The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10
SIMPLY A GAME
OF FREEZE OUT

| should not bulge. From the senate
came the retaliation that the upper
| house members were ready to spend
the summer in Topeka.
They are bum sports. snorted
Senator Carey when told of the latest
house move.
They are trying to put US in the
hole and we will give them a commit
tee that won't bulge" said Laing OF
Russell, a former house conferee,
when the senate injected its amend
ments.
That is the spirit which will pre-
vail. it seems when new conference
is ultimately named. 1t means that il
possible the house will force a dis
agreement, go home and wait for
Governor Capper to call special
session.
New Committee.
This morning the senate amended
the conference resolution to provide
that no former conferees should serve
on the new committee, but that one
member from each house might be
named who represented district IN
which a state institution is located.
But this move, the senate would APP
point Senator Huffman of Cherokee
county, a Republican, and chairman
of the senate ways and means COM
mittee in 1909-11.
other members of the senate COM
mittee will probably be Senator Howe
of Dickinson and Senator Davis of
Bourbon. Keene of Bourbon will will
doubtless head the house committee,
with one or two other members of
the ways and means committee serV-
ing with him.
Thois morning the appropriation
deadlock was discussed in the COVER
nors office.
Don't Give an Inch.
Don't give an inch" Governor Cap
per is quoted as saying.
With that as a basis the house will
try to meet the senate in spirit OIL
Compromise
When the resolution was considered
IN the house at noon, it was amended
by Terrell of Chautauqua to permit
one former conferee from each house
to serve on the new committee rms
will permit Chairman Keene to serve
Senate amendments were accepted by
the house without debate.
Fought Eight Hours Last Night.
For nearly eight hours the house
delayed action on the senate's request
for d new conference committee. In
that time there were whispered con-
ferences and the political aspect of
every move was seriously considered.
At one stage of the game, it is re-
ported, Chief Justice Johnston was
called to Speaker Stones private office
to confer with the administration
leaders about party plans. Charles
Sessions. private secretary to the gov
ernor, and w. e. Davis, state auditor.
were also in conference with house
leaders.
Nearly the entire membership of
the senate was present to hear the
reading of the substitute resolution
for a conference. The substitute was
offered by Terrell of Chautauqua. 1t
changed the senate resolution to pro-
vide that no action on appropriations
could be taken by either house until d
majority of the committee from each
house signed the report. 1t also pro-
En1 no I Foo, IL
trict in which is located state in
sututfon may serve on the conference
committee. This provision exempted
from service p of the 80 state sena-
tors.
Senate Would Fight II Out.
Among senate leaders there was an
apparent Willingness to stay in Topeka
and fight it out. The legislature can
not adjourn without the approval of
the senate which now has the adjourn
ment resolution locked up in the ways
and means committee room. The
house made a desperate effort Tues
day to secure the return OF this resO-
luton and force an adjournment next
Tuesday and the calling of a special
session if the senate refused to yield
to the house demands But now the
house must make oVertures to the SEN
ate before it can quit business
1T looks as though we will be here
for sometime" said Senator Carey,
Mrs. Carey and the children. We can
put the children in school here and 1
am perfectly willing to stay all sum-
mer.
Senator Huffman, also Republi-
can, is in no hurry to start back to
Columbus. Senator Huffman is a.
physician.
Guess I can stay here some time
yet said the Cherokee county sena-
tor. Il am really enjoying quite a
nice practice here in the legislature.
and if the boys want to stay, they will
not meet with much opposition from
me-"
Senator Bale p. Waggener, Demo-
crat, offers to stay in Topeka a year
or until the legislature gives the
Atchison orphans home $4,000 for
that new manual training school
| building.
! Costs Shouse $50 a Day.
! Senator Jouett Shouse, chairman of
! the ways and means committee, is
sacrificing $50 day by not taking the
oath of office as congressman from
| the Seventh district. But he has
anyone.
Over in the house. however it is
| different. With a few warm days. the
back to the farm movement would
! get a first class start. Already the pa
| triotism that marks service without
pay is beginning to lose its glamor.
The farmer members want to go home
| and prepare for the spring blowing
a. L. Drummond of Norton, who
| has received about everything he
asked for the state tuberculosis hos
pital. is now ready to stay in Topeka
and fight the administration battle.
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