The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-16
SNOW is CONFIDENT
That He Can Hold the State
Partnership
AGAINST MAJOR HUDSOES CLAIM.
A Statement Of His Side OF the Case
Says He Has the Inv ON His Side.


State Printer E. II. Snow is preparing
to fight Major ]. z Hudson'G claims to
his office Major Hudson will be con-
fronted by no weak opposition and the
side that has the law in its favor will win.
Mr.. Snow contends that his side of the
controversy has never been presented
fairly and squarely to the Kansas public.
He is fighting to retain his position be-
cause it is a good thing" and because he
thinks he has law that sustains him in his
position. The fight will be a legal one,
with possibly some politics in it, but
nothing personal.
The ground on which Mr.. Snow bases
his claim to his continuation in Office
after July is that no joint session for
the election of state printer was held
by the legislature of 1895. Mr.. Snow
expects to prove that the so-called 'joint
session" was not one in fact, and that the
necessary preliminaries to such session
were not complied with.
One fact that is undisputed in the con-
troversy is that no concurrent resolution
providing for joint session ever passed
the senate. The house passed the neces-
sary resolution. The senate was not sat-
isfied with the way it was worded,
and made a number of amendments,
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currence. 1t was in the midst of these
complications, not to say fliEusterings,
that President Troutman declared the
senate in recess for the purpose of COM
plying with the statutes requiring the
Joint session. The Joint session had to
be held that day, and MIR. Troutman con-
tended that custom was law in this case,
and it had to be held at noon, resolution
or no resolution.
Mr.. Snow contends that this move was
prearranged at Republican caucus, and
that he knew it was to be done several
hours in advance. He told President
pro tenn. King and Senator Dennison
what was to occur. and they were pre-
pared for it. 1t is said that the Repub-
licans expected by this move to create a
stampede to the house, and whether they
did SO intend or not there came near be-
ing one But instead. Senator King
rushed to the chair and reminded the
senate that it was still in session, and
Senator Dennison quieted the timid
ones by laying down the law.
1t is conceded also that while the
'joint session" was being held majority
of the senators as we'll as the secretary
and the sergeant at arms were in the SEN
! ate chamber.
It is commended that it takes a majority
of the members of each house to have a
joint session. But even ignoring this for
the sake of argument the Snow men in
sist that the preliminarieS necessary to a
| joint session were not fulfilled. The law
says, 1.-The joint convention shall have no
! power to perform any act not authorized
in the concurrent resolution creating the
same" There was no concurrent resolu-
| ton.
Mr.. Snow says he was elected two years
ago "for a term of two years, or until his
successor is legally elected and quail
| fed" He denies, in view of all these
allegations, that his successor was illegal
| ly elected" and he is confident that the
supreme court will so hold when the
| time comes
Mr. Snow says there has been con-
spiracy since Major Hudson's alleged
election, in which every pressure from
every possible source has been brought
to bear to get him to retire from the
| fight He says that c. B. Hamilton has
not only made every effort to sell his
plant to Major Hudson, but sell the state
partnership in the bargain.
In the first contract which was adj
vanced by Hudson's attorneys, Snow
was made to agree not to prosecute his
claim to the Office of state printer Snow
declined to sign the contract although
Major Hudson declared the Hamilton
plant to be worth only $4,000, he offered,
says Mr. Snow, $4,000 for it provided
| Snow would quit the fight. Snow looks
on this as practical confession by Mai.
Hudson of the weakness of his claim to
the office.
Mr.. Snow says also that Major Hudson
receives but little encouragement from
his legal advisors, and that his greatest
hope has been that he (Snow) might be
induced to withdraw from the fight
This is State Printer Shows side, part
of it at least, as briefly told as possible