The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-18
LAST NIGHTS CAUCUS.
Burton Not Strong Enough to Prevent an
Adjournment.

Burton Not Strong Enough to Prevent an
Adjournment.
Last nights senatorial caucus was
disappointment to the friends and sup
porters Of the candidacy of j. r. Burton.
Mr Burton's friends were not able to
prevent an adjournment until next Mon
day night, although the margin by which
the adjourn ment was secured was small,
the vote standing: For adjournment. So;
against adjournment, 90.
The Burton and anti Burton factions
both held caucuses prior to the general
caucus last night, and both sides an
nounced conf1dentially that they expect
ed to rule the general caucus
It was given out as the plan of the
anti Burton forces that they intended to
adjourn the caucus until next Monday
night. and the Burton caucus decided to
prevent an adjournment, but the Burton
faction was not strong enough to carry
out its programme.
When the caucus was called to order
at o'clock by Chairman Judge Sutton,
Mr. (. G. Cole of Barton county was rec
ognized and he Immediately offered
motion that the caucus adjourn until
next Monday night y"
Captain John Seaton wanted to lay the
motion on the table and Mr. Bennefel of
Montgomery county wanted to amend the
motion 80 that when an adjournment was
| taken it would be to 8 o'clock tonight
Both of these propositions were ruled out
of order.
| Then for several minutes followed
spirited debate as to the justice OF ad-
journment Speaker LobdelI objected
10 the adjournment Mr.. Cole of Barton
county, spoke for his motion. Senator
Carpenter opposed the adjournment and
! Senator Milton favored it,
| Mr. Rennefiel made a bitter speech
! against an adjournment in which he
! charged that a scheme had been proposed
| by which the Populists expect to elect
/ the United States senator and while he
would not charge that any members of
either the house or senate were con-
| nected with the affair yet he said an ad-
! iournment until Monday night would
| look like it,
Mr. Cole replied to Mr. BennefieI, and
! said his Republicanism was just as pure
! and upquestioned as that of the gentle
man from Montgomery, and he was
cheered as he, N conclusion, spoke of
the change in the plans of some of the
members since the first caucus Wednes-
| day night, saying: Wise men some
times change their minds, fools never" :"
John SaAton objected to the adjourn
ment, but there was an urgent demand
for the roll call, which the chairman at
once ordered. The vote was victory
for the anti Burton crowd and the caucus
| adjourned until next Monday night, the
vote being: For adjournment, 53: against
adjournment, 52 Representative Hack
busch did not vote
The vote by which the adjournment
was secured showed how evenly the
forces are divided, and placed every
member on record except Mr.. Hack
busch of Leavenworth, who did not vote.
The anti Burton men voting for
and securing the adjournment,
were Senators Williamson, Price.
Thacher. Parker, Metcalf, McTaggart,
Baker, Scott. Sterne, Morgan, Danner,
Brown, Willcockson; Representatives
Campbell, Hill, Hunt. Caldwell, Tucker.
Baker, Remington, Clark of Linn, John
son of Anderson, Dewitt, Butler, Brown.
Bender, Benedict, Ballinger, Gardenhire,
johnson of Nemaha, Knipe, Cornell,
Miller of Geary, Lambert of Lyon,
CIaycombe, Shouse, Beckman, Satter-
thwaite Chandler, Funk, Miller of Nor
ris. Fraser. Spicknall, Simons, Cole,
kebrand, Cannon, Zimmerman,
Clark of Wallace, Lough, Bone. Bradley
and McKnight-Total SO.
The Burton men voting against ad-
journment and failing to make their point
were: Senators Carpenter and Robbins
and Representatives Seaton. White, Nc
Carthy, Alien, Cubbison, Haines,
Goodno. Warner, Benefiel. Cox, Sher-
man, Veale, Robinson, Dickson, Price
Raemer, Axelton, Powers, Thisler,
Morrow, Foster, Shaetfer, Smith. Moore
Eckstein, Rohrbaugh, Meridith, Dix
Marshall, Matthews, Sutton. Andrews
Halliday, Fitzgerald, Blair, Hanna, Den
nison, Grimes, Lobdell, Hopkins, Kelley
Pratt, Wilson, Byers, Hemminger, HoI-
lenbeck. Painter, Aker, Murphy ant
Strongouist-Total 80.