The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-23
HE MIGHT CALL IT
MORRILL, TALKS ON THE BRINGING
OF A MANDAMUS BY L0BDELL

| Orders Him to Call the Law-Making
Body Together He Could Not Refuse TO
Do 1.-THE has an Idea, However, That
the Supreme Court Would Not Ask Him
to Do It-GeneraI News From Topeka.
Topeka, Kan, Jan. 22.-(SpeciaL)-In
regard to the scheme of Speaker Lob
dell to apply to the supreme court for a
writ of mandamus TO compel Governor
Morrill, to call the legislature into spe-
cial session, the governor said today:
IF Speaker Lobdell or any other men,
1 Der of the legislature desires to test the
matter in the supreme court, 1 certainly
/ shall not interpose any technical objec-
! tons. l do not precisely see how they
will get the matter into that court, N
view of recent decisions, but if they de-
sire to try il shall not put any stone
in their road.
However, am convinced that there
is no legal or constitutional reasons for
calling a special session, and 1 am sure
the people are almost unitedly opposed
to such session unless it shall be shown
that I am wrong and the constitution
requires it.
II Speaker LODQell SuOulQ tSldDllSu
through a decision from the supreme
court that any of the evils which he
predicts would follow a failure to make
the legislative apportionment this year,
my duty would clearly be to convene the
legislature, but until such a decision is
reached l shall not entertain the prop
osition."
ALL ARE IN IT.
Hon. ]. E. Lambert of Emporia, who
Is a candidate for delegate TO the Re
publican national convention from the
Fourth district, was in the city yester-
day and returned home last night. He
spent the evening in conference with
his Republican friends at the Copeland.
]. S. Dean, the Marion attorney, is
also a candidate for the position of dele
gate from the Fourth district. If Char
ley Sheldon Of Burlingame becomes a
candidate he will make the third man
in the race, from which two are to be
elected.
The conventions to elect the delegates
from the various districts will be called
after the state central committee meets
in this city Feb. f.
THEY ARE FRIENDS.
1t has been charged against Major
Tom Anderson that he wrote a letter to
Mckinley saying that the people of Kan
Leland was in favor of him. 1t is also
charged that Major Anderson and Cy.
Leland are bitter personal enemies. The
charge of writing the letter is openly
denied by Major Anderson and he says
the only letter he has ever written to Nc
Kinley was one concerning a pension
case at the time Mckinley was mem
Der of the committee on pensions in con-
gress.
no II al Il IL A 1o,- -
emieS is demonstrated by the fact that
the two men, with crowd of friends
were seated together at the Copeland
last night discussing Kansas politics.
POPS GALL CONVENTION.
Hon. J. w. Breidenthan, chairman
OF the Populist state central committee,
has issued a call for a meeting of the
committee in this city Feb. IA.
The meeting will be held for the pur-
pose of selecting the time and place of
holding the Populist state convention
to select delegates to the national Popu-
list convention in st. Louis July %.
The meeting of the Republican state
central committee will be held for the
same purpose in this city Feb. 4.
In addition to participate in the ma
tional executive committee meeting in
st. Louis this is the first step taken by
the Kansas Populists in the approaching
campaign.
LEEDY FOR CONGRESS
Senator J. w. Leedy Of Coffee county
has been talked of as a candidate for
governor; for congress TO succeed Char
les Curtis; for reelection to the state
senate and a score or more of offices
His candidacy for governor does not
meet with the approval of the party
manage ment and therefore il is not to
be supposed that he will secure other
than little public mention in connec-
ton with that position.
Now comes the latest report to the
effect that Senator Leedy aspires to
make the race on the Populist ticket for
ngressman-at-large to succeed Hon,
Dick Blue
SWEDISH REPUBLICANS.
Final arrangements for the annual
state convention of the Swedish-Ameri- !
can Republican league will be conclud- |
ed by the executive committee on Kan
sas day.
The convention will be held at Iinds-
borg on March 9. and will be generally
attended by the Swedish Republicans of
the state. The principal item to be con- /
sidered at the state meeting is the can
didacy of President c. a. Swenson of ,
Bethany college for delegate to the ma /
tional Republican convention. He will :
receive the united support of the Scan .
dinavians of Kansas.
The executive committee will meet in /
Topeka Jan. %, for final ARRANGEMENTS.
pursuant TO the following call, issued by .
A. V. Lindell, president of the league:
The executive committee of the
Swedish-American Republican league Of
IS hereby called TO meet at the
parlors OF the Copeland hotel, Topeka,
on Wednesday, Jan. 20, at 2 p. m. for
the purpose of making definite arrange
ments for the annual convention of the
league to be held at Lindsborg, March
:, next, and for the transaction of other
business that may be deemed proper"
ABOUT KANSAS SUGAR.
Topeka, Kan, Jan. 22.-George F.
Kellogg OF Kansas City, Kan. lately
appointed by Secretary F. d. Coburn
Of the agricultural department TO in
spect the sugar industry of the state, has
made his report. He says:
only one sugar plant has been oper-
ated in the state during the past year
the one at Fort Scott Owing 10 the
low price Of sugar and the loss OF the
government bounty, the company at
Medicine Lodge decided not TO operate
is plant.
The company at Fort Scott made
short run. There were about 400 acres
IF cane planted. The season was very
wet and the conditions for growing and
opening the crop were unfavora bic. The
yield was about 2.96S tons. Of which 1.365
tons were made into syrup. the remain
Ter into sugar. \ few thousand pounds
u sugar were sold 10 local merchants,
put the most OF il went 10 the refineries.
There were 80, 200 gallons OF syrup 2I.750
gallons Of molasses and 200. 772 D Inds Of
sugar manufactured during the season.
1t Is impossible at this time % pre-
iict the future OF the sugar business in
The government bounty law