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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-01
C0NPRONLSES SETTLE NOTHING.

COMPROMISES SETTLE NOIHING.
The friends of silver must remember
that in obtaining legislation favorable to
silver, existing public sentiment must be
considered. The. people of this country
are generally conservative and do not be-
lieve in abrupt changes in our govern
mental policy. To advocate the extreme
measure will cause many to stand back
and withhold sympathy and support,
while, if they will be satisfied with rea-
sonable concessions On the part of those
who differ from them, they may be able
to get law passed authorizing the free
coinage of the American product. When
this is done we will have accomplished
great deal. The effort to discredit the
measure advocated by Senator Baker only
drives US further from silver legislation
of any kind.-Holton Tribune (Pop(
Because advocating the 'sxtreme mea-
sure" may cause many to stand back
does not make it any the less right. 1t
is submission to the spirit of concession
and conservatism that ails the country to-
day. Every silver law passed since the
decentralization act of 1878 has been a
compromise measure and has but served
to keep up the fight between the mono
metallists and the bimetallists.
We have compromised and compro-
missed until we have compromised silver
clear out of its position as a money of
final redemption. Even the final blow,
the repeal of the Sherman law,was sort
sort Of a compromise. The supporters
of the white metal were asked to assist
in repeating the law and promised some
Legislation which should be better for
silver and some were doubtless foolish
enough to believe it. They were so con-
sentative.
There will never be a better time to
fight to a finish than just now. Any sort
of compromise will but prolong the
battle and the evil from which the coun-
try is suffering. Under the operation of
the various compromise measures prices
of commodities have steadily fallen. The
monometaliists invariably get the best of
every compromise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-01

is out for exercise this morning, and he
mounts the private stairway.
The door of the speaker room flies open
as he appears. The messenger follows him
into the room and takes his hat and coat
as he doffs them. Half a dozen men are
sitting around the room. The speaker de-
Iivers a comprehensive Good morningF'
to them as he takes out his handkerchief
and wipes the perspiration from his brow.
The first in line is a member of the
house who wants to be recognized to
make a motion. The speaker mods assent
and makes 4 memorandum of bis name.
He is dismissed very quickly. The next
is a member of the committee on rules
who wants brief private conference.
The speaker takes him over to a corner of
the room and talks with him in an under
tone for a few minutes. Ihen he goes
out, and Mr.. Reed turns to the next per-
son. a stranger to him, who has bill
which he hopes may be put through. The
speaker tells him kindly. but firmly, that
he has no power in the matter; that the
bill must go to the appropriate committee.
But he adds note of warning-this is
going to be hard congress to get any
money from, he says. The stranger dis
appears through the doorway, and a mem
Der who has just come in appeals to the
speaker for better quarters for his commit
tee The speaker makes an appointments
with him for later hour.
A senator appears in the doorway with
a family party man, his wife and their
daughter-who want to shake hands with
the speaker. Mr.. Reed does not send them
away with a mere handshake. He stands
and talks with them for a few minutes,
and now his face lights up, his eyes twin
kle, and he smiles for the first time.
The Official Day Begins.
An electric bell in a corner of the room
rings a sharp warning. 1t is noon, the
hour when the house assemblies. Mr.. Reed
makes hurried excuses and bids his visit
ors good day Then he goes through the
broad passageway between the lobby and
the hall of the house, passes the swinging
baize and glass door, mounts the steps of
the rostrum and takes the familiar gavel
in his hand. The machinery is all ready
to set in motion. The chaplain is at the
clerks DESK The reporters are in their
places The assistant sergeant at arms is
ready to put the peace compelling mace in
its place at the speakers right. The desk
clerk, who is the speakers assistant eyes
and ears, stands expectant. Few members
are in their seats when the gavel falls, and
with the sound conversation ceases.
1.-THE house will be in order,'' says the
| sharp, clear, nasal voice of the speaker
Then he announces the chaplain, who de-
| livers brief invocation, the speaker and
| most of the members remaining on their
! feet. The invocation concluded, the speak
| er sits down and announces the reading OF
the journal of the preceding day, and SO
the routine of the days business is taken
up.
AS a rule, the business of the Gay is
| mapped out in advance. 1t has been
| planned by the committee on rules that q
/ certain bill shall be taken up and debated
for an agreed time, and the speaker has
| on his desk list of the men who are to be
recognized to speak. If the bill is to be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-01

