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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
SEVEN JUDGES.
The State Bar Association Rec
omm ends an Increase
In the Number of Supreme
Court Judges.
A SIMILAR PROPOSAL
Voted Down "Heavily" In This
State Some Years Ago.
Convention.
A SIMILAR PROPOSAL

The State Bar association, through a
special committee appointed for the pur-
pose, will ask the present legislature to
provide for the submission of a prop
osition amending the constitution so as
to allow an increase of four judges to
the supreme bench. This increase would
give the supreme court seven judges.
In a paper before the association,
Judge T. F. Carver reviewed the work
of the courts of appeal and called atten-
ton to the fact that it will be impossible
for the three judges of the supreme
court to handle the appeal cases of the
state after the appellate courts go out
of existence in 1901. In concluding, he
offered the following preamble and res
olution and urged its adoption by the
association:
GAS judges and lawyers familiar with
the business pending and to be done in
the appellate courts of the state, we ap-
preciate the fact that the necessity for
relief from the work that will fall upon
the supreme court will not end with the
expiration of the time for which the
courts of appeal were created, and that
further provision of some kind is de-
manded by the growing needs of the
state for the hearing of cases appealed
from the district courts. We realize that
II is impossible for the supreme court
as now composed of only three judges
to transact the business of that court
after the second Monday of January,
1901, and believe the best provision that
can be made for the future is to make
such an increase of the members of the
judges of the supreme court as will en-
able it to do the work that is now being
done by that court and the six judges of
the courts of appeals.
Therefore, resolved, the State Bar
association recommends that a PROPOSE
ton be submitted to the present legisla-
fI1T 10 Of orfi oIn fNP
the constitution so as to increase the
number of Judges of the supreme court
to seven, with power, when deemed
necessary, to sit in two divisions for the
hearing of cases.
The resolution was una imous1y
adopted and motion made for the ap-
pOintment of a committee of five MEM
berS with the president chairman.
This motion carried and President Allen
named T. F. Carver, David Overmyer,
w. H. Morris and Jas. A. Troutman as
members of the committee.
The committee will at once proceed
with the legislative work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
GRAVES OF THEIR DEAD.
Mothers and Daughters of the Con-
federacy Want to Care For Them.

Atlanta, Ca, Jan. 28.-The daughters
and mothers of the Confederacy who
have cared for the graves where sleep
their fallen heroes do not desire that
this sacred duty be entrusted to others.
There was recently received in the var
ious states of the south letters from the
government officials asking for inform
alton relative to the location of Confed-
crate cemeteries. These letter resulted
asking for this information so that it
Washington. In reply to letters recent
ly sent out Gen. Evans has received a
number of letters urging that the ladies
of the south who have cared for the
soldiers graves be permitted to con-
tinue in their work of love.
The ladies desire their position fully
understood. They say they are not an
tagonizing the government, and are not
objecting to any offered cooperation or
any rendered or probable appropriation,
but desire to continue to perform the
duties in which they have faithful and
constant since the civil war. An appro-
priation from the government, should
one be made, would, of course, be of
valuable assistance to the women who
are caring for the heroes graves, but
at the same time it is said that no or
ganized effort has been made by the
women to secure this appropriation. The
information, however, that has been
asked for by the Washington officials is
being rapidly secured, and will be for
warded to Washington in a few days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
LET THEM DROP PASSES.
State Bar Association Think Judges
Shouid Refuse Railroad Favors.

