The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-03
Not Even Grinding Fine.

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Topeka. Kan-, Feb. 2-(special)-Twen.
(; tw-two days of the session have gone and
very little has been done by either branch
OF the legislature. Not more than two or
three bills have passed third reading in
| either house and only one has reached the
governor, local bill relating to the time
| OF holding court in the Thirteenth judicial
| district. Quite a number of local bills have
been recommended from the committee of
the whole house for passage. There is a
| d,sposit:5c OF The part 81 great many new
members, and old ones. too. for that mat
ter. to protract debate. They do this mere
ly for the purpose Of making a show, in a
great many Instances. Now and then a
| new member who thinks his time has come
gets up and attempts to create a sensation
by some fiery ontburst OF what he imagins
is eloquence. He says nothing new and
says it n the old familiar way. It's about
like this: New member arises in his place
and thrills the entire assembly with the
dashing statement that he wants to make
few remarks. and that saia remarks VIII
be Of vital importance to the entire state
and posterity in general. Then he pitches
his voice several degrees above high G,
gets red in the fnce and makes II necessary
for the auditors in the galleries to stop up
their ears. He clutches his fists, gets red
der in the face and talks little louder.
He carves all sorts Of fantastic delineations
in the atmosphere. gets remarkably red In
the face and fairly yells- Here he stops
and expects everybody in hearing to go
Wild with applause, which nobody thinks
of doing, and he repeats the operation in a
more excruciatng manner than before, af-
ter which he sits down and tries to make
himself believe that he has made an effort
CT which his wife viii be very proud. This
IS no eXaggeration; nothing but the plain
truth Nine cases out of ten, nothing Is
said that hasn't been said a dozen times
before on the same proposition and yet the
performance is repeated two or three times
day.
Last Saturday the entire afternoon was
taken up in the discussion of Trueolood's
bill to assess mineral reserves and the
greater part of the time was wasted in such
performances as this. There begins 20 be
talk Of night sessions and extension of the
time. The steering committee is getting
uneasy. The difficulties of promise-keeping
are beginning 10 stare the reformers in the
face.
The latest plan of the Populists in their
gerrymander scheme is to legislate Matt
Simpson out of Office and in re-districting
the state have the Ninth become a new
district and give Governor Leedy a cnance
TO appoint a Popul,st to the place. 1t is
claimed tina, Simpsons appointment was
illegal, being made before there was
vacancy. 1t is evident that the whole
scheme is only an effort to get Republicans
out Of the way to make room for Populists
who vii use the machinery to continue the
party in power. Nobody can tell what
fac, they admit tina: they dc not know
themselves how they are going to do all
that Will be necessary to dominate the
state completely with Pop politics and poll
ticians and they ought to have the credit
OF being frank in their attempts, for they
do not deny that their principal aim is to
state The senate and house steering COM
nittees in joint conference decided to adj
vance on the calendar bills that they con-
slider ought, in party faith, to go into law
first They discuss the merits of bills after
this manner openly: What we must do
to get back in two years." is common and
public talk among them.
legislature is exceeded only by the number |
Of petitions for and against proposed meas |
lres, and measures to be proposed. Woman |
suffrage is ahead in the number of petitions |
and also n the length. Separate petitions !
,on tanning in the aggregate more than s.. |
100 names have already been presented in |
behalf of female enfranchisement and in |
formation to the effect that this will be |
Kept up till the close of the session leads |
% the suspicion that if there Is anything |
n the Old adge continual dropping" etc. |
he women Of Kansas will have something |
% say as to who shall be the next presi- |
lent of the United tSates.
+. c. Weilep has introduced the follow |
ng resolution at the request of DR.. Hard |
ng of Topeka
Whereas, Some of the best citizens of |
he state wish to hold meeting to discuss |
3otkin's social purity bill; therefore, be it |
Resolved. by the house of representa-
ives, That this bill be offered for such |
Adopted.
DR.. Eva Harding, Captain ]. G. Waters.
,x-Chief Justice Horton. w. F. Brown of
Pratt and several others have promised to |
make addresses.
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