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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-11
WAS CUBBISON HASTY?
In Crowding His Anti-Lottery and
Gambling Bills
THROUGH THE HOUSE so FAST

without Time Given the Members to
study Them-3Ir. CubbisOn Talks
Er. Beckmau Not Satisfied With the
Result.
Mr.. Cubbison of Wyandotte, is the first
member OF the house to get bill through,
two Of his anti gambling bills having
been passed yesterday. When asked by
JOURNAL reporter in regard to the in
tent and effects of the bills, Mr.. Cubbison
said:
"The first bill prohibits lotteries and
makes violation of the law penlteutlary
offense. The second is designed to DO
away with all public gambling houses
and also makes violations of It penlten =
tiarv offenses but this law does not reach
the player. These bills have passed the
house and should they pass the senate
they will wipe this whole LOTTERY Dusl-
ness from the state
There is nothing that can keep them
from being driven out when these bills
become laws. The provisions are SO
strong that no difference what kind OF
police forces there are they can be en-
forced. Nothing short of bribery Of the
county attorney can prevent the absolute
abolition of lotteries and public gam bling
houses in the state when these bills are
enacted into laws.
"Will these measures be perfectly sat
isfactory to the people of Kansas City
who have made such an cutlery against
the lotteries there" asked the reporter
Most assuredly," said Mr. Cubbison.
They were drafted under the direction
of the people who led the crusade against
the lotteries and by the best lawyers
that could be found in that town. They
are an expression, therefore of just the
Kind of legislation the people there want
and they cannot but be satisfied because
they did the work themselves.
There are two other anti-gambling
bills, which have been referred to the
judiciary committee, which l am not
quite 80 hopeful of becoming laws. One
of these, bill No. 3, makes it a felony to
gamble in a gambling house or in any
private house, where the sum is over So.
This is, of course, designed to reach the
players themselves.
'The fourth bill is to prohibit pool
selling, and if passed it will abolish all
public forms of gambling at horse races
or fairs"
Mr.. Cubbison showed a great deal of
tact in engineering his bills so quickly
through the house and did some clever
work Notwithstanding the fact that he
had such an overwhelming majority
with him At one time when an unde-
batable motion which would delay the
bills was before the house he talked sew
eral minutes against it and finished his
speech without any one raising the point
of order.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-11
MIR. BEEKMAN,s VIEW.

He Thinks the Anti Lottery Law Was
Pushed Through With Indecent" Haste.
J. " Beekman, of Cowley county, was
one of those in the house who saw Sc
rious blunders in the anti-lottery bill
which has just passed that body. He
stated his objections on the floor, but
like others, did not care to go on record
against bill, the declared intention of
which was to wipe out 50 serious an evil.
A STATE JOURNAL reporter called on
Mr.. Beekman, and asked him to state
his objections to the bill.
"Ihare is a general impression on the
outside, which seems to have been held
largely in the house also, that there is
some loophole in this measure which
will render it Ineffective"
"Will you give your opinion on it?"
asked the reporter.
81 don't know that l see any further
weakness in it than that which 1 indica-
ted on the floor of the house." said Mr.
Beekman.
THE third section of the first bill
seems to me to revOlutioniZe all estab-
lished theories of evidenc e. After defin-
ing in the first two sections what a lot
tery is, the third section goes on to say
that 1t shall not be necessary to tablish
the fact that lottery does exist, the ma
terial allegation in the case. 1t is max
which the law says shall be the province
of the jury.
There are serious constitutional OBJ
jectiOns to this section and its passage in
this shape seems t o me bIunder. How
any body of able and intelligent lawyers
could draft a bill with this provision
aud not see its weakness is more than l
can understand.
"The measure, to say the least, was
rushed through with indecent
haste. 1t is impossible that
body composed of farmers, mechan-
les and all classes of men should
understood it by simply hearing it read
A bill of such great Importance as this.
probably one of the most important
things to come up this session, should
have been printed, and referred to the
Judiciary committee in order to get its
opinion and give every member of the
house chance for its careful consider.
alton.
MANY of the members feel that mis-
take has been made to begin the session
IN such careless, hasty way and thew
will not allow anything further of the
kind to happen. Everyone is in favor of
anti-lottery legislation which accounts
Tor the reluctance of anyone to be record
ed against the bill in spite of its imper-
fections.
THE lottery men have plenty of
money to carry their case to the highest
courts and legislation directed against
them should be without a flaw 1t would
not have hurt anything to have visited
awhile. The lotteries are running now an6
II would have been far better to let them
run week longer and had perfect law
than to rush the matter through as has
been DONE"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-11
JUD ACTS WELL.
Jud Nicholson Developing His Dramatic
Talent at the 8ijou.

