The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-03
Ran over HIM.
House Broke Away From Leland
Today.
Adopted Minority Report on
Congressional Apportionment.
VICTORY FOR MR.. HALE
Committee Had Decided on Ad-
verse Action.
Adjournment of House Prevent
ed Passage of Bill.
FOR MR.. HALE

ment bill was adopted this morning
on a minority report, and will possibly
/ be passed by the house. as it had II
votes on the adoption of the minority
report.
There was sharp skirmish over the
adoption of the report, in which those
who are in favor of an apportionment
bill simply ran away with their op-
ponents.
It has been reported that Cyrus Le-
land has been opposing reapportion-
Inent. If this Is true the house simply
took the bits in its teeth and ran away
from him. Mr.. Leland voted with the
losing side.
1t started when Chairman jerks of
the congressional apportionment COM
mittee. presented the long-expecte re-
port on the Hale bill, which has been
due for several days. The report was
that the bill be not passed, but a mi
nority report recommending the bill
for passage was presented, signed by
Hale, Brandon. Bowman and Keith.
All of these but Brandon are fusion
lists.
Hale had skipped out and was no
where in sight, and it looked as though
the report might be passed over with
out action, when Brandon jumped to
his feet and moved that the minority
report be approved. and Mead, of
| Mitchell, seconded 1t. Waggener
moved to refer both reports to the
elections committee. and this motion
had the support Of those who were op-
posed to a new apportionment.
| Mead started the debate This house
ought-to at least try to reappoTtion
the state and not dodge the question, Z"
he said Il don't like a coward. This
substitute is merely a scheme to side
| track this matter We come here with
! two big questions to settle One was
to pass a tax bill and the other was
/ to reapportion the state. 1t looks as
| though we will fall down on the tax
/ bill and I am opposed to trying tc
dodge on the congressional apporuon-
ment bill"
1 policy demanded 4 roll call.
Kinlel OF Reno. Il think it would be
Z perfectly proper to refer this bill to the
! committee on elections The aDDortion-
4 ment committee has not been able to
/ agree and I think it would be advisable
to let another committee try it."
Barnd of Ness Il think it is time to
/ get away from the bosses and do some
thing for the people have been re-
/ ceiVing letters on this subject, one OF
them saying If this legislature does not
pass a congressional apportionment bill
/ and q general tax bill it would better
( have never met. We have been going
/ along for ten Of fifteen years with coli
! gressman an-at-Iarce who has little to dc
in congress- It is time we were dOing
away with this condition. This house
ought not to be at the behest of two OF
1 three congressional aSp1rants VINO rhlnh
! their chances might be lessened by max.
ing a new district"
watkins of Reno: II don't know that
I am in favor of this bill just as i
stands. but I think it could be amended
so that it would be all right. I think the
house ought to take hold of this ques-
ton and not refer it to another com
mites"
Dolley of Wabaunsee. I'VE are get
ting tired of playing with committees Oh
this matter The members want 1t
brought before the house for action"
Brandon of Butler: THE congress
siOnal aDpOrtionment committee stood
5 to when this bill came up for con
sideration, and the chairman decided
against the bill. That report has been
we refer it again it may be carried till
next Thursday and we will all be gone.
! It's time to do something"
Waggener: = made this motion III
order to get this bill into shape so that
/ we can get reapDortionment. The
committee seems to have been divided
on this question. and if it goes to an
other committee this bill can proba bly,
get into shape where it will be more
accepta BILE. "
The roll was called and Waggener's s
( amendment was defeated by vote of 81
to H. The minority report was then
J ciQOAtCQ WALAVul d QlSSEIIlAS NOlE- L lie
roll call stood as follows.
The gentlemen voting in the affirma-
/ tive We're:
Adair. Adams of Butler, Ballard. Bee
son. Bevington, Brown of Brown, Camp
/ bell of Bourbon, Campbell of Meade,
/ Dougherty, Emmons. Evans. Finley,
/ Francis, Gale, Goebel, Harris. Husey,
jerks, Jones of Norton, Jones of Trego.
/ kinkel, Kirkland Laughlin. Leland,
Lewis, Lynn McIntire, Mclaughlin,
4 Miller. Nixon. O'Donnell, Perkins of
I Leavenworth Pollock. RoughtOn, Smith
/ of Sherman, Tatum, Upton, Won
Trebra. Waggener.
The gentlemen voting in the negative
were.
Baird, Barker, Barnd. Billings, Bran
don, Broadbent. Bucklin, Burke, Chan
! dler, Crocker. Dolley Dunn, Einsel. En-
+ right, Farris, Fisher. Focke, Frfar, Cod
shalk, Griffin Hallenback. Hawkins,
! Heusel Hill. HonnelL Hugos. Hunter.
Z HutchesOn. Jenries, Jensen, johnson OF
I Decatur. johnson of Sheridan, Jones OF
Cove, Keith, King of Ottawa, ESirkpat-
rick. Kost I-angfield. Law. Linton,
( Lockwood, Martin of Morton Mckee of
+ Clay, Mckee of Marshall, Mead, Men
/ denhal MurdOck. Mustoe. Nation Par
rish. Peck. Perkins of Wyandotte,
Pralle, Robbins. Schlyer. Schmidt OF
I Geary. Sharp, Sims. Speer. Starr. Stave-
ly Tannahill. Taylor. Tucker, Watkins.
= Weldon. Williams of Shawnee Williams
of Stanton, Wilson, Woodhouse, Wyek-
off.
The gentlemen absent or not voting
were.
Adams of Sedgwick. Belts Bowman
Brown of Labette. Hale. Hayden King
of Lane. Kinnison, Kramer. Martin ol
/ Woodson, Sarbach, Schermerhorn
/ Stubbs, Whistler, Mr. Speaker Pringle
Just as the house was ready to ad-
journ at noon Brandon moved that thu
congressional apportionment bill be
made a s1eciaI order for o'clocl- this
afternoon There was parliamentary
skirmish to head off the notion but il
went through
Right afterwards Speaker Pro Ten