The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-22
SENATOR GErTYfs PROTEST.
Goes On Record Concerning the Road
at the Penitentiary.

During the night session of the SEN
ate number of bills on the order of
third reading were taken up and sew
eral of not much material consequence
were passed. The bill fathered by Sen
ator Stillings which permits the state
penitentiary to rent a steam roller and
pay for it's use in brick and which is
designed to allow the state to pave the
road from Leavenworth to the state
penitentiary, came up. Senator Still
ings was not in the chamber and SEN
ator Waggener suggested that the bill
be laid over until the author was on
hand. This was done but not before
Senator Getty filed protest against
the measure, which will be read when
the bill finally comes up for passage in
a day or so.
This protest is as follows:
Hon. w. J. Fitzgerald, Lieutenant Gov
ernor, and to the Senate of the State
of Kansas:
Gentlemen: I desire that there be
entered upon the record my protest
for senate bill No. 125, entitled IAN act
relating to the Kansas state peniten-
tiary."
1 protest against the passage of this
act for the reason that it provides for
the paving and improvement of about
three and one-half miles of public road
in the state of Kansas the paving and
improvement of which, will not does
not, and can not benefit the state of
Kansas in the slightest particular
1 protest against this act for the rea-
son that at a conservative estimate. the
value of the pavement, provided for in
the bill. when completed, will be 81 80
per square yard, making total dona-
ton, by the state of Kansas, to the
private property owners along such
road of $97, 900.
1 protest against the passage of this
act for the further reason that in addi-
ton to the labor and material to be
used in the construction of this road
the bill provides for the purchase of a
steam roller, the purchase of which has
neither been asked nor recommended by
the penitentiary authorities5 and the
money for the payment of which to be
obtained by sale of brick manufactured
in the penitentiary by convict labor
son that the bill provides for the sale of
brick, manufactured by convict labor to
an amount not to exceed the sum of
$4,000, all of which being in violation Of
the we'll known and settled policy of
this state that convict labor shall not
be permitted to or be forced into the
market in competition with free and
honest labor.
I desire to protest against the passage
of this BILL for the reason that its pro-
visions relative to the, construction of
this road are in direct violation of sec
ton 8, article IL, of the constitution of
the state of Kansas, which provides:
The state shall never be party in
carrying on any works of internal i'm
provement"
AS member of the Republican party
desire to protest against the passage
of this act for the reason that in the
past the donation of a mile of pave
ment by the legislature of the state of
Kansas resulted in the defeat of one
governor, and in all proba bilities a do
nation of the magnitude of this kifi
without any justifiable grounds will
only result in a greater disaster to the
Republican party at the next general
election. Respectfully,
JAMES F. GETTY
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