The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-20

paid IN fuI out of the state guaranty
fund within one year after the failure
OF the bank in which their money was
deposited
1t was a fine speech. this one made
oy the minority leader, and it carried
weight on both sides of the house.
Speaker DoIley replied to the gentle
man from Rice. He declared that the
Foley amendment was a good one. He
lked some parts of it better than he
did either the senate bill or the house
committee bill. But he declared that
the Foley amendment was fashioned
along the lines of bank guaranty as
taught in the Democratic platform and
endorsed by William J. Bryan. Vol
untary guaranty was Republican doc
trlne, he said The committee bill was
fashioned after the ideas of William
h Tart Dolley drew party lines, but
he made good speech in support of
the committee bill and against the
amendment
Edwards of Greenwood, chairman of
the banking committee, Watson of AL
len, Mitchell of Douglas, Ryan of
Brown, Buckman of Cowley and 9TH
er Republican leaders spoke for the
committee bill. In the end the Foley
amendment, or rather substitute to the
administration bill, was defeated by
vote of IS to 40.
When the committee bill was placed
on third reading for amendment and
debate Edwards of Greenwood chair
man of the committee, offered the first
amendment to the bill and here was
scored a victory for Foley, for the
amendment which destroyed that sec
tion providing that banks must be es-
tabliShed a year before they could join
the association was passed by vote of
81 to 4S. Dolley and all of the party
leaders fought the amendment to a
finish. The Greenwood amendment
provided that in cases where all the
banks in any town or city refused to
join the guaranty association that
Td VI ho n r I14
ible to membership therein and also
new banks in new towns.
Mary Ellen Lease, strenuous Mary
of Populist fame, has broken into the
limelight of Kansas affairs again, this
time with a bill against the state for
over a thousand dollars for salary for
two months services as a member of
the state board of control during the
early nineties and expense incurred in
carrying her claim up to the supreme
court and interest on the claim and ex-
pense account
The claim was filed with the COM
mittee on claims and accounts of
which Sig Lehman of Labette is chair
man. The committee has considered
the claim and written the blighting
words, mot allowed" across it's face.
Mrs. Lease was appointed to the
board of control during the Lewelling
administration in 1893 and was presi-
dent of the board. In her petition ac-
mpanying the claim she claims that
she was ousted from her place by the
governor for the reason that she would
not discharge an old soldier from a
place under the board in order that a
Democrat might be appointed to his
position. Mrs. Lease, as might be sup
posed, refused to be ousted without a
fight. She carried the case clear to the
supreme court and there secured a
judgment. The bill she presented to
the claims and accounts committee of
this house is itemized as follows:
Salary two months. hs.........s2 $3.50 90
Attorneys fees. .........-...-...........3 300 90
Cost of brief ...-.......-............... 4O.0
Telegraph and ether expenses ........ %. so
Expense at Topeka at trial. ............ 157. 90
Railroad fare. Observation-Disclosures IS go
Court fees. Observation-Disclosures. 100
Total ........................ $795 60
Interest 10 years. s.......................$ 716 04
Total of claim . 81 I'll 81