The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-03
MADE THEN STAY UP
NO SLEEP TILL MORN WHEN TIL
LEGISLATORS MEET.

LhGlSLATURS Mill.
Leavenworth's Hospitality Extolled the
Sort Which Would Run Nor heus Out
OF Business Mighty Quick, If it Had it,
way--How Something Besides Mere
Politics May Make Strange Bedfellows
And How, When All Was Over,
the ReveIers Yearned for Vast, I'm
broken Solitude and Lots of 1t.
Topeka, Kan, Feb. 2-(Special)-
Owing to the recess taken by both
houses of the legislature al noon yester-
day till Monday next, everything was
quiet about the capitol building and
about the entire city for that matter
today
The exclusion train which was placed
at the disposal of the legislators, state
officers, members of the press, and
others, returned this afternoon bring
ing Leavenworth's guests back to To-
peka, and when the train arrived at
the depot they alighted drowsily and
sneaked off to their rooms muttering
TO themselves a line of that popular
stage ditty, There are moments when
one wants to be alone" Most of them
had not touched a bed the previous
night LeaVenworth hospitality is an
all night hospitality. Most of the Wis
itors had been cooped up in dry, crUs-
ty old Topeka for four weeks and the
change of air-particularly the air of
LeayenWorth-Was too much for them.
Besides they could not sleep if they
wanted to, for there were not accom-
rR.,%i hale IS ~ae-i4
the hotels of Ieavenworth- For in
stance in the National hotel with its
ffty-five rooms there Were 265 guests
registered, anaverage of nearly six per-
sons to each room. Those who did go
TO bed embraced morpheus in a topsy
turvey fashion that was ludicious to
behold. Pops, Democrats and Repub-
licans laid together side by side and
snored away in harmony as if nothing
had ever occurred to disturb their rela-
lions.
KEPT THEIR GARMENTS ON.
Very few of them went to the trouble
of shedding their buds and it was not
an uncommon thing for one man TO
keep digging his boot heels into the
ribs Of his bedfellow. All this might
indicate that the visitors had imbibed
too freely of Missouri river water or
that sparkling liquid from the merry
land Of France. Such, however, was
not the case, for within the corporate
limits of the historic city there was
not an intoxicated man seen that night.
There was a systematic scheme of If
rigation pursued that fertilized the
mental faculties and stirred up all the
goodfellowship that was in the hearts
OF the visitors. LeaVenworth paid all
the bills, including bed, board and cab
expenses, and no visitor was ignored on
account of his politics. religion, local
of servitude. John Briedenthal and
Dave Overmeyer slept in the same bed
and maintained the most friendly rela-
tons until the day dawned.
-. AT o o'clock the special train started
towards Topeka but it stopped for an
hour at the Soldiers Home where the
visitors were shown through that beau
tiful and commendable institution.
THEN THEY WILTED.
After starting again the visitors could
not maintain the dignity of senator's,
legislators or statesmen any longer, for
the effects Of a nights convivality
pressed hard upon them and knocked
all the starch out of them, as it were.
They sung in their seats and succumb-
ed 10 WEAKNESS and sleep. Grave sena-
tors curled themselves up like snails
and We're very glad to rest their worthy
and valua bic heads on the arm rests
and toss their feet over theb ack of the
adjoining seat, in many instances To-
eating their foot wear on the ear of a
drowsy colleague who, perhaps, would
grunt at the intrusion and would re-
sent it no further. Men VINO aspired to
the supreme bench would, in their rest
less tossing, finally find soft place to
lay their heads on the ample front of
a fat candidate for penitentiary war
den, and be lulled to a deep slumber
by the asthmatic concert within his
Ion -hn
sleep shivered and Rugged the stove
and looked lonesome and far away as
men do while the champagne is getting
itself right the system. Many
were they who wished to be two days
older. Blue points and champagne are
splendid luxuries while they are being
used. but they are not SO popular the /
next day.
All were glad when they reached To- |
peka-
LEGISLATURE NOTES.
Senator Taylor has introduced a bill /
providing that every farmers institute
may send one delegate to the annual /.
meeting of the state board of agricul- !
ture. which delegate shall be an ex-
officio member of the board
A bill has been introduced by Sena- !
tor Dumbauld making it unlawful for /
any city to change the license fee OF |
any peddler who is an invalid soldier /
ana Is working Tor himself.
A bill has been drafted by the COM /
mlttee on banking, and insurance re- /
quiring that every fire insurance COM |
pany not incorporated by the laws of |
the state. AMI doing business in any
Incorporated city in the state shall nav |
to the superintendent of insurance the
sum of 81 upon each 500 for premiums
written in the city. This bill was in
troduced by Mr.. Beekman of Arkansas
City.
Nothing viii be done by the legis
lature this year towards the repeal of
the metropolitan police law. Those
who are most pronounced against the
repeal of the law are anti-prohibition-
lists.
Night sessions of the legislature will
begin during the latter part OF the
week.
p. a. RohTbaugh received a nice COM
piiment in the house Friday from Col
DUEL Warner, one of the old members /
Of the house. who referred to him as
the hardest working committee chair
man I'm the legislature.
IL is now conceded that Senator
D Bryan's bill making certain immoral
acts felonies viii become a law.
WOULD HAVE TAKEN MORE.
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