Jud Nicholson Developing His Dramatic
Talent at the Bijou.
Jud Nicholson has discovered that he
has talent that cannot be wasted in South
America and has gone on the stage. He
is playing a part at the Bijou theater
this week and does a great deal better
than one would expect of an amateur.
He has the part of Col Lee, the mil
lionaire farmer. in "The World Against
Him." which piece is no other than the
sNoble Outcast"
Nicholson makes up we'll and has good
command of his voice in tone and enun-
citation. He understands the part as we'll
as an amateur could aud with the excep-
tions that the sleeves of his dress coat are
much too short and that he does little
too much docking heavenward" with his
eyes he does pretty we'll.
Jud has never posed as an actor be-
fore and the work he does is a little sur
prising.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-11
INSTRUCTIONS TO CONGRESS.

Kansas Tells Her Senators and Represen-
tatives to Work for Irrigation.
The resolution instructing the senators
and representatives of Kansas in con-
gress to use their best efforts to secure
an interstate irrigation law, met with the
hearty support Of Senator Brown in the
senate. In explaining the measure Mr.
Brown said the Arkansas river was
tapped in Colorado so completely that
the river was dry and almost useless as
a source of irrigation. He says Kansas
is entitled to part of the water supply
from the Rocky mountains. Mr.. Brown
said that years ago the Arkansas river
used to contain water the year around,
aud an appropriation was made for set
tiers who were flooded in the Arkansas
valley. Now it consists largely of a
muddy right-of- way.
The resolution was adopted unani-
mouslV
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-11
IRRIGATION's BLACK EYE.
An Animated Discussion in the Senate n
the Snhianf

An Animated Discussion in the Senate on
the Subject.
FIRST blood in the senate was shed late
yesterday afternoon over the subieot of
irrigation.
Senator Milt Brown (Rep) of Garden
City, is an irrigation enthusiast and he
wanted an irrigation committee added to
the list of senate committees. The Pom.
list committee on rules put a damDer on
this resolution by proposing to increase
the present committee on agriculture to
nine members and giving it authority to
act in irrigation matters.
Senator Brown objected to having his
irri cation committee scheme swallowed
up by the old committee on agriculture
II Is practically saying that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-11
NEEDS OF 0sAWAToMIE.
Statistics Showing the Requirements o
That Insane Asylum.

Statistics Showing the Requirements of
That Insane Asylum.
The ninth biennial report of the Osa-
watomie asylum has been issued by the
superintendent, DR.. F. L. Wentworth
In his report DR.. Wentworth gives q
statement of the condition of the insti-
tuition under him and gives an outline of
its needs.
Among other things he says:
There were in the asylum at the open
ing of the period, 500 patients; 500 cases
have been admitted, and 16, who were
temporarily absent, have returned, max
ing the total number under treatment.
1876.
"The health of our population has been
up to the usual standard. Out of 1876 re-
coveries, 107 occurred in patients who
had been insane less than one year be-
fore coming under treatment, and only
twenty nine in cases of more than one
years duration.
"Heredity, as a complicating cause of
insanity, has been traceable in 40 out of
the 500 cases admitted We have sew
eral instances of more than one person
from the same family being among our
population, the most notable being that
of a mother. and three children. And
yet the marriage and intermarriage of
weaklings are daily occurrences
The insecure condition of the center
building should receive Immediate at
tention- The damage done to the walls
by the fire of 1880 has caused them to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-11
SENATE SETTINGS.

