The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-27
Governor Elect Invites Members
of Legislature to Conference.
Will Meet Them Saturday at
Lawrence.
GO OVER SITUATION.
Four Important Legislative
Measures to Be Discussed.
Railway Legislation and Pri-
mary Law Leading Ones.

elect, has called pow-wow of all the
| chief medicine men of the Republican
party, especially members of the next
| legislature to meet at Lawrence to-
morrow for the purpose of talking
over legislation which Mr.. Stubbs
thinks should be enacted at the COM
| ing session.
! Special invitations have been sent
out by Mr.. Stubbs to a lot of political
leaders of both branches of the legis-
lature. The meeting will be held at
Stubbs' office in the Peoples bank
| building The subjects to be discuss
| ed are these:
| Bank deposit guaranty
! Physical valuation of railways.
| Amendments to primary law.
| Amendments to tax law.
Good roads legislation.
| Forestry legislation.
| The members of the legislature will
| be asked to express their views on
! legislative matters, anG it is expected
| that the meeting will be of deep
of the coming session. 1t is practical
ly big caucus of the Republican
members-elect to determine the posi-
tion of the party on important bills
which will be proposed. 1t is possible
that a number of sample bills will be
presented for the consideration of the
mem bers.
Mr.. Stubbs will entertain the people
who attend the conference at his fine
mansion on University hill.
Papers are being prepared here
preliminary to starting a contest pro-
ceeding in behalf of ]. L. Finley, Re
publican, against Josiah Crosby. who
on the face of the returns was elected
representative from Cheyenne county
by 4 votes.
Dawson and Charles D. Shukers as
his attorneys Mr.. Dawson and Mr..
Shukers are assistant attorney gen
erals for the state, but in the contest
case they are acting in their private
capacity as lawyers
Finley is the former representative
from Cheyenne county. His opponent
is a prominent farmer of Cheyenne
county.
The contest proceedings alIege that
there were inaccuracies in counting
the ballots. 1t is also claimed that in
one precinct, the polls were closed at
6 o'clock, and part of the judges and
clerks went home to supper, leaving
the rest in charge of the ballot boxes
and poll books. About $50 another
man came in and wanted to vote, and
the judges and clerks who were left
in charge allowed him to do so. This
man, it is claimed, voted for Crosby,
and the contestor is confident that at
least one vote will be thrown out in
that precinct.
There are a large number of
allegations of irregularities in the
count.
The notice of the contest will be
filed on Mr. Crosby, and also on the
secretary of state. When the legisla- |
ture assemblies, the secretary of state
will notify the house that Mr.. |
Crosby's right to a seat is contested, |
and the house will appoint a COM |
mittee to take up the case. The bal |
lots cast in Cheyenne county will be |
recounted.
tt &c 1iIreIv; that there will he a num- |
Der of other contests filed for seats in |
the house, but the Finley-Crosby con- |
test is the only one which has been |
definitely decided upon. 1t is Gus |
pay a large portion of the costs. both |
for the, contestor and contestee, |
though the contestor is required to |
give bond.
It looks as though the organization |
of the house would be effected this year
without any fight. The speakership is |
practically conceded to ]. N. Dolley, |
and C. H. Brilhart seems to have a |
clear field for the job of chief clerk. |
There are no candidates announced for
the job of sergeant alarms, but this is |
a place which is easy to fill.
Usually there is lot of jockeying in |
the week or two preceding the legislative |
for the jobs. Indications are that this |
will be mostly eliminated this year.
There is quite nght on FOR the Of /
flee of secretary of the state senate. |
Four candidates are in the field, and |
there is a rumor that there will be a |
fifth before long.
IT is by no means certain that the
coming session of the legislature will |
enact a bank deposit guaranty law.
This is a fact which the people of the |
state who want such a law might as
well understand.
In spite of the fact that both the
Democrat and Republican state plat
forms declared in favor of the law,
there is going to be a strong pressure
act some sort of a substitute for the
deposit guaranty plan. Some think that
the old insurance" law, devised by
Ra1ie Waggener, will be presented. The
bankers of the state will bring forward
a Iot of evidence to show that the busi-
ness interests of the community de-
mand the defeat of the straight deposit
guaranty scheme.
Perhaps the greatest obstacle to the
enactment of the law will be the fact
that Governor-elect Stubbs is believed
to he opposed to the plan of deposit
guaranty proposed by John @. Royce
and others Mr.. Stubbs has never made
an open fight on the law, but he is
known to be quietly working for some
sort of insurance for bank deposits in
stead of a state guaranty fund contrib /
uted by the bankers and administered
the state treasury and bank
ing departments.
Weather Indications.