People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-01-10
The Legislature.

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day and was organized according to
the plans of the Republican caucus
without any exciting incidents. The
Populists either voted for the Repub-
lican nominees for house positions or
refrained from voting.
The following officers beside those
named yesterday were elected under a
suspension Of the rules and according
to the results of the Republican eau
Gus: Chief enrolling clerk, Mrs. L. C.
Hughes of WyandOtte; docket clerk,
c. f. Hostetter of Cloud; postmistreSs,
Mrs. E. Fl. Munsey of Shawnee; chap
lam, P. T. Robes of Shawnee; asst
ant postmaster, G. c. Angle of Bour-
bon; document CLERK, Miss Lulu Faub-
lie of WyandOtte; pages, Roy H. Foster,
%. A. Clark, Boyd Lambert, Willard
Funk, George Satterthwaite, Clarence
SheafOr, Elmer Howard and Robert
E. Stuart.
Committees were appointed to in
form the governor and the senate that
the house was organized and ready
for business and then an adjournment
was taken until 300 o'clock p. m.
The Senate likewise organized at
high noon. L. P. King, of COwley
county, was elected president pro
TEN bya strict party vote over SOlon
o. Thatcher, of Lawrence.
Senator Lands of Barber then in
trOduced resolution for the election
Of the POpulist caucus nominees for
senate officers. The Republicans
clicked" on one of them, Ben Ricn,
whose reputation in connection with
the Legislative war" OF 1898 they did
not like. Senator Brown of Finney
tried to substitute the name of A. A.
Dunbar, a Cowley county POpulist
editor for that of Rich but failed.
The following list Of officers were then
elected W. L. Brown, secretary;
James L. Root, assistant secretary;
Ben c. Rich, reading clerk; n. n.
Boyd, sefgeant-at-armS: Scion Gray,
assistant sergeant-at-armS: Ed
Marshall, second assistant ser
geant-at.arms; Rev. j. D. Bot
kin, chaplain; V. II. BiddisOn,
docket clerk: Bertha Morris, assist
ant docket clerk; A. D. Gilpin, JOurn-
al clerk; Meta Murphy, Edith Coles
and Frank Petit, assistant journal
clerks; A. G. Baker, document clerk:
Il. j. Williams, assistant document
clerk; Mrs. Sam Wood, pOStmistresS;
j. s. Craig, assistant postmaster; ]. J..
Barnes, bOOkkeeper; Capt. Allen,
doOrkeeper; assistants, Erwin COyey,
o. c. Pratt, George Baldwin, r. g..
Mckinney, G. H. Fish, NJ. B. Craw-
ford, A. r. Sheriff.; T. B. Carr. guard
cloak room; F. P. Daniels, assistant
guard cloak room; James Kennedy,
night watch; W. S. Decker, head
ianitor; assistants, George Ray, Joe
Griffin, T. ?. Moore, Milton Tyler, j.
B. Gibbs.
PageS-Charley Bowling, Jimmie
Bone, Willie Kelley, Clarence ROdg-
cas-, Ray Brown, Russell Helm, Char
ley Rice, Louie Griley, Morris Hester.
Lizzie Armstrong, chief enrolling
clerk: assistants Anna Brown,
Kate DOlan, Ella King, Nellie FOrney
Grace Hicks, OLGA Morrison Sarah
Barrett, Minnie Wilson, Jessie
O'Brien, Mamie Martin, Katie Day,
Venetta Moore, Sadie Bowman, Lutte
Lyle, Mrs. Ida Williams, Anna Muir
ply, Maggie Merry, Phebe Turner.
A resolution providing for the pur-
chase of three typewriters for use in
the committee rooms was passed;
also a resolution fixing the hours of
meeting at 1000 O'Clock a. m. and 2
o'clock p. m. Committees were ap-
pointed to notify the governor and
the house that the senate was organ
| lied and ready for business.