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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-22
WORKING AGAINST TOPEKA.
A Kansas City Lobby Working For the
Sc at of an Appellate Court.

A Kansas City Lobby Working For the
Seat of an Appellate Court.
Kansas City is making strong fight
in the conference committee on the ap-
pellate court bill to have the seat of the
court for the eastern division of the north
district removed from Topeka. A lobby
of from ten to twelve is here for the pur-
pose of effecting this change. 1t is Pc
culiar thing about all the legislation
which affects Kansas City, that it has to
have q lobby. at least Kansas City
and lobby by long association have come
to be almost synonymous.
The seat of this court was placed at
Kansas City in the original bill, but was
changed in the house te Topeka, be-
cause it was a central and accessi-
BILE location, while Kansas City
was away off at the end of the division.
The change was made so quickly in the
house that Mr.. Cubbison was hardly
aware of it, until it had been made. But
just as soon as he found what had been
done he set to work to remedy matters
for Kansas City.
Notwithstanding the fact that Kansas
City was interested in the bill Speaker
Lobdell, in appointing the conference
committee, named Mt. Cubbison, who is
speaker PRO tenn, and ordinarily should
not serve on such committee, as a mem
Der on the part of the house.
Seeing what the appointment Of Mr..
Cubbison meant Mr. Sherman circulated
a petition among the members from the
counties in the eastern division and Sc
cured twenty-one names out of twenty
seven to to retain the seat of the court at
Topeka
Mr.. Cubbison then protested to
the conference committee that
he had been treated unfairly
that his city had not been given a chance
to be heard 1t was then decided by the
committee to have a Shawnee county
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house. S. B. Isenhart defended him.
Judge Ferry took it under advisement
till Monday morning.
Miss Jennie Sherman. of Ottawa. re-
turned Presbyterian missionary from
India, addressed the students of Wash
burn college, last night, in behalf of
Congregational mission which is located
near her foreign home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-22
PAGES CREATE MERRIMENr
They Have Mock House and Resolve OIL
Mr.. Cannon.

They Have . Mock House and Resolve on
Mr.. Cannon.
The pages held a session of the house
just before the house convened last night
and the proceedings were SO much more
interesting than the regular house they
had the attention of every one.
George Satterthwaie called the mock
house to order and instructed the clerk
to call the roll. After this was done he
announced Introduction of bills. Nearly
every page in the house cried: "Mr
Speaker, I desire to introduce the follow
ing" and sent pieces of paper up to the
clerks desk to be read
"The sergeant will preserve order in the
lobby" said the speaker, rapping loudly
with his gaveL
Mr.. Rohrbaugh tried to get into the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-22
HARD TREATMENT.
The Abilene Reflector oins in the CIamor
Against the Poor Legislators.

The Abilene Reflector oins in the CIamor
Against the Poor Legislators.
No Republican paper in the state at
large is commencing this Legislature, al
though it is the "Redeemer's" legisla-
ture, and is not vicious in its intentions
as the last one was. There is one good
point about the present body; it is not
threatening the state with revolution at
any rate. Nevertheless, every Repub-
lican organ in the state is abusing it. The
latest to Join in the outcry against it is
the Abilene Reflector, which contains the
following paragraphs:
There is too much playing horse at
the state house and too little business for
the present legislature to go down in
history with much glory"
'The Kansas legislature spent $500
worth of time quarrelling over a $50
clerkship."
''Of all the fool measures on which the
legislature has wasted valuable time this
session the bill granting franchise to nine
strong minded women, eight at Topeka
and one at Great Bend. is the most idiot.
ic What was the legislature elected
for, anyhow"
"The legislatures chief duties up to
date appear to have been to pay board to
Topeka boarding houses and to supply
jobs for Topeka people. Why shouldn't
it be called the Topeka legislature?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-22
TO BUY a PICIUkE OF PLUMB.
An Appropriation Placed in the Hous,
Bill for That Purpose.

