The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-15
LELAND SAYS NO.
Defends House of Representa-
tives Against Charges.
Says That Senate Passed $780,
900 More Appropriations.
TURNED THEM DOWN.
Gives Examples of Those Not
Approved in House.
Also Says That Senate Had
More Employees.
TURNED THEM DOWN.

Cyrus Leland has at last broken the
silence. He held an important position
as member of the house ways and
means committee. and is smarting I'M
der the charges of extravaganza which
some of the politicians and newspapers
have attempted to shoulder onto the
house of representatives He says that
the senate was more reckless in the ex-
penditure of money than the house, and
the senate was certainly not in har-
mony with the administration.
1 can recall about $500. 600 of senate
appropriations that the house refused
to pass. said Mr.. Leland TODAY. land
there may have been more-I have not
looked the matter up. One item that
l recall was Senator H. b. Miller's an
propriation of 100000 to build a SOL
diers' monument on the state house
grounds. Another thing that the house
cut down was the appropriation for the
state university. We cut it about $l2O.-
OOO from what the senate allowed.
among other things we cut out the
SsO'oeO item for a new law building.
we unalIy allowed the university $39 900
more tnan 1t got two years before and
we ueNlseo system of fees which will
give 1t several thousand dollars each
year additional, but which won't come
- ne LIN DAY efS. Another senate
appropriation which the house would
not allow was the $4,000 for the To-
peka fair. Then there were smaller
appropriations for items like the sur
10y Vi the Neosho river which the
mouse refused to pass.
II the house had acceded to the sem
ate extravaganza continued Mr. Te
lahd' the appropriations of the IegisIa-
lure OF 1903 would have been nearly A
ma million dollars more than they are.
nO1IGa
check on the extravaganza of the sem
ATE. And yet in the face of thar fact
state Treasurer Kelly who completely
controlled the senate, has been saying
that the legislature was unduIy extray-
agant and that Governor Bailey's adj
mlnlstration is responsible for it.
Ihey nave been talking a good deal
ABOUT the number of employees in the
mouse, too" continued Mr.. Leland,
nut the senate had far more emDloves
than the house in proportion 10 it's
members. And then when the miscel-
laneous appropriation bill was passed
the senate tackled on to it extra pay for
us employees amounting to 81, 200. The
house wouldn't stand for that and
made them take it off
II you remember when that appro-
prlatlon bill was passed just before the
close of the legislature the senate nut
IN a lot of items, many of them gratis,
which were not in the house bill The
house objected to them and conference
committees were appointed. Goebel.
Kinnison and 1 were the conferences
committee for the house. We got about
$4,000 cut out that the senate put in.
including the $4,000 extra pay for the
senate employees, but we had to give in
TO the balance. And yet the boss bus
tiers are talking about the extravaganza
of the house.
1t is a well known fact that the SEN
ate was under the domination of State
treasure Kelly, and that back of him
was Senator Burton. The senate was
elected as a Burton senate, and it was
far more boss-ridden as a whole than
the house. This is clearly proven by
the action of the senate on both the
Goebel bill and the now famous Fran
els amendment, both of which were
obnoxious to Mr.. Kelly. The Goebel bill
was the one providing for depositing the
state funds in bonded banks. under the
direction of the executive council so
that the state might get the interest
from it. This was recommended by
Governor Bailey in his message, and it
was estimated that it would bring the
state $4,000 annually in interest. The
Francis amendment provided for leav-
ing the state taxes in the county treas
uries until the state needed Them
thereby allowing the counties to secure
interest on them from their repositories
as long as possible. Both of these meas
ures We're passed by the house. Both
werenvigorously fought in the senate by
Treasurer Kelly, and in response to his
wishes the senate killed both Of them.