The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-30

the house by quitting their Jobs and
saying they won't work another min
ute longer"
The trouble is because the house re-
fused to give them mileage in the ap-
priation bill which passed the house
as an emergency measure the last
thing yesterday afternoon. In the or
iginal bill as introduced by Chairman
Trueblood, of the ways and means
committee. the employees who were in
the service of the regular session, were
mileage The members of the legisla-
ture draw Is cents per mile.
A fight was instituted on the mileage
for employees by Jackson of Harvey,
but because the fight was led by Re
publican the POpulists voted it down.
Several minutes afterWard a PopuIist
moved the same sort of an amendment
and it carried.
L. J. Riley, journal clerk of the house,
is about as indignant as anyone. Il
came down here because they wanted
me to-" he declared after the house had
adjourned, land I supposed of course
would get paid for my railroad fare. 1
am feeding 125 head of cattle and had
to hire an extra man to take care of
them while I am down here. When I
pay him and my expenses while here
will have nothing left out of my per
diem and I will be out my railroad fare
besides. This house would have been
in a pretty fix if the old employees had
not come back here and gone to work.
It takes new ones two or three weeks TO
learn how, and the house could not have
done any business. and had an intelh-
gent record kept of it, for another week
yet if they had employed new men. My
railroad fare amounts to S15. Just think
what fix this house would be in if the
old employees who know how to run the
business should quit tomorrow morn
ing. That is what we ought to do
Sergeant-a Dunsmore thinks
about the same way. Il do not care so
much for myself" he said, but 1t is
n 5e-A1 CHI F1n
paid their railway fare. The sergeant
alarms has received his mileage in the
past, and by the time the loss to my
business is considered come out just
about even If I don't get my railroad
fare paid I won't go home with any
money to show for my work here 1t
was charged this afternoon by some of
the members that the old employees
were here two or three days before the
session opened eager and. anxious to
get their old jobs hack, but 1T is not
so. The house caucus ordered me to
select my assistants from the old force,
and none of them were here even after
the house had met and had to tele-
graph to them to come.
I'm mighty sure of one thing-they
won't get US to do any more work than
we have to. don't propose to loQk af-
ter the caucuSeS and guard them any
more when they are held over in the
senate chamber. I have been doing
that so far, but I don't propose to do
anything that is not required of me by
law and won't ask any of my men to
either You wouldn't catch any of the
members who voted against giving us
our mileage, vote to deprive themselves
of their Is cents per mile
Just then an assistant sergeant-at-
arms came up and asked for orders.
There isn't anything more to be
done tonight" Mr.. Dunsmore. There
is a caucus over in the senate chamber,
but we won't pay any attention 10 II.
If those fellows are too stingy to allow
US three cents per mile railroad fare
when they get Is cents. they can guard
their own caucuses. Don't you go near
them"