The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-14
RAP KING EDWARD.
Kansas Legislature Repudiates
Loyalty Assertion.
Message is Stricken From the
Record.
WEILEP'S IRE AROUSED
The Veteran FusiOnist Leads
the Fight.
Vote Practically Unanimous to
Expunge Message.
WEILEP'S IRE AROUSED

| On the last page Of the printed house
journal today was spread the following
message from his majesty King Ed
ward VII:
The private secretary is commanded
to convey the thanks of the king for the
| kind expression of loyalty and SYM
pathy contained in the message which
you have forwarded to his majesty.
January 81, 1901. "
In the confused moments before adj
journing last night Hoag, of Wyandotte.
had this acknowledgment of Kansas
Queen Victoria read and spread on the
journal.
Weilep, of Cherokee, had it expuhged
this morning just as soon as his eye lit
on it. That WAS not for an hour or more
after the session began, and in the
meantime the Democrats and Others had
been Turning over the mere reeeipr Of
the message, as IL mad been Announced
in the senate, because of the Sg-sru
loyalty in It.
The reply was first received by Sem
atur Sinors under cover It was
printed on mourning paper. the same as
has been sent all over his majesty s
empire and colonies in answer to the
kind wishes of his humblest subject
When the motion to expunge was put,
it carried with a wh0op, although one
the house acted like an Englishman.
There was a feeble no from somewhere
over in that direction but the identity
of the voter could not be learned.
In thus repudiating the message to
the state of Kansas from the king of
England Weilep scored heartily EIe
came to the front a free born American
citizen and reaped all the applause,
while the majority sat silent, enphasiz-
ing the fact that the Republican side
of the house lacks leadership. They
were stricken dumb when the minority
leader broke into Inc proceedings
L.
No one knew what was corninF, for
Speaker pro TEN. McKeever had already
sat down upon Weilep earlier in the
morning in line with the determination
Of policy now in force to override the
minority
"The gentleman from Cherokee Nc
Keever at last said
Il rise to a question of personal priv
ssState your question of privilege"
Ct do not like to disturb the order of
the house when it is so busy. but fird
on the last page of the journal that I
and others are made subjects of King
Edward VII. Now while the leglsla-
ture of this sovereign state of Kansas
can and does sympathize with tfe new
king in his bereavement, 1t can never
be 1oyaI to him. Loyalty implies ale
glance, as the allegiance of subject
to a sovereign or a colony to a mother
country. The sovereign state of KAN
sas owes no such duty to King Edward
VII, so I move we reconsider the queS-
ton as here recorded
when this vote had been taken Weilep
i move the words loyalty and be
stricken out.
McKeever paused a moment before
replying: s"The chair holds that just
word cannot be thus stricken out of the
message"
s.Den I move dat de whole bizness be
strielxgen oudt,'' shouted Weilep-
So it was. The sovereign state of
Kansas asserted it's sovereignty. and
the gentleman from Cherokee took his
seat amid echoing applause.