Notes and Incidents of the Upper House
of the Legislature.
Senator Ed O'Brien of Wichita was
excused by reason of the illness of his
little boy at the Throop hotel
A great many of the bills thus far in
troduced are identical with ones that
we're lost in the complications of two
years ago.
Senator Lands has bill providing for
what is generally called ''three-fourths
jury verdicts." The act is calculated to
do away with the twelve men idea ex-
cept where life aud liberty are at stake
in felony cases. In petty misdeme anors
and also in civil cases where the verdict
is matter merely of dollars and cents.
the judgment of nine jurors out of
twelve shall stand.
Senator Jumper of Usage county has a
county uniformity bill 1t provides that
school books for use in Kansas shall be
printed by the state and sold at cost,
which is about one third the present
cost The American School Book trusts
S45O,OoO profits in Kansas each year
would be reduced Indefinitely. The
books shall be prepared by commission
composed of the state superintendent of
public instruction and four county super
intendents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-11
Stevenson Company Dry Goods Carpets and Millinery This

at $40 per ton and corn 81 per bushel-
prices which some are disposed to re-
gard as exorbitant when compared with
ruling prices outside the stockVards. A
statement sent to this Office shows the
following stockyard charges for yardage
in 1885,
1.746,828 cattle at 25 cents =. $436, 7O7 90
1,94S 1878 hogs at cents. 49,. 155,S69 "a
569,517 sheep at cents. ....- 1861 36
Total receipts for yardage, $638, 1873 20
"The commissions for selling cattle, etc
about double the stockyard charges,
which makes additional tax on stock men
about double the above amount. Buyers
and commission men are in com bination
so that one of the latter number must be
employed if sale is made. The stock
men are, therefore, at the mercy of the
company and in substance have to take
what is offered 4"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-11

The dinner given by the W. R C. on
Inauguration day will be excellent. Only
% cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-11

semf-Anthracfte SmOkeIes Coal
Analysis: Water. 199
Volatile Matter ... 1777
Fixed Carbon . 72.S7
Ash. 465
Sulphur ....... 26S
Excels all others for Range, Cook Stove
and Furnace use.
Will last as long as the bGst Of Anthra-
cite, at one half the cost
Will make a more intense heat than
the Anthracite.
Will hold fire longer than any otk--
coal
Contains no gas, makes no SCOT. as
no bad odor
Government Tests show Semi Anthra-
cite Smokeless Coal to be the Best Steam
Producer in the United States
Topeka Coal Co,
A. F. HoRNER,
Agent
The ". r. c. are amply provided for
all. Assist them. Their efforts are COM
mendable.
Topeka steam Laundry
625 Jackson street
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-11

We put on new neckbands on shirts
Peerless Steam Laundry, III and ia
West Eighth street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-11

one plus one makes one" he said. 'Irri-
cation is too big and too important to be
ignored without committee. The COM
mittee on agriculture, with but one ex-
ception are from eastern Kansas, and
they know nothing about irrigation. II
il were put to a vote western Kansas
would have a majority for organizing
into a separate state. This is not proper,
however. But the members of this SEN
ate should be broad enough to legislate
for the whole state.'
Senator King of Cherokee replied: 81
am sorry the gentleman from Finney
county has been worked up to the state
of temper he has. l think he is asking
too much in requesting that new COM
mittee be made. I see no reason why a
farmer from the eastern part of the state
should not know as much about irriga-
ton as a lawyer from the western part"
Senator Brown replied: "Both the Re-
publicans and Populists had irrigation
planks in their platform Why don't you
fellows stand on the plank? Why do you
60 behind it now?''
Senator Dennison said: when we
consider the fact that the Republican
party for the first time left prohibition
out of its platform, and moved its head
quarters from a dwelling to room over
a drug store, and considering the calibre
OF SOul0 Oi the men WHO were on LUdI
committee, it is very plain on the face of
it why irrigatio was put in their plat
form"
Senator Banner stated that the com
mittee on agriculture had all it could at
tend to, aud irrigation had assumed pro-
portions that entitled it to recognition.
Peacemaker Scion o. Thacher said he
thought if some senators from the irri-
CATION districts were added to the COM
mittee on agriculture, the result would
be just as beneficial
Senator Parker said: sit will be con-
sidered snub to irrigation to dump this
subject onto an already overworked COM
mittee. The additional committee will
not cost the state cent The only reason
this measure is opposed is because the
man who would be its chairman Is what
you call too rank Republican.
Senator Sem thought the results would
be better if there were fewer commit
tees instead of more
Senator Browns measure was defeated
by a vote almost strictly partisan, IA to
20.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-11
SOUP TICKETS ISSUED.
You Can Buy Them and Give Them to
Street BeggRrs.

