The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-18
WONT STAND 1T.
House Refuses to Approve Change in
Apportionment Bill.

This morning the house voted to
nonconcur in the senate amendments
to Brandon's congressional apportion-
ment bill. The difficulty will go to a
conference committee. ~
Mr.. Brandons bill created a new
Eighth district, of which Cowley
county was one of the counties. SEN
ator Fitzpatrick had an entirely diff
ferent bill. When Brandon's bill came
to the senate it went to Fitzpatrick s
long time. Finally it was allowed
to go through the senate, but Fitz-
patrick cut out Cowley county, which
made the new Eighth district very
much smaller than the other districts
Mr.. Brandon said this morning:
This amendment cutting out Cowley
county is put there for the purpose of
killing the bill. The people down in
that part of the state are all willing
that Cowley should be in the new dis
trict. Fitzpatrick is the only man who
objects, and he has a bill of his own
to present in case he can get mine out
c. o. Nelson of Neosho county says:
THE people down my way do not OBJ
ject to the Brandon reappOrtionment
bill. We are in favor of it.
1t is claimed that the senate will
stand by the Brandon bill when it
comes to a showdown. The only man
in the senate who seems to be making
a hard fight to kill Brandon's bill is
Fitzpatrick. c. S. Beekman, repre-
sentative from Cowley county, says the
people of that county do not want to
be taken out of the Third district and
put into the new Eighth.
Petitions for Price Claims.
Petitions asking that the state make
a settlement with the holders of Price
raid script were received through the
following representatives.: Trigg, Tired
way, Plummer, w. A Clark. Powling,
Adair, Landergin, ALBANIAN. Ewel1. The
pressure in favor of the settlement of
these long overdue claims is getting
strong.
duced a bill requiring railroad COM
panies to pay their employees monthly
and must pay not later than the goth
of the month. It is also provided that
if the wages are not paid by the 10th
the company is liable for a penalty of
% per cent of the monthly wage If an
ennnIove is discharged or quits he must
have his pay within So hours.
Monument for Colorado.
The WAYS and means committee this
morning reported favorably upon the
hin making an appropriation to build
monument to the Forsythe scouts, who
fought an Indian battle on the Aricka-
rec river, just over the COLORADO line.
The bill as originally proposed carried
an appropriat ton of $1,000 but the ways
and means cut this to $2,5O0- The rea-
son Kansas is asked to contribute TO
this fund is that the battle was fougnt
by fifty Kansas scouts unoer the leao-
ership of Col Geo. A. Forsythe, in the
year 1868.
The Kansas appropriation VIII not be-
come available until the Colorado legis-
Iaf11re has made a similar apprepria-
ton. The proposed monument will be
located at the Beecher Island Memorial
park, which has been created by Colo
RADIO at the scene of the battle.
The WAYS and means committee re-
nortad adversely on the senate bill APP |
nronriating So 600 for the benefit of the |
public school libraries of the state The
plan was to give SO state alo Ior a
iiS,.s,-v to every district which Will raise
500 of its own for the same purpose
The bin appropriating $1,000 to build