Session to decide tax lid bill
Only one week remains in the 1970 Kansas legislative session, but one of the most controversial bills, the property tax lid, is still to be decided.
In a rare Saturday session, the House voted the bill to a Senate and House Conference Committee. The committee is going to try to work out differences in versions previously passed by the Senate and the House.
By a voice vote Saturday, the House defeated a motion to refuse to go along with extensive Senate amendments to the bill. The bill would have been dead if the motion had been adopted.
Gov. Robert Docking is a strong supporter of the property tax lid. The bill is opposed by municipal and school officials throughout the state.
The bill is designed to place a limit of 5 per cent on increases in expenditures and would freeze property taxes at the present level.
The fate of the controversial bill is unknown. While many legislators are afraid to vote against it, increasing numbers believe the bill is unworkable and unconstitutional because of Senate revisions made last week.
The House had passed the bill earlier in this year's session, and the Senate passed its heavily amended version of the bill Thursday in a 22-17 vote.
The conference committee to rework the bill will be composed of six members. House members appointed by Speaker Calvin Strowig, R-Abilene, are House Majority Leader Don Bell, Wichita, House Minority Leader Pete Loux, D-Wichita, and Strowig.
Senate members of the committee have yet to be appointed. They will be named when the Senate convenes this afternoon.
Both House and Senate leaders say they have no plans to try to extend this year's legislative session. There is a constitutional requirement that the session_end by Saturday.
Strowig and Sen. Glee Smith Jr., R-Larned, say the legislature may stay in recess until it is determined whether any vetoes by Gov. Docking will necessitate bringing the full legislature back.
Graphic display shown at museum
A collection of about 90 graphic works by Winslow Homer will be on display today through March 25 at the University of Kansas Museum of Art.
The KU museum is one of only 16 museums in the country displaying the exhibition, while it is on a national tour.
Winslow Homer began his career as a graphic artist and essentially he remained one all his life. Until he was over 26 his work was almost entirely in black and white—lithography, illustration and drawing. One of his most ambitious works was a large lithograph of the entire Massachusetts Senate, 42 individual portraits, which he did at the age of 20.
Other works include etchings, lithographs and wood engravings in the context of Homer's overall development as an artist.
The works in the display depict some of Homer's most well known topics. Included are his interpretations of life at sea, including the popular "Lifeline." His works depict Yankee farm life, the country and forests
Also included is the series of "campaign sketches" drawn during the Civil War depicting light moments of army life.
Homer's graphic work reflects his use of line and tone, his feeling for patterns and rhythmic lines.
14 KANSAN Mar. 9
1970
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