The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-03-12

soman in the district he represented who
would not honor him him for young In BE-
half of -uch a measure.
NR. MASON,
when his name was called, explained his
position on the moral and religious aspects
of The question before the House, by recir-
ing Leigh Hunts well known story Of Abou
Ben Adhem and the argel think it wss
new TO a msiority Of the Hone, and those
who were familiar with i E.vsr heard 1t
rendered in better style. Daring the recita-
ton the House raid the Iao-; profound at
ten;ion. Ii was the firss and on'y time this
winter that there has been absolute 81 ence in
the hall when the Home was ia sss-i1n, not
excepting prayer time.
JUDGE HoRrON
gave a warm support to the bill, sad made
an earnest appeal in its hsnaif. lie said he
had voted for an appropriation fs~ days
ago, to the ether orphan asylum n Leaven-
worth, and it afforded hun pleasure to be
permitted to record his woe ~ aver Of tins
one also He referred TO remarks made BY
several gentlemen, whose Son>ceIces would
nst allow them to vote icr the bill, ED stated
tha, If his conscience were IL clear upon
every oiher measure brought before the
House this winter a. upon this one, he should
go home 10 his constituents without any
iout 3 IS TO tie Iropriety OF his course
Mr.. j. W. TAYLOR,
in handsome little speech, sppealsd to the
House in favor of the bill a. one of the mos;
worthy and msfi,orious that had been before
the present Legislature. He thought the
orphan children, for whose benefit this sp-
preparation was asked, were the wards OF the
State, and as sach, it was rs much the duty
OF the State II take care OF them ~ OF iis
insane or blind.
MR.. LATTA
bore testimony 10 the truth o! the statements
of his colleagues "a 70 the generous and dis
interested service that was constantly being
rendered TO the suffering and the unfortunate
of every creed and nationality. He had
seen the sisters in the streets at all hours OF
the day and night. going about on their
errands of mercy, and if myn was foard
| in distress the question OF his religion was
never raised; TO bring them immediately TO
his relief, il was only necessary for them tn
know that he was human being and IN
| need of assistance.
The bill failed TO pass the House
last night. owing TO the absence OF ~
many members, but WAS rscons,dered
this morning and carried. IL is now
| in the Senate and will no doubt be a law be-
fore this il in type. l have already drawn
upon Won for too much space on this subject.
bit as il il Leavenworth measure,
thought the people Of that city would be
somewha: interested in knowing who favored
il: and though it Is not 50 pleasant duty to
| tell OF
| THOSE WHO OPPOSED 1T,
I suppose it would be equally interesting to
know them, too. The old sdage SAYS, ait
takes all kinds of people to make q world, y
and the general superstition is that among
the better kinds are those who are set apart
and ordained to be our spiritual teachers.
hence il will be a matter OF surprise To many
of your readers to know that the most active
and conspicuous opponents Of this measure
were
MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL,
professed disciples of Him who said ''suf1er
little children TO come unto me-" ! am lo,k
TO refer to the course Of hese gentlemen
upon this measure, for if tell the truth you
will say nv prejudice colors my Judgment
but fortunately have "a cloud OF Witnesses
to corroborate my statements, and also the
official records. There are quite number
Of ministers in the House-seven, i believe
and when the proposition was up, only
two days before, to vote seven thousand dol
lars to the Protestant orphan asylum at Leav-
enwortb, these preachers voted for IT unani
mously, but when the bill came up to give
nee thousand dollars to the Cathode orphan
aSylum, located at the same place, and I
much older and larger institution, every
preacher in the crowd voted sgainst ,t-no
only voted, but made speeches against IT
and the most remarkable feature in connec
ton with the matter was that the reason o
their voting against it "a publicly stated By
themselves upon the floor of the House, wa
that they thought it unconstitutional to ap
propriate the public funds to private insti'u
tons, and therefore their consciences wonl'
no, let them vote for il. i never had a yer,
f,t,eripg opinion of the quality Of the mate
rial that the Lcrd puts into his sverag
preacher, AMI this little episode does no
change that opinion in the least.
, W. s. Z.