The large oil painting of the late Sen
ator Plumb which hung in Representa-
tive hall for the most of the session and
is now in the senate chamber, will soon
be the property of the state if the senate
takes favorable action on the house ap-
preparation. A committee of three was
appointed, Mr.. Lambert of Lyon, chair
man, to see what the picture could be
bought for. The committee reported
that the picture was the property of Prof.
W. A. Griffith who painted it and that it
could be purchased for $500 The COM
mittee recommended that the ways and
means committee place that amount in
the miscellaneous appropriation fund for
that purpose, which has been done. 1t
is to be hoped the senators will not OBJ.
ject to the purchase of this picture of
one of the greatest and most liberal
minded of Kansans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-22
NEW JUDICIAL APPoRTIoNMENr.
The House Recommends the Bill Though
a Fight is Made on it.

The House Recommends the Bill Though
a Fight is Made on it.
The judicial apportionment bill pre-
pared by the committee of which Mr..
Bone is chairman, was favorably recon-
mended by the committee of the whole
last night No changes were made from
the outline of the new districts as pub
lished in this paper few days ago. The
only amendments made were as to the
dates of holding court in certain coun-
ties.
A strong fight was made by the repre-
sentatives from the Twenty-eight judi
cial district on the new appOrtionment
but they were not able to carry their
point. The Twenty eighth district COM
prises the counties of kingman, Pratt
and Kiowa. The new arrangement takes
Kingman and Pratt and places them
with Harper to make up the new Twen-
ty- fourth The objection to this was
because Judge Mckay is judge OF the
present district composed of Harper and
Barber counties and would therefore be
Judge of the new district
Neither the Populists nor Republicans
representing those counties were salts
fed with this, though Mckay is Pop
ulist Judge. Brown of Pratt, Winters of
Kiowa and Cannon of Kingman (Repub-
lican), all protested against the appor-
tionment and said the entire bar of the
district was opposed to it. Mr.. Brown
threatened to take his case to the senate
and get what he wanted there If the
house didn't give it to him, and Mr.. Can
non, by all sorts of dilatory and obstruc-
tive tactics, sought to prevent the ar
rangement. All their amendments were
voted down, however, and the district re-
mains the same as arranged by the COM
mittee. Kiowa, the other county of the
demonstrating Twenty eighth district, is
placed with Barber, now in the district
of Judge Mckay, Clark, Comanche, Ford,
Meade and Gray in the new Thirty first
district. The bill cuts off six districts in
the state, saving $4,000 in salaries
/ alone.
Mr.. Funk of Marion also made fight
on the dismemberment of the Twenty
fifth district, but every one of his amend
ments was voted down.
| Mr.. Beekman made a strong plea fol
the division of Cowley county into two
sections, so that court might be held al
Arkansas City. He promised that it should
not cost any one a cent, but the division
was not made.
The six judges who will be left out il
the new arrangement.are: Judge Hum
phrey of the Eighth district. Democrat
| Judge Lucien Earle, Democrat, Twenty
fifth; Judge C. W. Shinn, Populist
Twety-sixth; Judge A J. Abbott, Repub
| lican, Twenty-seventh; Judge w. o
Bashore. Populist, Twenty eighth, RnC
Judge Andrews, Demo Populist
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proceedings but the boy speaker wouldn't
let him do as he does in the regular
house, and ruled him out of order the
second time he rose
blouse resolution No. 10, by Mr.. Frost"
read the clerk.
Resolved, That the speeches of Mr..
Hopkins of Finney, have too much wind
in them.
Another resolution which was received
with great laughter was:
Resolved. That Mr.. Cannon of King
man, be put under the table. 1t was car
ried with a whoop.
At this point Lambert of Lyon, moved
to go into committee of the whole on the
irrigation bills, and Elmer Howard was
called to the chair.
Some one demanded a roll call. you
can't call the roll in the committee"
said the chairman
The committee arose and asked leave
to sit again. vote was supposed to be
taken on the irrigation bills.
"Mr. Speaker desire to explain my
VOTE" said Boyd Lambert. 81 believe
the suffering people of western Kansas
need irrigation. and they ought to have
it, therefore vote aye"
All the pages took part in the pro-
ceedings, and clapped their hands for
pages when they wanted to send up a
bill The reading clerk stood on a chair.
The whole proceeding created great
merriment among the mem bers and Wis
itors who had arrived.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-22
SNAP FOR THE UNDERWRITERS.
Senator Cookies Premature Burial Bill /
So Looked On.

