, located at
burlington, which is anxious to en-
large with the aid of the state.
The proposed legislation would
provide that the county commission
ers OF each county in the state would
be empowered to set aside 5000 OF
| the county's funds for the maintenance
at the state military academy of a
| boy from the county, to be selected by
tive examination.
The state military academy would
be under the general supervision OF
| the adjutant general of the state. who.
| with one other man appointed by the
governor, would make an annual visit
to the school and after an inspection
| make recommendations as to its man
agement.
Legislators will not be permitted to
hold any appointive office under the
state government during their terms
in the legislature, according to a bill
which is to be introduced in the SEN
ate by Senator A. L. Brooke Of Grant
willie.
The bill is designed to preclude the
possibility of political ''trading''-the
administration on the one hand hand
ing out nice appointment jobs in re-
turn for support for legislation in the
two houses,
Brooke believes that such law will
make the legislators more indepen-
dent in their voting, without regard to
whether the administration is against
or for proposed legislation
State supervision of the organiza-
tons and agencies which want to col
lect money from the people of the
state will be required under legisla-
ton which is to be supported by Sem
ator Alfred Docking of Manhattan.
There are many organizations
which come to Kansas to get money
some of them very worthy charities,
some Of them legitimate business
propositions, and others which are
neither worthy nor legitimate. 1t is
the object of Senator Bookings legis-
the bad and the bad eliminated by the
supervision of the blue sky board or
some similar state agency which
would protect the public against So
licitation which is not worth while.
The Daughters of the American
Revolution are asking for the official
designation at this session of the leg
islature of state flag or emblem for
Kansas.
Senator e. E. Frizell, of Larned, has
received a petition from the Larned
chapter of the D. A R., asking that
he work for the designation of such
an emblem, and he will do so. But
Senator Frizeu is opposed to a state
flag.
Lets have just one flag for all the
states" he said today. "A state en-
blem of some sort is all right. but we
should not have any other flag than
the one over the chair there. And II
a state emblem Is designed, it should
not have the stars and stripes incor-
porated in its design"
A meeting of the senate committee
on ways and means has been called
for this evening, Immediately after the
session Of the senate as body. The
purpose of the meeting is to arrange
to visit some of the state institutions
to which appropriations will have to
be made during the session. Chairman
Charles E. Snyder stated today. The
committee will probably visit the state
university at Lawrence, and the state
agricultural college at Manhattan, this
week.
The drainage directors OF the dis
trict at Kansas City, Kan, are to get
a salary increase If legislation which
is presented by Wyandotte county leg
isl1tors is passed.
A bill already introduced in the
house, and of which a duplicate is to
be presented to the senate by Senator
Charles Ridgway, provides for an in
crease in the salary Of the drainage
district directors. from $1,000 per year
to $1,000 per year.
Another bill which the senator will
introduce enables the municipal gov
eminent of Kansas City, Kan. to re-
pave or regutter streets within the
municipality without petition signed
by the property owners along the
street. This bill is identical with the
one which is in effect In Wichita, and
with one which is being asked for by
the city commissioners of Topeka.
The drainage district directors will
also be granted the power to force the
removal of the old K c. & n. w.
bridge at the mouth of the Kaw river,
under third bill which Senator Ridg
way will bring up. The bridge. the
drainage officials say, interferes with
the stream, and serves no purpose. 1t
has long been a bone Of legal conten-
ton between the drainage district Of
ficials and the K c. & N w. COM
pany.