Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1891-02-05
Tenth legislative Day,

TOPEKA, KAS.-The last few sessions of
the house prior to the election of senator
were held with a crowded hall and galleries.
MEMBER USsEATED.
The committee on elections made a ma
iority report to unseat ]. II. Bayer, of Wood
son county, and give his place to Robert
Leedy. Bayer held his certificate of election
from having majority of four votes. The
committee say they found eleven illegal
votes cast for Bayer and three for Leedy,
which changed the result, giving Leedy ten
majority.
A minority Of the committee reported that
the testimony heard by the committee would
not warrant unseating Mr.. Bayer.
Mr.. Bayer WIS unseated by vote of 81
to 26.
ANOTHER CASE,
The case against Rood, of Marion, was
disposed of this way. A majority of the
elections committee reported that they had
counted the ballots and found that E. W.
Maxwell hadr>ceived a majority of three.
This is the case in which there was tie vote
and Mr.. Rood drew the seat by casting lots.
The minority of the committee stated that
the majority report had been hastily made
up Just prior to the meeting of the house,
and that the minority had not been given
time to make report. Mr.. Rood and his
friends asked for time, and that considera-
ton of the report be postponed until morn
ing.
This was voted upon and lost: % to 81.
The report of the majority was then voted
upon, after the previous question had been
ordered, and was carried; 50 to q.
INVITATION TO INGALLS,
Warren, of Lyon, offered a resolution in
viting Senator ingalls, to address the house.
This was lost by yell vote.
LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATION AGAIN.
On motion of Rice, of Bourbon, the house
voted to insist upon conference committee
on the pay roll bill.
COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE INTEREST.
Cobun, Duncan and Hartenbower were
appointed as committee to correspond with
committees from other states and agree upon
a uniform rate of interest in western states.
THE DODGE CITY HOME.
Hoover, of Dodge City, called for sus-
pension of the rules and that the bill TO ap-
propriate SG,375 for the Kansas State Sol
diers' home at Lodge City for deficiency for
tue year ending June 30, 1891, be placed upon
third reading and passed.
1t was passed.
KANSAS AT THE WORLDS FAIR.
the bill which provides for the representa-
ton of the state of Kansas at the worlds
fair in Chicago in 1893, introduced by MIR.
Douglass, of Sedgwick, was favorably re-
ported upon by the committee on state affairs.
The bill makes an appropriation of $1,000
for the Kansas exhibit. 1t provides for the
appointment by the governor of five mana
gers for Kansas to act with the worlds fair
commissioners.
PETITIONS.
The house and senate have both been COM
pletely flooded with petitions from nearly
every county in the state, signed by old SOL
diers. and asking for the re- election of SEN
ator Ingalls,. Over a hundred such we're
presented in the senate in single morning.
Some of the longer of these were from:
Montgomery county, pa ex-union soldiers;
Wilson county, 800 eX-uniou soldiers; Miami
county, $50 eX-umon soldiers; Crawford
county, 295 ex-union soldiers.
THE ADVERTISEMENT WAIVER.
Another effort was made IN the senate to
recall from the house the bill repeating the
law giving the right to wGive appraise-
ment in a mortgage.
Senator Osborn said that the passage of
the bill would ruin many men who are doing
business on borrowed capital, as their credi-
tors would not renew mortgages with less
security than they now hold.
The motion to recall the bill was lost.