The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26
LEGISLATIVE GOSSIP.
What the Newspapers Are Saying
About the Session.

Some of the people down at Win
field are opposed to the bill presented
by their representative, w. P Hack
ney, and are in Topeka to fight the
bill. Mr.. Hackney has made a good
showing for his bill, which seeks to
protect cities from natural gas COM
panies, and requires rnat such COM
panies pay into the CITY treasury a
bonus of 2 cents on every 1000 feet
of gas sold in the town.
A delegation from Winfield com
posed Of J. e. Terrence. G.. T. Franks,
e. w. Bolinger, M. E. Johnson and NJ.
B.. Light has been in Topeka this week
lighting the passage of the bill. The
/ Winfield Courier says:
There is great excitement in gas
matters today. News comes from To
peka that Hackney got a bill hroug
/ the house last week making 1t compul-
sorry for cities to tax natural gas com
panies ? cents per thousand feet. me
/ peculiar part of this bill is said to be
that it applies only to franchises
hereafter granted which would leave
the old gas company here exempt As
Hackney owns One-ffth of the STOCK
of the old gas the men in
terested in the development of other
competing companies feel that such
a bill would offer an unfair ard IN
just premium to the old gas
A committee is going to Topeka To-
might to see about it
The Arkansas City papers are also
taking an interest in the fight. The
Arkansas City ave
Last night a delegation of Winfield
citizens went to Topeka to lobby
against the bill which was
by Representative Hackney 1t is said
that they do not like a part of the
measure which provides that orpo-
lrations which will hereafter be doing
gas business in this state must pay
a bonus of at least per cent OF their
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do business. It is further said that
the lobbyists represent the Console
dated company, which has an agree
ment with h ACKNOWLEDGING com
pany and for which the Morton-Lever-
ing company is now drilling a we'll
east of Winfield"
The following from the La Crosse
Chfeftafn. ought to hold the legis-
~lIature for a While: 1.-The necessary adj
iournment of the legislature for three
days after a session OF but four days,
makes it evident that the boosted re-
form legislature is just like all pre-
ceding Republican legislatures. The
state is paying the members to do
business, and the members prefer to
go home. draw mileage, and also draw
their salary for doing nothing
The same paper has a word to say
on the Kelly matter, also: "a resnlu-
ton has been introduced in the legis-
sign. Why not include Kelly, Dayhoff
ct al in the resolutiOns?"
Southern Kansas wants a state oil
refinery. The paper published down
dependent says: "a state oil refinery
might not bust the Standard trust,
but it would prevent the trust from
busting the oil business Of Kansas.
Copeland county viii sOOn be "al
agog.'' The following information is
from the Buckl Banner: 80. E.
Sadler has gone to Topeka to pull his
political wires. o. z. is a candidate
- = - G-I --a rdn F. a md has a III kinds
of recommendations He held the Of
fee one term under Ex-Governor E. N.
Morrill,, and is well qualified to fill
the position
The following from the Madisonian
raises the natural question, why wait,
if the resignation is sure to be de-
manded later On2 j. r. Burton re-
fuses to resign his seat IN the senate
and the Kansas legislature very o
erly smothered a resolution asking
him to do so. When Burton's case is
settled he should be asked to resign
and asked in no uncertain tones
This is what J. L Brady says of the
Price raid claims in the Lawrence Jour-
nal: The Price raid claims interest a
good many Lawrence and Dougla county
be done about these claims. They ought
to nave been paid long ago. but for some
reason they are not receiving serious at
%tention. The last legislature, by a make
shift. spent 5000 to shove them off onto
this one, and now it is up to an economi-
cal legislature to make a big appropria-
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and ought to be paid, but ! would not adj
wise anyone having a claim to contract
any meat bills on the strength of having
them paid this session."
The Salina Union sees Populism crop
ping out in the present legislature. It
saws: Outside of the state papers are
twitting the Hoch regime of being Popu-
Istic because it is proposing drastic laws
on the oil question, railroad and other
measures that would benefit the state and
people in it. It is one of the curious
things that any measure that is beneficial
to the people, but detrimental to corpora
tons or m~onopolies, is always Populis-
tic
Does q stolen prayer reach the
throne2' asked Gov Hoeh. Then he con-
tinued: According to the newspapers,
Chaplain Couden Of the lower house Of
congress-, in his opening prayer, said
there is so much bad in the best of us
and so much good in the worst of us, that
1t hardly behooves any of Is to talk about
the rest of US Now the fact Is that the
chaplain stole that out of my Marion Rec
ord or out of some paper that stole it out
OF the Record. More than a year ago I
thought that UP and printed it in the
Thoughts We Have Been Thinking col
umn. However, 7 am glad that the house
haplain knows a good thing when he sees
] t"-St. Louis Globe-Democrat