The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-26
AT THE CAPITAL
A Man Named Fletcher Talks of
Freak Legislation.
Says Coming Legislature Will
Eclipse All Others.
THEY ARE LOCATED.
Where Kansas Members of Con,
gress May Be Found.
Isolation Hospital to Be Erected
at Fort LeaVenwOrth.

washington, Dec. 26-"Freak bills
| threaten to adorn every page of the
Kansas legislature journals this win
| Kansas City, Kan. Every time Kan
| Kansas City, Kon. Every time Kan
sas has political upheaval reformers
are thrown to the surface and as a
rule they have some hobby for enact
ment into law. The Populist legislature
of 1897 was prolific of hobbies. but the
reformers of the coming session prom
! ise to go them one better
Having. regulated freight and pas
| senger rates., continued Mr.. Fletcher,
! the reformers now propose to regulate
me me rates for meals on dining cars
| State Auditor Nation has fixed rs cents
| as the maximum price the state will
| pay for meal for its officials while
| travelling. He says a farmer will set up
| a better meal than one can get on a
dln1ng car and only charge 25 cents for
it. Then why should the state pay any
more than IS cents for a. meal?
Another bill to be brought in is for
! the esta bHShment of a state dormitory
| for the benefit of members of the leg
| 1siature. This institution is to be built
| at state expense. Every member is to
| be given a separate sleeping room, but
all must eat together in a mess hall.
| The salary of a legislator is only $3.50
| session, and Kansas only holds
session every two --ears. It costs more
| than that amount to be elected to the
|
| hotel supplying board and rooms free,
| would partially recompense the mem
| berS for their work.
| Frat societies, both in colleges and
high schools, are to be driven out of
| existence, according to the bill of an
| other new member. 1t is claimed that
| frat societies are building up an aris-
| tocracy in the state which threatens
| trouble in the future
! Members of the Kansas delegation
in congress are now located in quar-
/ terS for the two sessions. The An
thongs have taken a house at 1888
| Massachusetts avenue, northwest;
| Judge Calderhead and children are
stopping at Congress Hall; the Camp
| bells occupy their former apartment
| at the Cumberland; the Reeders are
| at 3 First street, northeast, near the
capitol; the Madisons live at Congress
Hall; the Millers have retained their
| former boarding house at 1918 Thir-
teenth street, northwest; the SCOTS are
| occupying at house at 1907 Irving
! street, Mount Pleasant; the Murdocks
also have taken a house at 1889 Mint
1 wood Place; Senator Curtis is quarter
ed at the Raleigh hotel; the Longs oc-
cupy their home on Massachusetts,
avenue near the German embassy.
Much favorable comment has been
directed in medical circles of the army
| to the isolation hospital which was
constructed some time ago at Fort
Myer. It's construction was intended
as an experiment, although there was
no doubt entertained by medical Off
GERS of the need and value of build
ing where contagious cases could be
isolated 1t has now been decided to
erect an isolation hospital at Fort
Deavenworth for which funds are al
ready available, and it is also intended
to ask congress for money for similar
structures at five other army forts
Kansas postmasters appointed: TIL
lie Jackson at Grace, Sherman county,
to succeed William FairaII. resigned;
Thomas d. Collins at Haskell; Isaac G.
Law at Milton.
The postmaster general has rescind-
ed a recent order discontinuing the
Akron postoffice. Cowley county, Kan.