The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-22
HOUSE NOTES

Doubtless some of the house MEM
bers ate meat for breakfast. The low
er legislative body showed it's teeth
during the morning sessions and chew
ed the enacting clause from two per-
fectly good pet measures that were
close to the hearts of their authors
House members didn't play favor
ties, tho. They looked over the morn
ing offering and gently selected one
bill from each side of the house. The
measures were then marked for
slaughter and all the oratory of the
winter couldn't have stopped the crus-
ade- Barney ]. Lyons of Atchison,
Democrat, lost one of his pets in the
march on innocent looking enact
ments. Just before the gong rang for
noon recess, White of Saline county,
| Republican, went down for the count
when the house landed a solid punch
on the county welfare bill which
White had coddled and nursed thru
! the session.
The 125 house members did not go
| INTO session in the best of humor
Many of them arose with deep
! rooted crouch and they started the
holiday recess session by ferociously
| looking for something to bite About
n dozen house members were as ami
able as bear cat looking for its
reakfast, when Lyons anti-trespass-
| ing bill crossed the path For fifteen
| minutes the chandeliers in representa-
! NA'C nan IdIlied dS a weak and scat
| tering defense sought to defend the
| Dill against the onslaught
Meat for the Slaughter.
Lyons championed the bill which
| provided that any person walking on
the tracks or right of way of a rail-
road company might be arrested and
sent to Jail for trespassing What was
more, there was provision in the bill
which allowed the Pullman porter.
the news butcher or the student bra ke
man on train to arrest persons
guilty of treSpa ssing. Some of the
mem ers Immediately saw the rights
OF the Kansas farmer trampIed under
loot So they assailed the enacting
cause. Bird of Shawnee offered an
amendment. Wilmoth of Cloud ar
sued to save the bill. But it was a
| vain defense
An hour later White arose to defend
a twenty section county welfare bill,
The measure was urged bv Sunerin-
tendent Charles of the Boys Indus
trial school. White explained. But the
mouse wasn't satisfied with the en-
dorsement and demanded additional
collateral, or other endorses
Moore, of Cowley, told the house
the Dill was more poorly drawn than
any bill he had met since coming il
topeka. White pleaded not guilty
But 1t didn't stop the charge or save
the bill. Several other lawyer-mam-
bers made sighting remarks about
the bill which sought to repeal d
dozen perfectly good existing statu-
tory provisions. So the White BIZ
was offered up as sacrifice to clam
or of the house members for more
blood.
Worried the Democrats,
Bourbons in the Kansas house wan
to attend their annual party dinner
tonight. For a few minutes durins
today's session, tho, it seemed tina
the Democrats would compelled
to stay on the job and defend som.
sacred enactments, written by the
. Democrat legislature of 1913 Brooks
of Chautauqua, moved to make tn,
NJ ~ssachusetts ballot bill a specia
order for tonight. Caudill. of Co
: manche, is an ardent defender of tn,
present law. He promptly protest
ed. For time the Democrats wer.
. in uproar. They pleaded that the,
should be permitted to attend thei
party love feast. But the Republican
| insisted on the special order. FINAL,
Brooks assured the minority he didn'
mean it and the Democrats were toll,
l they might attend tonight's banque
under truce for their; sacred ballo
law.
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