The advocate., 1891-04-22

THE WYANDOTTE MANIPULATOR SHOWN
UP IN DETAIL.


Points Of Vital Interest tO the People Of
KanAa-The Willy Senator's Memory Shown
10 DO Poor.
TOPEKA, Kan, April II, 1891.
TO Senator w. j. BllChdns
My attention has be0n called DO afour col,
umn statement published In tho Topeka
Capital OF April 5th, signed by william J.
Buchan, chairman Of the Senate ways and
means committee, In which there are 30
many misstatoments that feel compelled
30 correct some of them.
so far as tho speech Of Speaker Elder was
concerned, do not know as tho gentleman
needs any defense al my hands from the at
taoks Of a man OF the known standing OF
Senator Buchan, especially when that emil
mont Republican authority deliberately fall
sizes tho records Of both Senate and House
regarding tho appropriations Of 1891. And
therefore shall pay no attention TO that
part Of the Senator's essay.
As TO tho glory which can be won TO either
House over the introduction OF bills, IL is
hard 10 SEQ whore II comes in, as a duplicate
set was prepared by the state board Of char
tiles and tho officers Of the various institu-
tons and submitted TO members of both
Houses, and the long list Of bills prepared
by Senator Buohan and his committee and
introduced with such a flourish of trumpets
on the eighteenth day of the session, we're
simply duplicates Of a series Of bills intro
duCod by myself in the House on the tenth
day Of the session and referred the next day
10 the House committee on ways and means
See House journal January % and "a. Il
certainly claimed no glory for having re-
ceived these bills from the hands Of the en-
inent army Of appropriation seekers and in
Producing them, but IL the House commit
tee had reported these bills back exactly as
prepared, except 10 reduce the salary of one
official who had refused TO pay a political
assessment last fall, the people Of Kansas
would have been justified in denounoing
chat committee as being either incompetent
or corrupt, especially II IL had neglected TO
visit a single state institution or in
Quire into its necessities. Yet this is pre-
cisely what Senator BuChan's committee
did, as And by comparing the Senate COM
mittee record with a memorandum submit
ted by Che state board Of charities at the be-
ginning Of the session.
NO COURTESY WAS SHOWN.
That there was a joint meeting for the two
committees arranged for about the fifteenth
day Of the session is true, aud the failure Of
that meeting lies az much with the Senators
as Representatives. Later the House COM
mittee asked for q joint investigation of the
possibility of turning the Hutchinson re-
formAtory into an insane asylum, but never
even received the courtesy Of an answer, in
spite of the fact chat the communication
was delivered personally TO Senator BuChan
aud the question was one deserving the most
careful consideration az the hands Of every
member Of both committees.
THE SENATOR IN ERROR.
While the Senator Is in error as TO the
number of house appropriation bills which
passed, have no desire TO quarrel with him
over the matter. The House committee took
up Senate bills simply TO save time, and in
most cases used their own perfected bills as
amendments, and from the amount of bad
language used by the Senator about the
matter, IL is evident that he OF least disCov-
cred that the beautifully type written bills
which had been prepared at various places
in the state while he and his colleagues were
sweating blood over their perfection, had
been through the hands Of that ignorant
lot of Rrangers at the other end Of the Capi-