The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-17
Governor Stanley's Reciprocity
Movement is Sweeping On.
Meeting of League to Be Held
in st. Louis.
HULIT is VERY BUSY.
Working Up an Interest in the
Project.
Department Commander Rem
ingtOn Issues an Order.

Governor Stanley's reciprocity move
ment seems to have really escaped from
his control 1t has reached the point
where the big manufacturing and BUSH
ness interests of st. Louis and Chicago
have taken it up and meeting of the
Western Reciprocity league, which the
governor started and of which he is
president, will be held in ST. Louis at
some time during May or June. Steps
viii be taken at that meeting to make
the organization national in form in
stead of western, and it will be pushed
all over the United States.
With Congressman Long heading the
reciprocity movement in congress and
Governor Stanley at the head of an or
ganization, national in its extent, which
has for it's avowed purpose the securing
of reciprocal legislation, Kansas will be
right in the front in the matter of re-
ciprocity.
Secretary Hulit has been in ST. Louis
the past week and is now in Chicago
consulting with manufacturing and bus
mess interests there concerning the date
for the proposed st. Louis convention.
The st. Louis Post Dispatch contains
the following:
Twenty mine of the thirty represen-
tatives of the manufacturing and COM
mercial associations of st. Louis who
met at the Merchants Exchange Thurs
day afternoon to listen to the remarks
of Secretary A b. Hulit of the Western
Reciprocity league, on the deSirability
of forming a national reciprocity league
and holding a national reciprocity con-
vention in st. Louis, decided that such
a convention should be held in May or
June.
Secretary Hulit leaves for Chicago
Friday night to consult the commercial
organizations there and is to report
back to st. Louis the date for a conven-
ton that will be most acceptable to Chi
cago. The convention is expected to
bring together the manufacturing and
producing interests of the entire coun-
try. l.. d. Kingsland is the local mem
Der of the western association. He is
also president of the st. Louis Manu-
facturers' association"
Department Commander Remington
has issued an order to the c.. A r.
posts of the state, revoking the appoint
ment of c. l.. Marshall as special aide
with authority to organize new posts
and collect membership fees. The order
is as follows: "One c. L. Marshall hav-
ing been appointed a special aide on the
staff of the department. commander, and
inform alton having come to these head
quarters that said C. L. Marshall has
been organizing posts throughout the
department, collecting charter fees, and
money for supplies, and has, up to this
date, retained the same without ac-
counting therefore to the department.
his appointment as special aide is here
by revoked" 1t is claimed that Mar
shall organized a post at Sylvan Grove
sometime ago, and collected fees and
partment headquarters that he would
be in Topeka the following day to turn
the money in, but he has not vet been
here. Marshall was given his authority
by the department commander, Martin
Norton, who has since resigned.
The open season for bringing cattle
into Kansas from the south closed Sat
urday. 1t was extended this year on
account of the shortage of feed in Kan
sas and because there seemed to be lit
tie danger of Texas fever. From now on
cattle will not be admitted from south
of the Kansas line except for immediate
slaughter.
The state board of charities and cor
rections will meet in Parsons this week |
to arrange for unloading the material |
for the new state asylum there |
Switches will be built from the railroad |
tracks to the asylum site SO that the |
the cars on to the asylum grounds.
Work on the buildings will commence |
in a short time.
will not reappoint George w. Wiley /
as state fish warden when his term ex
pireS. Instead it is believed that the |
will go to Charles Elliott, |
of Wellington. Wiley is from Meade |
county.
The Kansas worlds fair commission
is having the prize wheat for which
it awarded prizes last week put through |
an improved grain cleaning machine, /
and the result will be that it will grade
still higher than was reported, but there
will not be so much of it. Some of the
samples will run up high as sc or 81
pounds to the bushel Sixty pound
wheat is considered a pretty good quail
ity, and Ga pounds is extra fine.