Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-01-27
WEEKLY LETTER.

administrator SIrOuSeSl supporters,
as we'll as grandstander from who
laid the chunk, is getting very econ
omical at this session. While it
is a fact that the senate, with its
forty members and III employees
as compared to the house with 125
members and 73 employees, is
wasting money, yet he accomplished
nothing, but a discharge Of hot air
when he introduced a resolution to
cut sthe numebr of employees down.
This same senator is getting in
mighty bad. During a debate in
the senate Monday afternoon he
charged Senator Hodges, the Demo
cratic nominee for governor in the
last campaign, with having made
misStatements, for which the sela-
tor called him a liar. In the even
ing of the same day when the two
senators met in the committee on
ways and means, without a moments
warning, Senator Ganse deliberately
slapped Hodges while the latter was
seated at the table. Although the
former is by at least fifty pounds
heavier than Hodges, yet the latter
grapp'sd with him, and had it not
been for the other members of the
committee. would have mOpped the
floor with the EmpOria man. The
tension in the senate is mighty
strong and is getting worse all the
time. And in almost every voc
that is taken. the anti aGminisra-
ton forces win.
The movement to submit a wO-
mans sufferage amendment to the
constitution met its first set back
In the house on Friday of las. week,
when the chairman of the CON-
mittee on political rllgtS CT wO-
men endeavored to have the que.-
tion made a special order for this
week. The motion was defeated
by a vote of 62 to 81, although
this vo'e cannct be tal en- as rel
indication of the situation, for the
reason that some votes against the
motion who on a final vote will sup
port the proposition. Their Object
! in voting as they did last week was
that they have been pledged to Ger.
tain things, and tney did not want
to run the risk of having those
pledges nullified by pushing the sui.
frage question, which was not a
party pledge, to the front, as only
three amendments to the conStitu-
tion can be submitted at one elec,
tion at this time. However | doubt
whether or not the suffrage move
menb will carry in the house thhis
year.
A bill has been introduced aboi
fishing the petition plan of making
nominations for the primary elec.
tion. How far it will get is hard
to say. 1t provides for any man de
string to become a candidate to file
an affidavit with the proper official
and pay a nominal fee.
The short skirt bill introduced by
Cones of Meade county, and through
which he has probably received
more notoriety than he could posi-
, bly have received in any other man
ner, has been adversely reported
which leaves many persons, VINO
had applied for jobs as the officia
measurer high and dry. His bill Il
prohibit the playing of base ball OIL
, Sunday has been set as a specla
order for Thursday of this week
| The author of the bill objected u
= this when the member from Bartol
4 county on Monday morning mad'
the motion, but his objection wa
over ruled by the house, who decid
ed that the motion was proper. Their
: will be quite a scrap over this maj
S ter, but at the time of going Il
y press, Thursday afternoon, the sam
e had not been decided. The indics
tion, judging by a partial poll G
; the house, is that there will be plen'
Il of rabbits when this matter come
ul.
s A bill which is being pushed b
It the Knights of Columbus, TO max
h October 18th, the day on which TIL
country was discovered a legal hol
r day, has been reported favorably b
J. the committee. 1t seems strang
N that the discoverer Of America
&c Tot honored more than he is, b.
such is the case. Several states a
=, eady have such a law, and althoug