The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-20
IN STATE SENATE

Further senate committee appoint
ments were announced at the Tuesday
afternoon session of the senate as fol-
lows:
Charitable - institutions = Carr w.
Taylor, R. c. Howard, J. R. Hyland.
A. L. Brooke and Alfred Docking.
Engrossed bills committee-M. V. B.
Van De Mark, chairman; Charles H.
Ridgway, Henry NJ. Laing, ]. NJ. John
son (Brown), E. E. Frizell.
Fees and salaries committee-O.s o.
Wolf, chairman: John Mccoy, j. R.
Hyland. F. w. Butler. r. C. Gates
Public utilities committee. NJ.
Watkins. chairman; James W. Finley,
l.. H. Finney, A P. Burdick, Hugh 7.
Fisher, r C. Howard, Ed A. Davis.
Supervision of the journal commit
tee. H. Woodbury., chairman; ]. NJ.
Satterthwaite, John NJ. Gray, j. NJ.
Johnson, Francis c. Price
The success or failure Of the bill
presented by Senator Brooke OF Grant
Vile, which would prevent members
of the state legislature from holding
any appointive state office. would have
no effect on Senator McIvor, of Hoxle,
who resigned from his position with
the state fire marshal before he took
his seat in the senate.
Kansas City, Kan, wants to own the
street railway operating there and
Senator Ridgway introduced bill in
the senate this morning which would
give that city the power to take over
thru the right of eminent domain: the
entire railway equipment and holdlng,
and to pay for it according to vafua-
ton set by a board of commissioners.
Another bill which indicates that
Kansas City, Kan, means to expand.
was introduced by Ridgway. which
provides that a city of the first class
and a CITY of the second class may be
consolidated, if their boundaries
touch.
A bill which is designed to go to-
ward the remedying of one of the
farmers greatest troubles at the pres
ent time-market difficulty-was pre-
sented this morning by Senator Bad
ger, of Eureka
a state marketing bureau, under
director appointed by the state board
of agriculture The director is to ap-
point agents who will be located In
the centers of industry. commerce and
population of the United States, and
there charged with the joo of selling
the things that Kansas produces. The
producers who market their goods
thru the state bureau will pay COM
mission which will pay the actual ex-
penses of a handling and selling their
produce. The bureau is to be main
tanned by appropriation from the state
funds-$10,O0 900 being set aside for the
bureaus maintenance during the first
year of it's activity, and $4,000 for
the second year.
The bureau will also have the job
of regulating the grading of all pro-
duce handled thru it's agencies, and
will make a stu 1y of market condi-
tions. giving the information free of
charge to any who apply for it.
Another important function of the
contemplated bureau is to encourage
and to assist the formation of county
or community cooperative marketing
associations. %
One of the important administration
bills which is to help divide<the senate
at this session is a bill which came
in this morning from Senator Frizell,
of Pawnee county. =
The bill provides for a reapportiori-
ment of the senatorial districts of the
state, and gives additional representa-
ton in the senate to the western half
of the state.
The senate was this morning notified
in an official message from the house
of Representatives that the Lambert
son resolution on good roads had been
passed. The announcement failed to
create a ripple of excitement in the
senate chamber, since most of the SEN
ators have been spectators, at one
stage or another, of the Lambertson-
McDermott fight in the house.