The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-30
Get QUITE A BIT.
Kansas Will Land Much Con.
gressiOnal Patronage.
But Hist-It Is All Great
Secret.
CAN'T TELL THENAMES
All Arranged by House Com
mittee ON Patronage.
Nations Capital.
CAN'T TELL THENAMES

! OF representatives, the Kansas delega-
/ ton Will come out better than ex-
| pected on the patronage question.
Stimulated by the action of other
/ delegations not so large or strongly
I Republican as theirs. by the lack of
house patronage in the past, and by
| the success of the patronage com
| mittee appointed at Topeka, consisting
Of Mr.. Campbell and Mr.. Scott, as
| referred to recently in these columns.
| the Kansas house members have
made good progress in the past week.
| They have arranged for some good
positions.
The house organization will not
/ occur of course for some days after
i Monday next, or the converting day.
! That is to say, all positions viii not be
in December there will be added a
number of Kansans to the government
payroll.
The names, positions. and salaries
of the successful ones cannot now be
given, nor would it be proper to give
them but enough is known of the
work accomplished by Representa-
tives Campbell and Scott to make the
guess that not since the days or
Plumb will so many Kansans be at
tached to the congressional salary hst.
1t was a. Kansas precedent, and that
of 46 years ago, that decided tnal
members-elect of congress from the
draw their salary until after the date
of admission of the state.
In most cases, members-elect COM
mence to receive their salaries dating
from March 4 following their election.
In cases of vacancies filled, the mem
hers draw pay from the dates of their
election. But in the Oklahoma case,
November 16 started the members
from Oklahoma on their accession 10
the payroll.
F. Conway, first representative from
Kansas. He claimed his salary from
the date of his election, but he only
received it from the date of the presl-
dents signature to the proclamation
and Kansas formal entrance into
the union of states.
It NAV be a matter Of pride to Kan
sans at home as 1t is to them mere
that expert testimony has declared
be the finest and most finished prod
uct in that galaxy OF great men
When the ingalls, statue was received
and accepted by congress nearly three
years ago, there was much 1aVorapie
comment upon it, and 1t was called
an artistic piece of work. The hum
dreds and thousands of visitors who
throng the capitol building have ad-
mired and paid tribute to it in the
time that has since passed. But 1t
has remained for an editor of the
washington Post, who is well known
as an authority, and whose writings
are commended because of their ac-
curacy and taste and worth to declare
publicly the height that had been
reached in the Ingalls, statue. He says:
why did Vermont send that mon
strosity that passes for statue OF
Ethan Allen? The best piece OF art IN
the lot is that of John James ingalls,.
The likeness FORM in feature, in
attitudes perfect, and perhaps the
next best is the statue of Father
Marquette.
Representative Campbell Of Kansas
has gone on record as favorfng
benches in the hall of the house OF
repres entatives in place of the small
and closely-placed desks that now fill
it, He thinks that the completion of
the new house Office building with
room for every member who desires
it, will give sufficient room for repre-
sentatives to do their work, write their
letters, etc. This, he thinks, will add
to the acoustic properties of the hall,
which is a good point. Mr.. Campbell
says that scratching Of pens. clapping
of hands for pages, and banging down
of desk tops. together with the ever
present conversation, is disconcerting
to the speaker and the reading clerks.
Take out the desks and substitute
benches, like the house of commons
has, says Mr. Campbell, and members
could not work In the hall. and, II
they did not care to listen to debate
and transaction of business, they
could go to the cloakrooms or to their
offices.
There is talk that Representative
Calderhead may secure the chairman
ship Of the house committee on bank
ing and currency. and if he does this
will be a big feather in his cap. The
present chairman is Representative
Fowler of New Jersey, himself a for
mer Kansan, who is not in favor with
the administration and the house
just now. it is gossipped,
because he has. attacked the recent
certificate and Panama bond issue and