The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-22

equally or IN better spirit than II mas
| been offered" replied Senator Young
THE strangest thing to me during my
entire career in public life and it is
/ most profoundly strange, is why the
! senator should feel towards me as he
| has in the consideration of this bill.
II have tried extremely hard to be
absolutely courteous in my remarks or
any procedures which have been before
| this body. And no one regrets any
more than I that any move of mine
would tend to be of an offensive sort
His apologies will make me think nc
less of him and L do not think that he
will think less of me.
Il have lived in Kansas for many
years and served the people for long
time, starting in when 1 was mere
boy as a county superintendent of in
UNFAIRLY relinquished it and refused all
other offices until l was finally prevail
ed on to act in my present capacity.
This is the first experience in my
any sort of corruption. 1t seems to
me that all our differences can be cut
out and that We should be judged by
what we do in the future
mo man ever did or can excel me
in cutting out old Scores replied Sem
ator Fitzpatrick. Il will meet the sem
ator mere than half way on some things
which may have happened that ought
off the slate clean and call everything
quits. and 1 here extend my hand to
him.
Just word" added Senator Young.
Il do not think that it is necessary to
declare quits for 1 quit before we be-
gam
DumOnt Smith Takes Hand.
Senator F. Dumont Smith then got
the floor on a question of personal priv
ilege. He had noticed that he had been
quoted in the Kansas City Times of
yesterday morning that he had voted
against the expulsion of the Kansas
n afNT mi from
the floor of the senate. He declared this
to be lie. Then he waved the cartoon
appearing in the Kansas City Star on
Sunday which represented him as throt-
Ting free speech in the senate.
IF from what has happened today,
he said, anyone can think that any sort
of speech is freer than it is on the floor
of this senate, he is certainly mistak-
en-. 1t is freer here than the water we
drink for we nave to pay for the ice.
THE Kansas City Star in an article
on Sunday charged that the senator
from Chautauqua had Joined with me
for the expulsion of its correspondent
from the senate. That was false. In
December of last year the Kansas City
preparing a two cent fare bill for pre-
sentation to this legislature That was
felse. took the pains to have the
1,aI City Star and oo Times corree:
made. The paper is a liar and the
truth is not in it. The only reliable
stuff in it is what is clipped from other
papers.
denial about he two cent fare pcHpC-
sition formed 4 resolution i'll my own
mind that the only way to treat them
was to expel their correspondent from
the floor of this senate when the op
portunity came and 1 believe 1t was
right then and that it is right to keep
him excluded now
None of the other senators ha0 any
frillS TO add TO this statement
Senator Tucker moved that in view
Of the fact that there was some Ques-
ton as to the legality of any business
which might be transacted on a legal
having reference to Fri
day which is Washingtons birthday
that the railroad bills down for special
Immediately after the
Of the primary bill, be made
a special order for Monday morning.
On the advice of some of the lawyers
Of the senate that these bills could be
in the committee of the
whole if recess was taken until to-
day. instead of an adjournment,
without affecting their validity provided
that no attempt was made to take final
-hese bills will be taken up in the
of the whole at 10 o'clock
his morning.
When this matter was disposed of |
o'clock, when other bills on the general
calendar were considered.
New Bills for Appropriations
The ways and means committee, |
which now has the right of way in the |
louse with it's bills. introduced the |
measures yesterday:
No. ST.. By Ways and Means commit |
ee-An act approprlating any Drex- |
pended balance of the appropriation of |
3. 600 for the erection of a greenhous at !
state hospital. under sec |
ion 2. chapter 81 of the session laws of |
sos. for the fiscal year ending June 80,
9Os
No. s72. BY Ways and Means COM
act making an appropria-
ion for the purchase of the east q % |
eet of lot number 81 on Tenth avenue.
asst, in the city of Topeka. Shawnee
ounty, Kan, for the use and benefit of
he state printing plant
No. S73 By Ways and Means COM
act making an appropria-
ion to pay the several persons firms
md corporations herein named. for
foods, wares and merchandise furnished
o the several state charitable institu-
ions. during the year 1905. under the
and direction of the state
BOARD of charities, and which claims /
we're not presented until after the close
f the fiscal year ending June go 1906