The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-17

at that time he received a bouquet OF
flowers from the ladies on his desk
and rotten eggs from his constituents
at home for his action.
Sekavec of Ellsworth spoke against
the bill. He said that he thought his
wife was better than he was and he
did not want to drag ner down into
politics I love and cherish my
wife" he said. ''and I want all the
members of this house TO do the same
thing" He meant cherish their own
wives so did not for q moment under
stand what everybody was laughing
at But Sekayec makes good SEN
sible speech at all times If he does
transpOse his verbs and adjectfves
occasionally
a large number of the members
explained their votes And the
funny part of it was one could rarely
tell from their remarks which way
they intended to vote
Many Of the members declared that
their wives opposed the bill and for
that reason they could do nothing less
than vote against it. but one member
voted for it in the face of his wife's
opposition.
Cunningham. Hopkins of Finney and
MatsOn changed from nay to yea after
roll call
There is no doubt but the bill would
have carried by a large majority had
the members really believed that a
majority of the women in the state
favored the measure themselves.
During the call OF the house there
was some of the tallest lobbying done
that was ever witnessed in the state
house but the enemies of the bill held
firm with the exception OF the three
gentlemen named above
1t was the most lively and interesting g
session OF the house held so far this
term. The ladies took their defeat
with good grace \ handsome bouquet
OF flowers was sent to Judge Buck at
the conclusion of his appeal The final
roll call vote on the bill stood as fol-
lows.
Yeas-Beckett. Berke. Bonnett. Boyd.
Buck Carpenter, Carter. Clark. Clay,
Cline. Cranston, Crawford, Cron. Fin
ley, Crunley. Cunningham. Davis OF
Bourbon, Davis of KiOwa Darling,
Deacon. Dennis. Eadie. Harbaugh,
Hopkins of Ffnney, Hopkins of Jack
son, Incl. Jackson Jewett of Lane,
Jewett of Sedgwick, Kennett. kreihbeI
Kyle. Lander Landrey Lam bertsou.
Mccormick. Mcmillan. Miller. Morgan
of Reno, Morris, Morton Of Osborne,
NewHn, Phillips. Reeder. Rogers,
Schlitching, shoemaker, Snyder. Stock
man, Stout. Veatch. Walker. westgate,
Watson, White. Wood. Yoxan. Mr..
Speaker.
Nays Amrine. Ashcroft. Banker,
Brighton. Brown. Buckman, Burke,
Case. Cole, Crarey. Dennis. Edwards,
Foley. Francisco. Grabbe. Gray. Crit
fen, Harmon. Haskin. Hines. Hutch
isou. Johnson Kelly. keraus. KuOni,
Lehman Loofbourrow. Malone. Max
well. McNair. Meek Mercer, Merrill,
Mitchell. Morgan of HOdgeman. Moore,
Morton of Clay. Parker PenwelI. Pyle,
Ravenscroft, Rhodes Of Anderson. Rich
Ryan, Schaumburg, Sekavee, ShiedIer
Stannard. Watson. Westcott-
1t was a notable fact that nearly all
the older members of the house voted
for the bill while the younger men
were almost solid against it
Good roads bill No. passed the house
Tuesday afternoon by a vote of 6s tc
45 after a debate which had lasted al
day long It was a little bill. covering
only three printed pages 1t provided
for the registration of automobiles and
tax OF $ Per year on all cars eostins
less than $500 and so on cars costing
that sum and over. The money raised
by this tax is TO be used TO pay the
salary of a state engineer of public
highways (an Office created by another
good roads bill which followed the auto
bill in order of introduction in tbs
house, and to pay the fees of county
engineers. and the remainder to be de-
voted TO the maintenance of good roads
The above few lines cover the text Oi
100 speeches. half OF which were made
by Ryan OF Brown and Griffin OF Bar
ber- A dozen other members also tool
shots al the bill and Mitchell of Doug
las led an army of defenders for the
bill The talk was endless. Nothins
could stop or stay the opponents of this
good roads bill They attacked il from
every angle and with every weapon
Before the legislature convened good
roads talks was rampant In Kansas
land and II was not believed by the re
porteTs who interviewed members of tbs
legislature as they drifted into To
peka that a single enemy to good road:
would answer the roll call They al
talked loud and strong for good roads
It may be that the gentlemen of tbs
house who have held up legislation 81
far this week by trying to block th'
four good roads bills on the calendar
and all set for Monday are in favor o.
good roads but object to the means en-
ployed BY these bills However. they
took queer way of showing it Thl
trend Of their debate and amendments
looked ike an effort to cripple the bill.
rather than TO improve and strengthen
them by discussion and suggestion
The first amendment suggested wa!
calculated to do away with the stat.