The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11

being caught with such goods in their
possession.
of t the Is asy to tell oT whO is the Is l W R
Stubbs. His chief lieutenants are
Robert Stone of Shawnee and w. H.
Ham of Rocks
Among the new members of the
legislature whose first terms have just
closed. Cunningham and ingalls, have
made the most favorable impression
Tor force and brilliancy- PARKS dei-
mick OF Neosho and w. w. Padgett OF
Fort Scott are also coming men. e.
A Enright has served in the Ieg1sia-
ture before. Davidson of Sedgwick is
man of considerable influence, and Is
author of the new taxation law, but ne
can't talk.
Among the minority members, none
has shown up to better advantage
than G. f. Foley of Rice. Foley is a
fighter, and he caught onto the ropes
with remarkable celebrity. Hendricks
of Rawlins has also made an excellent
impression and has been quite tnffu-
entail.
The senate can grind out work about
twice as fast as the house because 1t
is built that way. There are three
times as many members In the mouse
as in the senate, and 1t taxes neaTly
three times as long to do things. The
senate Ioafs about half the time, and
still manages at the end of the session
to be more nearly through with IT'S
calendar than the house.
This is because there are too many
spouters in the house. In the senate
most of the speech making is done by
four or five men. In the house there
are fifty men who want to talk on
every motion.
Besides that the senate, by sort of
tacit consent takes a lot of short cuts
in it's work which the house won
stand for. The senate saves hours and
hours of time in the reading" of bills
by not reading the bills at al. me
reading clerk will take a bill with
twenty printed pages, read the tltle'
the enacting clause, a sentence or two
in the first section, and then skip clear
down to This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its publtca-
ton in the statute book" Unless
some member has an amendment to
make, or +the-biu is of especial fmpor-
lance, the senate never reads its bills
clear through. The senators are sup
posed to know all about what the bills
contain from the printed copies placed
on their desks.
Whenever there arises some little
point of difference in the senate about
the mode of parliamentary procedure,
or about the advisability of making
certain motion alta certain time, the
senators settle the thing with a little
whispered conversation among them
selves. in 80 seconds of time. The
house members, on the other hand,
would get into a wrangle on the floor,
there would be, forty speeches made,
and several roll calls, before the diff
fculty would be ironed out. That's
why the senate gets along so much
faster than the house, and explains
why the senate can blow about its
good work in cleaning up the calendar.
The house is too big to move rapidly.
What will be the effect CT the present
session of the legislature? That is a
question which will only be answered
at the next election. If the election
were to be- held at once there is not
much doubt what would happen. The
railroad lodge inf the senate would be
wiped out of existence, and there would
be a working majority of brand new
members in that body, regardless of the
fact that some ofgthe brainiest men in
would be lot of. changes in the house
of represent atives, too. and the chances
are that the Democrats would still fur
Their increase their membership in that
body, but the election is not today
it is two years hence. Will the people
forget? Will those constituencies
which have been betrayed forgive the
authors of their degradation, and take
them back to their bosons?
Everything indicates that the politi7
cal situa ton in Kansas during the next
two years I, Ill be considerably agitated-
Tho bitter animosfties stirred up during
the last days OF the present session will
be carried out into the campaign. Fitz7
patrick has branded w. r. Stubs as
q bypocrIte, a 6ema gogue,. and q politf-
cal parasite, and Dolley has called Fitz-
patrick a liar and a betrayer of trusts