Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-24
which caused so much trouble Satur.

which caused so much trouble Satur-
day.
Mr.. Elder called up the bill and
moved it's passage The bill was passed,
"a to /, Heber alone voting no.
The probability is that the senate bill
will not pass without amendments. In
it's present form it compels committees
and candidates to file with the county
clerk a sworn statement OF campaign eX-
penses, and Furnishes the giving OF
money, liquors and cigars by candidates
or others ON election day, by imprison-
ment The amendment pro-
posed by Mr.. Reeder was
to make secret political societies
amenable to the same rule as political
committees.
The chair announced that the state
printer has refused to print any more
bills until an appropriation is made.
The house bill to allow women to vote
at all elections and for all officers except
presidential electors, was taken up and
discussed. AS Mr.. S. Stephens said, it
was opposed by the lawyers and sup
ported by the theologians. Only
eighty-nine members voted, and the bill
was defeated
Messrs. Rice of Bourbon, Douglas,
Showalter, Brown of Harvey, Reeder
and other republicans believe that the
bill is unconstitutional. Brown of Har-
vey, however, said that he would vote
for the bill because he believed that if
the ladies knew that the Kansas legis'
lature wanted them to vote that would
ha fhnTn-1hnU
would never want to vote.
Several republicans would favor an
amendment to the constitution covering
this subject. Some voted no, fearing
that if the bill passed it would invali-
date the next election. Mr.. Nicely was
instructed by his wife and daughter to
vote against the bill. He fol-
lowed his instructions. The bill re-
ceived but sixty votes.
Topeka, KS, February l9.-The bill
to change the name of Geary county
back to Davis passed the house this
morning, the vote standing 80 to 81.
Messrs. Brown of Harvey, ShOwalter,
Webb, Heber, Reeder, Atherton, Sim
mons, Seaton, Keene, PouOsOn, Whit
tington, Warren, Willard, protested
against the passage of the bill because
it restored the memory of the arch
traitor, Jefferson Davis. The state
ment that the name is in honor OF
Judge Davis of Illinois is declared false.
The irrigation bill passed the house
bill to suppress the publication and cir
culation of newspapers and other publ
cations devoted to publishing criminal
news having special reference to the
Kansas City Sunday Sun, was
first considered, and after being slightly
amended was passed by the following
vote: Ayes 49, nays 0.
Topeka, February 19.-The house this
morning, by strict party vote, passed
the bill changing the name of Geary
county to Davis, John Davis pet meas
ure. A protest, signed by every repub'
lican member and filed with the clerk,
says that the bill enters upon the stat
ute books falsehood, by declaring that
the county was originally named for
Judge David Davis of Illinois. when, in
fact, it was named ''for that arch trait
Or" Jefferson Davis" The protest con-
tinues: 'The declaration that the
county was originally named for David
Davis is not only contradicted by the
whole history of that period, but it is
inconsistent with any theory of truth
fulness, in the fact that at that time
David Davis was serving his first term
as county Judge in Illinois,"
Liberal quotations are made from the
statutes of the year in which the county
was named, showing that the legisla-
ture was controlled by the prO-slavery
men. The passage OF the bill is pro-
tested against as an insult to the memo
ry of Governor Geary, for whom it was
named.