The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-24
WILL BE PRIMARY
Now Seems Certain That a Com
promise Is Coming.
Conference Committees Are
Named This Afternoon.
MAY HAVE AGREED.
Mr.. Stubs Denies That Deal
Has Been Made.
Says He Is Still Opposed to
November Primary.

Speaker Simmons this afternoon an
nounced the following members OF the
house conferees on the primary bill:
S. B. Haskins Of Johnson.
S. L. Ryan of Brown.
w. A Morgan of Hodgeman.
President Fitzgerald of the senate ap-
pointed the following on the part of the
senate:
W. s. Fitzpatrick of Chautauqua.
Fred Dumont Smith Of Edwards.
The above announcement Of commit
tees is taken to mean that an agree
ment on the primary has been reached,
and that all that remains for the COM
mittee to do is to ratify the agreement
The split primary will be retained;
that is, the senatorial primary will be
held in November.
Otherwise the bill will be practically
the same as the Stubs BILL
None Of the conferees on the part of
the house have taken an active part in
the primary fight. Senator Fitzpatrick
represents the senate organization on
the committee, and Senator Smith rep
resents the Stubs bill. The fact that
Smith favors the November primary
indicates that Stubs has conceded that
point
W. R. Stubs still insists that he has
entered into no agreement.
II am not in favor of the November
primary for United States senator:
have conceded nothing. 1 did not know
who were to be on the conference com
mjttee. and do not know what they
Will do. I asked to be put on the COM
mittee myself. I know of no agreement
having been made"
The final vote on the two cent fare
bill in the house was 81 for the two
cent fare and So against, but as it re-
Quired 80 votes, or two-thirds, to get
the bill restored to the calendar, the
bill was defeated. The following was
the roll call:
For-Adams. Banks. Blaine. Boggs,
Brandon, Brown, Clark. Cole, Getting
Davidson, Davis, Finley, Fisher, Flani-
gam Foley, Fraser, Giants, Ham. Hart
Hendricks. Husey, ingalls,, Kirkland,
Lander. Leland, Lennen, Leyd1g, May
hew, Mercer, Mitchell, Morgan OF Hodge
man, Murphy. Neihart. Oshant. Pad
gett, Peter, Plumb, Reynard. Rhodes.
Rockefeller. Roush. Ryan. Saunders,
Sherer, Skinner. Stannard, Stockton,
Stone, Stubs, Swope. Tannehill.
Thompson, Tredway. Warren, Wells.
Against-Archer, Beeson. Bergman,
Bird, Boyle, Craddock, Curran, Ed
wards, Elstum, Enright, Gesner, Cor
don, Grasse, Guyer, Haskins. Helmick,
Holden, Holdren, Hutchinson. Jeffries,
johnson, Jones, Kfff, Kinnison, Leh-
gan, Montee. Morgan of Reno, OCon-
nor, Patterson, Pohlman, Policy, Pom
eroy, Potts, Price, Rich, Richmond,
Rochester, Schmidt, Shepard, Sipple,
Snyder, Sourbeer, Sweeney, Taylor,
Umholtz, Westcott, Wheeler, Wood
house. Simmons.
Representative c. B. Kirkland has
introduced a joint resolution in the
house of representatives requiring the
executive council Of the state to pro-
vide permanent quarters for the legis-
lative committees in the state house.
Every room in the state house is now
occupied, but it is Mr.. Kirtland's idea
that some of the departments are
spread out too much. He wants the
council to condense the work Of some
bulky departments.
The house of representatives on
Thursday afternoon passed a couple
tanned the Kansas City waterworks
bill, and some of the tax law amend
ments. The other omnibus contained
the law limiting the tax levies. This
cleans up all the amendments to the
tax law which the tax commission
wanted, so far as the house Is con-
cerned.
The state board of railroad COM
missioners is at outs with w. r.
Stubs, and gave out statement
yesterday for the purpose of sho wing