You Can Buy Them and Give Them to
street Beggars.
The plan adopted and carried into eff
feet by the Associated Charities, of Civ
ing each man working in the stone yard
a warm dinner of soup, bread and coffee,
is doing considera bic good, particularly
since fence has been built around the
stone pile to hide it from the gaze of the
curious.
During the eight days that it has been
in operation 21S dinners have been
served and several gallons of soup sent
out to poor families who have no one to
represent them on the working force.
The secretary has prepared tickets,
each one of which entities the holder to
one meal at the soup house and the priv
ilege of working for two additional
meals, and business men and house wives
are asked to buy them at the rate of
twenty for a dollar, to give instead of
food or money to all applicants who
make hunger their plea
These tickets cannot be used by the
recipient in barter for whisky or other
things except what it calls for, and no
scheme of gathering a number and then
living on them in idleness can be worked,
as the condition of ''working for two ad-
ditional meals" must have been COM
piled with by each individual before
Sc cond ticket can be used.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-11
To PeODie Needing Glasses.

This will bear witness to the fact that
1 consider Mr.. Chas. Bennett, 713 Kansas
avenue. Topeka, Kan, the best optician
who has examined my eyes and pre-
scribed glasses for me. He does his
work in careful and scientific way, and
he understands every detail Of his pro-
fession. His fitting has given me a new
lease on sight, and has arrested a failing
that was becoming distressing as well as
lnconvenient You can place implicit
reliance upon any statement, business or
professional, he may make to you. l
commend him to you heartily, and with
no hesitation or reservation.
Yours very truly,
II. q. LARIMER.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-11

Jones has good coal for little money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-11
REAPPORTIONING KANSAS.
The Session Next Year Not a Necessity For
the Work.

the Work.
Some people have in some way gotten
the idea that because the legislature is
to meet in special session next year to
reapportion the state in legislative dis
tricts, that the congressional apportion-
ment will have to go over until that
time.
That is a wrong idea, as the state may
be reapportioned in congressional dis
tricts at any session of the legislature.
Two years ago Mr.. Cubbison got a re-
apportionment bill dividing the state into
eight congressional districts through the
house, but it was killed in the senate.
Already the same bill has been intro
duced by Representative Frazer of Har-
vey county.
According to this bill Kansas will have
district for each of her eight congress
men, and there will no longer be a neces-
sity for a congressman at large as at
present.
This bill divides the state by districts
as follows:
First Doniphan, Brown, Nemaha,
Pottawatomie, Jackson, Atchison, Leav-
enworth and Jefferson counties.
Second-Wyandotte johnson, Doug
las, Miami, Franklin, Anderson and Linn
counties
Third-Bourbon, Allen, Crawford, Ne
osho, Wilson, Cherokee, Labette and
| Montgomery counties.
Fourth-Shawnee, Wabaunsee, Usage,
Lyon, Morris, Marion, Chase, Coffey,
| Moodson and Greenwood counties
Enthusiastically, Washington, Repub-
lie, Cloud, Ottawa, Clay, Riley, Geary,
Dickinson and Saline counties.
Sixth-Jewell, Smith, Phillips, Morton,
Decatur, Rawlins, Cheyenne, Sherman,
Thomas, Sheridan, Graham, Rocks. Os-
born, Mitchell, Lincoln, Ellsworth, Rus
sell, Ellis, Trego, Cove, Logan and Wal
| lace counties.
Seventh = Mcpherson, Rice, Barton,
Rush, Ness, Lane, Scott, Wichita, Gree
ley, Hamilton, Kearney, Finney, Hodg
man, Pawnee, Stafford, Reno, Kingman,
Pratt, Edwards, Kiowa, Ford, Gray,
Haskell, Grant, Stanton, Morton, Stevens,
Seward, Meade, Clark, Comanche and
| Barber counties.
ghth-Harper. Sedgwick, Harvey,
Butler, Elk, Chautauqua, Cowley and
| Sumner counties
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-11

The ". r. c. are amply provided for
ALL Assist them. Their efforts are COM
mendable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-11
Remnants!

