The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-08
WINS The FIRST ROUND

when Senator II. J. Smith, from Frank
lin county, wished to amend the first
section, which provided for the estab-
llshment OF the refinery at Peru, Chau-
tauqua county, by amending the sec
| ton to provide that the refinery be
built on the Standard Oil pipe line not
more than IS miles from Kansas City.
Senators F. Dumont Smith. Samuel
Porter, FitZpa trick and Getty all oppos-
ed such an amendment and stated that
as the oil producers who had selected
committee on oil and gas had selected
Peru or ChautauqUa county and as
they did not wish to place the state
refinery at the mercy of the Standard
Oil by building it where it would have
to take the crude oil from the Standard
pipe line that the amendment should be
voted down. Senator Samuel Porter
said that the Peru fields could supply
several such refneries and that it should
be located in Chautauqua county. He
also referred to the Parsons asylum
junket'' and said the legislature should
settle the location and not leave the
selection to any committee and leave
the way open for such another scandal
as was developed by the committee
which located the Parsons asylum.
Senator Smiths amendment was de-
feated by an overwhelming vote of "a
to l.
The Smith amendment brought forth
the speeches for the bill Senator Getty
referred to the speech made by Cover
nor Hoch at Marion, his speech to the
Kansas Day club his message to the
legislature and the Republican party
platform all Of which contained refer
ences to combating the Standard Oil
and the building of a state refinery.
isn't this a party pledge just as
much as the promise to whip some one
out of Office who does not agree with
some one else?' said Getty The chief
executive is either urging the passage
of this bill or going back on it. Under
the urging of the party platforn, under
the advice in the message to the legis-
lature and the speech at Marion this
measure is advised.
When the grain dealers We're crush
ing the wheat raisers of Minnesota the
legislature of that state built an ele-
vator, just as we propose to build a
state refinery, and the supreme court
of the state said the state had perfect
right to protect the people
The parasites that futter around
every legislature have cried that this is
Populism. I don't care if it is Populism
if it is right
Senator Noftzger offered an amend
ment to section 9 of the refinery bill,
which struck out the section as pre-
pared in the original bill and substi-
tuted an entirely new section. Senator
Fitzpatrick tackled on some changes to
Noftzger's amendment and it was
adopted.
The refinery bill. as recommended by
the senate committee of the whole for
passage, is as follows:
Section 1. For the purpose of provid-
ing proper employment for convicts con-
fined in the state penitentiary, the
warden of the Kansas state penitentiary
is hereby empowered. by and with the
advice of the board of directors of said
penitentiary. to purchase a site for the
erection of a branch of the state peHi-
tertiary at Peru, in the county of
Chautauqua. Kansas, and to construct
and maintain and operate thereon an
oil refinery as a department Of the state
peniteDtiary for the refining of crude
oil, and to market the same and its
by-products, and to keep such refinery
in repair. and furnish therefor the
requisite machinery and equipment, and
necessary facilities and instrumental
ties for receiving. manufacturing. stor-
ing and handling crude and refined oil
and its by-products.
Sec 2. For the purpose of construct
ing. maintaining and operating such
branch penitentiary and oil refinery,
said warden and board of directors are
hereby authorized to employ convicts
in the state penitentiary. and to pro-
vide at said branch penitentiary and
refinery suitable and humane facilities
for the housing. feeding. guarding and
overseeing of said convicts and the
work to be performed by them.
Sec. g. For the construction of said
branch of the state penitentiary and
for the construction of suitable quarters
and facilities for housing feeding,
guarding and overseeing said convicts,
there is hereby appropriated out of any