Senator Cookies Premature Burial Bill Is
So Looked On.
Senator Cookies pet bill to prevent the
premature burial of human beings was
itself prematurely buried in the senate
yesterday. The senate was disposed to
treat the measure with levity, but it was
a most serious matter with Senator
Cooke and, may be, with some of the
people prematurely buried; and he
fought for it as though he half expected
to be one of the victims if it failed to
pass. The great trouble with the bill
was that it required corpses to be kept
for seventy-two hours before burial, ex-
cept in cases where the victim was run
over by a freight train or other cases
where there was no possible doubt of
death.
Senator Cooke expressed as his belief
that many persons have been buried
alive.
The enemies of the bill said it would
be a snap for the undertakers who could
nearly always get job EN- balming near
ly every dead body in order to preserve
it for the requisite time. OF course it
was not an agreeable measure to debate
over, but it was in the legislation and
bills must be debated. Possibly another
fault of the bill was that it did not create
any offices or fees a board or two in
each precinct to decide when a man was
really dead or in trance, official county
embalmers and a sanitary board to SUI
pervise the whole work might have made
it more popular. 1t was the authors
idea to change the historic lines to
Friends. Romans. countrymen,
LEND me your ears.
1--WE come to embalm Caesar,
"NOt to praise him.
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House Notes.

The house saw its shadow yesterday
and then went back into the committee
of the) whole
Mr.. Eckstein, who was chairman of
the committee of the whole house yester-
day afternoon, got more vigOr into the
proceedings than has been evident for
some time.
P P Elder has been visitor in the
house several days, and when the house
gets in one of its characteristic tangles
it makes him smile.
When Mr.. Cannon doesn't want mo-
ton to prevail, he makes a point of order
and then asks Col. Warner if he is right.
Mr.. Cannon thinks Harry Bone was
sparkling, and got his ideas for the new
judicial districts from crazy quilt pat
tern.
Mrs. T. C. Ballinger of Burlington is
visiting her husband, Representative
Ballinger.
1t is a question among the friends of
Harry Bone, if the ladies would like him
so well if they saw him with his spec
tacles on.
Mr. Pancake has no reputation as
base ball player but he ought to make
good batter.
Representative Hopkins has earned
the right to be called Hopkins of Fun
ney."
Half the members of the house say
sergeant of arms" and committee in
the whole"
There are a few members who haven't
said word except on roll calls since the
| legislature met. They are the bright
pond lilies on the turbid slough of elo-
| quence.
Senator McTaggart's bill to establish
Grand Army museum in the state CAPT.
| toll passed the house.
The senate bill granting pension of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-22

We are heavy buyers for cash, and it
it is comparatively easy for US to name
prices that set competition struggling.
Do you see the point
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-22
A Few senate Notes.

G. G. Hutchinson, founder of the city
of Hutchinson who now lives in Califor-
MIA, was on the floor of the senate last
night when the bill establishing the
Hutchinson reformatory was passed.
Senator Lucien Bakers iron-clad anti
pass bill had its enacting clause stricken
out by the senate. Nobody claimed this
was legal bill-not even Mr.. Baker,
himself.
Senator Lands went home to Medi-
cine Lodge last night His daug liter has
been on her death bed for several weeks
aud is admitted to be past all hope
Several senators wanted to adjourn
until Monday afternoon, but the better
judgment OF the minority prevailed and
the adjournment is only over Washing
toms birthday. The senate meets Satur-
day as usual
The members of the Leavenworth coal
miners lobby are ]. F. Pratt, VIM Evans,
Sam Schmeidt, John Wasco, Ernest
johnson and P c. Fields
The Gardenhire- Shearer anti-pass bill
will probably be reported tomorrow from
the railroad committees; favorably, of
course.
Senator Householder left the senate
Yesterday sick.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-22
EGGING ON A FIGHT.

A Bill to Punish a Man Who Pro-
vokes an Assault.
Senator SCOTS bill defining criminal
provocation, passed the senate yester-
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1895-04-20
CARDINAL ANToNELLl.
Tho Great Papal Statesman as He APP
penred to "a Painter.

