The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-17
First Appointment of Governor
Refused in Many Years.
Judge Clyde Reed Gets by With
Only Single Vote.
IT WAS A BATTLE TO FINISH
No Words Spared to Launch At
tack on Administration.
Senator Price Calls Aliens Tao
tics ''Dirty Politics"
ALLEN APPOINTEEs.

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Judge w L. Huggins, of Emporia.
Representative James c. McDermou' Oh
John H. Crawford, of wichita, trejected
PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION.
Judge Clyde NJ. Reed, of Parsons.
Fred S. jackson. of Topeka
Representative Jesse w. "reehieai' u"
KiOwa-
BY Governor Anen-sheffield Ingalls, of
Atchison; Prof. c. e. Rarick. professor OIL
rural school education at Fort Hays NOT
NAL school, Hays.
By Miss Lorraine F.. Wooster. state su-
perintendent of public instruction-Not yet
BY lieutenant Governor Huffman-sen-
ator j. NJ. johnson: OF Hiawntha' senator
Rv Sneaker Harvey-Representat Ida
NJ walker, of Norton; Representative Min-
ME j. Grinstead. of Liberal
GENERAL APPOINTMENTS.
State oil inspector, fOur-year term, darFe
II. Motter, of Olathe.
state grain Inspector, j. S. Hart, OF nan
dali, renppOinted.
terms: Representative e. l.. Barrier, OF
Eureka reappOinted; Representative Ernest
n. Underwood, of Arlington.
Member state tax COMMISSION, cur
term Representative c. ID. Foster.
state fire marshal, L. t. Hussey, OF Lyn-
don. renppOinted.
Of Caney; DIR. G. II. Lerrigo. of Topeka ;
Dr. O. ID. Walker, of Salina, all reappOinted.
For seven hours the Kansas
senate fought and bled and died
in executive session, turned down
one of Governor Aliens ap-
pointments to the industrial
court and missed rejection of a
second nomination only by SIN
gle vote. 1t was the most bitter
legislative executive session
Kansas has seen in generation.
John H. Crawford, former state
labor commissioner, was named by the
governor as d member of the court OF
industrial relations. Crawfords con-
fir1nation was rejected by vote OF
, l6 ayes to 13 nays. 1t was the first
appointment of a Kansas governor to
be turned down by the senate in many
years. The rejection was aimed as a
slap at the governor rather than at
Crawford as an individual or because
of his labor connections or Official rec
ord. legislators declare.
The same senate which sat in judg-
ment on the case of Crawford, at the
same time threatened to turn down the
Governors selection of Judge Clyde M
Reed Of Parsons as a member of the
now nublic utilities commission. Judge
Reed came under the wire with q
votes-the mere constitutional ma
iority of the senate. Had not severa
votes changed in the. final inning OF
the fight, opponents OF the administra
tion are confident they would nave
blocked the Reed confirmation.
Personal acrimony and attack:
AGAINST the administrations fight fol
the governors program featured thu
upper house debate. Judge Reed i
said to have been dragged into tn
debate regarding recreation of th'
Dublic utilities commission. Many o
the senators are declared to have ex
pressed frank and candid opinion a
10 the row which resulted in remova
of Judge George NJ. Wark-a forme
state senator from Montgomery coun
tv-from the industrial court Be
cause of his own activities in the polit
ical game and the governors apparen
deliberate sacrifice of Judge Wark
tbe senate for several hours held II
doubt its confirmation of Judge Reed
Break Among the Ants.
IT was a break in the forces of anti
administration leaders that won Judgt
Reed a confirmation in the final hour
Of the executive session, according t
reports. The senate had voted 16 t.
"a against confirmation of Crawford
Then it changed its position ana CAV
Judge Reed the necessary Il votes t,
n,It thru his selection and approval
PI,t If was one of the hottest fight
before the senate in many years
Irverv anti-administration leader
price. Finley, Van De Mark. Fisher
ioined in the attack, according to re
ports.
Rumors Of Personal Encounters.
Rut the fight didn't stop with thes
leaders. around them were gathere
the opposition to the governors tactic
which blocked one confirmation an
all but upset a second
During the executive sessloh-th
1ongaet known in the state in man
veaTs-reports were current that per
sonaI encounters had ensued- Thes
reports were emphatically denied b
senate leaders.
All of the appointees, except Craw