The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-24

Kansas was about to be annihilated.' -
said Senator Getty. 'and we
the coffers of the state and
help you fight the monopoly on oil and
now we find the senator from Mont
gomery coming here and asking US to
pass a law to protect a monopoly We
played our part of the game fair and
passed your bills for the protection OF
oil from the monopoly. The people
rallied to your support.
THE senator from Montgomery has
signed a contract to furnish 100000
cubic feet of gas a day at one-ffth of
cent a thousand cubic feet" said Getty
Il want to ask where the senator got
any such information. said Senator
Porter.
"A gentleman in this chamber told
me this only he now says it is 5000
600 feet" said Getty.
Il never signed any such a contract
and I would like to see the color of
the mans hair who says it, answered
Senator Porter.
He is here and I understand that
this gas is to be used not for lighting
or heating the homes of the people
but for the Lanyon smelter,' said
Getty. Are we going to fence this
gas in and allow it only to be used by
smelters2 If we use your gas in Kan
sas City, Kansas, we will pay you for
it.
The trouble is shat too many sena-
tors here are interested in gas wells, -
said Senator Benedict. IF it WASH t
for this fact the majority in this SEN
ate would be as great FOR this Holdren
bill as was the house. Senators here
who think the Kansas Natural Gas
company will bring gas to other cities
in Kansas are indulging in pipe
dreams, This company will deliver
the gas to Kansas City. Mo, and St.
Louis. Gas is making the towns, not
the oil. Gas has brought factories
and doubled. treble dand quadrupled
the population All there is to this
effort is to increase the profits of the
Kansas Natural Gas company. All
we ask is for this senate to stand by
Kansas In the last two years our
town of 5000 population has erected
30 brick plants and the largest glass
plant in the state. Don't you think
we are concerned in this? Why does
Mcdowell, the manager of the Kansas
Natural Gas company, who has piped
natural gas out of Ohio and Indiana
wish to pipe gas away? To increase
the money in their Golfers. This man
Mcdowell told me he had $4,000 in
vested in Ohio, that he owns a cattle
ranch of $4,000 acres and $4,000 head
of cattle, sugar plantation and
cotton plantation"
Was not that talk confidential?"
asked Senator Noftzger.
My talk is not confidential" shouted
Senator Benedict. Il tell this to show
the profits in natural gas, the profit that
should come to Kansas. When you put
on pumps or cOmpressorS the salt wa
ter takes possession of the field.
Would you senators who own a lit
tie gas we'll rather dispose of that and
injure the state or protect the Industry?
DO not turn that gas company loose to
depopulate and despoil the gas fields.
l say to the senator from Shawnee that
he will never smell natural gas unless
he goes to the gas fields for natural
gas viii never be piped to Topeka"
The vote on the passage of the Hold
rem anti-pump bill was.
Yeas-Benedict, Blaker, Fulton, Mar
tin of Woodson, Miller, Porter of Craw-
ford. Porter of Montgomery, Quincy,
Waggener.
Benson, Belts, Brewer, Buschow,
Carver, Chapman, Conner, Dolley, Getty,
Griffin, Hodges. Lower. Martin of Bourbon,
Noftzger, Simons, Smith of Edwards,
Smith of Franklin. Stewart, Stillings,
Tucker, WilkersOn
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Gilbert, Hamme,
Harrison, Haskell Hayden, Huffman.
Hughes, Peck, Young.