The Chanute times., 1908-02-07
good law.

the poSSeSSOr OF a full hedged prl-
mary law on this, her natal day. The
house adopted the conference COM
mittee report this morning with lit
tie accompaniment of pyrotechnics.
The vote was 103 to 8. The negative
ballots were cast by Craddock, Cur
ran, Flanagan, Johnson, Lennen, Nc
Gillivray, Policy, Snyder and Tanna-
hill.
Since the senate passed the meas
ure last night by vote of 81 to 2
and a constitutional majority was
therefore given in both houses, the
bill is ready to be engrossed and for
the governors signature. Ten thou
sand copies will probably be printed
for distribution.
The main features of the primary
are these:
1. The delegates to the national
convention for this year will be chos-
en- by a state convention but after
this year these delegates will be
chosen in a manner fixed by the state
central committee to conform with
the rules of the national committee.
2. The state central committee
shall be composed of the chairman OF
the county central committees.
8. The general state primary will
be held on the first Tuesday of Aug
ust and at this time all candidates to
state Offices, congress and United
States senate, county officers, state
senators and representatives, district
judges, township officers and nation
al electors will be nominated. The
city officials of cities of five thousand
population will be nominated on the
first Tuesday in March.
4. The convention will be super
seded by the party council, except
where. a. state convention may be
necessary to select delegates to the
national convention. This party
I'council will draw up party platforms
and will be composed Of the nomi-
nees for state offices, notional cleo
tors. nominees for the Legislature,
congressional nominees, national
committeeman, United States sena-
tor, nominated and hold-over and
members of the state committee.
s.. The county committees will be
composed of one committeeman from
each voting precinct and will be Sc
lected at the general primary. The
chairman of the county committee
will be left to the selection of the
county committee.
G. The United States senator will
be nominated by the plurality OF leg
islative districts. The party noml-
nee for the United States senate will
be the one who carries the largest
number of legislative districts at the
primary. All Republicans elected to
the legislature will be pledged to sup
port the nominee. His own district
may have given a plurality to some
other candidate but he is pledged to
support the candidate carrying the
largest number of districts.
The senate this morning passed
the concurrent resolution already
adopted by the house that the con-
sideration Of all original house and
senate bills cease today, and that
final adjournment be on Saturday
noon, February 1.
At 3 o'clock this afternoon, when
the resolution became effective, a
good many measures died that have
gotten into prominence. Among
them was the Haldren bill that when
the gas supply in Kansas becomes
weak or reduced for any reason, Kan
sas City, st. Joseph and Joplin, Mo-,
! and all other points outside of the
state be shut off. The bill had been
favorably reported by the oil and gas
committee, but re-referred to the ju-
dietary committee, which declared 1t
unconstitutional, but never made a
report.
The legislative apportionment also
died after it was talked to death by
it's opponents from 2 to 3 o'clock. 1t
had planned to take representative
from each Brown, Franklin and JEFF
'ferson counties and to add them to
Haskell, Greeley and Seward coun-
ties.
Several members of the house have
already gone home, and after the
Kansas Day Club banquet is over to-
night the ranks will thin rapidly.
The expense for the session, adjourn
ing Saturday, as computed by Audi
tor Nation, will be $4,000.
Topeka. Kan, Jan. 80. = Gov Hoch
did the same stunt this year in the
special session on the bank deposit
guaranty bill that he did last year
when the primary bill was under con-
sideration. He sent a special mes
sage to the house and senate today
urging the enactment of a complete
guaranty law. Last year he appear
ed in person in both bodies and read
his message. This year he sent the
message to both bodies by his private
secretary.
After passing the amendment to
the bill providing for the formation, of