The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-20
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ator-it is supposed.
At the regular session of the legis-
lature, when Stubs and his stand pat
ters" formed an alliance With the Dem
ocrats for the purpose of defeating the
Fitzpatrick bill, Stubs mustered 5S
votes against 48 for the opposition, and
thereby defeated the approval of the
report of the conference committee
which favored the Fitzpatrick bill.
The way the vote stood at that time
was as follows:
ence report favoring the Fitzpatrick
biID-Archer, Banks, Beeson, Bird,
Boyle, Brierley. Cowan, Craddock, Cum
ningham, Elstun, Enright, Finley. Ges-
ner, Haskins. Helrnick, Holden of
Wichita, Holdren, Husey, Hutchison,
Jeffries, Jones, Kiff. Kinnison, Leh-
man, Leland. Leydig. Miller, Mitchell
Montee, Morgan of Reno, Padgett, Pat
terson, Pomeroy, Ransom, Reynard.
Rich, Richmond, Rochester, Ryan.
Schmidt. Shepard. Snyder, Taylor, I'm
holtz, Wescott, Wheeler, Woodhouse
Simmons-4s.
Nays-(Against conference report) ::
Adams, Bergman, Blaine, Brown. Cole,
Cottingham, Crumly, Davidson. Davis.
Dawson. Ferguson. Fisher, Flanigan,
Foley, Fraser. Giants, Guyer, Ham,
Hart. Hendricks, ingalls, Johnson.
Mercer, Morgan of Hodgeman. Muir
ply, Neihart, O'Conner, sOshant, Peter,
Plumb, ,Pohlman, Price, Rail, Rockefeller,
Stockton, Stone. Stubs, ,Sweeny. Swope,
Tannahill, Thompson, Tredway, War
rem, Wells, Whites.
Some question has been raised as
to the right of the legislature to COM
place at the primary election and de-
clare his politics. The Democrats
claim that such a provision in the law
is illegal. and they therefore insist
upon secret ballot.
However, the supreme court of
Illinois, in passing upon the primary
law enacted in that state, holds
squarely that the voter who desires to
vote al a primary can lawfully be
compelled to declare his politics.
The Illinois supreme court refused
to knock out the Illinois primary law
on that ground, but it did knock out
the law on the ground that the law
gave to the county central COM
mfttees the right to divide up their
counties into voting districts, a
power which it was claimed could
only be delegated to state officials
The Illinois supreme court also held
that the title of the act was defective.
A poll of the house is being made
today on the guarantee deposit bill
Up to noon about half of the mem
bers of the house had been seen, and
a great majority said something like
this:
posit law, provided it is properly
safeguarded.'
The ideas of what constitutes
proper safeguarding" varies all the
way from a mutual insurance plan,
with which the state has nothing to
do at all, to the plan by which the
state y TO raise million dollar
bank to take out chips in the game
Just before adjourning. today for
dinner, the house passed a resolution
appropriating to itself the sum of So
per member to pay for postage
stamps This is an ancient method
of extracting a little extra money
from the state treasury. 1t used to
be custom to hit the state for about
$40 postage money, but the amount
has been trimmed to suit these days
of reform.
Robert Stones bill authorizing a
levy for the benefit of MarshalPs band
was passed this morning in the
omnibus. This bill is intended to
correct the error in the bill passed
at the last session. Under the cor
rected bill the city can raise about
$1,000 a year for the benefit of the
band
The house this morning passed an
omnibus bill containing 90 local bills.
This took in all the local bills ready
for consideration.
c. B. Kirkland, chairman of the
committee on assessment and taxa
ton announced this morning that the
tax committees of the house and SEN
ate will hold joint session this even
ing at o'clock, provided the house
or senate is not in session for the
purpose of deciding what amend
ments shall be made in the tax laws