Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-16
Topeka coRREsPoNnENcE.

today, the trainers of the consti
tuition not realizing that the second
Tuesday of January might precede the
second Monday. Senator Forney of
Sumner county was elected temporary
secretary and after invocation OF divine
blessing by ex Chaplain BiddisOn, the
senate proceeded to permanent organ
izatlon. w. l.. Brown was re elected
secretary and number of the minor
officers were reelected. also many new
ones chosen. Everything moved along
harmoniusly until the name of Ben &.
Rich as reading clerk was reached.
This proved too bitter dose for some
of the republicans, but 4 sharp debate
was avoided by Senator Thacher stat
ing that the populists were in the ma
jority and had the right To elect what
ever officers they saw fit. SenatorScott
said if he had to take dose of medi-
cine he always made it Il practice to
take the whole dose no matter how bit
ter. Senator Brown of Finney county,
who was the chief kicker, said he was
not raised in the same school OF medi-
cine as his friend and believed in he
meOpathy. Senator Dennis0n said he
came here with mola3ses in one hand
and vinegar III the other and the repub-
Iican side could take which ever hand
they choose. a roll call vote was de
manded and only eight members
Tho aIanfiO,, Of Ilich flor
the organization the eTgeat-at-arms
announced the chief clerk of the house,
who, after being introduced to the SEN
ate, announced that the house was or
ganized and ready for business. a
committee was appointed to notify the
governor and also the house that the
senate was organized and ready TO re-
ceive communications, and the senate
adjourned.
Jan. 8. A great many bills were in
troduced today, covering almost the en-
tire field. The business was mos tly of
a routine character until about two
O'Clock when the sergeant-at-arms an
nounced the governors private secre-
tary, who, after being introduced to
the senate, announced that the govern
or submitted the following message.
The message was read by the secretary
and is very lengthy, as we'll as very able
document. We make the following
quotation which was the subject of APP
plause from the populist side of the
house: 1T is evident that the law was
not intended to all alike. The ignOr-
ance of this fact upon the part of your
executive and the attorney general led
to serious trIbulatiOn. In one city es-
pecially while the pulpit and the press
were clamOrlng for stricUer enforce
ment of this law, the new chief of pO-
lice, soon after his appointment,
searched the premises Of certain club
room patroniZed by influential gentle
men, and arrested some members and
took them before the police judge in the
most ordinary manner. Immediately
the city was in cOmmOtiOn. The most
ultra prohibition newspaper III the city
bitterly denounced the police for inter-
fering with gentlemen, whom the law
was not intended; and the clergy who
had been most clamorous for a stricter
Enforcement Of the law now devoted
themselves to the vItuperation of the
misguided officials who had presumed
to keep Whiskey out of the saints who
sat in the pews, AMI paid to sit there.
A district judge decided that is only a
certain percentage of the members used
the club as a saloon the remaining alb
stemious percentage sancGied the en-
tire premises and extracted the evil
principle of illegality from the liquor
dispensed there; and that III not proper
ly regarding this plain distinction be-
tween this club and other clubs, the po-
lice had acted illegally. The police
commissioners were consequently sued
for damages to furnish the state house. :
The governor reviewed at length the
legislative unpleasantDess of two years
ago, and that part referring to Doug
lass breaking down the door was the
subject of prolonged applause from the
republican side of the house. Patriot
ism.
Jan. 10. To-day witnessed the first
controversy between the two sides OF
the senate, and Senator Dennison had
occasion to administer a dose of hi:
vinegar. The subject Of controversy
was the amendment Of the rules so a:
to create a committee on irrigation
Senator Brown of Finney, being The
prime mover. Senator Dennison sale
he thought if the speaker kept talking
long enough he would reveal the pur
pose of his motion, which was to give
himself craftsmanship Oh that com
mittee. He said it was true that boil
parties had an irrigation plank in thel
platform. He said it must alsobe noted
this was the first republican state con
vention that ever since met the adop
ton of. the prohlbltory law that faileC
to put in prohibition PLANK
in addition TO that fact tt,
state central committee immedIatel,
moved from its old quarters and tool
quarters over a drugstore. Judging
from these facts and considering tn
kind of men on that committee, TIN
inference would lie readily drawn VIVA
they meant by irrigation, there bein,
no water mentioned in their plank
The populists he said, wanted to irri
gate with water and 50 stated in thei
platform. After Il sharp controyers
the amendment was lost and the repor
of the committee adopted. Senate
Lands has again introduced his bill