The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-08

| like to have them stand up and be count
ed. All the printers ask is what is fair.
| You pay your doorkeepers and janitors
here a great deal more than the printers
get You could etjanitors cheaper. but
you won't do if. Now the printer asks
only that you do not reduce one class of
prices and not another"
Mr. Tough said: 81 know how this
| printing business is conducted. | was
| editor of a paper three months myself
| once and I looked into a shot gun and
had three libel suits on my hands, and l
quit There is something wrong about
the way county printing is paid
! for when the county has to pay more
than / can get the same work done for
myself. 1t cost my county over twice as
| much to get the election ticket printed
as it did Wilson county. There is some
/ thing rotten somewhere about this bust
ness"
The bill provides for Furnishing any
| officer who pays or offers to pay less than
| the prices in the bill. Mr.. Meredith
wanted attorneys and other persons in
cluded in the list of those punishable.
Dir. Rohrbaugh then wanted the printer
| punished for taking less than the prices
| named in the bill This confused things
| SO that the whole bill with the amend
ments recommended was referred back
to the committee on printing. The
house disagreed, however, with the re-
port of the committee and it is now in
the same condition as it was before the
committee acted On it.
WONT CONFIRM GEO. T. ANTHONY.
His Record Is Not Satisfactory to the
Senate.
George T. Anthony will probably not
be confirmed as insurance commissioner.
The matter of his confirmation came up
in secret session in the senate yesterday
| afternoon. The debate inside was SO
animated it made the windows rattle,
but after being in session an hour and a
half. the matter was postponed with no
action for or against the confirmation
being taken.
majority of the senators didn't want
to go into the secret session. Senator
Leedy said: 81 hope this senate will not
go into secret session and drive the re-
porters out 1 understand it's cold up
in the garrett The reporters always
find out what we say and do anyhow, and
| think we might as well consider Mr.
Anthony's name in open session. There
has never been a session for years but
some member of this body, disregarding
his obligation and honor, has told what
was done in it to use it to the disadvant-
age of some one else"
Senator Dennison said: 81 understand
some OF the Republicans are loaded for
this occasion, and I want to go into secret
session so they can skin Mr. Anthony
when there's no one else around"
The motion to suspend the rules and
confirm Mr.. Anthony in open session re-
sulted-ayes, 10; nays, 9. As it required
a o-thirds vote to suspend the rules, the
motion was lost.
Senator Jumper was the first one to be-
gin. He read extracts regarding George
t. Anthony from the Leavenworth Times,
and declared him to be unworthy of con-
fdence and unfit to hold any Office OF
trust Senator Dennison also brought
serious charges against Anthony. Sew
eral Republicans are heartily opposed tC
the nomination, and with forces arrayed
in this line it seems difficult indeed fol-
Mr.. Anthony to wiggle through. A com
mittee composed of Senators Sterne
Dennison and Thacher was appointed to
look into the charges against Anthony
The senate then adjourned with no vote
having been taken.
Several Senators are devoting consid-
cradle time going through newspaper
files of 1877-78 when Mr. Anthony was
governor and getting pointers relative tC
, his record at that time. They are look.
:. ing especially regarding the incident Of
!, calling out the state militia and the kill
ing of a boy at Emporia- The charges
made by d. R Anthony in the Leaven
worth Times that the records of Herki
!, mer Co., n. Y, of frauds and thefts com
: mitted by Geo. 7. while he was an off
cial there, are to be brought up.