The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25
PROSPECT BRIGHT
For the Passage of the Audi
tOrium Bill.
1t Will Go Through the House
Tomorrow.
VERY LITTLE DANGER
That it Will Stick Fast in the
Senate.
Mayor Fellows Will Make the
Necessary Proclamation.

I The Topeka auditorium bill will pass
the house probably tomorrow
Speaker Pro Tenn WeiIep said today:
1.-The bill, if ii is all right, and I guess
it is, may be called up and advanced to
third reading and passed now almost
any time
Mr.. WeiIep explained that the ar
rangement by which the principal Pop
ulist measures had been made special
orders by reason of concessions from
the Republicans, had caused the POpu-
lists to announce their willingness to
consider Republican measures in spir-
it of fairness.
Begging Mr.. WeiIep's pardon, this
isn't Republican measure any more
than it is a POpuliSt measure. Every
Populist in Topeka is in favor of an au-
dltorium just the same as every Repub-
ncan is. 1t is unanimous with our peO-
pie.
The Shawnee representatives, howev-
er, have aided in advancing the POpulist
measures, and are in a position to come
in for share of the favorS which will
be distributed; for so it is looked on by
this violently partisan legislature.
Mr.. Weilep has not been and is not
now opposed to the auditorium bill. He
will give it his unqualified support. He
said today:
There is no doubt about the bill be-
ing passed When the Shawnee rep
resentatives call it up we will advance
the bill in ample time to secure its pass
age"
Mr.. McKeever will call up the bill to-
morrow morning in accordance with
the agreement made with Mr.. Weilep
today.
In ten days Mayor Fellows will make
his election proclamation, which must
include the question of the use of the
coal hole fund for the auditorium.
The friends of the measure, now pend
ing in the legislature, think that the bill
will be passed before that time, but
Mayor Fellows, who is a friend of the
bill, would not allow the question to be
left out of the proclamation even though
the bin should be delayed in its pass
age.
The plan now is to have the bill
passed by the senate as soon as possible
and to send it to the house from the
senate and ready to be acted upon. Hal
w. NeiSwanger saw Senator Sterne last
evening and was told that the bill Will
be called up in the senate soon as
possible. Senator SteIne said that SO
far as he knew there will be OBJ
lection to the passage of the measure
in the senate.
charge of the measure in the house will
make an effort to call it up as soon
the bill is received from the senate and
it will probably be passed with other
local bills when it is reached.
Mr. Neiswanger is trying to devise
some plan to leave the question of site
open. he Dill as IL mas D6en prepared
provides that the site shall be specified
in the proclamation. 1t is SO worded,
however, that it is thought the matter
may be left in such form that
choice of several sites may be made.
The site most favored and the one
which Mr.. Neiswanger considers most
appropriate is at the northeast corner
of jackson and Seventh It is not yet
known what this site will cost and it
would necessarily be more expensive
than some others. The lots are owned
Mr.. S. L. Seabrook. The agent has
written to the owners for the lowest
possible price but no reply has been re-
ceived. The promoters of the project
will know before election what is the
price of the site and it will then be de-
cided whether or not it is out of reach.
The old haymarket at the southeast
corner of Fourth and Jackson streets
has also been considered but no price
has been made 1t has the advantage
of being larger than the other and a
building 100 by 200 feet in dimensions
could be erected there.
Another place talked of is the north
east corner of Van Buren, and Seventh
streets but this is less favored than the
two before mentioned.
If the mayors proclamat ton must in
clude the exact location of the proposed
building it becomes an important ques-
ton and which must be decided
soon. If there is to be no alternative
the create care must be taken in Sc
lecting a suitab BILE location for the audi
forum.
There are still many people who think
that the building should be put up in
the City park and the $4,000 in the
coal hole fund could be applied directly
on the building instead of in the pur-
chase of a site.
A well known business man said to a
Journal reporter: when the new
bridge is completed the CITY park will
be a much more desirable place that it
is now. An auditorium might be built
where it would not interfere with the
use of the park and ii would also be
accessible to the people of Topeka OF
course the building would belong to the
city but it should be the property of
the city anyway"
Mr.. Neiswanger and the other mem
berS of the committee will investigate
the site question at once.
WANT FEDERAL AMENDMENT