The judiciary committee of the State
Bar association, made a report at
Its. meeting, advancing two rec
concentrations. One was for the ap-
pointment of a special committee of
three attorneys by each branch of the
legislature at every session to look after
the titles of bills and see that in each
case the title covered the subject mat
ter. The other. was that all free rail-
road transportation should be refused
by members of the state Judiciary.
The report of the committee and
Judge Aliens address consumed the en-
tire morning session of the association.
The report of the committee was read
by Chairman StNlwell. He said that
the provision Of the constitution which
provides that the title of a bill must
clearly express the subject matter was
responsible for more grief to the judi
ciary and legal fraternity of the state
than anything else that was met with.
He referred to an opinion handed down
by Justice Johnston of the supreme
court in a case in which the release of a
prisoner who was unable to pay his fine
and costs was asked. The decision
stated that a very plausible argument
had been made, which would undoubt-
eddy have been of great force if it had
not been discovered on inspection that
the chapter of the session laws on which
it was based referred to the setting
aside of a public park in the town Of
Auburn, Shawnee county, for a school
site.
In reference to the refusal of free
transportation, Mr.. Stillwell stated that
the committee id not believe there was
a judge in the state who would be in
fluenced in the slightest degree in his
official actions by the courtesy of rail-
road transportation He went on to
say, however, that there are a great
the judiciary are influenced by just such
courtesy on the part of the railroad
companies. In concluding the report, he
said:
Let the judges remove this cause of
complaint. Let them kindly and cour-
teously but firmly, decline to accept
free trans ortation from railroad COM
panies, telegraph franks or other similar
gratuities. We believe that in so doing
they will not only have the approval of
a good conscience, but will win addi-
tional respect from the bar, and, other
things being equal, will gain and hold
that which is Indispensable to a salts
factory judicial career, namely, the i'm
plicit trust and confidence of the COM
mon people,
Besides Chairman StillwelI, C. H.
Kimball, James Farrow and David
Overmyer are members of the commit
tee. A supplemental report, which had
been prepared by Mr.. Overmyer too late
to be incorporated in the committee re-
port, was read. 1t recommended the
right of oral presentation in applica-
lions for rehearings in the supreme
court, the simplifying and cheapening
of the process of appeals to the United
States supreme court and the circuit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
TOOK GRANTS MONEY
And Promised Support to All
Other Candidates.

Sacramento, Cal, Jan. 2S.-The spec
iaI committee appointed to investigate
into scandals connected with the cleo
ton of United States senator has filed
it's report. The committee finds that
Howard E. Wright, speaker of the as
sembly, received from u. s. Grant Jr.,
through his political manager, Milton
J. Green, $500 as a gift and $3.50 as
loan; that Wright, prior to his election
deceived John d. SpreckelS and w. s.
Leake to secure their support for the
speakership, stating that he was I'M
pledged to any senatorial candidate;
that by promising to vote for Robert
N Bulla for United States senator he
secured BulIa's support for the speak
ership; that by the acceptance of
Grants money, and by the solicitation
of Daniel NJ. Burns influence, IN
order to secure his election as speaker.
Wright led each of those candidates for
United States senator to expect his
vote.
The report further states that Milton
J. Green, the duly appointed and ac-
credited agent of U. S. Grant Jr., ex-
pended large sums of money, exceeding
in the aggregate $50, 900, but the exact
amount of which is to the committee
unknown to secure the election of a Re-
publican legislature.
The committee finds that D. M.Burns.
Robert N. Bulla, w. H. L. Barnes and
the other senatorial candidates, except
Grant expended no money and promis-
ed no patronage to promote their re-
spective candidates.. The committee of
investigation recommends:
First-That the conduct of Howard E.
Wright, speaker of the assembly as
above set forth be held to be reprehen-
sible in an extreme degree and that no
mere censure on the part of the as
semb1y can meet the requirements of
justice but the matter of adequate pun
ishment be left entirely in the assembly
without recommendation from the COM
mittee.
Second-That the expenditure Of
large sums of money in aid of the can
didacy of a. United States senator in
the manner above set forth is wrong
and reprehensible in that it is calcula-
ted to corrupt morals, to debauch the
political system. to deter poor men OF
ability from entering upon a senatorial
campaign and to give to the rich an
unwarranted and unjustifable advant-
age over men of equal ability and
qualifications but of limited means.
That the receiving of money by leg
is1ative candidates from probable sena-
trial candidates, either directly or indi-
rectly in aid of their own candidacy is
reprehensible for the same reasons
The report was made a special order
for today, prior to taking the vote for
United States senator.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION
Mr.. Burns Makes an Argument That
Would Please the Peace Society.

