The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-02

union depot in Kansas City, Mo, but
| object to a few thousand for depots
| in Kansas City, Kan The Santa F'e
has set aside $5O,00O,000 for improve
ment, but do not want to spend a few
| thousand in Kansas City.
'I remember when the hot winds
swept over western Kansas and there
! came the cry of need and my county
extended the hand of assistance as one
brother would help another. / say
now help US against the greed and
cupidity of men who compel the peo-
pie of Kansas to throw their business
to the building UP of a city on Mis-
souri, SOIL
Senator Belts. chairman of the SEN
ate committee on railroads, opposed
the bill. "This bill is unfair said
Senator Belts. There isn't any place
for a depot in Kansas City, Kan, and
the people could not get to it. 1t
would be in a swamp among railroad
switches and a few shackS. 1t is I'M
fair to ask the railroads to put up
depots where there would be no pas
sengers. There is a union depot con-
veniently situated in Kansas City, Mo.
A good many men interested in the
Santa Fe live in Topeka who own
property here. 1 am elected to repre-
sent the Santa F'e as much as any one
else. Mr.. LOOMS of the Union Pacific
says that road will build a depot in
Kansas City, Kan"
Senator Getty was on his feet and
the war of speech between the sena-
tors from Shawnee and Wyandotte
was on. 1.-THE senator from Shawnee
doth protest too much" said Getty.
"He says he wants to protect the
Santa Fe because so many men con-
nected with the Santa Fe live in To-
peka. How the man who works as a
blacksmith for the Santa Fe in To-
peka would care about this and how
the feelings of a, Santa F'e office clerk
would be narrowed by this bill The
Santa Fe stole twenty acres of land
in the bed of the river at Kansas City
and thereby made 10000 people
homeless and poverty stricken. The
trains all stop at Topeka for the To-
peka hotel keepers, yet Kansas City,
Kan, does not have a railroad shop
there to bring them one victim and
we have not a hotel
How many bondholders of the
Santa Fe live in Topeka? Kansas is a
prohibition state and bondholders do
not thrive on Kansas soil but live in
| the effete east to the accompaniment
! of champagne corks- ask for the
protection of the people of Kansas
City against a trust as big as the
Senator Belts said: "The senator
says the railroads are lobbying. L
have not seen a lobbyist before my
From my experience the lobbyists do
not come before committees said Sen
ator Getty.
The Dill as passed PROVIDES tnaL tHe
provisions of the act must be complied
with by January, 1905.
When the vote was taken and the roll
was called Senator Waggener, attorney
for the Missouri Pacific, voted 'I'' as
had Senator Noftzger, also railroad
attorney. Noftzger stepped up to Wag-
gener and shook his hand most dra-
] matical1y.
When the Kansas City depot bill had
been passed the senate committee CT
the whole went after the BARRIERS. Sena-
tor Brewers bill providing for the re-
| peal of the barber law came up Sena-
| tor Waggener moved to strike out the
enacting clause which would save the
barber law Senator Brewer said no
one but the officers of the barber board
who are drawing salaries want the law
| to remain in force.
sanafnrs samuel Porter. FITZPATRICK.