The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-05
The LINE WAIVERS
House Refuses to Advance Anti
pass Bill.
Friends of Measure Arc Still
Confident.
SEE VICTORY IN SIGHT
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Say That Several Members Will
Come to Scratch.
SEE VICTORYIN SIGHT
Cunningham's Plan to Put
Representatives on Record.

| The action of the house Monday in
dicates that some of the railroad med
icire which was administered to mem
| bers of the senate and caused that
body to reverse itself so repeatedly
has found it's waysacross capitol build
| ing and has affected the members OF
the house as it did the members OF the
| senate while they were considering the
antipass bill. -Tf
From the actions of the members OF
the house yesterday it is net im I'm
able that the Getty pass bill will nave
a hard time before it leaves that body
When it came up early Monday morn
ing the indications were rather IA
vorable, but for some reason the SEN
timent seemed to change while the
hall was vacant during the noon hour
and the members out at lunch An
attempt to advance the bill on the cal
endar was failure and 1t IS now at
the bottom of the house calendar,
where it must remain until its friends
recruit strength enough to make
showing of a two-thirds vote on a roll
call.
When the attempt was made to adj
vance it on the calendar the frlenos OF
the measure lacked but five votes or
having strength enough to carry their
point and during the evening tour
members who in the afternoon had
voted in opposition expressed their
friendliness to the measure and have
promised it their support when the at
tempt is made to place 1t on thlro
reading.
This action may be taken today or
it is possible that the attempt will not
be made until early tomorrow morn
ing The friends of the measure claim
that they have enough votes to carry
their point at this time but feel as the
session draws nearer close that the
members will be brought to sense OF
their duty to their constituents and
will flock to the rescue of the measure.
Though the bill had lost on two roll
calls Cunningham of Cowley succeed
ed iE securing another roll call but lost
by an extremely small margin, the re-
suit being 60 for and AZ against. Cum
ningham who so far has been one OF
the leaders, declared that he would
call for a roll call on the bill every
day until the session closes or the Dill
is placed on the calendar for passage
The vote on the bill, which placed 1t
at the bottom of the calendar was as
follows: 49,
Ayes-Adams. Bergman. Blaine.
Brown. Cole, Cottingham, Cowar,
Crumly, Cunningham, Davidson, Davis.
Dawson. Edwards, Fisher, Flanagan.
Foley. Fraser, Guyer, Ham, Hart. Has
kins, Helmick, Hendricks. ingalls,,
Kinnison, Kirkland, Lander, Lennen,
Leydig, Mitchell. w. A. Morgan, w
Y. Morgan, Murphy. Oshant, PodGett,
Peter, Plumb, Pomerey. Price, RAN
Ransom, Reynard, Rhodes. Richmond,
Roush. Sherer, Sipple. Skinner, STAN
nard, stockton, stone, Stubbs. Swee-
nv. Swope. Tannehill, Thompson, War
rem, wells, White. Wilson-6o
Nays-Archer, Beeson, Bro, Brler-
Eistun, Enright, Ferguson Finley
Gesner Gordon, Holden, Holdren.
Hutchinson. Jeffries, Johnson, Jones
Kiff, Lehman, McGillivray, Martin
Mayhew. Miller, R Mon Ri 70 SGdnop'
Rockefeller. Ryan, Schmidt, Shepard,
SNYDER. Taylor, Umholtz. Westcott'
Wheeler, Woodhouse--42.
THE object of the roll calls on the
antinass bill demanded so persistently
by Cunningham is for the purpose OF
conpelling the members to go on record
and is having the effect or strengthen
ing the bill at every vote. With the nVe
recruits which the friends of the meas
,,re claim, to have added to their ranks
the bill can be placed on third reading
or about anywhere else they may
choose for that matter as 1t will give
them a two-thirds majority
For the past week the lobby In the
bouse has been noticeably shy of rail-
road lobbyists but with the crossing OF
the hall by the antipass Dill came the
railroad lobby and they are much In
evidence in the house ana ABOUT the
corridors adjacent. There is some talk
among the members of the house about
excluding this lobby while the antipass
bill is under consideration and 1t may
be that spectators will not be admitted
to the floor.
This action seems imperative said
one of the members for there are
few weak brothers who are welded to
their passes and it seems impossible
for them to vote in favor of this bill
when they know that they are under
survalience by the railroad lobby. If
it is thought necessary by the friends
of the bill to clear the lobby of visitors
it will be for the purpose of strength
ening the backbone of these members
The friends of the antipass bill are
sanguine that the house will pass an
antipass bill of some kind before the
legislature adjourns though it may not
be such a one as was contemplated
when the house bill was passed earlier
in the session. ''I feel" said Repre-
sentative Stubs, that we will be able
to get together on a good sound anti
pass bill and that at once. The meas
ure has gained considerable in
strength since the last ballot was TAX
en- and 1 have confidence enough in
the members to make the prediction
that they will go record in favor of
an antipass law and that such action
may be expected at any time"