The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-04
SPECIAL Dispatch to the Daily Eagle.

SPECIAL Dispatch to the Daiiy Eagle.
TOPEKA, Kan, March 3--The stand
which Speaker George l.. Douglass has
taken relative to adjournment of the leg
islature has won for him the praise Of the
Republicans Of Kansas, which is being
emphasized by hundreds OF letters and
kilograms from all parts Of the state. He
will not consent to yield an inch from the
stand he has taken, that the people shall
have legislation on the questions upon
which they have demanded action
Damely, railroad legislation, mortgage
legislation, legislation to protect the bal
lot, and other important matters. He viii
never consent TO an adjournment until
these questions have been fairly and fully
considered, unless assured that the gov
ernor will call a special session. Yester-
day, in speech to which all parties listen
ed with the closest attention. he expressed
fully his determination to remain here
until the legislation promised the people
he's been enacted, unless it was known
beyond the possibility of doubt that the
governor would call a. session in the i'm
mediate future.
THE RAILROAD QUESTION.
The Greenlee freight rate bill, which
vas yesterday made a special order for this
afternoon, was taken up and read.
Nr. Seaton said that the railroad COM
mittee was not unanimous in reporting
favorably on this bill; that himself and
several others disagreed to the report, and
lie offered a substitute.
The committee on railroads reported a
new section TO the bill, which is as
follows:
Section I. The term OF office Of each
of the present commissioners of the board
of railroad commissioners of this state
shall expire on the first Monday of Jan
uary. 1894; and to fill the same there shall
he elected, on the second Tuesday of No
vember 1893, three commissioners, one of
whom shall be chosen for three years, one
for two years and one for one year. respect
Ively, from the second Monday of January,
1894; and at the general election every
year thereafter there shall be commits
sioner elected, who shall be member of
said board, and who shall serve TOR the
term of three years from the second Mon
day in January next succeeding his elec-
Jion. In case any vacancies occur in said
board at any time not hereby provided for.
the governor shall appoint 2 competent
person to serve until the next general cleo
Iion, and qualification Of his successor"
Mr.. Seaton moved that his substitute be
printed, ana that the matter be made a
special order for next Tuesday.
Mr.. Greenlee made the direct charge
that the substitute was prepared by the
attorney of the Santa Fe railroad.
Mr.. Seaton came back at him by saying
that the gentle man FROM Reno was presi-
dent Of mercantile company at Hutchin-
Eon, ana that the bill WAS in the interest of
interior towns and against the cities on !
the eastern border of the state.
Mr.. Douglass said that the proposal to |
print the substitute was simply TO kill |
time. This bill, " said he, lis in the in |
:erest of the whole people. l am in favor |
of acting now"
The maximum rate bill of the populists |
having passed the senate, the Republicans |
generally are very desirous that some kind |
of a railroad bill shall be passed at this /
session; but they are decidedly against the |
passage OF such bill as that which has |
passed the senate.
Mr.. Dunsmore made political speech, |
snd asked what the Republicans had been |
doing all the time they had been here that |
they had not considered a railroad bill.
Mr.. Hoch answered him in a speech that |
brought round after round of applause.
lie was tired Of the insinuations of the |
gentleman from Neosho, and said:
''l'll tell you what we have been doing: |
we have been attending to business
"uANI - ulBLtE lbfu IhltIOau OF any OGDer |
legislation-we have been fighting an
archy, and we have won the victory"
All motions for delay were voted down,
and the debate commenced on the first sec
tion of the bill, and every section was
warmly debated.
Mr.. Swan OF Topeka made speech
against the bill, saying that be represent
ed 500 railway employees OF his district
and =. 600 in the state; that he was one of /
them, and that. in his opinion, if the bill
passed rs il now stands there would be
within the next twelve months 6.OO0 rail-
way employees thrown out of employment.
Mr. Rosenthal spoke vigorously against
the bill.
Mr. Greenlee defended the bill at every
point. He not only took part in the de-
bate, but when not speaking he was cir
culating among the members, explaining
the bill aud urging the members to stick
10 it.
Mr.. Douglass was on the floor several
times. lie had a copy of the Iowa law in
his hand. He declared that ii was a good
law; that he had the assurance OF shippers
and boards OF trade in Iowa that the law
was doing great deal Of good; that this
hill was IN the main a copy of that law,