In his paper on international arbitra-
ton Burns of Olathe made strong
plea for arbitration as a means of set
ting international difficulties. After a
thorough and lengthy review OF the sub
ject, he said:
Our observation, our experience and
history unite in establishing the fact
that war is not only the most cruel and
barbarous, but also the most expensive
mode of settling international difficult
ties that was ever devised by the wis
dom or the folly the ingenuity or the
wickedneSS of man, and it further ap-
pears that in the very nature of things,
from the constitution Of the human
mind and its processes of reasoning and
deciding, and from the principles of
truth and justice which support the law
and influence the reasoning, the con-
illusions and decisions of men, that it is
impossible that war or physical force
ever did or ever can settle any question
of truth or justice law.
ut may be stated in conclusion that
the system of international arbitration
for the determination of all internation-
al disputes which can not be settled by
treaty alone, is in every way and from
every point of view, as superior to war
as intelligence and virtue are to physi-
cal strength and brute force, or as
civilized nations are to savage tribes,
or as man is to the beasts of the field
And while the march of civilization is
slow, yet there is a movement that is
perceptible, and it is forward and con-
tinuous and irresistible. Under silent
but resistless force and magic power,
the slave trade, and later on the in
stitution of slavery itself, has been
abolished throughout the world Priva-
teering, which simply was legalized
privacy, has been denounced and aban-
doned by all enlightened nations, and
duelling, which was war between in
dividualS, is now branded as murder or
felony and punished as such by the ma
lions most advanced in civilization, and
we have good reason to hope that dur
ing the first half century upon which we
are soon to enter, war, which has been
the curse of the nations through all the
centuries will cease throughout the
world
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
first conductor on the extra list

first conductor on the extra list.
A syndicate of AtchiSon men is ne
gotiating with the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa for a long lease on the Santa Fe
elevator. The object is to utilize the
elevator and power plant in the opera
ton of a hard wheat flour mill.
William A. Lucas, who works in the
diSpatcherS' office at the Santa F'e EN-
porta depot, has been appointed to the
position of cashier at La Junta. He will
leave for that place the first of next
month
The Santa F'e company has moved a
rail-sawing machine from Newton to
Las Vegas, and is now having it erect
ed in the yards south of the new ice
house. 1t covers a space. of 45XS0 feet
and looks like a bridge on stills. Its
purpose is to saw off the battered ends
of old rails and make them as good as
new or almost that good.
Clay Center has registered a kick that
trains 9, 10 IL and II go through that
town at not less than 80 or 30 miles an
hour, and an order has been issued to
all concerned to go slower through that
city.
The pile driver work train on the
Rock Island has been taken off and will
not be resumed until March L. The
driver has been sent to Horton shops
for repairs.
The first shipment of ice was put into
the new Santa Fe Pacific ice house yes
terday morning. F. H. Pierce, the con-
tractor, under whose instructions the
house was built, came down from Las
Vegas to Superintend the Work.-AlbO-
QuerQue JOurnal-DemOcrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
ABOUT JEREMY BENTHAM.
Biographical Sketch Read by Silas
Porter, of Kansas City.

