The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-06
TUESDAY THE DAY
Suffrage Question Will Be Up in
the House.
Two Thirds Majority Necessary
to Pass Resolution.
REFERENDUM ALSO.
On the Calendar to Be Discussed
Then.
The Fight for Western Normal
Schools Wakes Warm.

Tomorrow will be one of the big days
of the session in fine house. 1t has
been designated as field day for all the
constitutional amendments. The equal
suffrage resolution will be debated
after supper and this session ought to
be worth the price of admission. The
resolution has many good friends On
the floor of the house, and while the
betting is against it's passage, yet the
fight will be a hot one and the ladies
may yet carry their point. A two
thirds majority is neceSsar to pass
the resolution. For the past week tbs
women have been busy and nearly
every member of the house has been
buttonholed and labored with and
crumpled by the irresistible argu-
ments of the fair sex. Walter Boles,
the house reading clerk, who was mis-
taken for a house member the other
day, can testify as to the unanswer-
able arguments Of the suffragetteE.
BoIes is the greatest all-round baseball
player in the Western league, but he
failed to get to first base in the suf-
fragette melee in which he was en-
quilted last week.
The I. and R. resolution and the
four year term for state officers Will
also be debated Tuesday
Besides the above three resolutions
there remains the minority 1. and r.
scheme, and the plan to change the
jury verdict from a unanimous vote to
two-thirds for a decision. Also the
plan to abolish certain taxation privl-
leges. 1t may take all week to dispose
of these resolutions to change the con-
stitution and pick the three that shall
have preference.
The house worked all day today on
41I, .11Nt ar.fr1
bills on third reading and working I'M
der general orders. The house has so
far killed a bill for every one it has
recommended for passage, but the
ratio of deaths will increase from now
on to the end of the term.
The committees on ways and means
of the two houses have set next Tues
day night the time for the hearing
of the various applicants for independ-
ent state normal schools.
The list includes Garden City Con-
cordia, Seneca, and Atchison. Bills for
the three first-named have been intro
duced in both senate and house, and
for Atchison in the house. Senator
Caldwell of Cloud is sponsor for Garden
City and Concordia, and Senator Fa-
gerburg for Seneca, in the senate: and
Representative Carney of Cloud for
Garden City and Conoordia in the house.
while Representative James w. Orr
The preliminary campaign for these
towns, particularly Garden City and
Concordia, has been made thoroughly
during the week. Representatives have
been on the ground; have seen members
of the committees on ways and means;
have distributed literature; have ven
tured arguments assiduously, and re-
gard their situations in good shape.
The campaigns of Garden City and
Concordia are linked. Each declares
it is willing to stand or fall with the
other. The two occupy strategic po-
sition. and the geographical situation
appears to be excellent.
In advocating independent schools,
those in charge of the campaigns for
Garden City and Concordia make this
assertion. That the topnotch has been
reached in the Esmpori-- institution.
They say that there has scarcely been
a perceptible increase in attendance,
because of circumscribed territory, for
ten years; and this in spite of the many
hundreds of thousands of dollars of in
creased appropriation, due to President
Hills assiduous lobbying in season and
| out. r
The campaigners also declare that
| both Garden City and Concordia are
outside the rim of the sphere of in
| f1uence which the Emporia school ex-
! erts, and that the need of teacher
| training institutions in at least these
| two localities of the state is sadly
needed.
They also point out the fact that
practically every other state except
Kansas now has independent normals
and several of them.
| Both Garden City and Concordia
offer to provide suitable quarters for
! the school, once established, and ask
! for a maintenance fund of $4,000
each of the years of the coming bien-
num-
r. H. Faxon, editor of the Garden
City Telegram, and Judge W. H.
Thompson have been in charge for
a week of the Garden City campaign.
1 They have been very active. Mr.. Fax
on said today:
! Garden City is the logical south
| west Kansas point for a state educa-
tionaI institution, particularly educa-
tional. Its size, location, railroad IA
cilities, etc, give it prominence Also
! the fact that there are about 25 Kan
sas counties which the Emporia nor
| NAL cannot reach; which sadly need
| Misunderstanding; which gained from
| 100 to $50 per cent each in population
in the last decade; and which gained
equally in development, form our ar
/ gument-"
Pittsburg is also seeking to become
| independent of Emporia, and there
is an offensive and defensive alliance
/ between it and Garden City and Con-
/ cordia.
SENATE NOTES.
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