The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-20
DEFENSE OF CLICK.
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| senate on February 24th, 1918, and, IN
| der the rules of the senate, was laid
| over, to be considered on the following
day, in the regular order of business.
| On February 25th Mr.. Barrett offered
/ the same resolution in the House,
| designated as Concurrent House Reso-
| luton No. 43, and thereon moved that
| the rules be suspended and an emer-
| gency declared, and that House Con-
| current Resolution No. 43 be adopted at
| that time-which motion prevailed.
| blouse Journal D. 639.) Senate Con-
current Resolution No AZ, offered by
| me on February oath, was, on the 25th,
called up by Senator Davis, of Bour-
| bon. and, on his motion, taken up and
considered, and the same was adopted.
| (See Senate Journal of that date.) The
senate resolution was messaged over
to the House, and, on being read, Mr..
Orr moved that the rules be suspended,
and an emergency declared, and that
Senate Concurrent Resolution No. AZ
be adopted at this time,'-which mo-
ton prevailed. blouse Journal, p. 641.)
So far as the record discloses, it ap-
pears that this resolution not only
passed the House on two different oc-
cas1ons, but each time unanimously,
and no objection was made thereto.
House Appropriation Bill.
subsequently, and on March 18th,
blouse Journal, p. 1860 when House
Bill No. 1884, making appropriations
for miscellaneous purposes, was I'M
der consideration, Mr.. Carroll moved
to amend the printed bill by inserting
the following as item 3315: The sum of
$4,000 is hereby appropriated, pursuant
to the provisions of Senate Concurrent
Resolution No. AZ. concerning a statue
of the late Governor G. w. Click, ETC..
This motion prevailed, and SubSe-
quently the appropriation bill passed
the House by a vote of seventy-two fnr
i S~,Dk AI-s-- L.,
1T, was meSsaged to the Senate, where
it was approved by the Senate.
THE resolution, as passed by the
mouse and senate, was subsequently
approved by the governor, as also the
item in the appropriation bill to pay
for the statue. Some eighteen days in
terVened between the passage of the
resolution and the insertion of the
item in the appropriation bill. and.
so far as know, no protest was made
from any source whatever outside of
the legislature. No one suggested an
amendment by substituting the name
of any other person in place of Gov
ernor Click. Some objection was
made to the item of $4,000 in the mis-
cellaneous appropriation bill when it
was considered in the senate.
IT introduced the resolution in the
house of 1903 designating the name of
Hon. John ]. ingalls, as the suitable
person to be thus honored by the state
adopted by the house and senate of
1903, and Senator ingalls, statue
placed in Statuary hall. 1t seemed
to me that each of the two great
sented in that hall, and I thought
Senator ingalls, was the most fitting
representative of the Republican par
ty, and Governor George w. Click of
the Democratic party.
Life's Work of Click.
designation of Governor Click have
evidently forgotten his services to the
state, as compared with the other
distinguished names which have been
suggested, as more appropriately rep
resenting the great state of Kansas
than Governor Click. He located in
Atchison, Kansas, in the spring of
1859. He was elected to the Kansas
legislature in 1863 without opposition,
and reelected in 1864, 1855, 1866,
1868, 1874, 1875 and in 1882. In 1873
he was a member of the senate, and
in 1876 was made speaker pro tenn of
the house, although that body at that
time was strongly Republican: To
the complete and subsequent revision
of the laws of Kansas made by the
judiciary committee in 1858, when he
was chairman of that committee. He
was a delegate to the Democratic
national convention in 1856, 1868,
1884 and 1892.
Race for Governor in 1868.
I'm 1868 he made the race for
governor, in obedience to his party's
call, although his defeat was newt
able. In 1882 he was elected COVER
nor by 5000 majority, and was inaug-
urated in January 1888. He recon-
mended and was responsible for the
passage of the first railroad commits
sion act of the state of Kansas. He
was the promoter and organized the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
company, and it was through his I'M
firing efforts that congress enacted
land grant law, which gave to that
company 100000 acres of govern
ment domain, the sale of which re-
suited in the building of that great
railroad from Atchison southwest
moter of the Atchison & Pixies Peak
railroad subsequently known as the
Central Branch.
A Railway Promoter.
He was also the promoter and or
ganizer of the Atchison & Nebraska
Railway company subsequently known
as the Burlington-from Atchison TO
Lincoln; and he was largely instru-
mental in the building and construc-
ton of the bridge across the Missouri
river at Atchison. 1t fact, he was iden-
titled prominently with every move
ment which had for it's object the i'm
provement and development of the state
of Kansas. After he retired from the
practice of law, he became identified
with the business of raising thorough
bred Snorthorn cattle, and had the rep
utation of having supplied northern
Kansas with many of the best strains
of Shorthorn stock known to the Amer
lean Shorthorn Herd Book.
Governor Click was for many years
a member of the state board of agricul-
ture, and served several toms as its
president He was one of the Kansas
commissioners at the Centennial, and
was a member of the board of mana
gers at the Columbian exposition He
was president of the Kansas board of