The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-18
BAND WAGON ROLLS.
Fitzpatrick ReapportiOnment
Bill Forced Through Senate.


For an hour and a half after the COM
mlttee of the whole was ready to make
It's reporE to the senate on the Fitzpat-
rex congressional apporuonment bill a
lulpusterlng expedition led by Senators
AAle4. Bfdn1ne. Morrow, Vincent and
Ward held up the measure before a
vote was taken on the adoption of the
report It was a delay which small
minority can make but the majority in
taNor OF the bill wore them out. There
was a clear ms jority of about 20 in ia
vor of Fitzpatricks bill and the band
wagon drove remorselessIy over the fall
en-.
At 100 o'clock the report of the com
mlttee was adopted and the senate pro
ceeded Immediately to the final passage
o. the Dill. The ayes were: Buschow,
SaidWeiI. Carpenter, Clancy. Conrad,
Cruln. CubbiSOn F'indlay FitzDa trick
Gabriel, Henley King Leidy, mcknight.
miller, Morehouse, Pestana, Peterson,
Smith, Sponable, Stewart. Tapp, White,
Wright-24
The noes were: Alien, Branine, Fulton,
MORROW and Ward-5.
The absentees We're: Codding. Pulling
ton Householder Furrell, Kennedy, Nc
MILAN. Noftzger. Porter, Simons, Vim
cent and Wulfekuhler.
This bill divides the counties Of the
state into eight congressional districts
as follows.
First-shawnee, Brown, Doniphan.
Jackson, Atchisop, Jefferson and Leav-
Second Wyandotte. johnson. Doug
+ las. Miami, Franklin, Anderson, Linn,
Allen and Bourbon.
Third-Crawfo Cherokee. Neosho,
I-abette, Wilson, Montgomery, Elk,
! Chautauqua.
Pottawatomie. Wabaunsee.
/ Usage, Lyon, Coffey, Woodson, Green
wood, Butler Chase, Marion and Nor
ris.
Fifth-Nenaha. Marshall. Washing
/ ton Republic, Cloud. Clay, Riley, OF
tawa. Satire, Dickinson and Ceary.
Sixtb-JeWeH, Mitchell, Lincoln, Ellis
worth, Russell, Osborne, Smith, Phil
lips. Rocks, Ellis, Trego, Graham, Nor
+ ton, Decatur. Sheridan, Cove, Thomas
I Rawlins, Cheyenne, Sherman, Wallace
and Logan.
Seventh Cowley. Mcpherson. Harvey,
4 Sedgwick, Sumner. Harper and King
Eighth-Reno. Rice. Barton. stafford.
Pratt, Barber. Comanehe, Edwards.
Pawnee, Rush, Ness ,Hodgman, Ford,
Hamilton, Greeley, Wichita, Seward,
Kinney, Scott, Lane, Stanton. kiowas
Clark, Meade, Gray, Haskell, Stevens,
Grant, Kearny and Morton.
This is the bandwagon bill and safe
majority rode in the wagon When the
4 bill gets over to the house of represen-
tatives it may, and in all probability
viii not be, the bandWagon measure
there and Will be subjected to revision.
/ There is no probability that the ord1-
,
swer for the apportionment act. In all
/ Likelihood, as Senator Smith predicted
this morning, the bill will have to be
put into conference committee and
hammered out by it so that it will
somewhere nearly eomport with the
wishes OF a ma jOrity.
Allen of Doaiphan and Branine Of Har-
vey voted and kicked in unison at every
movement of the band wagon today Al
len doesn' t want Shawnee in the First
district, while he does want Nemaha taken
r,5T T1rr7
( taken away from its present ASSOCIATION
in the old Seventh and put into the new
Seventh, which is to have SedgwiclN. Har-
per and Simmer in it also. There is every
political reason why Allen and Branine
should fight the bill, and they did what
was expected Senator Morrow. Whe
/ wrote another reapportiOnate bill whlcr
was rejected in favor Of Fitzpatrick 5
stood by Allen. N0ftZger didn't want his
county. Harper. to be put into the new
Seventh, ana he also voted with Allen.
Senator r. Dumont Smith is promis-
ing candidate for the congressional nofni,
nation in the Seventh district to succeed
/ I4Gng He didn't want to take part in tho
consideration of the bill and kept very
closely to his resolve not To. Only once
did he rise to speak. He said he didn
agree with all the measures of the Bill
and that if it were for its final passage
he might not vote for it But to expe-
dite its consideration, because reap
p0rtionate bill was really wanted, ne
voted for its provisions.
The new substitute bills were introduced
but rejected. One was by Wulkekuhler enc
left Shawnee county out Of the First dis
trict The other was by Householder, thf
fusion member from Cherokee. and pui
Elk and Chautauqua in the seventh IL
stead of the Third district.