The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-26
spselsl pIspsteh to the Daily Eagle.

Epscial Dispatch to the Daily Eagle
TOPEKA, Kan, Feb. 25-The victory Of
muscle was won by the Republicans last
week. Today it has been supplemented
by the victory of BRAIN All along the line
it was glorious triumph for law and
order Anarchy and populism have receiv-
ed setback which IS fatal to future
growth in Kansas. The supreme court
today decided that the Republican house
is the legal house Of representatives; that
the populist assembly is not a house of
representatives, and has no standing as a
Iawmaking body; that all its acts are ille-
gal, and that it has never been nor could
be legal body.
The populist house is the gang Of men
who last week took possession of repre-
sentative hall and endeavored to keep the
Republicans from entering, and which
placed armed man on the stairwRys to
keep out legally elected members. This is
the same lot of men that Governor Lew
elling recognized AS being a house of rep
resentatives, and which the senate, follow
ing the instruction Of populist caucus.
said was legal house, and that it would
recognize and do business with it. This is
the trump" which Governor Lewelling
said should have possession of representa-
tive hall to the exclusion OF the Republi-
cans. But now comes the supreme court
and says that they are herd Of interlopers
and lawbreakers
The Republican house, which the court
declares is the legal one, is the body of
men that last week marched to representa-
tive hall, their usual place of meeting,
and, overcoming armed opposition, bat
tered down the doors and resumed busi-
ness at the old stand. This body of men is
the one TO whom Governor Lewelling
went and implored them to vacate the hall
before he should give the order TO drive
them out at the point of the bayOnet,
which oUder be had the temerity to give to
the militia of this state. These are the
men who for two nights and two davs re-
manned in the hall at the first Of the ses-
sion to make good their right to organize
and occupy in the interests of the people
These are the men who for six weeks have
suffered all kinds of contumely and re-
proach Al the hands of the governor aud
the senate, and who finally were besieged
in the hall by armed men, called by the
governor, but who courageously remained
at their posts and forced a truce. These
ars the men and this is 'the legal and con-
stitutional house Of representatives" pre-
sided over 10y George L. Douglass, which
the supreme court has declared to be what
Il has all the time claimed 10 lie.
The Republicans are jubilant and the
populists respondent tonight. a feeling
Of security seems to pervade the minds of
the people, and they breathe freer aud
easier since this decision. The popullStS
were in caucus all the evening. The bet
ter minded say that they viii now take
their seats in the legal house. Governor
Lewelling WAS scored heartily for leading
them into such mess. The governor has
evidently weakened, and was heard to say
chat be will obey the decision OF the court
if it should be decided by the popuist
caucus to be the proper thing 10 do.
Dunsmore. the populist speaker, says that
his trump" house will do whatever the
governor and senate shall think best. The |
united opinion OF all the pOpulIStS is that /
they will wipe out the Republicans two
years hence. They are saying many other
foolish things Just now. The fact is that |
they are all broken up by this decision. |
Judge Allen, the populist judge, dissented, |
doing so mainly on the point that the |
court had no jurisdiction. The populists |
generally think that his opinion was not |
up 10 high wateT-mark, and consider It |
very weak when compared with the argu- |
ments of DOsuer and Clemens.
AS soon rs the Republican house heard /
that the court had decided it TO be the |
legal house il extended the time of acting /
on the resolution in regard to vacating /
the seats of the populists. 1t will not be /
acted upon until Monday evening. The |
Republicans do not wish TO act hastily .
nor reveugelully, as it is believed that
many, if not all. he populist members
will now come inro the house and behave
themselves AS members should.
Mr.. Chamb bers, Democrat, declared this
afternoon that he should do nothing to
reopen the senatorial matter, as he had
received so many letters from prominent
Democrats in the Seventh district asking
him not to be disturber.
\ letter was received here today from
Senator Chandler of New Hampshire. in
which he says that recent developments
in Kansas cast q doubt upon John Mar
tins admission TO the senate"
Mrs. Mary T. Lease has been appointed
p member OF the state board of charities,
and Mrs Anna l. Diggs a member of the
bOald # regents of the state university.
The members ot the popullSt house went !
INTO caucus this evening TO consider what
SciiOn TO take in view OF the supreme
courts decision upholding the legality OF
she organization of the Republican house !
After much discussion il was decided to
name committee OF three 10 wait upon
the governor and consult with him as TO
their future course, aud to report to the
house on Monday. TIE general sentiment
of the caucus was to abide by the courts
decision and to Join the Republican house
forthwith. The governor, in an interview
took that view OF the situation. The com
mittee will probably make report to that
effect on Monday and the pOpulist house
viii then dissolve, and its members will
join the rival organization.
A DIVIDED COURT.