The stage IS set for Mr.. Reeds business
day, and l am going to tell you how he
spent his time on a typical day recently
Or how ether people spent his time, a
modest suggestion OF mine, which he was
good enough to say was more like it. +"
This corlment was lot preliminary to a
recital of his days programme, for Mr..
Reed does not exploit himself in CONVERSE
tiOn. In fact, he has a very admirable
degree of conversational modesty, a virtue
not altogether common with public men.
Mr.. Speaker Reed breakfasts with his
wife and daughter at about O'Clock.
Whether he has ham and eggs or mutton
chops on this particular morning I don't
know, and don't care. He probably has
a good appetite for his food, whatever it
is, for a man in such excellent physical
condition, who takes all the sleep his ma,
ture requires, usually has a good appetite
and good digestion. His breakfast eaten,
Mr.. Reed takes the elevator to the fourth
floor of the Shoreham and enters his office.
He finds his stenographer waiting for him,
and this morning there is an early bird,
member from western state, who has
come to ask the speakers advice about
measure he thinks of introducing. Mr..
Reed greets the western member by name.
He knows all of the 356 names now with
out prompting.
He holds out his hand and says, "Good
norning' with that peculiar Maine drawl
which has gained national recognition
since Mr.. Reed entered congress. He
doesn't smile, and his face as he greets his
visitor is a studied blank If Mr.. Reed
ever played poker, he ought to be invinci-
BILE at the game.
Mr.. Reed motions the visitor to the
leather covered armchair and sits down at
the desk. He waits for the other man to
open the conversation, gives him the in
formation he seeks and bows him out of
the room, still with that stolid, serious ex-
preston. Mr.. Reed is much more likely
to smile at his own utterances than at
those OF another-not from lack of appre-
citation at all. He has the popularity which
men found in Charles f. Browne, the
''Artemus Ward" of literature. Browne s
humor bubbled over in a chuckle or a
laugh before it found expression, and the
birth of happy idea in his own mind
gave him exquisite pleasure.
Having disposed of his visitor, Mr.. Reed
turns to the pile of papers on his desk.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-01

~ or the weather is very bad he walks at
least half way to the capitol every morn
ing. If=ttIe Weather is bad he sometimes
calls hanson cab. He objects to the four
wheeler because he usually bumps his
head getting into it, and because it does
not give him the free view of the avenue
which he can get from a hanson. Some
times he takes cable car at the treasury
department corner, one block below the
Shoreham.
He Walks to the Capitol.
This morning the sky is clear, and Mr..
Reed walks ponderously and slow, as one
of his peculiar build must walk. He walks
alone, as usual, his hands clasped behind
his back. Occasionally he meets familiar
figure, and his right hand goes up to-
ward his head and swings in a sweeping
arc as he salutes. There is slight incli-
nation of the head and solemn 'tGood
morningI' But Mr.. Reed wastes no
smiles. Occasionally the speaker stops
and looks at the display in shop window
"a trick which ex-senator Ingalls, had
when he was here.
Mr.. Reed proceeds along the avenue at
a leisurely pace. Usually he takes cable
car at -Four and a Half street, but this
morning is rather mild, he is feeling IN
usually well, and he keeps on to the end
of the avenue, past the Peace monument
and up the incline which leads to the ter
steep ascent, he regrets his determination
to walk, but it is too late to turn back,
and he attacks the first fight of steps, 60
ing up over the wooden blanket which
covers a narrow pathway in the marble in
the winter months. The second flight is
taken a little more laboriously, and the
speaker stops on the top step, draws long
breath and turns to look back over the
city. One of the most beautiful views OF
Washington is to be had from this terrace,
and Mr.. Reed is very fond of studying it.
A shorter flight of steps reaches the
promenade which encircles the building.
Mr.. Reed mounts these steps and nDllows
the path marked by cracked and shriveled
composition paving to the south wing Of
the capitol. A half dozen steps are at the
entrance. A double swinging door opens
on a hallway, in which turn to the right
brings the speaker in few steps to pri
vate passage way running cast and west
Through this he comes to the private stair
way. The elevator is Just beyond. but hi
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-01

