The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-16


a veritabIe scut and try period. Finally
some degree of order was reached Mr..
Morse, the secretary, worked hard and
mastered the situation. Mr. Homer had
worked so long to get this industry
started that he was convinced in his own
mind that he, and he alone, was to be
board and all, and could or would not
brook restraint. He would make no re-
port to the board and actually disobeyed
its directions. This continued until Sep
TENDER 90, 1887, when the board found
they must either step down and out or
discharge Mr.. Horner The latter course
was followed and Horner was dis
charged"
Notwithstanding this report of the
board, it was the popular belief in KAN
sas and is yet among those who remem-
Der the affair, that Mr.. Horner was put
out because he wouldn't bind himself to
the political ideas of his superiors who
wanted to use the silk station as every
thing else is used in Kansas, to reward
someb body for political WORK. In those
"palmy days" no more than now are men
given positions under the state govern
ment, because they know how to do
things, but because of their skill at poll
teal wire pulling. Since Mr.. Horner,
who had spent years in working up the
plan was discharged, the silk station has
6mOuQL0O TO nObQlQR. II
might as we'll be abolished
After Horner's discharge John Thei-
sen and ]. H. G. Brewer took charge of
the plant, and in 1889 l. A. Buck was
made superintendent, and he has held
his place every year since. The senate
resolution calls for an examination not
only of the plant, but Mr.. Bucks books.
BALLINGER BILL PASSES THE HOUSE
The Fears it Would be Defeated We're
Unfounded.
The Ballinger fees and salaries bill
passed the house yesterday afternoon.
AS stated in the JOURNAL yesterday, the
endeavor to get the time at which it
should go into effect changed to January
/, 1896. was unsuccessful The bill if
passed, will go into effect Immediately
upon it's publication in the state paper
Those counties where salaries are raised,
of course were glad to have it go into
effect right away and there were enough
of them with the Populists to defeat the
amendment in spite of the protestations
of injustice by the opposition. The vote
was:
Yeas, 80; nays Is; absent or not vot-
ing, 10.
were: Messrs. Aker, Allen, Andrews.
Axelton, Baker. Ballinger, Barkley, Bar
nett, Beekman, Benefel, Bone of Clark,
Bradley, Brown of Pratt, Byers, Cald-
well, Campbell of Stafford, Cannon,
Clark of Linn, Clark of Wallace, Clay
comb, Cole, Cornell, Cox, Cubbson, Den
ison, Dewitt, Dickson, Dix, Duffy, Fitz-
gerald, Foster, Frazer, Funk, Glenn,
Grimes Goodno, Haines, Halliday,
Hanna, Heminger, Hilton, Hollenbeak,
Hopkins, Hunt, johnson of Anderson,
Johnson Of Nemaha, Kelley, Knipe,
Lambert of Lyon, Lewis, Lupfer, Nc
earthly, Mcknight, Marshall Meridith,
Miller of Geary, Miller of Morris, Moore,
Morrow, Moss. Murphy, Nighswonger,
Pancake, Powers, Pratt, Raemer, Rem
ington, Robinson, Rohrbaugh, Satter-
thwaite. Schlyer, Sheafor, Sherman,
Simons, Spicknall, Sprague, Stoke brand,
Stromquist, Sutton, Thisler, Tucker, Van
Gaasbeck, Veale, White, Wilson of Bar
Der, Wilson of Stanton, Winters, Wright,
Zimmerman, and Mr.. Speaker Lo bdell.
Gentlemen voting in the negative we're:
Bender, Bone of Crawford, Bucklin,
Campbell of Doniphan, Forsythe, Hack
busch, Hart, Hill, Ingle, McKinnie, Metz
Ter, Rothweiler, Seaton, Smith of Sher-
man, Trueblood, Vilott
| Gentlemen absent or not voting were:
Benedict, Blair, Brown of Crawford, But
Ter, Chandler, Conger, Eckstein, Garden
hire, Lambert of Lincoln, Tough, Math-
ews, Mott, Newman, Painter, Price,
Shouse, Smith of Ottawa, Street, Warner.