The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-26
Win Cost Four or Five Thousand
Dollars.
MAY GET 1T THROUGH.
Mr.. Scott Has Undertaken This
Task Himself.
In a Position to Help It
Along.

washington, Dec. 26.-The engi-
neers of the department of agriculture
have made their estimates, at the re-
quest of Charles r. Scott, of the sum
necessary to make a survey of the
Neosho river valley from the state line
to lola, and have advised him it viii
take $4,000.
Mr.. Scott is anxious to extend the
survey to Emporia, which viii take In
practically all the Neosho valley that
is subjec to annual overflow; and viii
make the sum $4,000, instead OF s4,-
600.
Tt is the intention of Mr.. Scott to
have the committee on agriculture OF
the house of representatives. of which
he is a member. put an item in the ag-
ricultural appropriation bill equal to
this amount, that the survey may be
the law.
AS Mr.. Scott is a member of the sub
committee of five of the committee on
! agriculture that viii prepare this bill,
the chances are very good for the in
1 clusion of this item.
When the bill gets to the senate, this
item, with others affecting Kansas, OF
course, will have the careful consider
/ alton of Senator Long, who has just
been placed on the senate committee
on agriculture.
/ There has been some talk in Kansas
! papers about 'the usual annual effort
/ to help the Neosho valley" as though
| there will nothing come of this latest
/ endeavor. Attention is hereby called
4 to the fact that the chances are bright
Z er now than ever. There certainly viii
be an item in the next agricultural ap-
preparation act that viii give the de-
partment of agriculture engineers a
4 sufficient sum to make a preliminary
survey; and when the report on this
4 survey is made there viii be a tangible
1 plan on which the government and the
4 state and the counties affected may
dyke and drain and Straighten the
4 river and its banks so that there will
\ not hereafter be the usual danger
and damages from spring overf1ows.
/ It wiz be interesting to Kansas. an
] agricultural state, that it will have
/ representatives on each OF the aeri-
/ cultural committees IN congres=Sen-
ator Long in the senate: Mr.. Scott in
/ the mouse OF representatives. Kansas
1 IS interested in agricultural Iegisla-
! ton; weather stations: river improve
! ments; irrigation; and the like, and
/ Mr. Long and Mr.. Scott will be able to
/ do the state much good. Years ago, in
| the F1fty-hrst congress-, the first Reed
/ congress-, when Kansas had good
! chalrmanshipS, Farmer z. H. Fun
| ston was chairman of the house COM
m1ttee on agriculture. Former Gov
ernor W. J. Bailey, when he served as
a member of the house, was a member
of the committee.
There is also another significant
point in connection with committee
assignments: In the house of repre-
sentatives, Charles Curtis is ranking
member on the committee on Indian
affairs. He really is the authority in
the house of representatives on this
! subject In the senate, Mr.. Long is
one of the foremost members of the
Indian committee. Both Senator War
ner and Senator Stone of Missouri are
also on the senate committee on Indian
affairs. This gives Kansas and Mis-
souri, a powerful influence on Indian
/ legislation.
Advertisement of the fact that Sem
ator Long gets a good committee as
! signment in the way of craftsmanship
1 l-census-it not without its amusing
| features. Already letters are being re-
cetved by patriots in the state who de-
sire TO be enumerators of the next, or
/ thirteenth census, which will not be
/ taken until the year 1910.
| Victor Murdock is not making any
| admissions in regard TO his senatorial
( candidacy; neither is he making any
/ deniais. Mr.. Murdock is generally re-
/ garded as a candidate, out-and-out.