The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09
STUBS HOLDS ON
Has Call of House Raised at
6 O'clock.
Hopes to End for Passage of
Primary Bill.
SEND FOR ABSENTEES.
Representatives Who Have Conc
Home Must Return.
Tells Members That Senate
Would Yield.
SEND FOR ABSENTEES.

w. r. Stubs, leader of the square
dealers in the house hoped to the end
for an agreement on the primary bill.
He held the house in session, absen-
| tees were sent for and he assured the
representatives that he had the as
surance of leaders in the senate that
they would agree to accept his bill.
| Even when the senate at noon refused
to go any farther with the primary
conference he did not despair.
Still the end came with the action of
/ the senate.
! While Chalk Beeson fiddled Money
Musk and a clerk accompanied him
on the piano, the hands of the clock i'll
representative hall moved past the fig
ures on the dial indicating that the
hour of three had arrived which
| meant death to all of the senate bills
on the calendar. There had not been
a strenuous effort made to reach these
| one did try the same expedient which
saved a number of the house bills in
the morning.
This procedure was objected to by
Foley of Rice, and the sergeant at arms
was instructed to keep the clock go
ing. Some of the bills would have
been reached had it not been that the
report of the conference committee of
the primary election bill attempted to
make their report and secure it's adop-
The report which was a recommended
ton to accept a mongrel creation,
cross between the Stubs and Fitz-
patrick bill of the senate was not what
the square dealers wanted.
They lined UP to man against it
and the Democrats stood with them.
roll call resulted in a showing of 48
for the adoption of the bill and So
resulted which lasted from a few mo-
ments after noon until 6 o'clock. The
friends of the Stubs bill claimed that
the adoption of the committee report
would mean a sacrifice of the prin-
ciples for which they have contended
since the legislature convened and
that action of that kind would mean
that the state could not secure the
passage of primary election Ia Ter
many years if ever.
During. the six hours that the house
was in a deadlock and the call of the
house was on there were but four
Rail of Kingman changed from aye
to mo" Davidson of Marion changed
from no to AYE" Policy of Repub.
lie from mo to aye" and Kin of
Atchison from mo- to AYE"
The members of the house antici-
pate a long wait and set about devils
ing ways of entertainment while they
waited the result OF the deadlock
which most of them thought would
last until the time set for the adjourn
ment of the legislature. The sergeant
at arms was instructed to secure war
rants for the arrest of the absent
members, twelve of whom had left for
their home and bring them back.
Several OF them were reached by tel I
egrams and telephone calls and slgnl-
fed their willingness to return without !
awaiting the serving of the warrants /
by the sergeant-at-arms. All through |
the day the corridors and anterooms I
as we'll as the floor of the house had /
been filled with lobbyists who We're in /
terested in bills on the calendar. There |
was a general scamper among these for |
exit when the call of the house was |
made but many of them were caught |
on the inside and this accounted for /
lunch which must have cost at least
800 being served to the members at
their expense. There were 300 sand
witches in the first order which came
from the Cremerie restaurant and so
pies and this order just made a good
start for the hungry lawmakers as II
did not arrive until O'Clock. and their
appetites had become whetted to a
keen edge This order was afterwards
duplicated and amended by adding
wash boiler of hot coffee. Apples and
oranges which seemed to always be in
evidence about the house were served
"a dessert and the members entered into
the spirit of the affair and proceeded to
amuse themselves. Fist small paper
xads were thrown by the members but
his became tiresome and they looked
'or larger ammunition and for few mo-
nents the body of the house seemed
1lled with flying waste baskets and tin
ups coffee having been served in the
after.
A wild rush was made to the body
# the house by the sergeant at arms
entire force and the waste baskets and
he heavier wads of paper were taken
rom the playfully inclined represent
atives Chalk Beeson, who is as sure
O have a fiddle with him, as he is to
lave a pocketbook. was engaged for
he first number on the program. 1
which happened to be the Irish
followed by an en-
ore, 1.-The Raccoons Tail is Bound
hen the Arkansas Traveller" with va
iations, his portion of the program
concluding with The Dying Cowboy"
! pathetic little "ditty," the words of
which Beeson is wont to recite when
efficiently urged. Mrs. B. B.. Smythe
wife of the curator of the Goss erni-
biological exhibit, sang a number of ]
olos which were listened to with
like a semblance of order ]
nd then pandemonium broke out and
ontinued until the call of the house s
vas raised.
Numerous attempts were made to
reak the deadlock. but sthe efforts I
nembers from the western portion of E
he state voted for the adoption of the I
difference report as they felt that f
hey were so instructed to vote for I
bill of some kind though
1any of them expressed their own !
pinions as being in favor of turning g
down and demanding the house bill l
r nothing at all.
A bunch of kilograms intended to c
trengthen the backbones of the square /
ent that they were not needed.
On the Lest Lap.
Ninety-four out of a membership of | t
25 representa- tiveS in the house thisl C