TIE brilliant fnancier"of the Ashland
Journal seems to imagine that because
France has a large national debt that she
has borrowed the money from foreigners,
but she hasn't. She has borrowed from
her own people. She did owe con-
siderable sum, not borrowed money,
however, to Germany, but she paid it.
England also has a large national debt as
has every other great nation. To whom
are all these countries indebted? Why,
to their own people. We repeat: The
United States is the only first class ma
ton that borrows from foreigners.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-01
THE interstate commerce law is thus

THE interstate commerce law is thus
sized up by the Wichita Eagle:
Wichita has been before that board
with proofs of the most grievious out
RACES. That board was devised by con-
gress as a wall between itself and an in
dignant people. In serving the railroads
il relieves congress from the disagree
able duty of compelling its patronizing
friends to be just to their constituents
The first case ever brought by Wichita
before that commission was the 'tSau
Francisco sugar rate" which compels
the jcbbers here to pay the rate from
San francisco through to ST. Louis
not only, but an additional
local rate from Kansas City back to
Wichita The commission found that
'tonce upon a time" an old sailor-tub de-
livered via the Horn, a cargo of sugar in
New York, which was laid down in ST.
Louis for sixty-nin cents per hundred,
and that that therefore must be the rate
to St Louis; and further, that Kansas
City, being on waterway, was entitled
to the same rate. but Wichita being on
the prairies must paw from Kansas City
for two hundred mile local haul at a
local rate additional, the said sugar in
the meantime being hauled from San
Francisco to ST Louis daily through
Wichita.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-01
FOR SUFFRAGE'S GOOD. =

Autographs of Miss Anthony and Others
to be Hereafter Sold.
WASHINGTON, Feb I.-Hereafter the
people who want the autograph of Miss
Susan B. Anthony will have to pay for
if. -.
She is asked for her autograph thous-
anGs of times each year. and Mrs. Thorn
as, of Maryland, suggested during the
woman's suffrage meeting today that as
autographs of this kind bore a CONNER
cial value bureau of autographs be es-
ia blished at national headquarters, where
supplies of autographs of the noted
women of the suffrage cause will be sold
for consideration, and the money
turned over to the association fund.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-01

The enemies of ]. R. Burton have
been making great capital over an al
legged interview that he gave to a ST.
Louis paper, and have been drawing
from that interview the inference that
Burton is an egotistical fool. The tenor
and effect of the interview in a great
measure justifies the conclusions As a
matter of fact, however, as the Journal
knows, Mr.. Burton never gave out such
an interview. At the time he was repre-
sented as making his foolish talk in St.
Louis. he was really in Washington, in
blissful ignorance of what reporter was
putting in his mouth, and never even
heard of the ''interview" until he was on
his way back to Kansas and read a west
ern paper that roasted him for his STOOL
talk."-Lawrence Journal
Mr.. Burton was in St. Louis at the
time the Republic article SO repre-
sented. He denies that he was inter
viewed. The Republic reporter did not
say it was an interview" He said Mr..
Burton made the remarks to a friend,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-01

THE railroad commissioners, it seems,
according to their view of the matter, are
helpless to remedy the existing condi-
tions relative to the grain rates. If the
commission cannot do anything in
such a case, then it is an expensive
and useless appendage of the
state government and should be either
abolished or clothed with suffi cient
power to do something effective. If
railroads outside or inside of Kansas are
to be permitted to dictate the routing of
Kansas chief product in seeking a
market and charge whatever price they
choose, it is time the people became
definitely informed of the fact.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-01
MRS. ASTOR RECEIVES.
Over 1000 Invitations Sent Ont to
New York Society.

