The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-21
STOCK WATERING
Will Go on in Kansas Unlimited
by Anything
Save the Will and Pleasure of
the Corporations.
RYAN'S BILL KILLED.
The House Declines to Even
Consider 1t.
Attorney General GODDARD Quot
ed in Opposition to 1t.

The present house of representatives
is in favor of watering stock-not live
stock, but railroad stock. 1t even re-
fused to consider a bill prohibiting the
watering of stock.
Senator Ryan's bill which limits the
amount of mortgages on bonds which
can be issued by any corporation to the
actual value of the property of the cor
poratfon and which passed the senate
with only six votes against it, was re-
ported adversely by three of the seven
members of the house committee
private corporations. Mr.. Wheeler, an
other member, made minority report
favorable to the bill, and moved that it
be printed and placed on the calendar.
The motion went over under the rules
and was called up for consideration to-
day. Mr.. Wheeler had the bill read and
pointed out the fact that the record of
the assessment rolls was to be taken as
evidence of the actual value of the pro-
perty of the corporation, and that every
bond or other evidence of Indebtedness
must be certified to by the county clerk
of the county in which it is issued
Bonds issued not in compliance with the
law were declared void.
Mr.. Harris declared the bill vicious,
and said he had seen Attorney General
GODDARD, land General GODDARD said so
too"
Mr.. Willis, chairman of the commit
tee which turned the bill down, said it
was "the most vicious, absurd PROPOSE
tion that had come before the house."
inasmuch as it made the innocent pur-
chaser the loser.
Mr.. F1annelly made a speech along the
same line and moved to lay Mr.. Wheel
er's motion on the table.
The Populists demanded a roll call,
which resulted in a nearly strict party
vote to lay the motion to consider the
bill on the table. The only Republicans
voting in favor of considering the bill
were Long1ey and Spurlock. The motion
carried by a vote of go to 28
Gentlemen voting in the affirmative
We're:
Messrs. Abrams, Adams of Butler,
Anderson of Greenwood, Baker, Bailey.
BeezIey, Benef1el, Bradbury, Brooke.
Burkholder, Campbell, Conrad Coulson,
Dawes, Elwood, Finley, ,Flannelly, Fran
els, Fuller, Giessler, Godshalk, Grattan,
Gregory, Grosser, Hallett, Harris, Hay
den, Hoag, Irving, Johnson, Kutz, Law
renee, Mason, Moore, Oursler, Poison,
Rees of Anderson, Reid, Remington,
Reser, Richardson, Rbinehart, Scott of
Elk, Scott of Wichita, Seaton, Shelley,
Shoemaker, Smith of Brown, Stanley,
Starr, Sweet, Tenny, Thorp, Ward,
Welch, Wheatley, Wiley, Willis, Wise,
Woodward.
We're:
Messrs Anderson of Sedgwick, Babb,
DeBard, Edmonds, Elder, F'airchild, Ga
briel Gillespie, Goodno, Haskins, ,Heber-
Loomis, Marks, Martin, ,McClaren, ,Prath-
er, Ravenscraft, Reeder, Rodgers,
Shoup, Spurlock, Swinehart, Wheeler,
Wright of Lyon, Wright Of Morton.
Gentlemen absent or not voting We're:
Messr. Ackerman, Adams of Sedgwick,
Biddle, Bigham, Bogenrief, Bowman,
earle, Coy, Crosby, Edwards, Fogle,
Ford, Harper, Heeney, Hefey, Henley,
Eogue, Keifer, Medill, Mendenhall, Mil
lar, McKeever Newmon, Nichols, Os-
wa, Seaver, Smith of Rocks, Snyder,
Stephenson, Wilcox, Wright of Barton.