The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-22
CUT TO PIECES.
Young Primary Bill Turned
Wrong Side Out.
Senate Changes It in All Essen
tial Features.
LEAVE SPLITPRIM
Other Provisions Found in the
Caldwell Measure.
Substitution Becomes a Dreary.
TiresOme Routine.

That the Young primary bill was
not in shape to be reviewed or even to
attempt to be read after It had been
reported back to the senate by the
committee of the whole last night was
the frank statement of Senator w. S.
Fitzpatrick, and it was one that no
senator was disposed to dispute.
Fitzpatrick was well qualified to
speak on the condition in which the
bill was left after emerging from the
ordeal which had lasted through the
afternoon and evening, for he had
conducted the autopsy and knew that
the dismemberment was thorough. The
most surprising feature Of the opera
ton, to the uninitiated, was the ease
with which this result was accom-
plished. The rallying of the Cald-
we'll majority. which had lost but
one member, Hamme, leaving 21 sena-
tors to be depended on by Fitzpatrick,
explained the matter.
The galleries were filled during the
afternoon and at the first night ses-
sion held by the senate, and there
were many ladies admitted to the floor
of the senate, the attraction being
the anticipated fight over the Young
bill. To their undisguised disappoint-
ment there was no fight at all, but a
most monotonous grind, in which
Senator Fitzpatrick seemed to be
continually offering substitutes to
sections of senate bill No. 5. which
were as regularly accepted, with
scarcely a shadow of opposition.
There was one other feature of
possible interest to the ladies-the in
PRODUCTION by Senator Simons of a
bill comforting on women the right
to vote for presidential electors This
measure made its appearance i'm
mediately after an alleged bill in
troduced by Noftzger. "by request. i"
which contained a personal reference
to the senator from Sumner and
which seemed to cause him some en-
barrassment, taking him by surprise,
as it did. and which he enjoyed less
than his colleague, Senator Stillings,
who was personally interested in the
reading of the bill was not complied
with
Fitzpatrick presented a resolution
defining the position of Kansas Re-
publicans on the presidential ques-
ton, which was as follows:
Whereas, The state of Ohio pre-
sents her distinguished son, Hon. Will
liam H. Taft, as a candidate for presi-
dent of the United States, and
Whereas. He is the logical sue
cessor of Theodore Roosevelt, our
present chief executive, and peculiarly
has inaugurated, and
Whereas, He is statesman of
wide experience and unQuestioned
ability; therefore. be it
Resolved By the senate of the
state of Kansas, the house concurring
choice of the Republicans of Kansas
for president Of the united States,
and we favor the selection of dele
gates at the earliest practicable mo-
ment and their positive and specific
instruction to do everything in their
power to secure his nomination, to
the end that his friends in other states
may know at such early date the en-
phatic position of Kansas as to his
candidacy
Senator Waggener moved to strike
out the name of Taft and insert in
lieu thereof the name Of John John
son of Minnesota President Fitz-
gerald hoped the senator from Atchi-
son would not insist on his motion
and, as he did not, the resolution was
unanimously adopted.
Practically the entire afternoon and
night session was passed in committee
of the whole, in considering the Young
bill. or rather in reading and adopting,
section by section. the substitutes offer
ed by the senator from ChautauQua,
which practically transformed Stubbs
ton, the substitutes being lifted YER
batim, in most instances from Cald-
wells senate bill No. 2. There was no
oratorica1 display in connection with
the work of revising Young's bill, No.
s. the majority forces making opposi-
tion to the changes proposed so mani
fesuly useless that none was attempted.
Nor were there any enlivening fea-
lures save in rare instances. One of
these came when action was taken on
the section designed to provide for de-
Gliding ties by lot. WagGener moved as
an amendment to this section that this
shall not be done by drawing matches,
as he had lost out once on this PROPOSE
ton and had no inclination to repeat
the experience.
He referred, in this explanation, to
the contest in Atchison county in 1908
when w P. Waggener. candidate for
representative, drew matches with Nor
ton Albaugh to settle the question OF
who should have the certificate, and
drew the short match. Waggener's
amendment was incorporated into the
bill.
The action of the senate on the Young
| bill leaves it on record as favoring a
! split primary law, while the house is or
record against it. thus occupying prac-
! tically the same position as at the open
| ing of the session.
A message from the house early ir
| the evening announced its concurrence
! in the sena+e's amendment to the reso-
! luton limiting the time for the intro
| duction of new bills to s p. M Tues
| day. January 21. SO that no new meas
ures will hereafter come before either
| body except such as originate with tile
| committees
Senate concurrent resolution No. 2
+ by Smith. to amend the constitution. re
/ lating to taxation, was ordered printed
i and made the special order for 2:3o z
| m. today