The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-20
ONE new JUDGE.
Labette Montgomery District
is Divided.
Each County to Have Judge of
Its Own.
NO REINFORCEMENT
House Kills the Rochester Bill
Last Evening.
Effort VIII Be Made to Agree on
Tax Measure.
NO REINFORCEMENT

A new judicial district to be known az
the Sixteenth, was created Tuesday af-
ternoon when the house passed the
bill, already passed by the senate, sep
arating the Montgomery-Labett dis
trict. now constituting the Fourteenth
district into two districts, Montgom-
ery TO be the Fourteenth and Labette
the Sixteenth
Sigmund Lehman of Labette county,
is the man who deserves the credit
for the passage of the bill. He intro
dueed it in the house as house bill
T55. When the senate bill on the
same subject was messaged over, Len
man substituted it for his bill.
There was some opposition 10 the
bill in the house on the ground that
the house bill had not gone to com
mittee When the roll call was finish
ed, the bill was about ten votes shy
of passage. Lehman demanded can
of the house and the doors were lock-
ed. Then Lehman hustled around
among his friends and got them 10
change their votes until the bill mad
"a marks to its credit, when the can
was raised and the bill declared
passed.
The division of the old Fourteenth
district is because of the very heavy
work in Montgomery county, where
Thos. Flanelly is the judge. Under the
tire time to Montgomery county, ana
will hold court at independence. IN
Iabette county, court will be held at
Oswego and Parsons.
There is a big fight already on for
the office of Judge in the Lapette DIS
trict The candidates thus far an
nounced are Elmer Clark of Oswego,
Judge A. Case of Oswego, and Judge
c. Kimban of Parsons. 1t is up TO
Governor Hoch to appoint someone to
a nROnyR
are said to be lining up for Judge Case
Rochester Bill Beaten.
There wifi be no legislative reappor-
tionment at the present session of the
legislature. The house took \ large
sized sledge hammer on Tuesday after
noon and hit Rochester's reapportion-
ment bill between the eyes This was
the bill which Senator Long was ac-
cused to knowing too much about The
belief of the house that Long had
framed up the bill for the purpose of
adding a few representatives to his
congressional district, combined with
seven eastern counties of one represen-
tative each, was what caused the bill
to be showed under.
The friends of Rochester's bill saw
that the tornado was coming and they
ducked for the storm cellar as soon as
the house went into committee of the
whole for the consideration of the
Rochester bill. 1t was moved by the
back to the legislative reapportionment
committee for further consideration.
But the enemies of the bill were hot
on its trail. and did not propose to
allow it to escape by lodging back into
its hole. Stannard of Lyon moved as
a substitute for the motion that the
enacting clause of the bill be stricken
out The Staunard motion was carried
on a standing vote, &c voting. for and
AZ against.
When the report of the committee of
the whole to the house was read,
Holdren of Montgomery moved that it
all be adopted except that portion re-
ferring to Rochester bill" The Roches-
ter bill was the only thing in the re-
port Stannard again moved as a sub
stitute that the report be adopted I'M
conditionaIly. This was really the test
vote on the bill. and a roll call was
demanded. The Stannard motion to
adopt the report of the committee of
the whole was adopted by the follow
Cor the motion-Archer, Bird, Bran
don. Brown, Clark. Cole, Cottingham,
Cowan, Davidson of Sedgwick. Davis.
Dawson of Marion. Dennis. Ferguson.
Fisher. Foley. Fraser, Giants, Grasse.
Guyer. Ham, Haskins. Husey. Hutche-
son. ingalls,, Jeffries, Jones. Kiff, Kirt-
land. Leland, Leydig, Mayhem. Mitch
eli. Murphy, Myers, Neihart, O,Conner,
Oshant, Padgett. Peter. Plumb,
Policy. Potts. Price, Ransom, Rey-