The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-26
HOCH IN PERSON.
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mounting the presidents rostrum pro-
| ceeded to read to the senate message
| OF unusual purport, urging the legisla-
| ture to. get down to business and enact
some general legislation demanded by
the people.
After reading his message to the
senate, the governor proceeded to the
mouse, where he read the same mes
sage.
Governor Hoch was unattended, and
his personal visit to the legislature
was OF such an unusual nature that II
aroused some resentment on the part
islative dignity.
In the senate, Governor Hoch was
received with rather chilly silence.
The members were apparently too
mucn astonished to know exactly what
10 DO. Not until the governor had
strobe down the center aisle and out
OF the door did the senators begin to
look at each other to see how the
other fellow had taken it, Senator
Waggener was. the fist to break the
silence He said bluntly:
After this castigation, it seems to
me we had better get down to bust
y suggest" said Senator Getty, that
the senator from Atchison give us his
views on prohibition
1here was a murmur OF mo, no.
from the other senators, and the speech
was not made.
A little later on, Senator Brewer
arose and said:
1T seems to me that in this COM
munication a very important bill has
been overlooked"
Yes" said Senator Dolley, "I move
that the attention of the governor De
called to his omission of the 2-cent fare
bill"
The senator is out of order re-
piled President Fitzgerald promptly.
In the House.
While the discussion of the bill to
establish a state salt plant at Hutchin-
son was at its height. the sergeant-at-
arms announced Il message which
Governor Hoch desired to read in per-
son. There was a lull While the mes
Hoch had hardly left the speakers
stand when hostilitieS were renewed
as though no interruption had occur
red. There were few suggestive
but save these there was nothing to
indicate the castigation the repre-
sentatives had received from the chief
executive of the state.
Following is the message:
Governor HocI's Message.
''To the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives: The limit of time provided
by the constitution for legislative ses-
sion will soon expire and but few en-
actments of general nature have
the signature of the governor. The
work of the legislature up to date, so
far as the enactment of law is con-
cerned, has chiefly been of local
nature. The many measures recon-
mended in the regular executive bien-
NAL message, and which seem to be
desired by the people, have thus far,
with few exceptions. failed to be crys-
tallized into law. l cannot permit this |
legislature to adjourn without again
calling to your attention some of these |
I'm two biennial messages have |
urged the enactment of primary |
election law. I believe the people are |
demanding such law and will be
sorely disappointed if this Legislature |
adjourns without responding to this |
demand. 1 realize the difficulty of
agreement upon the specific provisions |
of a law of this kind, but 1 cannot too |
urge those who hold these |
views to make every reason |
able sacrifice and agree upon some |
kind of a primary election law that |
will at least in some measure meet the |
exigencies of the occasion. No per- |
sonal consideration, no pride of au- |
no antagonism between the |
two houses should prevent some agree
ment on this subject. 2V
The Evil of the Free Railway Pass.
1.-The people believe that free trans
portation is a. species of favoritism /
which should not be tolerated and that !
1t tends to corrupt politics. I do not |
share this view to the extent it is en-
tertained by some others, but 1 share it |
to a large extent, and trust this leg1s-
Iature will not adjourn until it has fol-
lowed the example of the congress of
the United States and abolish the free
pass, save in such exceptional cases as
reason may suggest.
"In my biennial message urged the
legislature to equip the board of rail-
road commissioners with greater IA
cilities and funds in order that it might
be able to thoroughly investigate and |
intelligently decide the great questions
with which it must grapple and 1 hope /
this recommendation will be crystaliz-
ed into law.
"On February 6, 1907, I transmitted
to the legislature a special MESA ge re-
the passage of a bill re-
ating to Intoxicating liquors. This bill
was carefully prepared by ex-Attorney
General c. c. Coleman, Assistant At /
-orney General G. w. Trickett, AssIs-
tant Attorney General John Marshall,
and carefully scrutinized by other able J.
lawyers. but it has not only as yet been
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