The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-14
Objected Because Bill Was
Scaled Down.
Senate Wouldn't Pay His EN-
ployes Full Amount.
HE TALK AT YOUNG.
Mitchell Senator Has Been
Against Him.
Senator +. DumOnt Smith Gets
Letter.

When he first came to Topeka he
asked me to support him for speaker
pro tenn. L did not do it and he has
been against me ever since" This
was the final fling of Senator ]. B.
Belts at Senator L. d. Young in the
senate chamber this morning during a
rather warm discussion between them
| over the proposition to pay a couple
| of Senator Belts constituents for work
they did around the senate chamber
prior to the time that the employees of
the senate were decided on. Senator
Belts men We're not on the roll OF
employees.
These men We're Spence Fort and
Hatch Etherly, two Topeka colored
men, who are constituents of the sena-
tor from Shawnee. At the beginning
of the session Senator Belts told these
men to go to work as j.Anitors around
the senate chamber and -hat lie would
do his best to have them named as
employees. Senator Your was and is
chairman of the committee en-
ployes and these two particular pro-
teges of Senator Belts were not put on
the employees roll as janitors.
A week or so ago Senator Belts pre-
sented resolution which sought to
allow Spence and Hatch pay for ten
days at SO each for the work they
were supposed to be DOING around the
senate chamber while they were act
ually waiting to see if they were going
to work or not This resolution was
referred to the committee en-
ployes. Senator Young reported for
this committee today to the effect that
Hatch and Spence should each be paid
So day for five days work. This re-
port reused the ire of Senator Belts.
These men worked for ten days" he
said, land they ought to be paid for
1t. 1 only want to be treated fair in
this matter. If the state is not able
to pay them I expect to pay them my
SELF
Senator Young replied that the COM
mittee thought it had treated the men
generously in allowing them five days
pay. A number of the committee
thought that the men were only en-
titled to three days pay, if they were
actually entitled to any.
1.-THE committee thinks" said Sena-
tor Young, that it did pretty well by
Shawnee county. 1t put on, between
10 and Is employees from this county
and could not find places for these two
men. We thought it no more than
fair to give other parts of the state
some sort of a show
Were those ten or fifteen employees
from Shawnee county put on at my re-
quest" asked Senator Belts.
1.-TWO or three of them, replied
Senator Young.
Eyes, two or three pages" answered
Senator Belts in a sneering tone.
Senator Young added that five days
pay was enough for these men and
then Senator Belts broke loose with
the statement that Senator Young was
against him because he had not sup
ported Young for president pro tenn.
Senator Young was about to reply
when Lieutenant Governor Fitzgerald
called him to order because he had
already spoken two or three times on
the question.
The report of the committee allow
ing Spence and Hatch five days pay
was passed, only three or four sena-
xr-if ffe afr,-f
it.
Senator Quincy's bill authorizing
the state bank commissioner to ap-
banks was on the third reading calen-
dar. Senator Getty wanted it re-
committed to the committee on banks
as it was defective. AS substitute
Senator Fitzpatrick moved that the
enacting clause be stricken from the
bill. There was no debate on the pro-
position and the Fitzpatrick motion
prevailed. This kills the bill.
Only one other bill was on the regu-
lar third reading calendar. 1t was Sen
ator Quncy's, allowing the state to ac-
eept from the Kansas Federation of
Women's Clubs the collection of pic
lures known as THE Arlington Art
Gallery The bill was passed.
From a letter received by Senator F.
Dumont Smith from L. A. EtZold, coun-
ty clerk of Seward county, the people
in the short grass country do not seem
to be taking much interest in proposed
primary legislation. Mr.. Etzold wrote:
II am surprised in reading the Capital
to find that every man, woman and
child in Kansas cannot exist unless a
primary election bill passes. I made 1t
a business to interview a number of
our people regarding this bill and was
again surprised that not one in ten
knew what a primary election bill was.
Perhaps our people are too busy to
study up the thing but I could find no
interest taken in it,
On a motion by Senator Fitzpatrick,
which prevailed, his primary election
bill. introduced yesterday, was adj
yanced to a second reading and sent
to the committee of the whole. A
thousand copies of it were ordered
printed.
Senate Bills Introduced.
No. 469. BY Senator Haskell-An act
relating to metrons for county jails in
all counties of more than forty-hve
thousand population.
No. 40 BY Senator Simons-An act
to provide for the instruction of the in
mates of the state industrial reforma-
tory at Hutchinson, Kansas, in certain
Industrial arts, providing for the sale
and disposition of the products of such
industrial arts, prescribing certain du-
ties of the board of managers in refer
ence thereto. and making appropria-
tions therefor.
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