The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-24
SMELLING Of PORK
Senate Cracks whip on the APP
preparation Measures.
Price Of Clark and Stavely Put
Body in . Stampede.

There was a whip cracking time In
the senate Tuesday afternoon when
Price Of Clark. Republican. headed off
q stampede OF senators which Stavely
OF Usage started by threatening to
vote against every appropriation bill
Tor educational institutions that might
come up in the remainder OF the ses-
sion as an act OF vengeance for cut
ting off the allowance to high schools
In his county from. tho state funds for
the encouragement of normal and in
dustrial training.
Price Of Clark has written an
amendment to the law which appro-
PIRATES $4,000 for the purposes men,
toned by which he barred from par
ticipation in it every high school
within a5 miles Of the State Agricul-
turai college or any state normal
school. Usage county Is within the IS
mile zone around the state normal at
EmpOrta. The amendment shut three
towns in Stavely's district out of a pos
slble $1,000 apiece a year. It's about
the only piece OF state money Usage
county yer gets from the legislature
and Stavely was deeply grieved.
He registered no protest, however.
until he arose tv vote. Then for the
first time he called the senate's atten-
ton to the effect on his district Of the
Price amendment. He said:
This bill cuts Usage county out Of
the only educational appropriation it
has ever had from this legislature
My district il within the 35 mile limit
and three towns which maintain high
schools lose their right to the little
they have been entitled to in the past.
shall take my revenge on this body
by voting against every educational
appropriation bill that comes up in
the future. I vote no."
The bill had already gotten enough
down there was an instantaneous rush
to change from AYE" to mo-" the
purpose being to reduce the limit so as
to let Stavely's district in. A dozen
senators demanded a right to change
their votes and the senate was in an
uproar of confusion. The merits of
the measure and OF the Price amend
| ment for which the senator from
southwestern Kansas had fought long
and hard were forgotten in the rush
to save Usage county.
DO you want to defeat this whole
appropriation? demanded Senator
Price. Are you going to let your
pork-barrel politics cast aside the In
terest of the state just because one
| senator threatens to take revenge on
you for enforcing policy which cuts
| out a single county from the enjoy
mont of this fund? Will you scram-
BILE just as madly to get back on the
to take revenge by refusing to sup
port any of your pet measures If you
oppose this just and fair limitation
which I have insisted upon for this
bill? ?"
| Disclaimers of "pork-barreling'
arose from various sides while Gov
ernor Morgan pounded his gavel FOL
| order. Price held the floor and
dashed the stampec.r back into line
with sarcastic references to the eas<
with which several had changed
sides. A verification Of the vote wal
called for and one by one the origina
supporters OF the bill meekly lined
up for 1t again and it passed with 9
good. safe majority. leaving Osags
county without any state money bu
committing the state to q policy o.
not supporting normal training de
partments in high schools in the i'm
mediate vicinity of the big stat,
| schools devoted to the same object.