The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-21
Senator. FrizeIl Charges Gov
ernOr Is Poor Loser.
Says Administration Used Many
Unfair Methods.
DIDN'T VIOLATE AGREEMENT
Says Governor Violated All Leg
islatiye Customs.
Numerous Reports of Trades
Were Current. FrizeII Says.


/ trading his 100000 production tax
bill for the agricultural consolidation
bill, Governor Allen now shows HIM
kself poor loser in fight, according
Ito a statement here today OF Senator
i E. e. Frizell, chairman of the senate
| agricultural committee. In answer to
1 a statement by the governor. Senator
Frizell declared the administration re-
sorted to all manner f~dishonorable
| and unfair methods to throw the live
stock and agricultural departments in
politics.
Senator Frizell. denied that he vio-
lated an agreement with lieutenant
Governor Huffman regarding a report
on the consolidation bill. He said he
| obeyed the majority wish of his COM
mittee and never voted on any test
regarding disposition of the proposed
| law. He again reviewed reports of
trades and asserted that when propo-
sition was made to him to trade his
/ support for $4,000 job that such a
position was in the bill then under
/ consideration
A Poor Loser, Frizell Says.
/ "The governors statement is the
vail of poor loser Senator Frizell
declared. From its length there was
/ apparently much for him to explain.
| Yet he didn't tell 1t all. The governor
! by attacking me evidently wishes to
detract public attention from methods
used to put thru the consolidation
bill.
"In the first place the governor vio-
lated all legislative customs and dis
credited house and senate organiza-
lions by selecting his own committee
Ito draw his bill, All standing COM
Rmittees We're ignored. Then every
method of railroad legislation was used
to jam the bill thru to final passage
without hearing. Not until the bill
reached my committee-four days be-
OBJ g.,
ing had by the stockmenSand agricul-
tural interests. This law was, proposed
lin the governors message. Nearly
seven weeks of abe session passed, tho,
before the governor made any move to
present the bill. - No hearings were
held by his hand picked committee
Their bill WAS admittedly so loosely
drawn that it was redrafted by COM
j mon consent and various changes made
in order to provide trading stock and
secure votes of hostile members.
| Reports of Trades.
Reports of all sorts of trades for
votes for this bill were current. l do
not understand why Governor Alien
has been so absorbed with my per-
sonal action as to neglect to defend
Iagainst these charges.
1T was estimated the production tax
bill would bring a revenue of $1,000
600 year. 1t was traded for the
Preventative Jolliffe. who appeared be-
fore my committee. said he had been
solicited to trade his vote for the con-
solidation bill, He turned the PROPOSE
ton down fatty and Indignantly. Pos
sloly the governor might discuss this
matter in telling of his efforts for the
ltax payers. Surely the agricultural
and livestock interests are interested
in the governors assurance that there
was no politics in the consolidation
plan and the fact that three members
of the committee selected to draw the
4 consolidation bill have since been APP
pointed to fat jobs.
THE governor seeks to reflect on
my integrity by saying that the job
which said his emissaries offered me
paid only $4,000 a year when1 said
it paid 5000 a year. If the governor
will kindly look at his original bill he
will find the $4,000 a year provision
in it.
Governor Allen also stated 1T is
believed by those who have studied
Il the bill that it would have saved $780,
4 900 year to the taxpayers of the
state Yet the governor himself at a
conference of farmers, stockmen and
horticulturists stated of course con-
) solidation will cost more Even had
his it is believed statement been~cor-
der as to the governors system of
| economy which warranted his legisla-
tive leaders to trade 100000 reve-
nue. producing measure for this quite
impossible 100000 saving. The
principle of consolidation has many
supporters, but the manner in which
it was proposed to be brought about
i would simply scrap efficiency to pro-
wide a political machine AS for econ
omy, the governor might Ieels to Illi-
nois where the plan has been under
! trial three years
Not Too seriously.
''The Ngovernor's abuse should not
be taken too seriously. The livestock
and farm interests of the state were a
unit against this bill. Quite naturally
the senate agricultural committee paid
| considerable heed to their demands.
The bill showed much evidence of
: hasty and immature action. 1t was so
: loosely drawn that the advisory board
! of the proposed department of agrieui-
ture was to be composed of one dele-
| gate from each of ten associations,
| two of which were definitely abolished
by the bill itself. -Four others did not
exist.
because of apparent weakness of
the bill and universal protest against
its passage, members of my COMMITTEES
became more and more interested TN
studying another bill. The governor
? had this consolidation bill in his pos
session before the session began. 1t
was drawn at his request by his ag-
ricultural adviser
= Measure Was Delayed.
"Yet the governor did not act until
the seventh week of the session. Why
. this delay on this important measure
Then, too, why did the governor ap-
lpoint a committee which never gave
Ito the farmers and stockmen a hear
ling as to their needs and wants? My
tcommittee gave the only hearings
held. They began the day my COM
mittee received the hill-five days
before the session ended.
Governor Allen charged that
broke faith with the president of the
senate, That charge is emphaticalls
denied. The bill was permitted to die
in the committee because a majorits
of the members of the committee be-
llieved that course advisable. Every
| motion made in nv committee was