Tho Great fapni statesman as He APP
pcnred to IA Painter.
Rudolph Lehmann's visit to Rome in
1857 led to the painters introduction TO
the great papal statesman, Cardinal An
tonolli He says:
Before me sat that execratod states.
man, "tho best hated man in Rome,
In tho most atfablo of moods His
bronzod and somewhat oriental features
wero certainly far from handsome. but
they were full of character, energy. and.
according TO some, cruelty, with the
large, dark, piercing eyes overshadowed
by "A heavy brow, tho strong aquilino
nose aud tho full sensual lips. He was
In talkativo mood and spoke freely Of
tho difficulties that bosot his onerous
ministry, OF tho position Of the papacy
becoming daily moro threatened through
the ever increasing energy of its wicked
enemies, or what he called tho modern
spirits " But" no added, history
teaches us that 1t has always triumphed
in the long run. and twill do so now. T"
He also told me that tho worldly inter
ests of tho brothers Antonelli had never
been separated; that they possessed all
their worldly goods in common. ono
brother being director OF the Banca Ro-
mana; one. the Conte Gregorio, taking
care Of their vast possessions in the Pom
tino Marshes a third being syndaco Of
Romo and tho youngest being employed
in diplomatic missions by tho secretary
OF state.
During short rest no showed me-
with evident pride, over his elegant
apartment, furnished with all tho latest
modern comforts. But tho browning eli
max was the bedroom, combining with
tho solomnity and mystery OF tho abode
Of prince of tho church all the luxu-
ries of the houdoir of a petite maitresse.
The walls, tho curtains, as we'll as the
hangings round tho spacious four poster.
were OF tho heaviest crimson damask.
Topped up with enormous tassels- --Bos-
ton Herald
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anna n.au,le. Of ,he Ansrh.nIs..

Tho Alleghanies arc fertile TO tho very
SUBMITS, and not the least of their glo-
ries are their magnificent forests of oak,
hickory, chestnut, maple, pine and 9TH
err noble trees, in tho spring whom they
are budding forth. in the summer when
they are in tho full bloom of maturity
and when the laurel is in blossom. and
in the fall. W hen tho brilliant tints Of
red and gold aud green and purple over
whelm ono with a sense Of Mother Ma
turo's aesthetic genius in always har-
monizing such profusion Of colors.
After all. it is the thoroughly salts
factory sport TO be had with the game
sheltered In these mountains that most
endears them to the man who has any
taste whatever for that sort Of thing
The conditions are perfect Tho game
ranges from quail. or, as the Nirginians
call il. partridge. 70 deer and bear. and
especially this is one Of the last stroag-
holds of that noble game bird. the wild
turkey. Magazine OF Travel
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1895-04-20
MONEY MAKING.
The Quickest Way to Pile Up Wealth In
This Business Era.

The reason of the modern differences
in favor of business as an instrument Of
money making is not far to seek. 1t is
the enormous growth in the scale of ev-
erything in which business can be done.
The enterprise of merchant, of con-
tractor, of a mine dealer, even of shop
keeper, may now cover the whole world
and may be carried ON, moreover, main
ly upon credit 1t may be doubted
whether, except in those transactions
which are called financial, " and which
really mean the taking Of heavy brides
for pecuniary support, any one transac-
ton ever yields quite as much as the
same transactions would have yielded
60 years ago; whether, for example, any
cargo ever produces ton for ton an equal
margin of profit, or whether any Gus
toner in a shop pays quite so heavy
percentage on the goods he buys.
1t is the magnitude and multiplica-
ton of cargoes which yield fortunes,
the thousands instead of hundreds of
customers whom clever dealers may in
duce to spend money The new system
of rapid turnover is, Of course, precisely
lllt rllllt lillDk"lut rtlllik AOul
times what he did and using only the
same capital. This advantage Of scale is
almost entirely wanting to the profess
sional man, for the obvious reason that
he is hampered by limitations of time.
There are only 600 minutes in hard
worked day, and the seeker after in
come, be he as able as he may or as de-
cided or as rapid, must give some Of
those minutes to each client or patient
or contractor with a difficulty to meet.
If he does not, he loses custom, and
with custom income rapidly slips away.
There are no doubt favorite lawyers,
doctors and even engineers whose adj
vice is sought at great expense, when
equally good advice is procurable much
cheaper, but still the favorites must give
their advice and lose their days in doing
it, or they will speedily be deserted.
Nothing can alter this first law, while
the exaggeration of professional fees is
kept down in the case of solicitors by
positive statute, in that of doctors by an
etiquette difficult to define or explain
there seems to be no reason why great
physician should not charge according
to skill-and in that of barristers and
engineers, by a competition, which,
though never acknowledged, is none the
less real and effective. We can not sec
what is to alter this condition of affairs,
and do not believe that, however civil.
lization may develop itself, professional
skill will ever again be the quickest
road to large accumulations. London
Spectator
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1895-04-20
NINE. ALBANl.
An Incident In Which Patti Answered n
Remark About Her.
Spectator.

