The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-26

S1Xty-four house members switched
their votes today and lifted Governor
Capper from hole which he had dug
Tor himself in recommending the
executive budget system for appro-
prlat1ons The vote came when the
house supported n motion to table the
stone resolution, extending privileges
OF the floor to the governor Ind
adopting for this session of the legis-
lature, the Maryland budget system
Wh1cn Governor Capper had recon-
mendeo in his campaign and in his
message TO the Legislature. On a roll
call "a members voted in support of
the motion to table, while 1 voted no.
Earlier in the week the house by a
vote or ~ to 3 adopted the resolution.
! Every effort of administration
forces had been brought to bear today
| to beat the Stone resolution In a
| speech on the floor Stone bitterly as
sailed the governors lack of courage
IN seeking to defeat in private a pro-
gram ne had made paramount in his
fpubllc utterances 1t was the most
bitter denunciatio1 of executive cow
ardice on the floor of Kansas Iegis-
lature in years. Stone declared he
mad incorporated in his measure every
provision asked by the executive and
challenged Governor Capper to send
to the legislature a recommendation
of the things he had privately asked
the lower house members to do to save
him from standing behind the apDro-
priation bills.
Stones resolution came up under a
motion to reconsider offered after the
reading OF the governors special mes
sage Wednesday evening. Stone Of
fered amendments to his resolution
embodying all of the provisions of the
Maryland budget system endorsed by
the governor. Then, for forty min
utes he talked turkey to house
members and challenged the governor
to come out in the open with a pro-
gram he sought to adopt in secret.
/ Take Own Medicine
ut has been my pleasure to ask
the governor to assume the same re-
sponsibility as he asked his successor
| to assume" said Stone. at is nv
pleasure to ask the governor to act
under his own recommendation. I
do not believe a governor of Kansas
should advocate one thing for sue
ceed1ng governors and refuse to apply
| the same policy for his own admins
tration. This resolution gives to him
all the power he asks under the Mary
/ land budget system. 1t is an oppor-
! tunity to test here and now the merit
! of that system and his program
Before this resolution was offered
! it was submitted to the governor and
| discussed with him by me. He ap-
J.! proved it except to say that it would
! cOmpel MIN TO prepare a budget in
haste
Read Governors Approval.
| Stone then read the governors note
! to w. A. Layton, speaker pro tenn,
while the resolution was under con-
sideration earlier in the week In
! his own handwriting the governor
said: This is Mr.. Stones idea. 1
see no objection to it,
eff 90 of you voted your convic-
tons when you adopted this resolu-
| ton a few days ago. 1 ask you to
vote your convictions now. If you
voted to please the governor then I
ask you to vote to carry out the pro-
visions in his message to you.
I 81 understand authoritatively that
| the governor wants this resolution de-
feated. Then let him send us mes
| sage and make a record of that desire
! If he has thru his department urged
this resolution defeated and makes no
record of it, then what position has he
! placed you in? Here is his public
record and work. He hasn't changed
| it, Where will he leave you on your
| record? Does he want to climb out
of a hole and leave you in it2 Is
that fair? Is it fair to you? Again.
I say if you change your vote because
he asked you to, then let him make
a record of that request.
"'Tis Sad, But True
He has said to you and others, kill
! this resolution and let me out of the
hole I very much deplore that this is
true That depreciates all of his pro-
fessions-all nf his message. It means
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