The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02
SPECIAL SESSION.
Legislative Deadlock Promises
Extended and General
Complications.
House and Senate at Logger
heads Over Appropriations.
SENATORS INDIGNANT.
Charge That the House Is Act
ing Unfairly.
State Institution Appr0pria-
tiOns Fail to Pass.
MEANS EXTRA SESSION
Governor Stanley Will Be Com
PEELED to Act
To Dispose of Differences Be
tween the Two Houses.

The two houses of the legislature are
at 1oggerheads over appropriations. and
there seems to be no prospect for an
immediate adjustment of the differ
ences.
If the senate refuses to extend the
time for adjournment, and the appro-
priatiOn bills for state institutions fail,
as the house members assert they will,
a special session of the legislature will
be necessary, which will probably make
the people of the state madden at the
legislature than they are already.
Special session talk is being freely in
Obliged in by the members, and the
leaders of this Republican party in the
two houses will charge the POpuliStS,
the senate majority principally, with
the responsibility for the failure of the
bills by reason of the fact that the sem
ate proposes to force the adjournment
at noon Saturday.
Yet, the responsibility does not seem
to rest with the senate. The house Re
publicans are haggling over appropria-
ton bills in an unusual manner.
Senator FOrney, chairman of the SEN
ate ways and means committee, said
today:
THE Republicans have made such
cuts in the appropriation bills for the
state agricultural college that the insti-
tuition will be greatly damaged, If not
practically ruined by their action.
THE legislature will not be able to
adjourn Saturday because the business
will not be completed, and if the house
persists in it's present conduct appro-
priation bills will fail and a special ses-
sion will be necessary.
THE Republicans have announced
that they will not permit the appro-
priations of 1899 to exceed those of 1897,
and this will cripple the state institu-
tons 1t will make a special session
necessary. We have tried to be fair in
the senate, but the house is acting in a
penuriouS manner and will compel a
special session I am sure that if a
special session be called the RepubH
cans will have to answer to the people
of Kansas for it."
The house has stricken from the SEN
ate bill the appropriation of $4,000 for
a new building at the Winfield imbecile
asylum, and there is no prospect Of an
adjustment of their differences.
Another proposition upon which the
which the house has stricken out all
appropriations for improvements and
new buildings at the state agricultural
college.
Henley of Lawrence is chairman of
the house ways and means committee.
This committee made the agricultural
colleeg cut, after the senate had passed
bills appropriating 100000 for new
buildings at the state university. This
has caused another deadlock and the
senators. friends of the Manhattan col
Iege declare that the house will be
compelled to recede from this position.
In the meantime special session talk
increases and the prospect of extending
this session until next week grows bet
ter.
The State Journal is in pretty close
touch with the people and has its finger
the legislature is:
Better go hOmei