The Topeka state journal., 1905-02-27
STUBS EXCITED.
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ception of one statement which is not
pertinent to this discussion
Stubbs Makes a Speech.
Speaker Stubs then made a speech
IN his defense. He said:
Several persons were present in my
room during this conversation between
myself and Senator Smith. I want to
say that have not given any promises
nor asked any during this session of the
legislature. do not propose to have
my name banded about in this manner.
Anybody who says that am going to
lead a fight for or against the senate
bill is talking through his hat; he
doesn't know what he is talking about
The house then took up the regular
order and Senator Smith went back
to the senate after receiving the heart
felt thanks of Speaker Stubbs-
Isn't 1t Pertinent
Senator Fred Dumont Smith says
there was one other statement made at
the supper table conversation which is
not pertinent to the discussion This
statement would have been of interest
to the house. Mr.. Smith should have
those who heard Mr.. Smiths talk at
the supper table the missing statement
is this:
''I told Stubbs that unless the anti
discrimination bill should be put back
as special orders for Tuesday or earlier
that 1 would take the o'clock train for
Kansas City and let his board of control
bill go to the devil"
This part of the conversation was
certainly pertinent" Why didn't Fred
Dumont Smith tell it?
What w. Y. Morgan Heard.
The authority for this story Tor the
Stubbs-Smith deal written by me is
Senator Smith himself
Senator Smith came to the supper
table at the Copeland Friday night
feeling very good about the restora-
ton of his anti-discrimination bill to
the calendar of the house as special
order. Mr.. and Mrs. w. Y. Morgan
were at Senator Smiths table.
Senator Smith told u.s. says Mr..
Morgan, that he had gone to Speaker
Stubs and forced him to put his anti
discrimination bill back as a special
order. He said that he told Stubbs
that unless the bill was made a spe-
cial order for Tuesday or earlier, he
would take the 8 o'clock train for
Kansas City and let the board of con-
troll bill go to the devil. He said that
Mr. Stubs sent him a note informing
him that the bill had been put back
as special order" Doesn't it sound
like a deal2 Perhaps Mr.. Stubbs has
another name for it.
In fairness to Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan,
however, it should be stated that the
State Journal did not get its first in
formation about the alleged deal from
either of them.
Senator Smith told the same story
TO several other parties. Possibly the
news came to the State Journal from
some of these parties. The State
Journal can say positively that it OBJ
tained its information from not one,
but three different sources; all being
men who know politics, and who can
be depended upon
By Saturday morning the story of
the deal was common talk in the hotel
lobbies and on the floor of the house.
There was nothing secret about it.
explanation of Stubs mysterious
move of the preceding day, and the
story spread rapidly.
Senator Smith Admits It
Senator Fred Dumont Smith said this
morning to representative of the
State Journal:
7 went to Stubbs Friday about the
anti-discrininatiOn bill. I was pretty
hot and so was Stubbs. 1 told him 1
was getting tired of having the anti
discrimination bill kicked around He
said that If the bill had been brought
up that morning it would have been
killed, I said I didn't care if it was
killed IN the open, but wanted it
brought out I wanted the bill placed
in the calendar where it had been
7 DID SAY IN so MANY WORDS
THAT IF IT WASN'T DONE. L
WOULD GO TO KANSAS CITY THAT
AFTERNOON.
Il did not say anything else in that
connection, nor did I intimate anything
that, and Stubs understood it. He
said could use my own Judgment
about that. Stubbs said he would put
the anti nu-discriminatiOn bill on the cal
endar for Tuesday. I was pretty hot
so was Stubs, and language ran high
Senator DOlley said he was present
during the converse ton between Smith
and Stubbs. Senator Dollev said today.
when shown the above statement by
Senator Smith:
This is in substance what was said
Both were pretty angry Senator Smith
came to the senate Friday afternoon
and said he was going to Kansas City.
He was mad asked him not to go
but to stand by his promise to second
me in the fight for the board of con-
troll bill ! asked him not to let any
trouble with Stubbs interfere, but as a
personal favor to stay by me during
the discussion of the board of control
bill, and he did
1t Goes in the Records.
The representative of the State Jour
nal this afternoon secured the permis-
sion Of the house to have read the fol-
lowing communication:
ITO the House of Representatives:
IN view of the fact that the house
has made a formal request on the un-
dersigned for his authority in publish
DE the article complained of in Satur