Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-02-25

deputy Sheri1fs have lald down tnelr
arms and shaken hands across the
bloody chasm. All have signified their
willingness to await the decision OF the
courts, and the sound of the footsteps
of the departing militiamen alone re-
mains ms reminder of the war so mar
rowly avcrted.
The proposition had not been &C.
cepted until hard fight had convinced
certain members that 1t was q victory
for them.
These are the conditions rs submitted
by Gov. Lewelling and agreed to by the
republicans:
First-It being the understanding that the
house presided over by Hon j. NJ. Dunsmore
has secured u hall In which TO meet, the house
presided over BIZ Hon. G. L. Douglass shall re.
main In possession OF Representative hAll I'M
disturbed and unmoleSted.
Second-The house presided over by Mr.
Dunsmorc shall In like manner be undisturbed
and unmulesied In the possession OF the hall
which IL has secured, and II IL desires select q
room In the state house tor It's meetings other
than Representative hall
Third-No arrests TO be made by either house
OF the members or officers OF the other
Fourth-The militia to be immediately no.
lieved. including the new recruits sworn in and
the sherin's posse 10 DO immediately dis
banded
The militia companies now en- route for To
peka 10 be Immediately teiegraphcd to by the
governor 10 return TO their homes
As further agreement Gov. LEVEL
ling, Speaker Douglass, of the repub-
lican house; d. w. Eastman and j. K.
Cubbison, constituting the republican
committee, signed the following:
The memoranda this day signed by Gov. Lew.
,iling and c. L Douglass, ID. w. Eastman and
j. X. Cubbson us u committee OF the house OF
representatives presided over by Mr.. Douglass
and hereto attached is not to be construed rs
Secognition by either the Douglass or the Duns.
|aore house OF the legal organization or char
@ctcr OF the other or by the governor or the
senate as q recognition OF either OF such houses,
and shall not be used In court or in any legsia-
tive body rs evidence for any person, party or
body, and shall not be entered upon the journal
or other record OF either the Douglass or Duns-
more house or the senate.
GOV. LEwELLING EXPLAINS.
TOPEKA, Kan, Feb. 1S.-Gov. Level
ling dictated the following statement:
The popuist party has taken no step back
ward To the republican house has been con-
coded the possession OF Representative hall In
the capitol building This does not constitute
q legislative body. nor docs IL empower anybody
20 make laws that shall be recognized BY the
people. The concession OF the hall to the re-
publican house is not IN admission on the part
of the populists, or myself, that the republican
Is the constitutional house In the interest OF
harmony and for the welfare OF the people the
Douglass house has been given the use OF Rep
rescntative hall Had possession of it been
steadfasily claimed by the populists and
striven for the problem would have resolved
itself for solution into sham eful physical
contest The populist legislature NAV now go
on unmolested in the transaction OF its bust
ness and proceed in regular and lawful man
aer TO the conservation OF the public veal. The
governor and the senate OF Kansas will recog'
nize but one house OF representatives.
II ut some later day the supreme court shall
declare the populist house IN unconstitutional
body. then the responsibility for the action OF
the house will rest with 1t alone. The people
are the judges OF the action OF their representa-
tvcs and II !here Is blame II will be cast In the
right direction. 1t must not be lost sight OF
that the populists have ut all times denied the
right OF the supreme court to determine on any
question arising from the organization 81 the
house Of representatives
The attempted arrest OF Chief Clerk Ben c.
Rich, Of the populist house, by the republicans
and the menacing attitude OF the lawless ele-
ment strengthened by republican sanction,
made the situation grave In the extreme. Had
list representatives vacant, as they publicly an
nounced they would do, and attempted the ar
rest OF the members OF the Dunsmore house be-
cause they persisted in remaining In Repre-
entative hall attending TO business that
the well being OF the people demand
ed matters would have been brought
10 crisis In the endeavor OF the
Douglass house to force their illegal claims, Il
was zealously supported by an organized mob
mob under the command OF the sheriff OF Shaw
nee county, who has always been hostile to the
Dopulist party, and IL seemed certain that there
would have been q bloody conflict This con-
.dition Of things seemed TO make II necessary
that the restraining influence OF the military
should be invoked This was done, and the re-
sult to-day is that the populist house is suffered
TO proceed without fear OF molestation TO the
transaction OF business. Bloodshed has been
.aVerted. This Is the browning triumph Of tho
populist victory
THE PoPULIsT VIEW.
TOPEKA, Kan, Feb 1S.-Speaker
Dunsmore declares that the populist
house will go ahead rs was orig
inally contemplated and in conjunction
with the senate pass needed laws and
adjourn, leaving the supreme court to
do its work. He says should the court
decide against the populist house no
attention will be paid to it Such a
decision, he admits, would render the
Jaws enacted imperative but he for one
and he thinks all the populist mem
bers are with him-would favor letting
the state institutions, the executive,
judiciary and all other branches
of the state government so without
money until the meeting of the next
lanrfclafura He haliavpa the f1a0nla
will sustain the populists ut the polls
and that they will come back here In
1895 with a largely increased strength
In the house. He denies the right Of
the supreme court to assume the con-
stitutional prerogative of the house to
.settle its own organization and he