Two papers were read at the closing
session of the State Bar association
yesterday afternoon. One by Silas Por-
ter of Kansas City on Jeremy Ben
than" and one by John T. Burns OF
Olathe on international Arbitration"
TIL foremer paper was an interesting
sketch of the life of the great law re-
former. Referring in conclusion to
Benthams personal characteristics, Mr..
Porter said:
I'm appearance Bentham is said to
have resembled Benjamin Franklin,
and the oddities of his character were
displayed by many peculiaritieS in dress
and personal habits. He enjoyed the
pleasures of the table to the very last
of his long life. He never married, and
lived for so years almost entirely with
out relatives or kinfolkS near him.
Despite the intellectual Vigor of his
mind, he confessed that he was pos
sessed all his life with an unreasonable
fear of ghosts, though he had convinced
himself by systematic investigation,
that such things never existed. He was
afraid to go to sleep in the dark and
kept a light burning in his room to as
sure him in case he awakened suddenly
in the night. His mother died when he
was II, and his father married sec
ond time. He never liked his step
mother, but the principal reason seems
to have been that she always called him
Mr.. jerry and had a habit Of drink
ing the roast mutton gravy out of the
dish before she sent it below.
John Doe and Richard Roe Bentham
called the turtle doves Of the law,
and he might have had in mind the re-
when he uttered the following with
reference to an irrevocable law, Cat all
events it seems to fit the present situa-
ton in several particularly When a
law is immutable and happens at the
same time to be too foolish and mis-
chievous to be endured, instead of being
repealed it is clandestinely evaded or
openly violated, and thus the authority
of all law is Weakened
when a youth he modestly declined
to attach his signature to the SO articles
of faith, giving as his reason that he
had never read them. He took nothing
for granted. He was a kind of Missouri
ian in his way of reasoning. He had to
be shown
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
RAILROAD NEWS.
Santa Fe May Substitute Col
ored Train POrters
For Front Brakemen on Their
Main Line
AS 1T is IN OKLAHOMA.
The Rear Brakeman Makes Out
the Reports
While the Porter Keeps the
Cars Cleaned Up.
AS IT'S IN OKLAHOMA.

The proposition to substitute colored
porters for front brakemen on several
divisions of the Santa F'e is under con-
sideration.
For about year colored porters have
been running on the Oklahoma division
from Newton to Purcell. The arrange
ment has been so satisfactory that the
idea may be adopted on the main line.
The train porter supplants the front
brakeman and besides the duties of
brakeman he keeps the cars clean and
does other work that the front brake
man does not do. The rear brakeman
has all the reports to make. This plan
of colored train porters has been in OPP
Grafton on the Union Pacific for years
but the Santa Fe has adopted it only
on the Oklahoma division.
If the system of cOlored porters is
adopted it will cause changes in the
train crew as the rear brakemen will
be the only ones retained and the front
brakemen will no longer be employed
where the train porters are in use.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
ITS EYEON AGONCILLO.
The Government is Watching the
Willy Filipino.

Washington, Jan. 2S.-The officials at
the state department are mute respect
ing the treatment to be accorded Agon-
cilIo the representative here of Aguin-
aldo, although it is known that he has
been held under surveillance ever since
his arrival in this city and that it was
learned that he was in correspondence
over the cables with his chief general
ly through some of the Philippine jun
tas in Hong Kong, London or Paris but
whether any telegram has been actual
ly intercepted cannot be learned. There
is good ground also for the belief THAI
Agoncillo in receiving advice from GER
tain persons inimical to the policy the
president has adopted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
RAILROAD NOTES.

w H. Bush, civil engineer Of the
Missouri Pacific, has returned from st.
Louis to Atchison, where he has been
for the past week consulting with Off
Gals in regard to the improvements
which are to be made in the spring to
the track between Kansas City and
Atchison.
F. P. Morgan has been appointed
general live stock agent of the Pecos
Valley & Northwestern Railway COM
pany, with headquarters at Eddy, N. M
Freight business on the Missouri Pa
cific has dropped off considerably dur
sng the past few weeks, and one of the
emergency crews at Atchison has been
taken off. A. H. Smith, conductor of
the crew discontinued, will become the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
A Forerunner of the Most
Fatal Disease.

Though its offensive features
are sometimes almost unbearable,
few people are aware of the danger
of which Catarrh is the forerun-
ner. Catarrh invariably leads to
Consumption. Growing worse and
worse each winter, those who rely
upon the usual treatment of
sprays, washes and inhaling mix
lures find that it is impossible to
check the disease with these local
applications which only reach the
surface. The offensive discharge
increases all the while, causing a
feeling of personal defilement, and
gets deeper and deeper until it is
only a question of short time
until the lungs are affected.
The Importance of the proper
treatment can therefore be readily
appreciated. But no good what
ever can be expected from local
applications, as such treatment
never did cure Catarrh, and never
viii.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
PRESENT WAR TAX
Denounced By Georgia Judge in His
Charge to Grand Jury.

