The advocate., 1891-04-08

laws raIntng 10 foreclosure and sale oG Faal 90.
taiq under mortgages goniEaot ~ shall secure b
mo mCTigngOF tho privilege Of rodo8ming such
real estate within tWoly8 months nom date OF
such foreclosure sale BY tho payment OF the lldg.
ment ana OF legal interest from date OF sale 10
dat0 Of OfEodsmption.
The House. which had twenty
three Republicans out Of l25 Repre-
sentatives, came 10 obey tho behests
Of the people as declared by and
through The election OF November A,
1890 But the Republicans had a
hold over Senate saved to them, elect
cd in the great Harrison and Morton
year OF 1888.
The Hon. George i. Douglass, Of
SodgWiok county, a Representative in
the House Of 1889 and 1891, the ablest
Republican in the Legislature, makes
the following comments in the WiCh-
ita Eagle upon the "grSnd old Re-
publican Senate"
TwOyoaFs ago the legislative scandals brought
70 public notice the fact that there was no law
In KanGas % punish public officer or a legisla-
Tor for receiving brbe Tho governor and the
attorney general both called attention 10 this
dlsCrodiiable deieCtin our law and urged that 10
bo romedlod. introduced House bill No. /,
prescribing penalties for the acceptance OF
brboa." After long and stormy history 10
passed the House only 10 hnd a peaceful ending
and quiet grave In tho Senate.
So aftor q long and persistent nght In tho
House, also secured che passage OF House bill
No. 2, ITO prohibit tho corrupt use Of money and
corrupt practices AZ elections" which, whom
Z came 10 an actual roll call, received every vote
,ast In tho House but one. 10 was O bill 10
lbOli1h tho dlagraCoful and growing Doodle sys-
om nov prevailing a. every election In every
important city In this state. 10 stood on the Sem
10 calendar for weeks; and many OF tho best /
nen In thRb body earnestly desired its passage, |
md II would bo humlllatIng 10 reclte tho number
4 efforts personally made TO secure action on |
In that body yet u was smOthered 10 death |
" the opposition Of . Tow men who call them |
elves Republicans.
30 also tho House passed Che bin prepared by |
dF. Rice, OF Fort Scott, 10 suppress the opera
ions OF tho rOttOn lottery that mad lts headQuar.
erH In Kansas City, Kansas But this bLll-llke |
very other Republican measure from the House, |
EAmed In the In the interest OF public morality |
md cloAnnesa In public liie was also smOthered |
apparently by tho same men who have posed 40 |
oadoro Of tho Republican party In the Senate.
The House also passed q bill prepared mainly
y Judge Webb, vastly improving, simplifying |
Nd ChOapening many features OF the civil pro- |
eduro oct. The bin II passed would have con- |
erred beneHts upon tho people In every county |
Kanaa Yet during . part OF the time, when
ho Senate had agreed 10 consider, or should |
avo cOnsldored House bills, hour after hour was
Qandered l0 lOngToCesses, In cracking Jokes or
lDglng songs, instead OF acting upon such meas.
res ~ these.
The thCt ia that while there are some OF the |
ost and true1G men In public liIe In the Senate,
hero are also I'm the same body some OF the
'Orat pot house politicians In tho state; and In
ONE respects this minority seemed to have ab8O-
ltely the upper hand In regulating the order Of
uslness ln that body But the mere Clrcum-
ianco that some very bad Alliance financial
Measures were sent from Che House 10 Che Sem
10, Affords no shadow OF an excuse for smother
" measures originating with Republicans and
lppoFtod BY an paTeiOS In the House and which
very confederation Of sound policy required the
enato 20 aCt upon.
Is not this OnOo great Republican
'arty most eminently worthy OF con-
themselves being its re-
iewing judgesl If not, why nOt3
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