The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-01-22

Col. Anthony threw b0mD smell INTO tne
House BY offering the following resolutions:
Resolred, That the acceptance of tree or
dead head pass from any railroad company,
by any member of the Legislature, places the
recipient under obligations to said railroad
company to that extent that he cannot re.
main an impartial Legislator.
Resolved, That each member Of this House
is hereby requested to walk up to the clerks
dssk and deposit with said clerk, all such
dead head or free passes a he has or may re-
ceive, on account OF his being . member of
this House, and that the clerk be instructed
to keep Q record of the names Of the mem.
bers, and . memorandum Of the passes - de-
livered, and return them to the railroads t.
suing them, with the compliments of this
House.
There was . general commotion all over
the House, and it seemed as il some Of the
honorable gentlemen were ready to stam-
pede.
A motion was made to suspend the rules,
and consider the resolutions now.
The yeas and nays were called for, and
the clerk proceeded to call the roll.
Hon. A. H. Horton explained his vote.
He had paid his own expenses here, and did
not believe he could do his duty - legisla-
tor, to the people, and accept the free pass Of
= railroad company. He had introduced, and
intended to labor for the passage Of, bill,
making il a misdemeanor for any member
or public officer to accept or ride on free
pass.
This was evidently a practical turn that
the honorable members had not expected
affairs to assume.
Mr.. Maltby explained his vote. He had
returned two railroad passes and paid his
ready 81 vote fer this measure, although he
intended to vote for the law making it
mi.demeanor to accept pass.
Mr.. Mason, in explaining his vote, said If
any railroad company thought giving him q
pass would influence his vote it was an ase;
and ii any of his constituents who voted for
him. thought 40, he was a sardine. He vot-
ed with Maltby against the resolutions.
Several other gentlemen explained their
votes.
One hundred and five gentlemen voted,
and the vote stood: Ayes, %; Nays, 76.
The following are the names of the gen.
tlelnen and the way they voted:
Yeas.--AlleD, Anthony, Ball,
Beam, Cusey, Fenlon. Hack
ney, Half, Hsnrahan. Homer. A. H.
Horton, Latta, Leach, Naples, John Martin,
Medill, Potter, Robley, Roe, Stoner, J. w.
Taylor, E. p. Thompson, Tinkham, Tucker,
Underwood, Watts, Weaver, Wilson.
NAYs.-Baber, Beegle, Bird, Birkett, Bis
sci, Booth, Boyd, Brown, Burdick, Butler.
Campbell, Conklin, c. S. Cumming. J. F..
Cumming, Dreaming. Dow, Edison, Everson
frey, Fritts, Funston, Gilbert, Grover,
Hancock, Hardy, Harrison, Hill, Hodge,
J. C. Horton, Hufaker, C. c. Hutchinson,
David johnson. Jones, Ira B. johnson, J.
W. johnson, Lawrence, Maltby; VIM. Mar
tin, Macon, McGAf6ean, Mcclure, McMil-
Ian, Mitchell. Morrison, Morse, n. c. Now
cry, A, J, Mowery, Parker, Perrill, Pest.na,
Pikenton. Pinkney, Reasoner, Reed, Rich
ardson, Robinson, S. G. Rogers, G. F. kog-
ers, Sellers, Shehi, Springer, Stewart, Stick
ney, Stout, Stowell, Henry Taylor, ]. E.
TAYLOR, X. B. Taylor, Townsend, Vance,
vanzandt, Welchans, White, Williams,
Young. Mr.. Speaker McEckron. Yeas, %.
Nays, IS.
John Martin made humorous speech ex-
planning his vote. He had not accepted a
pass, but had. in fact, walked to the capitol
from his district. His remarks brought
down the house. He voted in favor Of the
resolution. There has not been . greater
commotion in the House since York passed
up the 81 900 of Pomeroy's money last win
ter. Judging from the vote, the Honorable
members whilst loudly protesting retrench.
ment and reform, and refusing to take news
papers to pay their own reporters and com.
positors for printing their proceedings (if
they publish them At all, are yet perfectly