New York Society.
New YORK, Feb. Mrs. Astor at No.
$40 Fifth avenue, yesterday afternoon
from 4 until Z, held a reception for which
more that thousand cards had been sent
out.
Mrs. Astor received alone in the state
drawing room. She was magniticently
dressed in soft gray silk velvet, adorned,
as usual, with the famous Astor jewels
Great quantities of white iiIacs were en-
plOyed in the decoration of the whole
mansion, except the dining room which
was decorated altogether with American
beauty roses.
A great number of tall tree palms add
ed their effect to the immense hall and
ball room
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-01

"Isn't that Miss SmedleyP I thought
she was sick. Somebody told me Dr.
Pankey had given her up
'Well, he did sort O. give her up, but
not till after be had tried five or six years
to get her''-Chicago Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-01
Karper's Magazine
INfeo6

Briseis, new novel by WILLIAM
BLACK, written with all the authors we'll
known charm of manner, will begin in
the December Number, 1895, and con
tinue until May. 4 new novel by
GEORGE DU MAURIER, entitled The
Marian, will also begin during the
year 1t is not too much to say that no
novel has ever been awaited with such
great expectation as the successor to
TriIby. The Personal RecoiIeCtionS
of Joan of Arc will continue and viii
relate the story of the failure and mar
tyrdon of the Maid of Orleans. Other
important fiction of the year will be .
novelette, by MARK TWAIN. under the
title, Tom Sawyer, Detective; hum
orous three part tale called Two Nor.
mons from MuddIety, by LANGDoN Ell
wYN MITCHELL; and short stories by
Octave 1HAEET, RICHARD HARDING
DAVIS. MARY E. WILKINS. JULIAN RALPH,
BRANDER MATTHEW'S, OWEN MISTER,
and other we'll known writers.
Prof. WOODROW WILSON will contri~
butc six papers on George Washington
and his time, with illustrations by 10
WARD PYsLE. PoULTEEY BIGELOw's
history of The German Struggle for
Liberty, illustrated by r. CATION WOOD
VILE. will be continued through the
winter. Two papers on st. CIair's de.
feat and II ad Anthony Wayue's victory,
by THEODORE ROOSEVELT: with graphic
illustrations will be printed during the
year.
A noteworthy feature OF the MAGA-
ZINE during 1896 viii be series OF ar
ticles by CAsPAR w. WHITNEY, describ-
ing his trip of $500 miles on snow shoes
and with dog-sledge trains into the IN
explored Barren Grounds of British
North America ia pursuit of wood bison
and musk-oxen. Mr.. WHITNEY's series
will have the added interest of being
illustrated from photographs taken by
himself
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-01
OLGA NETHERSOLE SUED.

Miss ESte1ia tombstone Claims to
Possess the Rigsst to Carmen
PHILADELPHIA, Feb 1.-Estella John
stone, formerly Estella Jordan, of New
York, today filed till in equity in the
United States circuit court against Olga
Nethersole and Nixon s. Zimmerman,
asking for preliminary injunction to re-
strain the production of Carmen" at the
Broad street theater.
Miss tombstone claims to be the author
of the dram atization.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-01
GAVE HER 4 THEATER.
A Handsome Wedding Present From
Father to Daughter.


ST. LOUIS, Fob 1.-The ownership of
the lease on Havlin's theater has changed
hands, and the transfer filed Wednesday
morning says it is ''in consideration of the
sum of her love and Affection"
The lease is present from John Hav-
lin and his wife to their daughter, Kath-
crime, and is in the nature of a wedding
present, as the young lady is soon to be
married to Cincinnati man.
The lease has fifteen years to run aud
is very valuable present Mr.. Havlin
viii retain the management Of the thea
ter, but all receipts will go to the young
lady
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-01

and he (the reporter) heard them They
were not for publication. Perhaps Mr.
Burton talked too loud. MIR. Burton,
however, has denied that he said any
thing of the kind, and if the Republic is
unable to prove it's statements. Mr.. Bur
ton should receive the full credit of his
denial whatever it is worth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-01
Too Much ola Good Thing.

