The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-25
DOODLE STORIES.
Galloway Incident Starts PeO-
pie to Talking.
George II. Evans Tells About
His Claim.
HE PAID NO MONEY.
Says That Some Was Wanted to
ss Fix Two Senator's.
Other RumOrs Which Now Fill
the Air.
HE PAID NO MONEY.

Was there a hoodling combination in
the Kansas state senate2 The irag-
ments which are continually filteriug
through to the public give a hint-and
q strong one at that-that there was
something wrong. The Galloway afii-
davit indicates that two members Of the
senate expected reward i'm connection
with the passage Of am appropriation
measure. 1t is unfortunate that Mr..
Galloway did not say who these two
men were.
Now comes George II. Evans with a
story very much like that of Galloway.
Two members of the senate. he says,
wanted money as the reward for allow
ing an appropriation to pass that body.
He says that a promise was made but
here Mr.. Evans stops and fails TO ex-
plain what that promise was.
The sudden termination of the Gal
ioway suit left the public at sea. The
fact that the Galloway affidavit was or
dered taken from the files of the court
does not change the fact that such an
ahidavit was made by the man who
claims to have agreed to pay s1O0 to two
senators.
An investigation of the affairs of the
last Kansas legislature might reveal a
condition as interesting as that in Mis-
souri,.
George II. Evans, who was paid s15OO
by special appropriation of the last leg
islature as interest on old warrants,
says that senator attempted to get
money from him to fix two members
of the committee" so that Evans ap-
preparation might be reported favorab.y
from the senate ways and means com
mittee.
Evans also says that the county Off
GERS of Shawnee county were forced to
pay large sums In order to secure the
passage of the bills increasing their
salaries.
"They haven't got the laugh on me-"
said Mr.. Evans this morning to re-
poi Ter for the state Journal beca sc
they didn't succeed in getting anything
from me except a promise. I don't care
to give all the details OF The transdr-
ti0n, because one man who was mixed
UP in it was a good friend of mine.
My appropriation bil went through
the house all right Only one man in
the committee opposed it. Then it went
10 the senate, and was tied up in the
ways and means committee, of which
Mr.. Chaney is chairman. I went TO
Cy Leland, and some of the house lead-
ers and they said to me. George, don t
YOU let them hold you uD for a cent
That's what they are trying to do but
don't YOU give them a thing And l
his hands gleefuly.
We'll. / talked to Senators Carpenter
and Findley about it, and they said they
would take the bill out of the committee
regardless of the attempt to hold it up,
and Senator Carpenter brought it up on
the floor of the senate. Soon after this
Senator Clancy reported the bill
The deal was worked very much the
same way the Galloway deal was. This
friend OF mine who went to CLANCY,
was told by CLANCY that there were TWO
men on the committee who would have
to be taken care of before the bill
would be reported. Those two men on
that committee seemed to need fixing
pretty often. didn't they2 Well, there
may have been some promises made,
but I'll tell you right now that ! didn't
pay q cent 1 would not object to giving
all the names in the affair. but for this
one man, who is a good friend of mine,
and who 1 must keep from getting
mixed up in the matter
II wasn't the only one who was in
volved in this sort of thing There We're
plenty of cases. Ask these county Off
GERS if they didn't put the screws down
on them. On, 1 tell you they We're
squeezed 1t was Senator Clancy who
stood by all these bills"
The 81, 500 appropriation which Evans
received was paid on old account.
Evans at one time was doing great
deal of contract work for the state on
the capitol building. He did not get his
pay for some time, and both he and the
man VINO was interested III the .WgIk
with him put in a claim for interest on
the overdue warrants The claim of
Evans partner was allowed two years
ago. but for some reason Evans claim
failed to 90 through. This session
Evans claim was against brought for
ward and was finally included in the
appropriation bill and passed
Who were these two mysterious state
senators who seem to be connected with
all these boodling reports2
When the legislature adjourned it was
rumored that there was an attempt to
Doodle in connection with the slot ma
chine and stockyards bills both of
which were passed. 1t is said that an
agent of the slot machine men. in a
moment of anger. told that $500 was
on deposit in a Topeka bank payable to
two senators when the Slot machine bill
should be killed The moaey was sup
posed to be divided up among enough
senators to defeat the measure, but the
agent said the two senators We're anx-
iOus to keep the whole pile, and believ-
ing that the bill would never get
through the house anyway, they kept
the whole amount. The house unex-
peetedly passed the bin and the sena-
tors did not receive a cent.
tt is a well known fact that the stock
Yards bill was held up in the senate for
several weeks after il was introduced
and it has been reported that it was for
the purpose of securing big doodle
fund The stOckyards company refused
to be held up. and the senate finally
passed the bill. The Doodle talk caused
st 70 so through the house with a rusl
and the stoclxyards company moved ou
or the state
There is a resemblance between C. II
Ridgeway. formerly assistant superin
tendent of Insurance. and well know
eastern Kansas senator. Mr.. RidgeWa,
says that during the closing days of tn,
legislature man -sllO had been pointed
out to him as q professional lobbyis
and "rounder" approached him and de