People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-10-11

There are SIX cities of the first class
in Kansas, and in all these like cor
ruption was found during the good
republican administration of Hum
phrey.
The correspondent Of the Topeka
Capital at Leayenworth testified be-
fore the investigating committee that
he believed that prohibition and the
metropolitan police are honestly al
lied, that he, and others through him
were responsible for the articles thai
had appeared in the Topeka Capital.
endorsing the metropolitan system.
Yet he had not heard anyone say H.
the past month that they were favor.
able to it; that he believed that nine
tenths of the people of LeayenwOrth
were opposed to it, but also testified
that if the joints were run in the in
terest of the republican party he
wanted to see them run.
The report of the investigation
covers IA pages Of the House Journal
Of 1891, and gives the testimony Of
witnesses examined.
Read it.
STATE PENITENTIATY.
The republicans have charged that
S. W. Chase, warden of the peniten-
Tertiary, has swindled the state.
What are the facts? The board of
directors in their report show that
for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1894, the penitentiary has not only
been self sustaining, but that it has a
surplus of s1O,6lO.5l, while for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, under
republican management, there was a
deficiency of S9,30S,l2. If Warden
Chase has defrauded the state, how
much more must hisrepublican prede-
cessors have stolen?
LOTTERIES.
The republicans had control of this
state thirty years and failed to pass a
law that prevented the running of
lotteries and the sale of lottery tick
cts. The act of 1874, being section
2457 of the general statutes of 1859,
is unconstitutional, not having been
passed in accordance with section
l6, article 2 of the constitution, wi ich
provides mo bill shall contain more
than one subject which shall be clearly
expressed in its title." The title of
the bill in question is IAN act to pre-
vent the publication of obscene ad-
vertiSements and bUOkS,h and that
portion Of the bill pertaining to lot
teries has been held by Ex-Attorney
Kellogg and at least one republican
judge to be unconstitutional and for
that reason void.
In 1891 the POpulist house passed
House bill No. 80, an extremely
strong anti-lottery measure and sent
it to the republican senate. 1t was
referred to the judiciary committee,
of which Chester |. Long was a men,
Der and although this was twenty-One
days before adjournment, that bill
was pigeOn-holed and never reported.
In the session of 1893 Senator Tay-
lOr'S bill No. II, an anti-lottery bill,
was passed and sent to the Douglass
house, where it was held by the judi
clary committee until after House
concurrent resolution No. q had been
passed by the house and concurred in
by the senate which provided that
neither house should consider any
bill except such as had originated in
the other house or appropriation bills.
The chairman of the committee then
reported the bill back to the house,
with three amendments. The POpu.
list members protested against any
amendments being made, calling the
attention of the members to the fact
that any amendment would defeat
the bill as the senate would be plO
hiblted by house concurrent resOlu
tiOn from further considering the
same, yet the republicans amended
the bill and it passed the house, but
when sent to the senate and Senator
Taylor attempted to call it up fo
consideration, the point OF order wa
made and sustained that house con
current resolution No. p prevented
its consideration, and as shown il
each session the republicans preventec
anti lottery legislation.
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