The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-22
Stubs Primary Bill Passes
House Almost Unanimously.
Only Eight Votes Against 1t at
the Last.
TEST SPLIT FEATURE.
This Eliminated by a Decisive
Vote.
Question Now Is. What Will the
Question Now Is, What Will the
Senate DO2

All the rabbits in the house ran for
cover Tuesday evening when the Stubs
primary election bill was put on final
passage and the vote of 104 to by
which the bill swung through that
body does not indicate the real
strength of the force which Stubs has
whipped to a standstin in his end of
the legislature.
The real test vote" between the
Stubps primary crowd and the split
primary crowd stood "A to Sc in favor
of Stubs, and this test vote was taken
in committee of the whole about
o'clock Tuesday afternoon. No roll
calls are allowed in committee of the
whole, and it is fair to assume that
S6 votes represents the maximum that
the split primary crowd can muster in
the house. Stubs has the whip hand
In that body. and his supremacy can't
be disputed.
The vote of "a to SO showed two
things: first, that the Democrats are
willing to stand by Stubs; second, that
exclusive of the Democrats. Stubs was
able to control "A Republican votes to
Sc controlled by the opposition.
This crushing defeat for the split pri-
mary in the house served tC even things
up with the senate for the senate's ac-
tion in running the bandwagon over
the straight primary proposition. 1t
will serve to make the house insist
more strongly on a complete surrender
by the senate of its split primary idea.
The final vote in the house on the
passage of the primary bill was as fol-
lows:
Yeas-Adams, Archer, Banks. Bee
son, Bergman, Bird, Blaine, Boggs,
Boyle. Brandon, Briefly, Brown, Chat
ten, Clark, Cole, Cottingham, Cowan,
Crumley, Cunningham, Davidson, Da-
Wis, Dawson, Dennis, Edwards, Els
tun, Enright, Fisher, Flanagan, Foley,
Fraser, Giants, Gesner, Gordon, Grass,
Guyer, Ham, Hart, Haskins, Helmick,
Hendricks, Holden, Holdren, Husey,
Hutchinson, ingalls,, Jeffries, Jones.
Kiff. Kirkland. Lander, Leham, Lee
land. Leydig, Martin, Mayhem, Mer-
Ger, Miller, Milligan, Mitchell, VIM.
Morgan, w. Y. Morgan, Murphy, My
ers, Neihart, Oshant, Padgett, Pat
terson, Peter, Plumb, Pomeroy. Potts,
Price Ransom, Reynard, Rhodes,
Rich, Richmond, Rochester, Rookie
Teller. Roush, Ryan, Saunders.
Schmidt. Shepard, sipple, Skinner,
Sourbeer. Stannard, Stockton, Stone,
Stubs, Sweeny, SWope' Taylor'
rem. Wells, Wheeler, White, Wilson,
Woodhouse. Simmons
Nays-Craddock Curran, Johnson,
Lennen, McGillivray, Montee, Policy,
Tannehil, Westcott-9.
Absent or not voting-Creech, Fin
Rail. Richardson, Sherer, Snyder-9.
But will the senate surrender at the
dictation of Stubs?
Thus far the action of the senate has
indicated that it is still held in the
hollow of F'itzpatrick's hand.
Tuesdays action of the senate indi-
Gates that there are other matters be-
sides the split primary at issue.
The senate will pass a bill, nominal
II hxTS hI1t 10
the bill introduced by Senator Cald-
well Senator Fitzpatrick last night
knocked out of the Young bill all ref
erence to the party council and sub
stituted therefor a handsome line of
state, county and district conventions
The party council is the provision OF
the Stubs bill, and the political ma
chine doesn't like it. The machine
wants to have conventions as of yore
even though the convention is unable
to make party nominations.
Apparently the fight on the party
council means business. The senate is
going to kill that feature of the Stubs
bill if It can.
If it finds that it can't, it will have a
good line of stock to use for trading
purposes, in an effort 10 force the
house to surrender on the split pri-
mary issue.
The house of representatives, on the
other hand, has nothing much which
1t Is able to trade except the split prl-
mary issue. Everything in the Stubs
bill is considered essential There was
nothing put in merely as poison to
force a compromise.
Conference committees will go to
work on the primary election disagree
ment some time today.
An effort is to be maze to get the
house and senate together on the pri-