The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-31
CLOSING THE BOOK
Senate Has jolly Time at the
Close.
House Bank Bill Is Given Its
Last Thrust.
THEY WOULDN'T QUIT.
Several Attempts to Adjourn
Are Voted Down.
Bale Waggener's Amusing
Sn0oioI GaSo;1- D1e4Irksnv
HEY WOULDN'T QUIT.
Bale Waggener's Amusing
Special Session Resolution.


dence in the closing hours of the sem
ate's business sessions, which witness
ed the utter rout of the supporters of
the substitute for house bill No. 13
and the discontinue of those who
sought the passage Of house bill No.
/ 39.
| These two measures, conceded to be
among the most important of the ex-
! traordinary session, were fated to be-
come interdependent, to involve their
respective partisans In a controversy
that bred Ill feeling and ended in a
deadlock, and to fall by the wayside
together, unless upon calmer consid-
Grafton the advocates Of No. 13 shall
later decide to lay aside the rancor
engendered in the struggle and allow
No. 1SS to go through. The latter be-
ing bill from the committee on ways
and means, this would be possible, II
1t could be passed without amend
ment, but not otherwise. as 1t is stat
ed that SO many house members have
already gone home that it would be
impossible to get a quorum.
The substitute for house bill No. 8
is IAN act providing for the security
OF depositors in the incorporated
positors indemnity fund and provid-
! ing regulations therefor. It was
sponsored by the house committee on
banks and banking and passed that
body Wednesday. House bill No. 1879,
which was messaged over to the SEN
ate during the night session, came
from the committee on ways and
means and provided for largely in
creasing the bank examiners force,
involving, 1t was stated, an expendf-
ture Of $4,000. 1t was measure the
bankers were anxious to have enacted
Following the executive session, late
in the afternoon, the senate resolved
itself into a committee Of the whole
for the consideration of special orders,
Senator Chapman in the chair, and
the substitute for house bill No. 10
was Immediately called up. The fight
was on.
Young's motion that the committee
vote by which the senate adopted the
house concurrent resolution fixing the
hour at which the senate should cease
consideration Of all house bills, 81
o'clock last night, as amended by the
senate, and Waggener's motion that
when the house rise 1t recommend
that the enactment clause be stricken
out, were lost but Getty's motion that
when the committee rise it report No.
13 with the recommendation that 1t
and debate, was adopted by vote of
10 to H. M .4-z- f-
When the committee rose and re-
ported, there was a dispute as to the
form Of Getty's motion, and Noftz- |
gers motion to amend by recommend |
and debate was lost on roll calls
to 10. The report was then adopted. |
It was at this point that business
ceased and jockeying. which contin-
ued until the close Of the night ses-
sion, began. Motions to place the bill
on third reading, to place it at the
head OF the calendar under bills on |
third reading" to reconsider the |
house concurrent resolution fixing the |
Limitation for consideration of house |
house, to adjourn, followed in quick |
succ ession, only to be met with OBJ |
jections or defeated on points of or
der, except that Young got the meas |
ure on the calendar under third read |
ing.
M, to p. m. to adjourn. to adjourn
until 7:30-were resorted to, the lat |
ter being adopted. The opponents Of |
the bill had its friends so inextricably |
tangled up by this time that they did |
not know where they were att The |
ruling Of the chair didn't help them
any. Young, who led the fight for the |
bill, paced the floor in a rage too deep |
for utterance. Now and then he was |
heard to mutter "Pawnee Rock"
Rock" as If he would like to give |
that historic landmark another bap-
tism of blood and knew who he would |
select as victims of the sacrifice.
Had Dolley's motion that the senate |
go into executive session to hold me- |
mortal services for house bill 49, been |
adopted when the senate was convened |
at 1880, couple of hours would have |
been not less profitably spent and the |
people Of the state would have lost no |
valuable services from their legislators |
Instead of memorial services, how |
ever. 1t was, rather, a vaudeville ex- |
hibitfon, in which were mingled fun and |
pathos, according to the point of view !
of the members and interested lobby |
Young had evidently marshaled his |
forces for a fresh attempt to carry No. |
Is through the eneny's lines and had |
entirely recovered from the effect of
the afternoons reverses. The hope of
The friends of the bill now rested upon
a successful attack on the records, the |
object being to show that house bill No. |
was on Wednesday afternoon adj |
vanced to third reading, subject to
amendment and debate, instead of a |
motion to that end being lost. Several
senator's had a bunch that the senate |
Journal had erred on this point, and |
hey started out to correct the journal |
This was equivalent to a charge on |
inc of rifle pits whose defenders have
lust been furnished with an inexhaus- |
ible supply of ammunition. |
An investigation conducted under a |
continuous volley of adverse motions |
POINTS of order that were generally sus-
aimed, calling up of bills that no one
had seen or known anything about. |
roll calls demanded to consume time,
which the opponents of the bill were
ready to dispose of in large blocks until
he arrival Of the hour of 9 o'clock
should cut off further business, and
satirical suggestions as to proper pro-
cedure revealed little of value to the
forces by Smith and Young, who sought
TO establish the fact that the bill was
on Wednesday advanced to third read |
ing subject to amendment and debate.
and to correct the record if it should
otherwise
As the journal of Wednesday, had not