The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-11
STANDS BY GUNS.
Effort to Restore Hopkins Pow.
er Fails i'm Senate.
Committee Named to Make Com
.mittee Assignments.
THE VOTE Is. 1S TO 21.
THE VOTE is Is TO 21.
The Alignment of Regulars and
Democrats Continues.
Hodges Introduces the Initiative
and Referendum.

The same organization that brought
grief to the administration members
Monday afternoon, this morning car
ried out every detail of their plan to
name committee on committees and
change the rules of the senate. BY the
| same vote of 21 to IS, the regulars
and minority members defeated the
Ganse amendment to restore the pow
er of the president, and the same roll
call resulted when the senate acted on
the report that named the members of
the committee.
The Democrats beat the Republi-
! cans to their own measure when
| minority members in the senate in
troduced initiative referendum and re-
| call resolutions.
Geo. H. Hodges, the senator from
johnson county and defeated candi-
date for governor, sprung the initiative
| referendum resolution and stole the
political fire from the man who de-
feated him in the November election.
| Hodges got in the game early and sent
his resolution to the desk at the first
opportunity and before administration
senators had a chance to- carry out
| their party measures. This surprise
from the Olathe member was followed
few minutes later by another sem
sation when A. S. Cooke, of Beloit.
who like. Hodges is a Democrat, offer
ed a resolution along the line of Gov.
Stubbs' theory recommending a re-
cali measure.
At II O'Clock Senator Stavely of
| Usage county offered the report of the
rules committee which embodied a
number of radical changes in the rules
| governing the senate. The report
names a committee on committees
with nine members from both factions
of the Republican party and two min
ority mem bers. The report also
! names four new senate committees
and makes each member chairman
of one committee. Further the re-
port makes necessary real labor on
! the part of senate employees. 1t
changes the old rules whereby two
question. The report makes neces-
sary five votes to move previous
question.
Under the old rules there were 35
senate committees. This report creates
| committees on commerce, fish and
game, irrigation and drainage and
immigration and allows each of the 39
members in the 1911 senate chair
| manship This section of the report
was adopted without discussion as
were the paragraphs governing en-
ployees and all points up to the COM
mittee on committees. Here the in
surgent members of the upper house
| baked and Senator Ganse of Coffey
county wanted an amendment which
would allow the president of the SEN
ate to name the committee that was
| to name the committees. Senator
Potter argued, long for the Ganse
amendment and said that the body
| of which he was a member was TAX
ing undue advantage of the admin
istration and that the members who
were backing the change were hunt
| ing a chance to slap Stubbs and Hop
! kins and would be compelled to ans
wer to their constituents when they
go home.
| In it's report the rules committee
| named the members of the proposed
committee on committees and divided
| the places on the committee between
the two factions and named two Demo-
cratic members. The committee sug-
gested in the report is composed OF
| J. T. Reed, chairman; Fred Robert
son, J. A. Milliken. Geo. H Stewart,
| C. s. Huffman, T. A. Milton, Oscar
Fagerberg, w. w. Caldwell and u. M.
| Bender.
Senator Ganse pleaded to have the
plan defeated.
LET US act in good faith.' said
Ganse, "and remember that someone
sent us here and when the time comes
to go home we will have to explain
things and we should be careful about
running the organization on personal
4 ideas In order to promote harmony
in this senate we should not deprive
our president of his privileges II is
snap Judgment and not fair"
| Senator Reed moved the previous
question and on the vote on the
amendment which followed Ganse de-
manded a roll call This vote was on
his amendment to strike out the rec
ommendation of the rules committee
naming a committee on committees
and in it's stead empower the pres1-
dent to name the members of the COM
mittee On roll call the Ganse resolu-
ton was lost, 21 to IS. the same vote
that yesterday made possible the rules
committee. The senators voted on the
amendment as follows:
| Yes-Avery, Bender, Brady, Brown,
Carnbern, Denton. Fowler, Ganse,
Harris, Hamilton, Hostrup, Hoffman.
Murphy. Myers, Potter. Quincy, Smith,
Stannard-1S.
No-Anderson, Brewster, Caldwell,
Carey. Cooke, Fagerberg, Glenn,
Hodges. Hunter, Lower. Milligan,
Milton. overf1eld, Porter. Price, Reed.
Robertson, Stavely, Stewart, Stillings,
Travis-21.
For a Short Ballot.
Senator Myers of Jackson county
offered the first Of a series of bills
which, if adopted, will follow out his
views of the short ballot in Kansas To
shorten the ballot Myers would vest a
great deal of appointive power in the
governor and thus take from the voter
the responsibility of rem embering a
long list of candidates whom, Myers
claims. the voter knows little if any
thing about The bill offered this
morning provides that two years hence
the governor of Kansas shall appoint
an insurance commissioner. and this
office shall be removed from the regu-
lar ballot.
Another bill from Myers is along the
lines suggested by the Kansas judges,
and provides for a county court in all
county seats. This county court will
abolish the Office of justices of the
peace in the county and in the town
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