The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-23
Refuses To Hang Pres. Will
sons Picture in Chamber.
Big Verbal Guns Unlimbered
Over Malone Resolution.
GUST PERSHING, ROOSEVELT
Getty Objects To "CIuttering
Up the Walls"
Motion Goes to State Commit
tee for Last Rites.

The senate unlimbered it's big verbal
! guns for the first time this morning
when the Malone resolution providing
| for new flag over the speakers
| desk and for the purchase of pictures
of President Wilson and General
Pershing came up for disposition. Hot
words flew and partisan accusations
were bitter-so bitter that Malone
even accused certain Republican mem
| bers of using lame duck excuses.
That the Republicans were strongly
opposed to the resolution was shown
when 1t first came up, but it was not
until today that they expressed them
! selves fully upon the subject.
| Getty, of Wyandotte, was the first
| to go over the top. He said he op-
| posed the purchasing of pictures of
President Wilson and General Persh-
! ing, not because of a partisan feeling,
| but because he did not want the SEN
ate to set precedent that eventually
would convert the walls of the senate
| chamber into bill board or the SEM
| blance of a picture gallery.
"Clutter Up Walls''-Getty.
| so far as I know Arkansas is the
| only state where pictures hang in the
| senate chamber Getty said. "I am
| opposed to cluttering up these walls
with the pictures of any politicians or
@ Politicai leaders who are still living,
and l doubt the propriety of putting
up pictures of those who are dead
actually dead or just dead"
Senator Coleman moved that the
original resolution be cut to provide
. that new flag be placed over the
| buy pictures of Wilson and Pershlng
be forgotten as soon as possible
Satterthwaite, of Butler the only
Republican who lined up with the
original resolution. then moved that a
substitute be adopted providing for
the purchase of a flag. and that pic
lures of President Wilson General
Pershing and the late Theodore Roose-
welt be hung in the chamber for the
duration of the session.
Satterthwaite Sees Insult
Senator Satterthwaite said he be-
lieved the president would take it as
an insult for the senate to refuse to
display his picture, and that while he
is and always has been a Republican
he was opposed to allowing partisan
spirit to enter into the question
| II am a Republican, but we are all
Americans and we must all recognize
that we won the great war under the
| leadership of Wilson and Pershing.
do not think it improper to display
pictures of these leaders and I think
1t would be highly proper to display
the picture of the late Theodore
Roosevelt, one of the country's great
est leaders and a man who by his life
and his example gave our country a
new patriotism and a new conception
of manhood"
Senator Paulen tried to get in an
amendment that the pictures be pur-
chased but that the date of purchase
be postponed until the year 1000
Senator Kanavel then got the floor
and said:
Gentlemen, I do not think Presi-
| dent Wilson would be very highly in
suited if we refused to display his pic
| iC i'm To hnin
suited. You know he said he would
be insulted if the voters did not re-
; turn Democratic congress at the
, last election
Committee Will Kill 1t.
When the arguments began to die
down, Price of Clark moved that the
! resolution be referred to the commit
tee on federal and state affairs, and
the Price motion prevailed, which
means that the committee will per
form the last rites over it.
Aside from the fight over the pic
, lures and the reading of the MESA ge
, from Governor Allen urging speedy &C
: ton on the Montee bill which will
give the attorney general more power
= to bring trusts and combines and or
ganizations operating in restraint OF
trade to time the senate did little OF
importance during the morning ses-
sion.
Only six new bills were introduced
q One of the most important of these
! was by Montee authorizing cities OF
the second class to collect taxes for
y public health nursing associations
|, Such nursing associations are some
: what new in a great many Kansa:
j cities and the great work they have
1 done during the influenza epidemic!
| has made a number of cities realize
i the Importance of developing them t
= a higher point of efficiencN