The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15
State Fair Legislation Over at
This Session.
All of Bills Killed in House by
73 to ~.
MADE A HARD FIGHT.
Hutchinson Supporters Take
Final Turn of Wheel.
Sessions Corporation Bill LIS
Slaughtered in House.
A HARD FIGHT.

The question of whether Kansas is
to have a state fair, and If so, Where
it shall be located, has been checked
up to the people of the state by the
legislature. Hutchinson dled haro'
and after being beaten Tuesday noon
on the floor of the house, got the mat
ter called up again at night under
special orders and had the f1ght All
over again at the night session. me
final vote to kill the three state fair
bills of Topeka, Hutchinson and Wich-
ita was IS to Al as follows:
For the Orr motion-Abrams, Bar
rier Beachey, Bentley, Brown OF Linn
Burke, Bunger, Burtis, CAIN. Carna-
han, Daily, Davis of Bourbon, DAVIS
of Ottawa, Davis of Sedgwick, De-
Camp, Don Carlos, Elder. Ellis, Frey,
Graham, Gray, -Haslet, Holden, Hyer,
Jackson, Johnson, Keene, kelley'
Kerr, Keraus. Lacey, Laidlaw, Laing,
Iambertson, Lawson, Mahurlin. Ma
10y, Manchester, Matson, McGregor'
Meek. Mercer, Moore, Morris, O'Con-
nor, Olinger. Orr, Ostlind, Parker
PARROT, Reardon, Schaumberg,
Schlicher. Sharpless. Shearer, Shield,
Shuey. Stone. of Sherman, Stone OF
Shawnee, Turner, Tyler, Veatch. Wart-
man, Watson, Wayman, Westerman,
Wettack, Wilson of Marshall, Wood
bury, Worley, Yoxall, Buchanan.
Against the Orr acknowledgements
Allen. Armstrong, Barrett. Block,
Brown of Butler, Brown of Kingman,
Carney, Cassin. Case, Cones, Cron,
Davis of Edwards, Davis OF h1owa'
Davis of Gray, Drew, Emerson, Ewing
Fair. FEEDER, Fields, Goddard, Herr.
Hines. KYLE, Malone, Martin, McCor-
mick, McComb, McDannald, Mcmillan
Miller. Mulroy, Napier, NeWlin, No
BILE, Phillips, Reader, Thomas, Thomp-
son, Thorpe, Wallace, Ward, Wray
Williams Wilson of Greeley, Yates.
IF Mercer
ton at the noon session checking the
s. proposition up to the people did not
end the fight The three state fair
bills were on special orders for the
night session. and the Mercer resolu-
ton could not become operative until
a law has been passed providing for
special vote on this matter. Just be
fore the adjournment Tuesday after
noon it was moved to make the state
fair bills of special orders and place
them at the hell of the calendar I'M
der general orders. The Hutchinson
supporters opposed this plan and voted
down the motion So to "a. But it was
A useless effort to resurrect a dead
bill
The night session was one of the
notable sessions of the term for the
exercise of all the arts of legislative
diplomacy and craft and cunning.
Davis of kioWa- the leader of the
Hutchinson forces, was called to the
chair and the salt packer town was
nent debater, but he was more useful
to the house as a whole in his ca
pacity as presiding officer during this
stormy session.
fireworks by moving to strike out the
appropriation from the Hutchinson
bill. This was carried after the sub
stitute by Veatch of Washington to
postpone action on all the bills indef1-
nitely had been ruled out of order by
the chair.
Matson then moved to substitute the
Wichita bill for the Hutchinson bill
under consideration. This motion was
carried and then the appropriation
was stricken from the Wichita bill
Kelley of Shawnee then got the To-
peka bill substituted for the Wichita
measure and had the appropriation re-
moved from the bill.
Davis of Bourbon moved to substi-
tute the county fairs bill for the state
fair measure but he was out Of order,
and so was the motion to substitute
the Mercer resolution. After six trials
Veatch finally got his motion to post
pone action on the state fair bills
recognized by the chair as legitimate,
only to see it defeated by the house.
Then came the momentous motion
by Orr of Atchison to recommend that
all the state fair bills be not passed.
This motion was carried by the roll
call vote noted above.
Kelley of Shawnee, speaking for the
UT IIOllOL. Ildu0 lIe speech OF I0S
evening. The Topeka member is an
eloquent and interesting speaker and
he holds the house when he gets up to
talk. Kelley unravelled the whole
scheme of the state fair fight and held
it up to the light When it is consid-
cred that Topeka and Wichita had
been bamboozled in the senate and
were facing an ironclad Hutchinson
frame-up, the only thing to do was to
check the whole thing up to a popular
vote, he said.
For eight years the legislature has
wrestled with the state fair proposition
and nothing has been ACCOMPLISHED
Last session Topeka and Wichita
greed to let the state fair bill proper
pass and then fight it out for location,
but Hutchinson would not agree 70
this. But this session. with the SEN
ate vote to build on, Hutchinson was
very anxious to fight for location.
The opponents Of Hutchinson in the
house called the proposition to refer to
the people a test of the initiative and
referendum.
Two ex-newspaper men held forth
in the legislature Tuesday afternoon