The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-25
AT THE CAPITAL.
Kansas Congressman Getting
Ready to Come Home.
Adjournment Is Only a Week
Distant.
SCOTT TO PANAMA.
Will Accompany Congressional
Delegation to Isthmus.
Campbell viii Make Chautauqua
Speeches.

Washington. Feb 25.-With the ad-
1ournment of congress only about a
week distant, the breaking up of the
Kansas delegation and it's plans are be-
ginning TO receive attention here.
Very few members remain in Wash
lngton after session has ended. Out
going trains are always crowded the
very day of adjournment RerthS are
reserved for days ahead. as a rule. Ev-
eryone wishes TO get home to his family
his business, his friends, or his reIaxa-
ton, after the stubborn last few hours
Of a session
however. always remain behind after
the. gavelS have fallen to dispose of
unfinished business, such as matters in
the departments accumulated mail.
personal requests to make. of heads of
departments, invitations to present to
cabinet officers and others on the part
OF Chautauquas, assemblies and the
like, and otherwise disposing of the
loose ends following adjournment.
kanSanS will generally diSperSe with
in short time after adjournment SEN
ator Long will remain here perhaps
throughout the month Of March-he has
not yet determined He has a number
of matters to attend to. such as trying
TO get the secretary of the navy to per-
init the presentation of the silver SER
vice by the state to the battleship Kan
sas at Galveston. in endeavoring to
impress upon cabinet officers the i'm
portance of accepting certain invita-
lions TO Kansas this summer: his de-
partmentaI and personal business, etc
Senator Long will then return to. his
home at Medicine Lodge for the sum-
Iner-
Senator Curtis will hasten back to To-
peka as soon as possible, none of his
family being here save his sister. First
he will spend few days in cleaning up
his accumulated correspondence and de-
partmental work
with a congressional party for the 18TH
mus of Panama on March s. the day
following adjournment, from New
York, being gone two weeks. He has
long desired to visit the isthmus. and
now has a good chance. Then he will
return to lola
Representative Bowersock. who is re-
firing from congress, not with any re-
greet, will go back to his mill. his bank.
his dam. his farm, and his family, at
Lawrence
Representative Campbell has accum-
ulated a considerable number of Chau-
tauqua engag ements. having branched
out in that line of business. pleasant as
we'll as profitable. very much of late
He will go first of all to PIttSburg- how
ever, before devoting portion OF the
spring and summer to the platform
Representative Murdoch, defeated in
his mail-wsighing proposition, which
was close to his heart all this session,
hours, will try TO forget his troubles for
a time with his family al Wichita. An
infant daughter of whom he has seen
mighty little for the past four months
will have no small part in the diversion
he will doubtless seek
Representatives CaldeFhead. Miller.
and Reeder expect to tarry but brief
moment in washington after the gavel
brings adjournment
1t is expected that Representative
elect f H Madison, of the Seventh dis
trict will come to Washington for
few days about adjournment time, to
see how he will like his work to get
further acquainted, and to look after
a few things in the departments. Judge
Madison is not an entire stranger to
Washington. having been here a couple
of times on extended visits
1t is possible that some big guns
NAV be in Kansas this season. Senator
rotary Taft of the war department for
several months that he should accept
invitations to speak at the Winfield
and Ottawa Chautauqua assemblies the
coming summer. 1t has not been long
stree Senator Long. Senator Benson,
and Representative Scott held up She
big secretary in the lobby in the rear
Of the speakers stand in The house of
and tried 20 force from
him a promise that he would go to OF
ise definitely. but he has not forgotten
about the matter. Judge Taft has beer
often invited to Winfield. and it is
hoped by Senator Long that he may be
able to get him to that place as we'll
as Ottawa
In addition to this. Secretary Taft
will probably, in an official capacity,
make an inspection tour of Kansas. or
Forts Riley and Leavenwortn. during