Table Linen, TOweling,
FlanneIs, Prints, MusIins,
Ginghams, Shirtings, Out.
ing Cloths, Canton Elan.
neIs. We are determined
to close out all Of our odds
and ends before inventory.
If you want to buy goods
at a great reduction here is
the place; the time to buy
them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-11

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-11

Topeka steam Laundry.
625 Jackson street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-11

1000 yds. Best Outing
Cloths, our regular 1919
goods. You can buy them
this week at Zoe.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-05-11
a;oWnaaa In Ohio.

One Of Ohio's progressive farmers.
writing to Rural New Yorker, says:
Last year / grew IS acres of cowpeas
for f~ertilizing purposes and am better
pleased than ever with this plant. Land
that is unfavorable to clover will grow
peas. and as / precede the peas with q
heavy coat Of rye tho soil is filed with
organic matter that adds fertility, in
creases the capacity Of the soil to hold
moisture and improves its mechanical
condition. The last is most important
in the growing of potatoes in clayey
loans. Potatoes must have loose earth
around them when growing, and that
follows from the free use Of vegetable
mannres.. -
Last year l hand picked 45 bushels
of peas for seed--partly by proxy, Of
course. The cost Of picking and thrash
ing was about 80 cents a bushel, and as
seed from the south costs me usually
81. 25 a bushel delivered on the farm I
am ahead of the game. II n were pre-
pared to harvest the peas with hogs,
| doubt whether there would be much
profit in picking ones own seed, as the
feeding and fertilizing value of a BUSH
Ell of peas is greater than that of a bush
Ell of wheat. Peas are a great cleansing
IRON
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-05-11
An Asiatic Alliance.

When Japan began to conquer China,
European powers began to growl and to
declare the Japanese should never dis
member the Chinese empire and take
possession of it. Now. when Japan &C.
tually has conquered China and has Civ
en- her terms more moderate than even
China herself could have ventured to
hope for. the European powers growl
again and scent dire events in the Chi
na-.Japanese alliance which Japan makes
as one of the conditions Of peace. It
shall never be, say the European pow
ers, for then these two countries at
peace and in alliance, with Japan to
take the lead, directing the slower ma
ton steadily forward, viii be more than
a match for the combined powers Of
Europe If this alliance is to be struck
for the purpose Of preventing Europe
from swallowing Asia, then the United
States a only say to China and Japan.
"Go ON. brethren, and heaven speed you
in your patriotic aiml"
Japan's. hold on the places she has
conquered in China will only Last till
the war indemnity Of $3.50, 900, 900 La
paid. The peninsula Of Liau- Tong as
far as the fortieth parallel will be coded
permanently to Japan So will the
great island Of Formosa Four Chinese
ports and Picking itself must be opened
to foreign M The Japanese are
TO be allowed { o start cotton and other
factories in China. Considering what
Japan might have exacted. it will be
seen that these'terms ire very moderate.
1t is likely that the conditions i'm
posed on Korea when Japan liberated
her and set her up for herself will also
be imposed OF China The principal one
Of these conditions was that the govern
ment should be justly and economically
administered, and that taxes should be
equitably apportioned. With these two
reforms China would be in a fair way
to place herself alongside Of modern ma
lions Another condition Japan imposed
on Korea was one that China needs bad
ly 1t was that the young men Of the
country should be allowed and encour-
aged to go abroad to study. -
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-05-11
r,.la Erpsr,mens. with whe...

At the Illinois station, of go varieties
Of wheat tested, the largest yields in
1894 were made by New Michigan Am
Der, Yellow Gypsy, Crate, Rock Velvet,
Royal Australian, Currell Prolific,
Dieh1 Mediterranean and Missouri Blue
Stem. The yields Of varieties grown for
o number Of years at the Indiana, Ohio
and Pennsylvania stations. as we'll as
the Illinois station, are given. In a list
of 25 varieties, each Of which had been
tested eve OF more times, the follow
ing gave the largest average yields for
the four stations: Poole, Valley, Royal
Australian, Red Tasmanian and Niger.
Wheat at the rate Of three, four, six,
seven, eight and nine pecks of seed per
aero was sown. The largest yield in
1894 resulted from the use of four pecks
Of seed. For the preceding five years the
average results were slightly in favor
Of sowing eight pecks per acre.