The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-28
BACK ON TO EARTH
Western Counties Given Repre-
SentatiOn in Legislature.
Morton, Seward, Stanton, Has
kell and Greeley Favored.
LOSS IN THE EAST.
LeavenwOrth, Brown, Jefferson,
Usage and Franklin Lose.
Allen of WyandOtte Making
Record as Speechmaker.

The house passed the senate reap
portionment bill Wednesday after
noon by a vote of S4 to &c after three
hours of debate. The bill was amend
ed in one slight particular by taking
the additional representative from
Allen and replacing it with Bourbon.
This made the senate bill identical
with McNair's house bill and restrict
ed the reapportionment to the TAX
ing of a representative each from
Leavenworth, Brown, Jefferson,
Franklin and Usage counties and give
one each to Morton, Seward, Stanton,
Haskell and Greeley counties, the five
western counties now without repre-
constitution which requires that each
county with over $50 votes shall have
a representative in the house.
AT the 1911 session of the legiSla-
ture the constitution provides that
there shall be a general reapportion-
ment of the legislative districts of the
state.
The amendment to the law provid-
ing a commission plan of government.
for cities of the first class comes up as
a special order today and the Jack
son anti-drug store bill will be dis
posed of in committee of the whole.
Allen of Wyandotte is Nne honey
boy when it comes to the gentle art
of speech making. He manufactur-
ed two addresses Wednesday and
placed them on display in the house,
one in the morning and the other af-
ter dinner, and they were both long
ones. But it must be said for Mr.
Allen that he was fresh as paint at
the close of his second address and
appeared to be able to furnish third
one had there been a night session.
The morning operation was direct
ed against the drug store bill, while
after dinner he furnished the sensa-
- h to I, = t..
amendment to the reapportionment
bill which provided that Wyandotte
county should have four instead of
three representatives, taking the ex-
ira one at the expense of Butler
county
1t must be admitted that the man
from the Kaw's mouth had in stock
plenty of arguments in support of his
claims. He drew such picture of the
packing house industry of Kansas
City, Kan, that one could hear the
bawIing of the cattle in the stock pens
and the squealing of the pigs as they
were tumbled down the chutes to the
butchers waiting below. 1t was a
great effort and we'll calculated to
convince his hearers that Kansas City
is as large as London and as glorious
as the Duluth made immortal by
grant was asked for.
The house listened to the Wyan-
dotte speech-it had to-and then
promptly voted down his amendment
The house spent the afternoon
with the reapportionment bill and
found it pleasant company. More
speeches were made than at a session
of the Lime Kiln Debating society.
Cranston of Labette called on all the
gods of the constitutional law to bear
witness to the violence due thereto,
and Ryan of Brown read chapter af-
ter chapter from the law books of all
IL. 1t -f-
of Kiowa also referred long and often
to the statutes.
Brighton of Montgomery was
Johnny on the spot with a motion to
gomery county the second in the
state in population and rich and
powerful with it's factories and
natural resources but all in vain
Morgan of Reno calmly and dis
passionately informed the debaters,
the expounders of the law and the
makers of motions that the house was
at this time engaged expressly on the
job of giving five representatives to
the five western counties now without
representation, and was not consider
ing a general appropriation bill at all.
He speaks as clearly and entertain
ingly as he writes, does this editor of
the Hutchinson news.
The roll call vote on the re-
apportionment bill was as follows:
For the bill-Ashcroft Banker,
Beckett, Berke, Bonnet. Boyd.
Brighton, Brown, Buck, Carpenter,
Carter, Case. Cole, Crarey, Crawford, |
Cron, Crosby, Crumly, Davis of
Bourbon, Davis of Kiowa, Darling,
Deacon. Dennis. Eadie, Ely, FEEDER.
F'ehr,i Fisher, Flanagan, Foley, Fran |
cisco, Gray, Griffin, Guilbert Har-
baugh, Hines, Hopkins of Finney,
Hopkins of Jackson, Howard, Incl, |
Jackson. Jewett of Lane, Jewett of
Sedgwick, Kelly. Keraus. Krehbiel, |
Kuoni, Kyle, Lander. Loofburrow, |
Lauderback, Malone, Matson, Max
WELL Mcmillan, McNair, Meek, Mer-
GER Merrill, Miller, Moore, Morgan of
Reno, Morris, Morrison, Morton of
Osborne, PenweH, Phillips. Pyle,
Ravenscraft, Rhodes of Marshall, |
Rich, Rogers. Schaum berg, SchIicht-
ing, SekaVec, Shideler Shoemaker, |
Stone of Sherman, Stout, Veatch, |
Walker. Watson. Westgate, White,
Wood. Yoxall, Dolley.-S4.
Against the bill-Allen, Buckman,
Clark, Cranston, Cunningham, Flagg,
Harmon, Harrison, Haskins, johnson,
Landry, Lambertson. Laubach, Leh-
man. Mccormick. Mitchell Morton of
Clay, Newlin, Parker, Reeder, Ryan,
Snyder. Stannard stockton, West
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