The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13
END OF SESSION
1t Came Before Midnight
Wednesday Night.
House Members Had Good
Time After Grind.
INVADED SENATE IN BODY
Carried Speaker Brown Over
There to Make Speech.
Grain Inspection Bill Beaten in
Closing Hours.

went through the Kansas legislative
mill and the work of the session was
at an end. Adjournment sine die will
not come until Monday noon, but the
real session is over and all but ten or
twelve of the members have returned
to their homes or will leave today.
While the senate fought to reduce
the number of bills on their calendar,
the house members INDUCED in pitch
ed battles in which waste baskets,
books, pamphlets and legislative rec
ords were thrown until the floor of the
house was covered with all sorts of
documents. There were scores of
speeches on all manner of subjects.
Newspaper writers who had freely
criticised the house for its lack OF
oratorical ability, were called on the
carpet to speak and reveal the fact
that none among them were Patrick
Henrys. At 10 o'clock the house in
Vaded the senate. Carrying speaker
s'Ironiaw'' Brown on their shoulders
the house members rushed through
the doors of the senate chamber and
200 men with war WhoopS and songs
blocked all progress in the upper
branch for Is minutes. Brown made
a speech the house members stole
cider key from the senate hall and
presented it to Hamm of Allen, the
most tried and trusted friend of pro-
hibition. Then the house members
returned to the west end of the hall
and resumed their own hostilities.
That was briefly the work of the
house for the final hours of the SeS-
sion At 1890, the senate adjourned.
The news came to the house when %
members were trying to sing ana
speak and take a hand in mimic war
fare at the same time. There was
minute of quiet. Then the house ad-
journed today-adjourned until noon
today-when it will receive messages
from Governor Hodges.
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adjournment was taken before the
halls were closed. Members leaving on
late night trains, said the final good |
bye and hurried to the, depots.- Some
of them perhaps will not be back !
two years hence. In fact some of
them don't even want to come back. |
They had stayed until the last fight |
over the last bill had been fought and
they were glad to get home again. !
Until adjournment Monday noon. |
only a few of the faithful of the house |
and senate members will stay on the
Job. They will make the motions and
final messages come from the governor |
and the bills which have passed during |
the session are disposed Of
sneaker Brown lost his last fight of |
the session. 1t came at o'clock last |
night when the house refused to con-
cur in the report of the conference
committee on the grain inspection bill. |
Brown jumped lillO the 5AiI cSoAAiSN
Robert stone of Shawnee, floor leader
for the minority, and for 20 minutes
one of the liveIest fights of the session
was staged
stone fought the adoption of the con-
ference report. He urged that the leg
islature was handing the Kansas farm
ers a gold brick with the law which
passed the senate. The Shawnee
member told the house members that
the bill which on its face seemed to
insure optional inspection meant moth
ing more or less than compulsory
inspection
All of Browns old time craft and
cunning was called into the fight. He
told the little handful of house MEM
hers who had stayed for the final |
fight that the Democratic party plat
form promised the law, that it was the
best to be had at this hour and that
Kansas crop raisers would not forget
the action of the legislature if they
sought to defeat the bill. Party lines
were tightly drawn. On roll call, Al
members voted for the conference re-
port and 80 opposed it. The bill was
lost
One house member went home happy
last night. He was Representative
Hanna of Chase county. In the cam
paign Hanna told the Chase county
cow shippers that they should have
railroad scales in their local stock yards
if the legislature was one bit disposed
TO listen to arguments and reason.
Hanna introduced his bill early in the
session. Somehow it didn't seem to re-
ceive the cordial welcome that its
author had hoped. In fact the bill was
nearly killed on several occasions.
Then the house passed it and the sem
ate followed suit in the final hours of
the session.
one of the minority member who will
return home today with a consistent
record is Carnahan of Clay. In every
fight in which party lineS were drawn,
Carnahan has been in the midst of it
and has worked and voted with the
minority crowd. When the recall was
under fire in the house a few weeks
ago. Carnahan shocked every lawyer
in the body by making a fight to keep
the Judiciary in a place where they
would be subject to the provision of
the recall. What was more. Carna-
hams position was upheld and the !
measure passed with his amendment
attached Carnahan also won the dis
tinction of being the only member who
said anything very Lice about Walter
Roscoe Stubs during the entire ses-
sion of the legislature.
When adjournment came last night
both houses had concurred in the re-
port of a conference committee, which |
had agreed to make only one change !
in the payroll of the supreme court |
GInplONetS- hit CAtelISc Was a reduce
tion of $500 a year in the salaries of |
the supreme court stenographers
The ways and means committee had |
applied the knife to the supreme court |
payroll in way that hurt. 1t was
even more serious when the house vo-
ted to sustain the committee report |
over in the senate, though, the su-
preme court salaries were put back on
the original basis. The house refused
to concur. Conferees were named and
late last night both houses adopted