The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-15
SHOW NO MERCY
Democrats Allow G.. @. p. Only
Five Minor Committees.
Ride Over Plans of Minority in
Senate Today.
WOULD ABOLISH CLERKSHIPS
Senators Stave1y and Carey
Suggest an Economy.
Upper House Invites Counsel
of Women Voters.
ABOLISH CLERKSHIPS

After a rally which withstood the
Democratic onslaught for nearly an
hour, Senators Stavely and Carey threw
up the sponge in the senate rules COM
mittee meeting today and meekly al
lowed the majority members Of the
body to have their own way in the
naming of committees. Despite the fact
that the sta.ndpat Republicans made it
possible for them to capture the work
ing odds in the senate, the Democratic
committee rules refused to grant
the party more than five minor COM
mittee chairmanships. In other words,
the threatened Republican revolt was
crushed by Democratic odds and the
original plan to allow the Republicans
only five committees was carried out.
In the committee meeting Senators
Stavely and Carey pleaded for the old
plan of forty committees with a clerk
for each committee. The rules COM
mittee governed by Democrats refused
to listen to it. Then the minority asked
that the entire senate select five or
six good StenographerS and allow them
to serve as clerks of the entire body.
Neither would the Democrats stand for
this. OutEumbered and outruled the
Republicans accepted the five commit
tees granted them, allowed the rules
to go as the majority had planned, and
silently listened to the adoption of the
report on the floor of the senate.
1t was the first out and out contest
between the representatives of the two
parties. The Democrats exhibited no
mercy.
The Republicans announced the
chairmanships of the committees
granted them as follows:
InSurance-Senator Walter E. VIII
son, Washington.
Printing-Senator Ben E. Paulen,
Wilson.
Military affairs=Senator Charles S.
Huffman, Cherokee.
Enrolled bi1ls-Senator Lacey M.
Simpson, Mcpherson.
Engrossed bil1s-Senator Loring
Trott, Geary.
The personnel of the committees
will be announced later.
Senator Waggener brought applause
from the women m the session this
morning by introducing resolution
extending congratulations and the
right hand of citizenship to the Suf-
fragettes of Kansas.
The resolution read:
Whereas, The voters of this state
have conferred upon the women of
right of citizenship so long denied
them, and
.'Whereas. There are matters of
grave Importance for this legislature
to determine. and we need the coun-
sci, advice and cooperation of all
good citizens; therefore. be 1t
Resolved by the senate, the house
that the congratulations
of the legislature are hereby extend
ed to the women of the state, and they
are welcomed to that full citizenship
now given and guaranteed by the con-
stitution, and they are most cordially
and sincerely invited and urged TO
give to this legislature, by petition,
or otherwise, the benefit
of their advice and counsel on all
measures which may come up for con-
affecting the material in
terest of our state, assuring them that
the same will receive due and careful
The ever-ready Senator Stavely rose
pm point OF question ana inquired II
and if they should not register be-
fore boring us this year"
On motion of Senator Carney the |
hours of the senate were set at 10 |
o'clock in the morning and O'Clock |
n the afternoon.