The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-06
HOW TO Get OUT.
Legislature Trying Hard to Fix
Up a Tax Bill.
Conference Committees Are Ap-
pointed and Go to Work.
PREPARE A NEW BILL.
That Is the Task Undertaken
by Administration Men.
Plan Is to Remove the Cause of
the Objections.
BILL PASSES HOUSE.
Measure Forced Through House
With Great Difficulty.
Doors Locked and Members
Held for Hours.
THREE CHANGES MADE.
This Gave the Measure Life
With 81 Votes.
The Senate Immediately Re-
fused to Concur.
THREE CHANGES MADE.
This Gave the Measure Life
With 64 Votes.
The Senate Immediately Re-
fused to Concur.

The following is the conference com
mittee which viii frame new tax
bill.
Senators-Smith of Edwards. Fitz-
patrick of Chautauqua, Peterson of
Norton, Vincent of Reno.
Representatives Nation of Neosho,
HiH of Russell, Hayden of Nemaha.
Kinkel of Reno Hutcheson of Pratt.
Adams of Butler. jerks of Franklin.
The next move in the tax bill muddIe
IS the preparation of a new bill by a
conference committee. or the amend
ment of the Nation bin so that it will
be satisfactory to the Republicans of
both houses.
This was the object meant to be Sc
cured by forcing the passage of the
Nation bill last night Tt was never
intended that the Nation bill should
become a law, but it gave an opportun-
fly for the appointment of a new COM
mittee which VIII fix up a. tax bin on
which the Republicans viii go before
the people.
1t win not be a strictly party meas
ure. because a considerable number of
Republicans have been practically in
structed by their people against any
kind of a tax law along the line that
has been proposed.
The chief issue in this legislature has
been the passage Of a tax bill Former
legislatures have never accomplished
anything at il. because it has been too
big a question to be handled in a fifty
days session. For that reason the last
legislature appointed commission to
prepare a general plan for a new tax
atlon system. This commission work
e7 "a -.TF GO naf
The question has been discussed
throughout the length Of the state The
Republican party did not promise TO
pass the bill prepared by the commits
sion but it has been generally under
stood that some bill would be passed
to better the present system. The Re
pubicans have everything their own
way in every department of the legis-
lature and if a bin Of some kind is not
passed the Republican party will vir-
tually confess its inability to cope with
the question At least this is the way
some of the leaders look al it.
That is why the administration was
20 anxious for the passage of the Nation
bill Thursday night. Tt was part of the
programme for the senate to refuse TO
concur in the house amendments This
opened the way for a new committee
which viii attempt to frame bill
which can be passed by both houses
This means that the legislature will
not adjourn this week and prOba blv not
possible to keep a quorum here The
house has passed a resolution to grant
no excuses except for sickness. but the
members are getting restless and some
viii slip away
As soon as the message came to the
house this morning asking for a confer
ence committee on the tax bill. the
house voted to grant it, This, too was
part Of the programme Speaker Prfn-
gle had returned from attending the
funeral of his mother and while he was
not in the chair he appointed the house
members of the committee. The COM
mittee is as follows.
On the part of the senate. Smith, Fitz-
patrick, Peterson and Vincent
On the part of the house: Nation, Hill,
Hayden, Kinkel Hutcheson. Adams of
Butler. jerks
The personnel of the house committee
means that Bale Waggener is to have
no voice i'm the new bill. and that it is to
De forced through II possible as the Ma
tion bill was in the house Thursday. The
majority of the committee. Nation Hay
den, Kinkel and jerks. helDed in fore
ing the Nation bill through the house.
Hill and Hutcheson voted against the
Nation bill. but afterwards changed to
the Affirmative. Adams of Butler is the
only one who opposed the Nation bill to
the last
After keeping the members of the
house locked in Representative hall for
nve hours last night, the friends Of
the Nation tax bin secured enough
votes to pass it-after a considerable
number of senators had promised that
the senate would not concur in it as
Mr. Nation had amended it. 1t received
81 votes to 50 against it.
Cyrus Leland helped Bale Waggener
fight the bill, while Morton Albaugh
appeared on the floor of the house and
argued with the members for its pas
sage. So did N. II. Loomis. Tt was
generally understood by the mem bers
fnat Governor Bailey also wanted it.
This is the first time that Leland has
parted company with Bailey and Al
baugh. Railroad influence was divided.
LOOMS was for it, Waggener against
it.
The announcement that the bill had
passed was made at $50 Shortly af-
terWards it was messaged over to the
senate, and the senate kept its word