The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-26

contiguous territory" The house com
mittee struck out this reference, as it is
never the custom Of congress TO TX
definitely the exact site for g fish sta
ton Senator Longs bill did not con
tain this provision, merely using the
language, t'in the state Of Kansas It
Is left to the bureau Of fisheries, through
one of its special agents, to make an
examination and analysis of waters of
various streams and take into consid-
GRAFTON physical conditions at various
places, and then locate The station itself.
The nearest federal station to Kansas
at present is at Eeosho, Missouri Also
there is one IN Iowa. Propagation of
has been given an impetus in Kansas
by reason of the interest the state is
taking in the subject, and the estab-
hshment OF q hatchery by the state at
Pratt, with the enactment of strict fish
and game laws.
The Tafters.' as they are called here
IN Washington. promise to 60 down
to fame as an organization of much
renown. The Tafters'' are the party
of senators, representatives, and 9TH
ers, chaperoned last summer by the
secretary Of war, Judge Taft, IN the
trip to the Philippine Islands. Numer-
Gus reunions and pleasant gatherings
have been held by 'the Tafters'' in
Washington the past winter. There
have been dinners by the secretary Of
war, by unofficial members of the par
", by one or two senators who were
members. and recently big dinner,
one OF the important social events of
the season, given by the entire party
to Secretary Taft. Not the least
pleasant Of the gatherings was the
wholesale invitation to the member
ship of the party to the recent we'd
ding of Miss Roosevelt and Represen-
tative Nicholas Longworth. These two
young people were members of the Taft
party, and their engagement to be
married was a result Of the trip Each
s.Tafter'' felt a personal interest in this
love affair and its recent elimination
THE Tafters'' have entire everywhere
to the White House, to the large
functions. and wherever they go, there
is at once a segregation of its mem
bers, and the result Is the most at
tractive and most conspicuous group
at the function. It has come to such
a point that there Is genuine envy by
official society of these happy people
who spent so profitably and so pleas
antly the three months of last summer
and fall en- route and from, and IN
the orient, under the chaperonage and
espionage Of the big, jolly, able secre-
tary of war.
Kansas has three members Of ''the
Tafters' tor Long, and Represen-
tatives Scott and Curtis. Rather, there
are now six members, for those Taft
ers'' who dio not take their wives with
them on the trip, for one reason and
another. have had these members of
their families annexed to the organiza-
tion, for social purposes for all time
to come. THE Tafters" are the real
lions Of the season.
BY reason of the recent death of the
popular Representative George r. Pat
terson of Pennsylvania, Representative
P P Campbell of Kansas goes one
notch nearer the head Of the house
COMMITTEES on pensions. He Is now
No. 3.
Judge Fletcher N. Dean, who was
the associate justices of the Arizona
supreme court. is a brothee-in-1aw Of
Judge S. r. Peters of Newton, former
representative from the Seventh dis
trfct