The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-09

entry Of all seeds except wheat and Of
animals for breeding purposes. The duty
on wheat was not intended as reve-
nue. measure so much as a protection
measure against Canadian wheat. Mr..
Calderhead had hardly closed his argu-
ment with Chairman Payne on this
question when Mr.. yLittlefield secured
the passage of a bill providing for a
lobster hatchery on the coast of Maine
1t may be that an appropriation can be
secured for lobster hatcheries on the
no right, in the opinion of the commit
tee TO ask or expect to receive foreign
grown wheat free Of duty.
Talk of an extra session of congress
often ends as it begins. in talk. As the
short session draws toward a close with
business pressing, predictions that con-
gress Will not be able to complete the
work are many and sincere. But the
statesmen have a way Of doubling p
the hours of daily meeting and Of rush
ing through matters which, under or
binary conditions. would be allowed TO
consume time. Extra pressure Of steam
is already on, and the wheels of legiSla-
tiOn are Whizzing with about four weeks
to go on. This is the hopeful side.
Against it must be put an unusual pro
gramme, upon which the numbers in
clude the bill to authorize civil govern
ment in the Philippines, the considera-
tiOn Of the Cuban constitution and rela-
tions with this country. the Nicaragua
canal Each of these means much talk
Not one of them, in the opinion of the
president, should be postponed until the
regular session next December This is
the exact situation as regards an extra
session
Over one hundred old soldiers signed a
petition at Baxter Springs, Kansas, ask
ing the government to construct "A ma
cadam road to the national cemetery
from that place. at a cost of $4,000. The
petitioners represent that they are Union
veterans Of the late (1S61-65) civil war
n them
buried there when they pass away; that
this national cemetery is situated two
miles west Of Baxter Springs, and that
there now lie buried in these grounds
the bodies Of more than 240 Union SOL
diers. Also that the federal government
has erected a. fine soldiers monument in
this cemetery, which is surrounded by
the dust of the bodies of more than 160
Union soldiers masSacred October 6, 1858,
by QuantrelPs guerrillas. As the road
leading to this burying ground IS very
poor one. an appropriation is asked for
its Improvement In transmitting this
petition to congress the secretary Of war
sent with 1t an adverse report of the
QuartermaSter general OF the army
which stated that there Is no national
cemetery near Baxter Springs. but q
soldiers lot in the city cemetery, do
for the interment of the remains OF 163
soldiers massacred in the vicinity by
Quantren and his men in 1868, and
which lot is cared for by the government
roo-
port says further there appears to be
no sufficient reasons, SO far as concerns
the requirements of said soldiers lot,
for the Improvement at public expense
in constructing this macadam road. The
petition is now being considered by the
house committee on military affairs
Not only has Kansas within her Dor
derz many men who have acquired
prominence ia newspaperdon, but she
has sent forth into the world number
Of newspaper men who are winning