The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-27

them. Thomas had taken up the ar
gument made by Matson of Sedgwick,
who had read the law to show that the
cities had the right given them by
statute to prohibit Sunday baseball If
they SO desired.
Cones bill prohibiting theaters or shows
of any kind on Sunday was killed on the
motion byVeatch of Washington,t to strike
out the enacting clause. There was
long debate on this bill before the vote
was taken. Veatch closed the debate
by declaring that the statute books were
already cluttered up with fool laws and
that if the legislature should adjourn
for ten years the people of the state at
large would be better off.
When the committee of the whole
reported to the house Thursday aft
ernoon that the Sunday baseball bill
was dead and buried, Robert Stone of
Topeka and Cones himself moved to
nonconcur in the action of the COM
mittee of the whole. This necessitated
a roll call vote on the motion. A vote
for the motion was a vote for the anti
as follows:
For-Abrams, Alexander, Barrett,
Block, Brown of Butler. Burke, Burtis,
Cain, Cassin, Cones, Cron, Davenport,
Davis of Sedgwick. Davis of Gray, De-
camp, Graham, Gray, Haslet, Herr,
Hines, johnson. Keene. Kyle, Lacey,
Laidlaw, Laing, Lambertson, Mahurin,
Manchester, Martin. McDannald, Nc
Gregor, Mcmillan, Meek, Miller. Moore,
Newlin, Ostlind, PARROT, Reardon,
Schafer, Schlicher. Shuey, Stone of
Shawnee. Thompson Tyler, Wallace,
Wartman, Wray. Watson, Wayman,
Williams. Woodbury.. Worley, Yoxall,
Buckman-58.
Against-Al1en Armstrong, Beachey,
Bentley Boyd, Brown of Linn, Brown
of kingman, Bunger, Carnahan, Car
ney, Case, Daley, Davis of Edwards,
Drew. Elder. Ellis, Emerson Ewing,
FEEDER, Field, Frey, Goddard, Holden,
Hyer, Jackson, Kelley, Kerr, Keraus
Lawson, Malone, Maloy, Matson, Nc
Cormick. McComb, Mercer Morris
Olinger, Orr, Parker, Phillips, Reeder,
Schaumburg Sharpless Shearer,
Shields, stone of Sherman. Thorpe,
Thomas, Turner. Veatch. Ward. Wes-
terman, Wilsonso of Marshall, Wilson of
lGreeley, Wolfert, Yates-63.
| Those not voting were-Barrier,
Fair, Wettack, Wheeler.
Davis, of Kiowa, introduced a resolu-
| ton in the house Thursday afternoon
condemning the Topeka Capital for its
misquotation regarding the part he took
| in the debate Wednesday morning in
the house when the legislative war was
at its height Mr.. Davis made a state
ment of the controversy between him
| self and Williams of Logan as it really
occurred He said that the Logan eoun-
| ty preacher, without provocation, in
I timated that he always voted against
| the administration and otherwise i'm
| plunged his motives in support or oppo-
| sition to a measure. His reply was
| within the rules of parliamentary or
der and etiquette. He objected to be-
| ing held up in the public prints as hav-
| ing raised a disturbance in the house.
| Speaker Buchanan. commenting on the
| Davis resolution. declared that the
| gentleman from Kiowa had stated the
case correctly, and that under most
| trying circumstances he had exercised
| admirable control"
| The resolution was passed.
| The article of which Mr.. Davis COM
| planned stated thathi controversy with
| Williams took place after the house had
adjourned but in the headlines the i'm
| preston was given that it was during
the debate. So the reader was left in
! doubt.
| 1t looks as though Malone, of Raw
lines county. would get his HerndOn
experiment station bill through after
all. 1t was reported favorably by the
| committee on ways and means and
now rests under general orders on the
| house calendar. 1t carries with it an
| appropriation of $4,000 for the station.
Malone has good arguments to show
that the station is needed and that
Rawlins is better entitled to it than
any other county.