The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-08
PEACE REIGNS.
House Passes a Separate Bill
For the Contest
And the Senate Quickly Ac-
cedes to 1t.
The Legislature Will Adjourn
at Six O'Clock This Evening.
WAS LELAND'S SCHEME
Had the Bill Passed to Prevent
the POpulists
From Having Too Much Cam
paign Material Next Year.
A PROVISO INSERTED
Whereby Leland Expects to
Head Off an Investigation


To the uninitiated the house appears
to have followed it's established custom
yesterday afternoon and bowed the
knee to the senate. AT o'clock the
ways and means committee sprung
surprise on the house by introducing a
bill appropriating $4,000 for the ex-
penses of the Stuart-Falloon contest
The action fairly took away the breath
of many of the radical Repu b1cans,
who had sworn, "by the eternal, that
they would never support such meas
ure."
The bill was passed to third reading
and the roll called before they recovered
enough to debate it, but as soon as they
had gained their second breath the pro-
tests began to roll in Coy, Gregory,
Osborn of Douglas, Scott of Wichita,
and Sweet, in explaining their votes,
protested against the bill in vigorous
terms. Wiley also denounced the Dill,
but he afterward changed front and
supported it.
While the bill was being read Mr..
BenefieI left the hall and stayed out
till after his name had been called, and
after everyone else had voted he said:
I'VE have for days said that we
would not pass a bill like this. How
anyone can vote for this measure in
view of those declarations and satisfy
his conscience L can not conceive. L
vote no.
There were only Sc votes for the bill
when the roll was finished the first
time, seven short of a constitutional
majority. Dawes. Seaver Keifer, Hen
ley and others friendly to the bill be-
gan lobbying for it and succeeded in
changing enough votes to carry 1t by a
vote of "a to 80.
Gentlemen voting in the affirmative
were:
Messrs Adams of Butler, Anderson
of Sedgwick, Babb, Bailey, Beezley,
Bigham, Bowman, Bradbury, Burk-
holder, Campbell, earle, Crosby, Dawes,
DeRard, Edmonds, Edwards, Fairchild,
Finley, Flannelly, Fogle, Francis, Chess
Ter Godshalk. GoodnO, Grattan. Gros-
ser, Haskins, Hayden, Heeney, Henley,
Hoag, Hogue, Keifer, King. Lawrence,
Lawson, Longley, Martin, Mason, Me
dill, Moore, McKeever Oursler, Poison,
Reeder. Rees of Anderson, Rees of OF
tawa, Remington, Rhinehart, Rodgers,
Seaton, Seaver, Smith of Brown. Sny-
der. Stanley, Starr, Wheatley, Wheeler,
Wilcox, Wiley, Wise, Woodward,
Wright of Morton, and Mr.. Speaker Os-
born.-64.
Gentlemen voting in the negative
were:
Messrs Alderman. Anderson of
Greenwood, Benefiel, Bogenrief, Conrad,
Coy, Elwood Fuller. Gregory. Hallett,
wing, Nichols. Osborn of Douglas.
Pogue, Reid, Reser, Richardson, Scott
of Elk, Scott of Wichita, Short, Snyder,
Sweet, Tenny, Thorp. WEIGH and
Wright of Lyon.-30.
Gentlemen absent or not voting were:
Messrs. Abrams, Adams of Sedgwick,
Baker, Biddle, Brooke, Coulson, Elder,
Gabriel, Gillespie, Jaquins, Johnston,
Kutz. Loomis, Marks, Mendenhall, Mill
lar. McClaren, NewmOn, Prather, Ra-
venscraft, Shelley, Shoemaker. Shoup,
Smith of Rocks. Spurlock, Stephenson,
Swinehart, Tulloss, Ward, Willis and
Wright of BartOn.-31.
The bill as it passed the house was as
follows:
Section 1. That there is hereby ap
propriated out of any money in the state
treasury, not otherwise appropriated,
the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so
much thereof as may be necessary, to
pay the per diem and mileage of mem
bers of the senate, lieutenant governor,
and per diem of officers, clerks, mes
sengers and other employees of the sem
ate, and the mileage and fees for wit
nesSes in contest cases and such other
expenses connected Herewith may
be authorized by the senate, whenever
the senate may be lawfully in session as
a legally organized body.
Section ?. The auditor of state is
hereby authorized to issue warrants
upon the treasurer of state for the
amounts and purposes specified in sec
ton one of this act, upon vouchers duly
approved by the senate when lawfully
in session a legally organized body.
Section 3. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after it's publ
cation in the official state paper"
The senate referred the bill to it's COM
mittee on ways and means which
amended it by making it apply specifical-
ly to the Stuart-Falloon contest. In this
shape the bill came back to the house.
which refused to concur in the amend
ments. A conference committee consist
ing of Mason, Flannelly and Dawes
from the house, and King and Crossan
from the senate, was appointed to ad-
just the bill
Meanwhile six o'clock, the hour to
close, was drawing near. The senate
extended the time to 10 o'clock and sent
a resolution to that effect to the house.
When it was read dozen members
cried, mo, no." 1t looked though
an adjournment might be taken iInmed-
lately and spoil the entire business. Mr..
| Grosser stemmed the tide by warning
the motion to extend the time carried
by a small majority.
The conference committee did not pre-
pare it's report till after supper. 1t then
| recommended that the senate recede
| from the amendments it had made and
! that the bill remain it had passed the
house with the addition of the word
| election before the words contest
cases." The title was also amended to
| conform with the body of the bill, a
| thing that had been overlooked when it
| first passed.
Even then the friends of the bill had
| hard work to keep it from being killed.
| call of the house was necessary to
| adopt the report of the committee, and
| after a half hours work on the part OF
| it's friends, it received only So votes,
| barely enough to carry it through.
| In the meantime conference commit
| tee had been appointed to fix up the
| executive and judicial appropriation bill
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