The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-25
House and Senate Will Go
Through Form Tomorrow.
J. L. BristOw Will Be the ChO-
sen One.
RATIFY WEDNESDAY,.
Joint Session Of Both Houses to
Declare Result.
Representatives Work Until
Late Saturday Evening.

The house and senate will each bal
lot separately tomorrow for United
states senator to succeed Senator
Chester 1. Long in Washington. The
members will express their choice in
answer to roll call, and at noon We'd
nesday the two branches of the legis-
lature will convene in joint session IN
representative hall, Lieutenant Cover
nor Fitzgerald presiding, and upon
the reading of the journal announcing
the roll call vote of the day before the
presiding officer will announce the
election Of Joseph L. Bristow to the
senate for term of six years, begin
ming March f. next.
The proceedings will be a mere
formality to ratify the choice of the
people of the state already expressed
at the polls last summer. The Repub-
licans have a comfortable majority in
both branches of the legislature and
will vote for their party choice. while
the Democrats are pledged 10 vote for
Hugh Farrelly of Chanute, and will
doubtless cast a solid vote for that
candidate. The primary law has re-
moved the contest for United States
senator from the hall of the legisla-
ture and scattered it all over the state
to be threshed out and decided by the
people. There has been some talk.
started from the Democratic side of
the house, that there will yet be
contest when the roll is called for a
There are forty Democrats and thirty
machine Republicans in the house-a
majority
The house of representatives was
in session all day Saturday, not ad-
5ourning until o'clock in the evening.
The following bills were considered
in committee of the whole at the af-
ternoons session and recommended for
passage in a bunch at roll call vote
today: An act making it unlawful for
any person to misrepresent the variety
of fruit trees sold to any party what
ever and providing a penalty in the
shape of fine of from $50 to five
hundred dollars or Imprisonment in
the county jail. This bill was intro
duced by Matson of Sedgwick.
The bill by the judiciary COM
mittee prepared under the supervision
of the attorney generals Office, which
is calculated to strengthen the hand
OF that official when proceeding
against trusts and corporations for
violation of the law. This measure
was not amended but will be subject
comes up today for final passage.
Miller of Pratt had a couple of bills
relating to local .annoyances, namely
the propensity of certain people to
hire livery rigs and leave them any
old place after driving them hard all
day. Also a bill providing that the
fees from licenses from patent
medicine pedd1ers and magic healers
snail go INTO the county ana
road fund. Both bills excited con-
siderable debate before they were
recommended for final passage. The
second bill started a regular good
roads debate in which Kyle of Marion,
Morgan of Reno and Hopkins of Fin
ley championed the measure and
pushed it through in it's original form.
Mitchell of Douglas occupied the
speakers chair at Saturday after
moons session Mitchell is one of the
house leaders and an able debater.
johnson of Atchison has called a
meeting of the committee on cities of
the first class for this afternoon to
consider the bill to amend the law on
the commission plan of government
for these cities Mayor GRANGER of
Leavenworth and a delegation from
Kansas City will appear before the
committee.
The members of the house have in