The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-24

secure the building of this new electric
line, but it must be stated now in or
der that it may be fully comprehended
that this road cannot be financed and
built unless all the parties concerned
in the building join hands and render
all possible aid in the way of bonds,
right of way subscriptions, etc.
1T will not do in these strenuous days
of 1905 for any community to sit su-
pinely by and say you have to come 10
us The world is full of object lessons
that have attempted to progress on
such lines, and they have been written
failures.
THE way to get an electric line Is to
get it, and the way to get it is for each
individual man to put his shoulder to
the wheel and help
it must reverse its action, join hands
with Topeka and Council Grove and
the townships along the line and vote
its quota of aid as all have done
otherwise we viii look elsewhere for
assistance"
The committee on national legisla-
ton through its chairman. James \
Troutman, made a report to the club
last night, which practically is resume
of the work of the year Menuon
is made of the fact that member OF
the Topeka Commercial club parJlcl-
pated in the ST Louis meeting lasr
summer at which time Governors La
Toilette, Cunnins and Van Pant, were
delegated to present the views OF lne
organization to President RooseVelt,
and caused him to incorporate IN MS
annual message to congress recon-
mendatiOn that the interstate COM
merce commission should be vested
with power where a rate has Deen
challenged, to decide what shall De
reasonable rate to take its place.
The agitation in congress resulted
IN the passage of the Esch-Io WilseIlu
bill. This SIMPLY authorizes the com
mission to institute inquiries and II a
rate is found to be unreasonable or
discriminatiVe to determine what rate
shall be substituted.
The same matter was brought to the
attention of the Kansas legislature last
winter and a concurrent resolution was
passed by the house and senate on the
subject
Concluding, the committee makes
the following recommendation: y our
committee therefore recommends that
this club adhere to its repeatedly eX-
pressed views upon this question ana
favor the comforting of authority TO
correct abuses upon some adm1nlstra-
tive body, preferably the interstate
commerce commission. By reaff1rm-
ing its former position on this question
the club will be standing in supporting
distance of nearly all of the CONNER
cial organizations of the country and
will be in line with the recommends
tions of the president and the action
of our own state legislature.
Topeka will not have canning fac
torv this year. Mr.. c. A. Moore of
the company, who came here from
the east, decided that it is now too
late to get it in readiness.
The Union Pacific shops will not be
moved here from Argentine as has
been frequently reported. General
Manager Mohler at Omaha makes the
definite announcement that no removal
has been Contemplated.
This information was included in the
report of the promotion committee.
A communication of thanks was
read from the Topeka Federation OF
Clubs for the kindness to them in
helping to entertain the visiting club
women during their state meeting.
on behalf of the Tri-State Bill POST
ers' Association Arthur Kane pre-
sented d resolution of thanks, as did
John r. Mulvane, for the State Bank
ers' Association, and H. B. Howard, for
the State Christian Endeavor Union
Action on the proposed repeal by
congress of the national bankruptcy
law was postponed until the first meet
ing next September at the conclusion
Of the summer vacation.
An invitation was read from the OF
tawa Chautauqua asking the CONNER
ciaI club to make themselves at home
at the Commercial club headquarters
summer.
Moses W. Porter, the editor of the
Foyt Sentinel, makes a good suggestion
for the Topeka 75,000 club in 1910, by
saying that every country editor in the
state should be made an honorary
member. BY motion every ed
itOr in the state was made an honorary
member of the $4,000 club.
The following applications for mem
bership were acted upon favOrably: J.
w BOltz. j. W. T. Hughes, George W.
Brooks, N. NJ. Rice, NJ H. Wolff, Z.
K. Heinzman, ". c. CarsweH, G. H
Wood W. 6. Boon, A. B. Beard, Muel-
Ter Bros, ]. W. Kaiser.
The transportation committee recon-
mended that the Commercial club of
this city cooperate with the CONNER
cial clubs along the Kansas, Nebraska
and Dakota branch of the Missouri Pa
Cif1c, and request that this company in
stall q motor car service between To-
peka and Fort Scott, and that the sche-
dule of this car be SO that it viii leave
Fort Scott early in the morning, coming
to Topeka and return in the afternoon.
W. G. Boon, proprietor of the Boon
mineral wells on Fillmore street. ap-
peared at the meeting with a case of the
mineral water on ice, to which he
treated the members. He made a little
talk concerning the product A vote of
hearty endorsement was voted him in
his effort to get outside trade.
is EDITORS" DAY.
Ewing Herbert and j. E. House at