The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-07
DOLLEY DODGED.
Couldn't Be Found When Wanted
i'm the Senate.
Waggener's Corporation Bill
Trembled in Balance.
LACKED BUT ONE VOTE.
AtchisOn Senator Tried in Vain
to Get 1t.
Measure Will Again Come Be-
fore the Senate.
LACKED BUT ONE VOTE.

For the first time during the ses-
sion the senate turned the clock
ahead and attempted to take snap
Judgment Monday afternoon but the
scheme failed of success.
Senator Waggeners bill to tax cor
porations doing business in Kansas
and to compel foreign corporations to
come under the laws and observe the
regulations of the state was on Mon
days calendar under bills on third
reading. Saturday morning the SEN
ate adjourned until o'clock Monday.
Yesterday afternoon there was more
than a quorum present in the senate
chamber. Some one, no one will
plead guilty to it, turned the senate
clock ahead from 2:45 o'clock to 4
O'Clock and Governor Hanna raped
for the senate to come to order.
There was some protest. Senators
announced that their watches said
2:45 o'clock and that the senate had
adjourned until 4 o'clock. They
were informed that they and their
watches were out of order and the
bandWagOn drove on -
The tight was on between Senator
Waggener. advocating his bill. and
Senators Fitzpatrick and F. DumOnt
Smith who opposed the bill. 1t was
good natured struggle but it was a
fighting the bill thought they had
Waggener in a hole and would keep
him there and defeat his bill. Wag-
gener skirmished round the floor and
fought valiantly and the result was
that the opposition could not defeat
his measure.
There was a call of the senate and the
absentees were sent for AS they came
in they protested that their time pieces
said o'clock and that the senate had
adjourned until 4 o'clock but they were
ruled out of order and called upon to
vote Fitzpatrick was rounded up and
he voted no Then Chapman and
Quincy were found and they voted Il. >
Waggener was gaining. Stillings chang
ed his vote from no" to '.I'' and the
vote was 16 against and II for the bill.
Carver changed his vote to 4I' and
Martin of WOOdsOn voted IT, and the
vote was within one of passing the bill.
Waggener was jubllant. He thought
Dolley would vote for the bill and he
asked the ergeant-at-arms to find Dol
ley but he could not be discovered. Fin
ally, when there was a deadlock, the
call of the senate was dispensed with
and those who hoped to beat the bill
had been defeated. The contest was
a draw and the bill will come UP again
Tho vote of the corporation fee bill
was:
Yeas-Benedict, Benson, Blaker, Car
yer, Chapman, Fulton, Gilbert, Hamme,
Hayden, Huffman. Lower, Martin of
BOURBON, Narlln OF w OOOSOQ, Miller,
Porter of Crawford. Quincy, Stewart.
Stilings. Tucker, Waggener, Young.
Nays-Betts, Brewer. Connor. F'itz-
patrick, Getty, Griffin, Harrison, Has
kel, Hodges, Peck, Porter of Mont
gomery, Smith of Edwards, Smith of
Franklin, Wilkerson.
Absent-Buschow, Dolley, Hughes,
Nofuzger, Simons.
After the battle over his corporation
bill Senator Waggener Immediately in
troduced another bill practically the
same as the bill over which the fight
was made but making the fee of for
eign corporations doing business in
Kansas $50 instead of 500 as provided
in the original bill. He hammered the
bill through to second reading Monday
afternoon.
Senator Waggener had his fighting
clothes on, and he called up his reso-
luton which instructed the attorney
general to give to the senate an opir-
ion as to the conStitutionality of the
state refinery proposition.
Senator Waggener has had a good
deal of fun with this resolution ever
since he introduced it, for there has
been great fear on the part of a good
many administration senators that the
resolution might go through and that
the attorney general would have to
give an opinion and the refinery advo-
Gates have feared that the opinion if
rendered might injure their chances.
Senator F. Dumont Smith chair