The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-11
Congressman Charles Dick Com
pIiments the Com missioner.
Has High Degree of Admins
trative Capacity.
CAMPBELL is BUSY.
Says He Will Try to Make
Washington Cleaner City.
Surprised at the Turn in the
Taft Appointment.

washington, Jan. 9.-Representative
Charles Dick OF Ohio. who is chairman
of the Ohio Republican state commit
tee. in the course of a speech on the
pension appropriation bill in the house
the other day accorded a high compli
Jnent to Eugene F. Wares administra-
ton of the pension bureau. He said:
His president Roosevelts) commits
sioner of pensions. Eugene F. Ware. a
brave soldier of the civil war, has been
Jealous and faithful in the discharge of
his duties. and brought to those duties
high degree of administrative ca
pacIty. He has so capably administered
MS ONCE that he has caught up with
the accumulated mass of pending ap-
p1cations, and long delays are no longer
necessary in disposing of claims. Where
the proof is filed. and satisfies the re-
Qulrements of the law, an early allow
ance Is made. The division of the bu-
reau which is worked the hardest today
is the certificate division, which issues
the notice that pension has been
granted. The office was never con-
Quoted more efficiently, never more in
the best interests of pensioners and
claimants
Since a bill has been introduced max
ing an appropriation for the repair of
the road from Fort Scott to the ma
tlonaI cemetery near that city, Baxter
Springs has become ambitious for a
similar road leading to the national
cemetery near that place. Accordingly
Representative Campbell will introduce
bill in congress appropriating $4,000
for such a road. The appropria ton con-
templates the building of a macadam
road.
Representative Campbell has already
become Washington enthusiast. Dur
ing the holidays he has been spending
Some iT7C 6o oil - : I,o
capital. 1t is a disgrace" he declared
yesterday, that such cesspoolS should
exist in the heart of the national cap
ital. l would consider that 1 failed in
elected to do all in my power to make
| Washington a cleaner and more beauti-
full city"
Representative and Mrs. Scott have
enrolled at local school of languages,
and the former will give his attention
to Spanish, while Mrs. Scott will try
to master the French tongue. Repre-
sentative Scott is probably the only
member of the delegation who has a
speaking acquaintance with a foreign
language. He speaks German huently.
Senator Burton and Representative
Murdoch each know a little Spanish
but neither has a thorough knowledge
of it.
Representative Campbell is bewailine
the fact that he has a postoffice row or
his hands. Two or three weeks ago ht
was patting himself the back, conf
IDENTIFY believing that he had appointed {
man for postmaster at Parsons who
| would please everybody. He thought B
| L. Taft was such man. Taft'S appoint
| nent was made on the strength of one O.
the best line of Endorsements a Kansas
postmaster ever had Nearly everybody
| in Parsons seemed to be for him. anC
not word of protest was entered
against him until his name was sent Il
the senate for confirmation. Mr. Camp
bell thought he had made an ideal APP
pointment. But no sooner did his NAM
come before the senate committee thar
affidavits were filed, charging him will
immortality, drunkenness, gambling ant
practically every crime in the calendar
Now the appointment is hung up, pend
ing his defense, and unless he can shov
that the charges are untrue there proba
bly, will have to be another recommends
ton for postmaster at Parsons 1t wa
understood when the charges were frs
filed that they had been made by Pete
Foley of Parsons, and of course the.
would have had little weight if this ha
been true, because Foley's motive in film
them would have been perfectly obvi
Gus. It develops, however, that Mr. Tai
is accused by other men in Parsons
whose opposition counts for something
1t is the understanding here, however
that the fight is being instigated by MI
Foley. Senator Burton is a member o
the committee on postoffices and pos
roads, the senate committee which ha
the matter under consideration.
. LESLIE WALLACE.