Said Police Matron Thorpe today: "a
good many wealthy families will say to
the charity visitor, when asked to help
we give what we have to spare to our
wash woman That wash woman some
times washes for six TO ten families who
DO the very same thing. Wash women's
back rooms have, in several cases, been
found hung full of unused clothes that
ought to be in the hands of the district
visitors of the Associated Charities"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-01

"Why," said one actor to another, edo
you mispronounce the French language
persistently in your impersonation?''
''Why,'' replied the dialect comedian,
with sweet assurance, stI'n afraid the au-
dience would think I am a real French
man and fail to give me credit for acting"
Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-01

THE elections committee is probably
actuated by desire to save the Demo
cratic party from total extinction, and
therefore, decides contests between
Democrats and Populists in favor of the
Democrats
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-01

SPEAKER REED tried his old rule of
counting u quorum for the first time dur
ing the present session on Thursday, and
it worked just as we'll as when it was
new.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-01
REV. AMAZE. SHAW
Will Go to the Pacific Coast to Lecture
in March.

ALAMEDA, Cal, Feb. 1.-The Political
Equality club announces that it has se-
cured the services of Rev. Anna Shaw
for the evening Of March Is The title
of her lecture will be "The New Man."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-01

A ROSE by any other name will smell
as sweet, and the Standard Oil trust re-
organized will be the Standard Oil trust
still
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-01

The interstate commerce law appears
to be much like John Sherman's anti
trust law, made for ornament and not for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-01

IF the interstate commerce law does
not fit the case of the Kansas corn rate,
what is it good for?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-01
Wearner IndieatIonS.

CHICAGO. Feb. 1.-For Kansas
Fair tonight and Sunday; warmer to-
mig hf; variable winds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-01

Topeka to Ell Paso and return for
athletic contests, Santa Fe route One
fare for round trip. Ell Paso to City of
Mexico and return $4,000, Santa Fe
route.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-01
4 DAY WITH
The SPEAKER.
How Mr.. Reed Spends
His Time.
He IsAT HOME TO EVERY ONE
Presiding In the House the Least
of His Many Duties.

He Lives With His Family at a Hotel and
Is Met Everywhere by Men Who wasn't
to Talk to Him-He Sleeps as Late as
He Can In the Morning, Walks to the
Capitol When the Weather Is Fair and
Eats Bread and Milk For His Lunch.
Newspaper Attacks Himself Make
Him Laugh-The Record of One Days
Doings.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-08-08
Tsrfa MOI side-fraesed.

Ia bis speech 10 q Pennsylvania dele.
CATION Ackinley esnphaileally repadi.
nfed the intlmatlon that the taraff 4 ~
be slde-irseksd Ia tbs present easps.sis,p.
Many u the Republican ieaaers a,d
organs, realizing The difficulty u secur.
Ing Democratic support for Mckinley
isfns have tried " catch disaaalsiis,d
Democrats sith the slaiefnent that she
larir Issue Il completely s5de-sraeked
Tor the money question.
bnt while Mckinley is GLAD 10 have
The sound money" Democrats believe
that they are voting for che gold stanG.
ard alone when they vote for him. ys.f
he aud the syndicate back " him 90
not propose " have the iar5n laid %
the shelf.
Major Mckinley knoNs shat be 3 In
ihis campaign for. He knows thas the
magnsies VI Wall street nepnesens only
paf1 u the investors 10 his political
enterprise. He knons that nepadLatl on
0f the tariff Nould break % BIZ syndi-
cate. The people who vote for Mekin-
ley must swallow ell be Represents.
They must take tariff monopoly With
their gold standard. Republic.