Marietta, Ca, Jan. 2S.-Judge Geo.
Gober's charge to the grand jury at
Marietta yesterday caused a sensation.
Judge Gober read the statute prescrib-
ing the duty of grand juries in going
over the tax lists, and said that the
burdens of government should be borne
equally in proportion to wealth. From
this as a starting point he discussed
federal taxation and the war tax. He
said that congress had voted $50, 900, 900
for war purposes and had increased it
to $500, 900, 900. He stated that as the
population of the country was 10000, 900,
and that of Cobb county w&s $1,000,
Cobb's pro rata part of the $50, 600. 900
war appropriation was SIT, 1000, and her
part of the 5000, OOO, 900 was $64, 900.
The Judge asked where this was go
ing to end. Judge Gober said that this
government had started on the course
of the older governments of Europe
whose tax burdens became so OnerOuS
that the people finally revolted against
excessive taxation. He declared that
if the tax burden went on increasing
in this country it would cause the same
results it had caused in the old world,
and there would be revolt here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28

men are not so high as those worn by
their elders, though the curve of the
crowns, in proportion to the height. is
identical.
There is a similar difference in the
crowns of the two styles of derby hats,
and the brim of the young mans hat
does not curve quite so much as that
CORRECT STYLES IN HATS
of the older man, though this difference
in the brim is so slight as to be imper-
ceptible unless the two styles are seen
side by side.
In soft hats there is a modification of
the army hat which is quite popular
The crown is almost Identical with that
of the army model, but the brim is very
much narrower and is curved slightly
at the sides. The ribbons on these hats
are always narrow, varying from half
an inch or less to an inch and a quar-
ter. The crown of the gray soft hat also
bears a resemblance to the popular
army shape, and the rim is sometimes
stitched instead of being bound. It is
a trifie too early in the season to tell
what the styles of light hats for the
spring will be, but the best matters ex-
press the opinion that the spring hats
will all show in some degree the inf1u-
ence Of what is called the army shape.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
ROENTGEN RAYS
Will Become a Medium For Restora-
ton of Reason.

Chicago, Jan. 2S.-As a result of a num-
Der of experiments with X-rayS in this
city. it is asserted that the rays are to
become a medium through which reason
may be restored to insane persons.
1t has been found that by the rays brain
tumorS, responsible for many cases of
alienation of mind, can be located. Prep
arations are. being made by several emf
what has been considered an incurable
case. The patient will be a wealthy
young man who for several years has been
confined in the Kankakee asylum The
patient has already been examined by the
X-ray process. Those who conducted the
experiments say that the skiagraphs
plainly show a tumor pressing on the
brain. The physicians claim that the re-
moval of the tumor will not be dangerous
and that they expect the young man s
mind will be fully restored.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28

lief and found only disappoint-
ment in local treatment will find
it wise to waste no further time
on sprays, washes, inhaling mix
lures, etc., which are only tempo
rary and can not save them from
Consumption. Catarrh is a deep
seated blood disease. S. S. S. is
the only remedy which can reach
the very bottom of the disease
and cure it permanently.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
A SECRET MISSION.
Senior Quesada Leaves Tonight for
Cuba to Meet Gomez

Washington, .2s.-Senor Quesada,
who throughout the late war and be-
sentatives of the Cuban junta in WASH
ington will leave Washington tonight
on special mission for Cuba. He will
go first to Havana and then proceed
as soon as he can exactly locate that
officer.
Senior Quesada is acting directly IN
this mission under the instructions Of
President Palma of the junta and while
it is not deemed expedient at this mo-
ment to say more of the nature of the
mission with which he is charged, it is
known that the officials here feel the
utmost confidence that results will be
beneficial to Cuba and satisfactory to
the United States government.