The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-03-06
DIVISION
OF WOODS
COUNTY
Bill Passed to Organize the
County Of Mckinley.
USED THE BAND WAGON
To Run Over the Opposition
TO the Mound Builders,
WARM DAY IN THE HOUSE
Jones Slammed the Book and
HoIIered "Rule8."
WARM DAY IN THE HOUSE

Guthrie, March 5.-The house braced =
self for a struggle this morning for it hac
been made apparent last night chat the
contest over the public building am
which had been successfully averted foI
q week past. would be precipitated for q
fight to a finish today. Apparently con-
Tossing their inability to control The
eighteen votes necessary to suspend The
rules and railroad the bill through the
house, the mound builders" and their
friends went into caucus last night to
devise some method Of outwitting the
small but hitherto effective minority,
known as the cave dwellers' Large
delegat lions from the various towns that
VIII be .le benelcIaries Of the bin if it is
enacted into a law crowded the hotel lob
bies and l.4eir leaders were invited into
the caucus for Suggestions and cOunsels. 1t
is understood though. that the suggestion
which was ultimately followed Ia to-
days proceedings came from Senator
Bob Ray, an astute attorney and parlia-
mentarian who represented Wood county
IN the Third legislative assembly. The
suggestion was so audaciOus, however,
involving as the overthrow of the
two-thirds rule by refusing to abide by
The decision Of the chair, that even the
most enthusiastic mound builder
shrank from such o radical course. But
as the caucus proceeded and it was not
until the mound builders" found them
selves race TO face with the hard realiza-
tion mat no other course was available
that they commenced to look kindly upon
the plan proposed by Ray.
TO insure the votes Of Logan countys
two representatives, Seeley and Allen, an
amendment has been promised in the
shape of a 100000 appropriation for the
erection Of territorial library building
Tt is openly charged that the purpose for
which the appropriation is TO be applied
is a sub-erfuge 20 permit the erection Of
a capitol building and there is already
ominous whisperines that this feature
viii carry the whole measure down to
defeat when it goes back TO the council
FOR concurrence.
In evident despair Of securing the
eighteen votes necessary to suspend the
rules and made desperate by the grow
ing shortness OF the remaining days Of
the session, the mound builders" pro
ceeded to put in play this morning the
scheme that was carefully concocted in a
caucus that lasted until midnight last
night in which the Representative Of the
Rock Island railroad and other chief pro
moters of the public building bin partici-
pated. Briefly stated, It was agreed last
night TO put in force a policy that would
override the traditions and rules of the
to suspend the rules. To make the
scheme plausible it was only necessary
10 hold intact fourteen votes. a bare ma
jority. to vote against sustaining the
speaker in his anticipated decision that
motion 70 suspend the rules required a
two-thirGs majority.
The plot began TO unfold directly after
the appropriation bin had been read q
third time and disposed Of Representa-
tive Reid arose and addressing the speak
err said:
or move that we now proceed to the
consideration OF House Bill No. 235 as if
fin committee OF the whole with the
speaker SIN the chair"
Representative Jones quickly called at
tention TO the rule which requires a two
thirds vote of the house to suspend the
rules and declared that the motion Of
Reds 6e reduced to writing
Emhry asked that the biI which prov
ed % 5e the bin 10 divide Woods county
and create The county Of Mckinley be
vead for Information which was done.
Representative Reid then proceeded 70
explain that the measure was OF SUI
ncient Importance to be considered out of