The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-03-15

How HIS Excelsncy Signed that Meas
Hre Under Protest.
How the Legislature Wound Up-A
Quiet Adjournment.
Not Unminsled with Sadness At Parting
Passage of the Usual COmpii-
mentary Resolutions,
Speeches. Etc
Special to TIE EMPoRIA NEWS
Topeka, March 9.-While the legisla-
ture was IN session il was all the talk
and now that it has adjourned every
body is talking about it-What it did
and didn't do and ought t, have done;
its sins of commission and omission;
its faults, discrepancies and general
shortcomings. The newspapers Of the
state-that ia TO say a good many of
them-are finding a vast deal of
fault because the house saw fit to sit
down upon the resolution calling for a
constitutional convention, but the house
had its reasons fDr this, as has been
stated before, which, to briefly recapit-
ulate, were that in the present excited
state of the public mind il would be
literal tmposslbiliiy - get a fair,
popular expression; that the subject
ct railroad and temperance legislation
overshadoWed ani over topped every
thing else, and the delegates elected to
the convention would be selected with a
view to nothing save the framing of a
constitution with reference to those two
subjects 10 the exclusion of all others.
The eNperienLe of two years ago, when
the people voted down the calling of
constitutional convention by such a
large majority may possibly have had
some effect upon the house. aud surely
it did upon the senate, for il passed the
resolution by very small majority
This time, however, the people in a
great many counties seem to have
changed their minds upon the subject
and are as ready now TO vote Gavorably
upon il as they were before To vote the
other way.
TROUBLE WITH THE GOVERNOR.
Had II not been an absolute necessity
Gov. Click would never have signed the
miscellaneous appropriation bill in the
world, as 1t came TO him from the hands
OF the legislature. AS it was he debated
the point good while with himself and
wrote letter upon the subject to Sena-
tor Everest, which was read to the sen.
ate before the gentleman to whom it
was addressed even saw 1t. In this let
yer he stated his objections TO the bill,
which were that the item of $4,000 for
1884 and 1885 for the benefit of the Su-
marian Mission at Kansas City, and
the item of 81 900 to the sheriff of Fond
comfy for the capture of two despcIa-
does were not rightfully in the bill, and
ought 10 be stricken cut, as they we've
simply schemes t. flch GnncY tTom the
state treasury and set a very had
! precedent indeed. Samaritan Mission
is u benevolent Institution for the hene-
fit of the colored people. and has been
doing good work; the managers, find
ing /, hard wQrk to keep the institR-
tion UP applied TO the state for aid il
/ is not in any sense q stat0 institution,
nor did il make any pfetensioRs to be-
ing, yet the legislature had, few days
before, voted 81, 400 per year to ST. Vim
cents orphan asylum, Catholic iAGti-
tntion, the Kansas orphan asylum. under
protestant supervision, and the Home
fo= friendless' women, all located at
Leavenworth aad all worthy and most
excellent institutions, yet not under the
control OF the state in any way The
governor signed the bill making the ap-
preparations for these and said nothing;
| when il came TO this bill, however, he
suddenly became convinced that it
would be robhing the treas
ury TO give to this institution
the amount that had been donatedto those
at Leavenworth. AS regarded the other
item, about the 'sheriR.of Ford county.
the facts are that the governor offered
$500 each fort arrest and conviction of
Two desperadOes the sheriff caught the
fellows. killing one and landing the
other in Jail, from whence a mob took
him day or so after and quietly hing
him. The governor ssla
SflGl WAS ENOUGH
| The legislature became pretty thorough
ly worked up over the matter and the
! disturbance was not quoted until Sena-
tor Everest arose IN the senate aud stated
that rather than let the 9,isqsllapeops
appropriation hill ga hy default he
would sign ii and at II O'Clock, halt an
hour before The Anal adjournment.
the hill Was sigGed aud the per
! tprbed spFiIs qHietsd. The governor
hatt given he legislature several scares
during the session. notably, in former
instance, la C 'nneciion with the signing
OF The railroad bill, bur that scare did
moi come within AN hour nf adjourn
menI when there Was not quorum oi
iEher hrgtSe present and nu chance OF
getting one. Mhtn, finally, the COVER.
nor did send a notification tu the lrgis-
lalGrr- that lee hail approved The miscel
lane'rs appropriation bill, he acLompa
MED the ball ~ith protect. Nothing
has heeH So pn'aiag GnSiRg the session
Flpst.c tosrd MS protests. Every senator
and rrPrast RIalive who dldRH like bill
would wait until Tia passage and then
Gle q pT.tesi; whenever anything else
was up and Wen, wrong protest was al
once fiIe'.
THE CHASING UP.
There was feeling of s0hernt e, poi
nnmingi,d with sadness. wheR the pme
for PARTING cana the house had
been tog Tier but one session. and the
parting in that case Was not in any way
exoEutiaIing or hard to bear; but with
the senate it was different The mem
bers had been together for four years,
and many friendships had been formed
that will doubtless prove to be lasting
For two terms the officers of the senate
with one or two exceptions. have been
the SAME, aSd men thus associated
I'm msny casea come TO think a good
deal of each oiher. lieutenant Cover.
nor FiAaey, most excellent, just and
impartial presiding officer, was pre-