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Show SUBSTITUTE FOR I Mil BIIL DEAD I Buried Under Sod of Twenty-Eight Twenty-Eight Senato Bills in Upper House. BADGER'S ATTEMPT TO H HURRY IT RESPONSIBLE Added Section Calling for State-Wide State-Wide Prohibition Was Kept Quiet :V The substitute for tho defnneb Can-nou Can-nou bill, so far as legislative purposes arc concerned, died an ignominious death in the sonate lato Friday after-noon. after-noon. Of course tho bill still has tho breath of life loft in it, inasmuch as it still remains on tho board, but tho, fact that it is resting uneasily under the sod of twenty-oight bills that must bo considered before it can be brought before the .senate for its vote, taken fl in conjunction with the fact that next jH week will end the legislative session, makes a combination to bring tears to the eyes of its advocates. It .also brought tears to the eyes of those who opposed the measure, but they were tears of laughter. Since tho .report of the committee on manufactures and commerce, recoui? mending tho passage of tho substitute bill, Thursday afternoon, it has been a patent, fact, "although stoutly deniod, that Senator Badger was doing every-thing every-thing in his power to hasten the sen-ale's sen-ale's action on this bill, and only tho fact that the rules forbade, prevented him from asking its consideration un-dor un-dor a special order, Thursday, when tho report of tho committco was presented, and when the minority report of tho jH committee's chairman, Senator Kuchlcr, was also presented. Friday morning, when the matter was .taken up and the- report adopted, it was the understanding that the bill would. take its place on the calendar, and with this understanding, Senator .Hulaniski, I who expressed himself as otherwise op- posed to the adoption of the report, without further consideration, voted for its adoption. Quietly, then, and apparently mca-pablc mca-pablc of doing any startling stunts, the bill rested iu that position till lato iu tho afternoon, when Senator Badger Continued on Page Seven. IH SUBSTITUTE FOR CANNON BILL DEAD (Continued From Pago Three.) moved that consideration of tho bill bo made a special order for. Saturday morning at 10:3 0. Then tltc row began, be-gan, breaking from a clear sky aud without oven a preliminary skirmish. Wby Such Haste? Senator Kuchler, as soon as Senator Badger had closed his remarks on tho great importance of tho measure, and the statemoul that, the people of the slate wero clamoring for the pnssago of tho bill, took tho floor and strenuously strenu-ously opposed tho passage of tho meas-uro meas-uro "along the general lines of his minority mi-nority report, but adding the 'eloquent, fact "that, although chairman of the committee, he had not seen the last section, sec-tion, which provides for an election in June, 1910, to decide on the question of state-wide prohibition, till the committee com-mittee was read.y to report it. Senator Kuchler was not alono in his protest against tho railroading of tho bill from tho hands of, tho commi-teo commi-teo to its passage, and was followed by Senator Stookey, who blandly wanted to know the reason for the great rush about the passage of this particular bill, which, ho said, had slept peacefully peace-fully in the hands of tho commit too during the past two weeks, and now made its appearance clamoring for instant in-stant passage. Senator John Y. Smith and Senator Wilson both thought tho measure of great importance, aud advised the pas-sago pas-sago of the special order motion; Sen ator Wilson saving that it was the most important measure which had come before be-fore this session of the legislature, or that would come before it. Senator Miller, remembering the sting of defeat contained in the death of tho Cannon bill, rather sarcastically thauked Senator .Tohu Y. Smith for tho information that ihe pooplo of the state wore anxious for the passage of the fubstitute bill, and then Senator llulau-iski llulau-iski got the floor, and told the senate that ho would sooner volo for the Can-nun Can-nun bill than this amended substitute with its cightv niuth section. He said: Hulauiski Kicked. etl know something about this bill, and 1 have in mind some amendments F want to offer 10 it. but T cannot hnve them prepared by tho time it is proposed pro-posed to consider it; under tho special order, and I am not going to try. I consider this bill one of the most drastic dras-tic measures 1 over read, and I prefer" tho Cnniion bill to it, aud will support it before I will this 0110, so bring down the Cannon bill. If this bill is of such Ttoat importance as .you say it is. I snv there is all the more reason for its careful consideration before wo act upon it. T don't want a mass of paper crammed down my throat, and T am not going to be driven into the consideration considera-tion of this matter, and forced to vote on it till I have time to consider it." Senator Badger rather took issue with Senator Knchler's statement that he had not seen tho troublesome section oightv-nino till five minutes before its introduction, whereupon Senator Kuchler Kuch-ler convinced him that it was a fact. Senator Bndger made n most beautiful beau-tiful plea for immediate action on the bill, on the ground that it was of vnat import, and that if action wore delayed it meant tho death of the bill. After Senator Badger's plea for the bill, which really si mounted to 11 plea for the state-wide prohibition election in 1910. the president put tho special order motion, which carried by a vole of ten to six, and then everything was lovely in the prohibition enmp till the mine was exploded, and their smiles J turned to tears. Badger's Forlorn Hope. Senator Kuchler, at the announce- 1 inent bv President Gardner, that tho motion had carried, called the attention of the president to a section in "Hoborts' ' bfcok of. rules, yyhich says that u spe- 1 cial order motion cannot prevail excepting ex-cepting under a two-thirds majority vote, and while he blandly stated that ho did not wish to appeal from tho rul-1 rul-1 ing that the motion had carried, still, j he wished to call the chair's attention j to the fact that, there existed a' dis-, dis-, eropancy between the book and the ruling.. rul-ing.. President. Gardner said he would stand corrected, and changed his ruling to one declaring the motion iost, which I sent tho substitute bill to tho foot of , the list, with t wenty-eight bills ahead of it. for consideration. This virtually amounts to tho death of the bill, as, even if the vote necessary neces-sary to send it to the house wero reached in tho ordinary courso of business, busi-ness, it is obviously in the power of its opponents to talk it to death by dovoting a little time to other measures which must be considered first, aud un- der tho rules tho bill cannot bo made tho subject of a special order motion. Just beforo adjournment was taken, Senator Badger gavo notice of a reconsideration recon-sideration of tho vote, which had pre-Ttousl'. pre-Ttousl'. declared that tho senate would adjourn at 3 p. m. Saturday, and. as a further indication of his determination determina-tion to get tho bill out of tho senate beforo the cIofo of the session, if possible, pos-sible, succeeded in passing an adjourn- ment motion, which calls the senate into session at i o'clock Snturd.'n morning. |