The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-14

this afternoon" and again Leahy
| leaned over chair and laughed. He
was anxious to treat the matter as IL
joke.
1t was at this juncture that the big
| door opened and William Allen White.
| editor of the Emporia Gazette. ap-
peared in the threshold. Whites face
beamed with the fullness of a half
moon. He slapped Lea.hy on the back
and roared:
.'Wen. Dave, what do you think of
tAis?"
Leahy did not go into details with
the Emporia reform editor. For
minute he discussed the matter in A
mild manner and Leahy walked to the
elevator.
''Wen now, you just watch" said
White, as he turned to a friend, ''you
| just watch Dave. He has story 10
tell, all right; and he isn't the man
who won't tell it. No, no." declared
| White, "it just wouldn't do to say
anything now In fact Dave knows
the story better than any one else. 1
guess he will say enough when the
| time comes.''
| When the resolution was read in the
senate, it was adopted without opposi-
ton. The radical reform members
were inclined to treat the matter as
! joke. On the other hand, the standpats
| anu O6HlOCrdIS see lu1uSS III q QlllC OiA@
| light. They declare that if Leahy's
charges are substantiated, decided
something will be started and if not,
| then the governors private secretary
will confront situation that willt be
anything but pleasant.
Leahy admitted that the article in
question was written by him and given
| to Wichita reporter.
| Senator Stewards bill providing for
a smoke consumer at the state heating
plant was recommended for passage
| by the committee of the whole. The
| Wichita senator said the smoke from
| the heating plant was damaging the
state house and other buildings near
| the plant. He also wants the smoke
stack raised to a height of $50 feet.
The senate spent the morning f.
| the committee of the whole with Local
| bills up for special consideration. A
long list of bills of local Importance to
| the members were reported for pas
sage and Shawnee county had her
share of these measures on the docket.
About so local bills were on the cal
endar under this order.
There is much talk about an un-
derstanding among different members
of the legislature said Senator Huff
man this morning, when he reviewed
| his opinion of the pork barrel discus
| sion, land it is claimed that different
| members are favoring measures af-
| fecting their own counties. Now as
to the school of mines, which is sup
| posed to be my ration from the pork
barrel, 1 want to say that two years
ago a bill was introduced eSta blishing
a school of mines at Weir. The gov
ernor in his message recommended
that this school be established in the
coal mining district as branch of the
university and the bill was introduced
early in tthe session The bill for tn
new hospital for insane was recon-
mended by the board of control, pre-
| pared by them provides that the gov
ernor and board of control shall Sc
lect the site in the west or central
part of the state. AS to the two in
stitutions for the insane at Topeka
4 and Osawatomie, they are now crowd
ed and they both are as large as they
really ought to be for proper admin
istration. New buildings must be
erected at both places if the new hos
pital is not established; and if we do
this there will be an increase in the
appropriations.
When the ways and means COM
mittees from the two houses met Mon
day night, there was lively discus
sion of pending appropriations and II
was the pork packing members from
the senate who stood up for the uni
almost united on every proposition
which would benefit the university
and normal and it was the vote of the
house that overrode the propositions
On the motion to strike out the ap-
propriations for the medical school
every senator voted against the pro-
;; position and the friendly house
pushed through the motion.
At meeting of the committee OF
ways and means held this morning
! there was a division over the estab
Iishment of new normal schools. 1t i!
claimed that majority of the com
. mittee are opposed to the new nor
mails. but the rooters from the pro
! posed towns still have hopes Another
! meeting of the committee will be helC
tonight.
The Stewart bill providing for al
annual salary of 1880 for the distric
court stenographers in Shawnee anC
Sedgwick counties. was recommended
for passage by the committee of tn
$1,000 of the amount shall be paid b!
J the state and 500 by the counties.
Senator Travis is sore. Two week
ago he wrote an original poem AM
distributed it among the newspape
bows For some reason it was no
published This morning Travis walk
ed to the press table and abused tn
scribes in a frightful manner becaus
their neglect had caused him to mis-
an invitation to the banquet of tn
, Authors club which will be held to
night.
BOY OF BOOTLEGGEF