The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25

to buy votes In the legislature with
patronage, 1 do not believe he has or
will do such a thing. But some gov
ernor, less scrupulous who succeeds
him. may do so, therefore this Tyler
| bill should be passed in the best inter
! ests of good government Alexander
| Hamilton the founder of the Repub-
| lican party, declared that the legisla
tive the judicial and the executive de-
partments of the government should
be kept separate in the interests of the
! government. You can not afford to
turn down this bill: it goes to the
foundation of the government"
Orr of Atchison and Mercer of
Chase indulged in a bitter controversy
in which the lie was passed and the
sneaker had to call the Sergeant-at-
arms to the floor to restore order.
| Mercer asked Orr if he did not think
that lawyers working for corporations
ought not to be barred from the floor
| of the house in the interest of the
same principle for which he was con-
| tending in the matter of barring legis
lators from appointive office.
Orr replied that he was not in the
! service of a corporation at this time,
although he said he had served rail-
road for twenty-four years and he
went further to make remarks about
state employees working for and
against laws on the floor of the house
and he made mention before he closed
Then the lie was passed by Mercer
and martial law was declared.
! Governor Stubbs today sent another
message to the legislature dealing with
the question of barring elective and ap-
pointive officers from eligibility to ap-
pointment on boards of commissions.
The governor takes the ground that the
action of the house in tacking this re-
strictive amendment on the board or
control bill stands in the light Of the
progress of the state business and in
stitutions. He compares the houses
action in this matter to that of bus1-
ness corporation that decides that 1t
will not promote its tried employees
The governors message follows:
To the House of Representatives:
1 cannot believe that the members of
the house of representatives fully un-
derstood the extent and meaning OF
| their votes to exclude from the board
! of control all persons now holding ap-
pointive or legislative positions within
| the state, excepting nine men who are
members of the various boards that are
| being abolished.
This amendment prevents the pro-
motion of any superintendent of an in
] stitution, or the warden of the peniten-
tiary, or person who has shown extra
ordinary ability and qualification for
this work in the management of his
| own institution to a place on this
board. 1t is opposed to the common
laws of business observed by every
business man, who promotes his en-
ployees step by step as they become
useful and valuable from office boy UP
| to manager and a partner in the buSi-
ness. 1t is opposed to the laws of COM
mon sense and common justice, which
| en+itle the helpless and unfortunate
sick and insane persons confined In
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agement and care that can be given
! them by this state
| 1 had intended to appoint upon this
board, providing the bill becomes a
law, a man who has made remark
able record as the head of one of the
not only for economy in the manage
ment of business, but in helpfulness to
the inmates of his institution, but can
not do so under the provisions of this
| amendment
1 defy any man in Kansas to state
publicly one single substantial reason
to prove that an inexperienced man
who has not held an appointive or cleo
tive office is better qualified to serve
the institutions and the state than a
man VINO has been tried out and found
through practical experience to be we'll
equipped in every way to serve the
state and the institutions with which
he will have to deal What hope OF
success would any business man have
who established a permanent rule pro-
hibiting the promotion of any man In
his employ to higher place when that
man showed by his industry and ex-
tracrdinary ability his fitness for such
promotion? Why should not the state
observe the same rules as a business
man in recognizing the loyal. efficient
service of men who are employed by 1t 9?
This amendment does not interest me
/ ~
than it interests the average citizen in
Kansas
! Two members of the board of control
| have already informed me that they did
not wish to continue service on this
| board. and under the provisions of this
! amendment I shall be compelled to Sc
| lect inexperienced men on a board that
| has charge of between 5000 and 5000 of
| the most unfortunate, hopeless and
helpless people in Kansas.
Respectfully submitted.
w r. STUBS, Governor.
The bulk sales bill by Matson IF
| Sedgwick was made special order by the
house in committee of the whole this
afternoon. There is q general split on
this measure and party lines and past
alignments are wiped out. The meas
ure has strong support and just as
strong opposition among the members.
| There is general interest taken in the
bill over the state and large number
of citizens are here to lobby for and
against the bill.
| The friends of the measure argue
that it is in the interest of a square
deal between parties to a contract.
While the opposition declare that it
will, if adopted, do away altogether
with the binding obligations of a con-
tract.
The text of the bill might just as
we'll have been written in Greek for
all the average man can tell about it
after careful perusal, but interpreted
by able constitutional lawyers it is
something like this: 1t provides that
when merchant bargains to sell his
stock of goods at a set price to some
purchaser that an inventory of the