The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09
MONEY FOR KELLY
Senate Passes Bill to Reimburse
Ex- Treasurer.
Is for Amount Paid for Surety
Bond.
OUINCY'S SENSATION.
Said Action Was Equivalent to
Grand Larceny.
A Formal Written Protest is
Filed.
OUINCY'S SENSATION.

nv vote of 2S to 4, the senate on
Friday afternoon passed the claims
and accounts BILL after some
of the bitterest fighting of the entire
session. Personalities entered into the
debate, and Senator Fred H. Quincy
of Saline almost precipitated a call OF
the militia by declaring, in substance
that the senate was guilty of crime
equivalent to grand larceny by includ-
ing in the bill an appropriation OF
80 600 to reimburse T. T. Kelly for
the amount which it is claimed Devlin
raid for KeIly's bond as state treas
urer.
The $4,000 item was not in the ap-
propriation bill in the shape that bill
came from the committee, but the bill
did include an item of $1,000 to re-
imburse w. ]. Bailey on the grocery
bill case The Bailey item, it is claim
ed 10y Gov. Bailey's friends, was put IN
without Baileys knowledge or consent.
After il had been read, and allowed TO
stand in the bill, Senator Belts pro-
posed as an additional item $4,000 for
Kelly. Kelly had been lobbying for
this appropriation throughout the ses-
SION but he couldn't get the claims
and accounts committee to put 1t IN
their report. Governor Hoch lined up
with Kelly on the proposition, and
used his official and personal influence
TO have the Kelly item included in the
bill.
Senator Hodges opposed the amend
ment and presented a letter written by
c. c. Coleman when attorney general,
in which MI. Coleman declared that
Mr.. Kelly. under the law, was not en-
titled to the $4,000 appropriated un-
the new law for the treasurer's bond.
Senator Quincy made some very
pointed remarks against the adoption
of the amendment. 81 am opposed to
the appropriation for Ex-Governor
Bailey said Quincy. land I opposed
it in the committee on claims and ac-
counts. I am informed that no surety
bond was purchased by Mr.. Kelly after
the passage of that act by the legis-
1ature of 1905"
Senator Fitzpatrick spoke for the
appropriation. He said T. T. Kelly
was his friend and he would stand by
him through thick and thin.
Senator F. Dumont Smith was also
for the Kelly item. The foIlowing
was the vote on the motion to insert
the item in tho bill:
For-Benson, Belts, Baker. Brewer
Buschow. Caldwell. Carver Chapman
Conner. Fitzpatrick. Fulton. Griffin
Hamme. Harrison Haskell, Hayden
Huffman. Hughes. Noftzger. Porter OF
Crawford. Porter of Montgomery
Robertson, Smith. Stillings, Waggener
Wilkerson.-Total 90.
Against-Dolley, Getty, Hodges
Lower. Quincy. Simons, Stannard
Stewart. Young. 9.
The trouble occurred during the cal
of the roll. Senator Quincy offered :
written statement. which in its origina
form as presented was as follows:
Il wish to explain my vote on the pas
sage of senate bill 500 (the misceIlan
ecus appropriation bil). 1 vote no be
cause the political enemies of Governor
w J. Bailey, unknown to him, have
put in the bill item 20 paying him 81 200
This is done as an excuse for putting II
the item No rs for T T. Kelly for 81 600
which items are unauthorized by law Of
equity and 1 regard their payment as
crime equivalent to grand larceny
FREDERICK H. QUINCY
Hardly bad the reading clerk finishet
reading this protest when Presiden
Fitzgerald said: THE chair refuses t
receive this communication because
reflects upon the character of this sen
ate and is entirely improper
Instantly the senators who had hard
" been listening during the reading O
The Quincy statement, were all excite