The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-03-08
MOUND
BUILDERS"
UNEASY
adjournment for a Day Car
ries in the Council.
SITUATION DlSHEARTENlNG
Updegraff CouI8on and Wink
Ter Still Baking.
SITUATION OISHEARTENING

Guthrie. 0. T., March THE adjourn
ment of the council this afternoon until
10 o'clock tomorrow was another hard
blow to the "Aloundemlders" and an an
alysis Of the vote in favor Of adjourn
ment, was a disheartening confirmation
Of the repeated assertions that their force
was in the progress Of disinresaton.
The motion to adjourn was carried by a
vote Of z to and among those who
voted to adjourn were three former
moundbuilders. Updergraf, Coulson. and
Harrison The object o. the adjourn
ment was to give time and the cave
jewellers" are consequently in a jubnant
state of mind The detection of the Up
degran and Coulson is avowedly on ac-
count of the Wood county division bin
which passed the house on Tuesday as
q part Of the 'moundbailders' % scheme,
and which is now pending in the council
Tremendous pressure mas been brought
to bear upon the Logon county represent
tatives to consent to the striking out OF
the 10000 library appropriation, the in
sertion Of which caused Senator Winkler
to ~ the track and produced serious mis-
givings In the minds of other supporters
Of the bill The caucus last night COM
tinued until after midnight but no plan
was evolved that would bring the scat
tered forces together 1t was first pro-
posed to have the bill recalled from the
council for further amendment En- the
house, Ont this suggestion was dropped
when attention was called to Speaker
Stevens ruling Of yesterday, that when
2 DILL had been messaged to the council
the house no longer exercised any con-
troll over f. It was found to be equally
impractcable to bring tho bill Up IN the
council because Of the attitude of Up-
dergraf and Coulson who insisted that
they would not give any aid or encourage
ment to the public buildings bill until the
Woods county division bin was killed.. in
view of this complicated condton ana
with but twenty-forr hours more OF life.
it looks extremely discouraging for the
bin
The lobbies Of the council were packed
this morning long before the hour Of
meeting but the MEMBERS Of that body
staggered in slowly. and many Of them
were heavy-eyed and weary looking. hav
ing wrested the whole of the night over
proposed amendments to the public build
ing bil
President pro tenn Todd called the coun-
81 10 order and after prayer and at the
conclosion Of the reading of the journal.
Senator Clarke called the attention of the
council that the record showed that tho
president had signed Council BIZ No.
=, fin The presence OF the council when
in fact such record was not true and the
senate rtook the occasio nto severely
citicise the clerk. After an acrimonious
debate the offending matter was ex-
plunged from the records and the journal
was approved.
The larger number Of messages which
were received from the lower house dur
Ing the morning hours. indicated that the
lower branch was rushing business and
that the council was having work cut
cut for il that would require them to
mend their pace IF they did not want to
de buried under a navalanche Of clam /
oring bills
House Bill No. 50, TO prohibit county I
superinteudents Of public instruction or
members Of school boards from acting as 4
agents for or being Interested in any con I
tract f7r the furn shing of school sup I
plies. biz Mr.. seeley. wa sfavorably re- +
ported and recommended for passage.
House Bills Nos 25S 1e3 235. no 1S8 9s5.
22 f ana 155 We're received from the
house and read the first time
House BIS Nos. 1s5. 1-s. 2s7 and So were
read a second time and referred to the .
appropriate committees
House Bill No. Z was advanced by IN
animous consent ana placed on the cal
sn5ar
The conference committee on house bnl
40. 8 reported that they had concured f
n the council amendments
Tho discussion OF House fBu No. q. in
committee OF the whole. and tho substi-
.ute oe0red by Winkler was for the
most part very bitter arraignment Of
Amos Ewing, oil Inspector. by Clarke
and Miller The substitute was defeated