The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13
HIST! WHERE is IT?
Senator's Say They Can't Find
That Pork Barrel.
In Fact They Doubt Whether
There Is Any.
SOME OF THEM TALK.
Deny That There Is Any COmbl-
nation for NOrmals.
Brady, Insurgent, Says Senate
Is Working in Good Faith.
SOME OF THEM TALK.

When the pork barrel editorial
was read this morning by members OF
the upper house, there was a some
what divided opinion as to just What
vote had formed a basis for the con-
clusion; and in some sources raised
an Interrogation mark after the attl-
tude of the state normal school on
pending legislation. The vote on the
questioned Hutchinson fair DIE
caught many consistent reformers ana
better government Democrats in the
same net with the reactionary and
stand pat faction and divided the
forces in a manner that was not pleas
ant to many of the members
One of the charges which was 1ree-
ly made this morning was to the e1-
feet that the Emporla state Normal
jealous because of the Porter divorce
bill, and the scramble for more nor
NAL schools had provoked the ed1tor-
ial from the nimble pen OF the EN-
poria editor which was aimed IN
timely manner at tOnights consloera-
ton of the Pittsburg bill.
Again there are members who aVow
that the smell of salt pork is in the
nostriIs of every true Kansan and that
q colossal machine has been built TO
defeat Just legislation and promote
gigantic trade that will cost the state
thousands of dollars.
There is one thing certain. The
friends of the manual training school
at Pittsburg are worked up over the
Bill White story. Several P1ttspurg
men are here to attend tonights COM
Inittee meeting, but they are offset by
an equally large delegation from En-
poria; and the editorial has aroused
sufficient feeling to make the meeting
worth attending. Senator Porter, in
discussing the editorial said:
THE people of southeast Kansas are
asking for nothing but an even chance
with the other educational institutions
The Emporia Normal school fought
the esta blishment of the P1ttsburg
school in the first instance. They have
fought every proposition that has ever
come up in the legislature for the bet
terment of the school And yet we are
required to have for the president of
our school at Pittsburg man who
has spent his life in the Emporia
school, and who is a resident of En-
poria. Every state institution is in
sense an incubus upon the state. The
greater the demand for education the
greater that incubus becomes. Bill
White says that if Pittsburg gets what
it wants it will result in a mammoth
institution at Pittsburg. Do the people
of Kansas object to a big educational
institution at Pittsburg? We are not
asking for independent supervision.
We are willing to be under the control
of regents with Emporia and Hays.
But we want the active head of our
school to live at PittSburg to better
understand our school, its needs and
requirements. If this results in an ad-
ditiOn of several hundred students at
Pittsburg, so much the better for the
industrial interest of Kansas. The very
fact that the school has grown to an
enrolment of a thousand students this
year shows the demand for education
~ II, 11-rs srIr,
ing to appropriate $250.00 to each
high school that will install manual
training They must have teachers to
do this work. The state has need of
q big manual training school that will
train teachers to teach manual train
ing"
Senator Avery, an insurgent. had the
following to say:
81 am inclined to think the charge
that this is a pork barrel legislature
IS somewhat hasty and therefore un-
wise at this time. There has been but
one vote that would indicate the relia-
biIity of such a charge. I am unwilI-
ing to believe that a majority of the
members of the senate and house
would prostitute the welfare of the
entire state and add to the burden of
state taxes with no other excuse than
TO land something for their own town
or district something that is not of
statewide importance and something
favorable consideration by this Iegis-
Iature on its own merits and indepen-
dent of any combination of interests
or pork barrel tactics. II there is any
ground for such charge. it deserves
the severest condemnation, and it will
be undoubtedly condemned by the
voters throughout the state"
Fred Robertson refused to be
cIassed in the pork packing deal. al
though he voted for the Hutchinson
fair.
"Mr White has, in my Judgment.
made a very bad guess" said the mi
nority floor leader, land it might lust
as well be charged that there is now
a pork packing deal on between the
friends of the Garden City normal in
President Hopkins home town, and
the paving appropriation in Topeka. as
between the Hutchinson fair and the
normal schools. 1 think the Emporia
editor has made a long distance guess
and landed long ways from the mark
For example, 1 voted for Hutchinson
vet I am openly opposing the Pitts
burg divorce bill. Like conditions exist
elsewhere, and 1 see no reason for the
charge"
It is Senator Potter of Marion
though, to whom the fumes of the
II believe" said Potter. .that 7 have
seen them making pork on the floor of
the senate for two weeks. There is
certainly COhlDlAe somewhere and
this editorial ought to check it,
Potter is a dyed in the wool insur
gent He was against a fair in Hutch-
inson, or any other town. Senator
Brady. who occupies seat across the
aisle from Porter is also an insurpeT;t
of the approved kind. He voted for
Hutchinson, but sees things in a differ
ent light.
''There is nothing to it," declared the
Lawrence editor. THE senate is work
In in absolute good faith and no deal
exists Thu university will be taken
care Of. the normal will be taken care