The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-19
KANSAS cOMAENT
DIGNITY AND PRERoGATIvEs.

QIGNIII AND PREROGATlVES.
Oklahoma is not the first state where
one house has seemed to usurp the
prerogatives of the other. Often a
question of right weighs more than the
real bill at issue.
The senate originates a bill and at
the same time the house has one in
preparation. Then each branch passes
It's bill and while there is little to
choose between them a conference COM
mittee has to be named and the con-
ferees quarrel over the empty honor Of
which measure is to be accepted If
the best is taken from both, there still
remains the bubble whether 1t shall be
called the house bill or the senate bill.
In congress today there are two cur
Is the Aldrich. the other the Fowler
Dill The measures differ essentially,
but II either passes and is sent to the
other branch, it will be amended SO
the conferees will be appointed. and a
struggle Will be seen over some unim-
portant feature.
The chief cause of delay, not only
In Oklahoma but wherever legislators
meet, is the result of petty jealousy, or
personal ambition. 1t would appear at
times as If the legislature met for the
sole purpose of advancing the interests
or certain statesmen, rather than to
benefit the people.
having legislature so one-stded. If
there was strong minority, able to
| take advantage of the little chickering's
OF the majority, the latter would have
| to be circumspect, but the minority is
SO weak in the new state that the ma
| jority doesn't have to consider It, This
enables the members to fight for per-
sonal points. and as a result every bill
has more collateral points involved than
| questions of law.
In nearly every law-making body the
game of politics appears and this is ex-
| pected. Party advantage is the stake
played for and the people look on in
| terested because they are willing to
| take sides, but when the game is play
| ed for personal ends, to give one am
bilious candidate an advantage over
some other, then the littleness of the
demagogue is perceived and the people
are amused or indignant according to
their OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Eagle.
| o.
GIVE THE PRIvATES A CHANCE.
! The suggestion is again abroad
that some members of congress go as
delegates from Kansas to the nation
ton as delegate to national con-
vention Is purely party honor. 1t
should go to the private individuals
in the party. 1t adds nothing to the
honor already bestowed upon a con-
gresham or a United States senator
by the election to the position he al
ready holds It is distinction to a
| private in the ranks. When a con-
gresham or a senator asks to be sent
to a national convention he writes
| himself down as a political porker
| who wants everything. There Is NO
justification for it in any condition
of politics and the thing for the Re-
publicans of Kansas to do is to serve
notice upon congressman and sena-
tors that the party will send it's own
| individual representatives. The
| Democrats of Kansas will not need
| to do this since all Kansas Demo-
Gratis are private citizens.-Wichita
| Beacon.
GREEN BUG A WONDER.
Prof Hunter, of the state univer-
sity, after visiting with the green bug
i 70.