The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-12

Refusal to Pay Their Salaries and How
the Legislature Could Retaliate.
Topeka, Kan, Jan 11.-(Special)-
Is Kansas to be treated to a surprise
next Tuesday? The conditions are
said TO be excellent for a legislative
uproar second only to the memorable
one precipitated during dwellings in
itial days Of reign.
There is only one circumstance that
points to scene here next Tuesday.
The railroads have renewed their an
nua1 passes to the legislators. That
appears to be an idle thing to predi-
cate q prediction upon. But railroads
do not, as rule, renew passes to legis-
lators the second year. When they do,
ut is an exception, and envious ones
are now fishing for a cause for this
years exception to the established rule.
II in Topeka next Tuesday morning,
Topeka's perennial Sunday quiet rolls
Out of the night and passes the dawn,
the forenoon and the evening, Governor
Morrill, and his crowd will breathe a
great sigh of relief, and the legislature
will not meet, and Wednesday morn
ing viii find Topeka still wrapped in
that robe Of Isolated calmness and dead
seclusion which best BELTS her.
WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN.
But If next Tuesday morning, in To-
peka, with the rising sun, should come,
trooping from the depots to the east
and TO the north, squads Of men with
satchels in their hands, tooth-brushes
in their vest pockets, and a grim de-
tor, fv,l, +sr,-. "a 4, II
faces, there would be war. If these
strings OF Kansas gentlemen push in
10 the hotel corridors and into the news
paper offices and into the sta tehouse
and into the restaurants, and caucus
tos>ther, high noon next Tuesday is
very likely 10 see the legislature OF
Kansas in the act Of taking the state
house by storm and electing temporary
officers. Lobdell has agreed with Gov
ernor Morrill, not to call the present
legislature. Mr.. LobdeH is a creature
of the legislature and If Mr.. Lobdell
should happen 30 differ from that legis-
lature there would be a new speaker
of the house in two shakes of an ex-
seedingly agile rams tail. Lieutenant
Governor Troutman says a meeting of
the legislature is mandatory, but he
does not favor it-simply because Nor
rill is against it. That means that
Lit Troutnan, If the Populist senate
should take possession of its chamber,
would be on hand 70 save his own ba-
con-
Both Troutman and Lobdell will be
here next Tuesday and If a sufficient
portion of the legislature appears Lob
Dell go into the state house with them
and there viii be no need of electing
temporary officers.
ABOUT IMPEACHING COLE
But there IS one thing that is liable
TO. keep the legislators away. That is
the fear that the state auditor Cole will
refuse 10 admit their bills, and, with
out per diem, the Kansas legislature
will not legisfate. OF course it is pos
sible for the legislature TO impeach
Mr.. Cole, but the legislature knows the
expense Of Impeachment proceedings
and it is too smart entirely to bring
down popular condemnation upon its
head IN that way.
At present there are no signs Of any
unusual crowd in Topeka next Tuesday
The hotels have no extra orders for
rooms, and the boarding houses have
not been notified Of any influx. But the
Kansas legislature is a strange and a
rare bird and the chances are that he
will come on the spur OF the moment,
ana without warning, merely 10 see
what the other fellows are doing. See
ing what the other fellows are doing
has been the cause of more than one
uproar in Kansas and so it may prove
this time
There is no doubt about how the
legislators feel on the matter. To a
man they regard the constitution man.
datory Of a session. this year for the
re-apportionment Of the state. The
only thing that prevents them is Nor
rilliS and Dawes edict that they shall |
not meet
But whether the legislature meets or |
not, there is likely to be a. crowd of leg /
fslatoTs in Topeka next Tuesday. When /
IL actually comes to meeting, they may /
back out. As a. prominent chair-hold- /
er in the Copeland lobby said last night I
THE legislature viii not meet unless !
IL does"