Remark About Her.
To writer in The Woman at Home
Nine. Albani has been giving some de-
tails of her life. my voice is certain
amount of care to me, " she said. You
think that it always sounds fresh and
clear?" Well, watch over it and never
allow it to become tired if can help it.
On the days | am engaged to sing at the
opera do not talk above a whisper for
many hours beforehand, besides which
| believe in careful diet. Tea l forbid
myself Bordeaux find excellent. And
sometimes, between the acts of an opera,
take, through straw, cup of bouil-
Ion made in the French way. which
find very restorative.
Nine. Albani could sing any tune
sung to her long before she could speak
my sister, >" she added, will tell you
that she distinctly remembers my first
soprano note-a real note, long sustain
ed. We were playing together in our cot
in the early morning before the house
hold were astir, and, baby though she,
too, was, she has not forgotten the effect
made upon her. At s years old l actual
ly entered the musical profession. All,
do not taught 1t is true. l made little
'tournee of some months duration and
was much petted and spoiled wherever
| went Then few years later | was
sent to be educated at a convent and
engaged to take the soprano solo at a
mass.
There is good-and true-story Of
how one day Adelina Patti, when
walking down Regent street one morn
ing with her first husband, the Marquis
de Caux, stopped at the windows of the
stereoscopic company. There were
shown, side by side, photographs of her
self and the debutante, Mile. Emma AL
bani. Patti stood close to the window
and was unnoticed by a young man
Longing in the background Look, :"
he exclaimed in a loud and jubilant
voice, lat that photograph of Albani
She's the new prima donna, and every
body is raving over her. Patti will be
nowhere very soon. That's one thing
certainP And Patti, turning round sud
denly upon the speaker, made him o
swift little courtesy. THANK you, sir, F"
she exclaimed. her eyes sparkling with
mischief The man was rooted to the
spot with amazement Patti stopped Just
an instant to enjoy the effect she had
created and then tripped off laughing
through the crowd ON her way home
ward.
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BRUSSELS AND TAPESTRY.
Tho Difference Between These Two Kinds
OF Carpets Explained.


OF Carpets Explained.
By placing brussels and tapestry
carpet sido by side a clearness and
sharpness are noticed about the brussels
carpet which are absent from tho tapes
try. In the latter there is mistiness
about tho colors. and the pattern lacks
that sharpness and delicacy which char
aoterizo the former. This is due to the
process of manufacture. A brussels is a
yarn dyed, and tapestry may be de-
scribed rs printed fabric, but the print
ing is done upon the yarn before the
process of weaving.
The whole method of manufacture is
most ingenious. In the making of a five
frame brussels no Tower than 1, $50 ends
of face yarns are required for the weav-
ing of one piece of standard quality,
each frame consisting of 256 bobbins.
and 900 ends only can como TO the face
at each pick of the pattern Therefore
1854 ends of yarn are hidden in tho
body OF tho fabric There are many
qualities of tapestry. but in the produo-
ton Of tho standard quality only ZIG
cnuS OF TACO yarn hfc IcqulIoui lunttdu
of / $50, which shows at once that the
brussels carpet has the great advantage
of being thicker. softer and altogether a
more durable cloth apart from other adj
vantages which it possesses. There is a
limitation in the number Of colors used
in brussels In tapestry there is no
limit In the brussels the whole of the
colors used show a more or less striped
appearance at the back Of the fabric.
In n tapestry they do not show at the
back az al. This fact is made use Of by
householdors in purchasing carpets, this
being about the only way the average
person can tell the difference between
them In order to pass of tapestry as
brussels some ingenious makers have
resortod to the stripping in a regular
manner of the backs Of the former. The
stripy effect in the latter is broken and
Irregular A casual observation of the
clearly defined character of brussels
pattern should enable buyer to distin-
guish between tho two fabrics. Fur
nishors' Gazette