The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-26

from cabinet officers down to messen-
gers in the corridors. Name a thing
you want or q deed that you desire
accomplished. or doubtful circum-
matter, and Taylor viii tell you in
the twinkling of an eye what is ne
cessary. He executes almost as fast
as ne plans, also He is an expert,
and he knows Office work as we'll He
is afabIe, well acquainted. skilled. and /
ment and equipoise. It did not take
10 years of constant service in Wash
ington to bring this about; yet Is
years of that sort of thing well nigh /
made him perfect IN his accomplish
ments.
In all these 10 years Taylor has not
lost his identity with Kansas. Per-
haps this was the strange thing about
it. For many men come to Washing
ton strong in their allegiance to their /
home states, firm in their purpose
never to become estranged, loud in
their protestations as to the perm
anency Of their actual as we'll as Of
fetal residence. And vet it is so easy
to fall into the washington way. The /
subtle life of the tagging, indilent CAPT |
tai gets them nearly all sooner or
later. They cease going home to vote; |
they lose their interest; they stop (
their newspapers after a while-and /
then they become aliens for like the I
men of the army and navy, man |
permanently in Washington has no po-
litical status.
But it was not so with Miles Taylor. /
Regularly each two years he has gone /
home to vote He has maintained his /
little property interests in Kansas. He /
has been registered in the city of /
Hutchinson right along. And each al /
ternate year, so far as it was possible, |
he has returned to Kansas. Not only |
this, but his family has spent portions |
of nearly each year in the state.
This is the sort of a man Senator !
Benson has made his secretary. He |
has picked up the loose ends; he has
organized the new senator's Office; he
has struck out from the first in the
departmental work that comes to all
senators an dnembers. and he has his
eye on things in the future He is
the right sort of man.
William T Vernon. the new register
of the treasury, confesses easily that
there Is something of superstition in
him. Especially is this true with re-
spect to the number 13. Dr. Vernon
arrived here, and might have been In
Quoted into his office, on the thirteenth
day of this month. But he would NOT
permit this. He delayed until the four
teenth. He remembers some other
months when the thirteenth day enter
ed into his affairs. For instance. OH
December 10 the president decided to
appoint him to the registership. On
January - it was announced that the
charges brought against him with the
president and the secretary of the treas
ury had fallen fat, and his appointment
was to be made. The telegram from
! Senator Long advising him to this eff
! feet reached him at L o'clock of that
day-the thirteenth hour Therefore,
there was to be no more IS in his. and
he was not sworn into office until June
"A.
his career here by his invitation last
week to dine with the vice president.
4 He and Senator Long were the guests
OF Mr.. Fairbanks and Senator Benson
enjoyed the occasion very much.
The first conflicting vote between the
two Kansas senators occurred when a
motion to assess the street railway COM
(, panies of Washington u per cent on
| their gross earnings came up in the SEN
ate in connection with the bill to per
nit the companies to extend their lines
to the new union station now building
/ Senator Benson voted for the motion
| Senator Long opposed it The vote was
| IS to %, and Senator Benson lost. Sen
ator Long IS member of the committee
on the District of Columbia, and prac-
tically all that committee felt, after full
consideration in committee and In the
senate that this entailed too great a
tax on the street railway companies.
There are number of old cases
which are handed down from senator
and member to their successors which
Senator Benson is receiving for his at
tention here. These comprise stubborn
pension cases, military record cases, old
claims. and efforts that have been
threshed out by many Kansas members
to no avail. yet which always inspire
renewed hope in the minds of those in
terested when a new senator or member
comes to congress Senator Benson has,
Kansas like, a heavy mail. and is doing
very careful and sincere work in the
few weeks of his introduction here into
public life.
Senator Scott Of West Virginia,
member of the committee on the Dis
trict Of Columbia. paid a nice tribute
to Representative P P. Campbell in
the debate in the senate concerning
the house bill to grant raises in salary
and to perfect the organization of the
district fire department When the bill
was called up, he was asked to make
certain explanations. He admitted he
had been SO busy with other matters
as not to have made perfect prepare
ton in this bill. but stated that it had
been carefully drawn. carefully con-
sidered, and passed through the house
by Mr.. Campbell of Kansas, a mem
Der of the lower house The bill was
passed by the senate after a brief de-
bate.
Senator Long, who has worked so
industriously for statehood for Okla
homa and Indian territory very ap-