The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-25
AT The CAPITAL,
Case Of Patrick COnIin of Kansas
Up Again.
Boy Who Carried Musket
Through the War.
WAS NOT ENLISTED.
But He Performed Duties of
Soldier Just the Same.
Now Asks to Be Put ON Equality
With Other Veterans.

washington, d. c., Dec. 25-A bill,
introduced by Congressman Phil p
campbell, for the relief of Patrick
COMM or Kansas, which passed con-
sress twice before and was vetoed. has
again passed the house. Consideration
OF lhe measure caused lively tilt be-
tween Congressman Mann of Illinois
ana Mr. Campbell, which led to a final
opJectlon to its passage by the former.
The bill provides that Patrick Con-
I'm snail hereafter have all the rights
and benef1ts that he would be entitled
10 on account of military service. ex-
oepe pay bounty and other emolu-
ments, II he had been continuously in
the mllltary service as a private of
company L, Fifty-seventh regiment of
Ohlo volunteer infantry, from Janu-
ary ~ 1852, to August s, 1865, and
date last named"
In this case Patrick Conlin said he
was IN the army three years" said
Congressman Parker of New Jersey
put there Is not single bit of rec
ora 10 show his being there. There is
no doubt that he was around with the
| regiment and that he did service part
OF Ihe time as a soldier. He was a
very young boy; he was not enlisted:
ne was not mustered, but carried his
gun. 1 am inclined to think there is
quite enough merit in it to make 1t go.
to state the fact
Mr.. Mann here interposed by saving
he did not agree with Mr.. Parker.
Mr. Campbell took the floor and
sald ne hoped Mr.. Mann would not OBJ
Ject to the bill. 1.-The man." continued
Mr. Campbell, twas wounded in fbe
service of his country. They would
not muster him in on account of his
youth, because he was so small bIIt
they gave him clothing and gave him
gun, placed him in the company.
and he served in il for period OF
more than three years This is all
gone over in the regimentaI history.
Ihe Dill has passed this congress
twice. 1t once suffered a pocket veto
and on another occasion it was vetoed
not because of its merits but because
OF the language that is used I'm the bill.
Will state that the language used
now In the bill was language prepar-
ed by the military secretary OF war
and agreed to by the war department. =
can readily believe the gentle
toed twice." replied Mr.. Mann. "Anv
president who would take the trouble
to read the report from the COMMITTEES
would veto the bill. I object to it"
Mr.. Campbell, after considerabIe
argument, asked unanimous consent
to have the bill passed, and on a vote
of So to 4, it did pass.
Champ Clark of Missouri. the minor
ity leader in the house, is a former
kansan. He was born in Kentucky
When young man he become presi-
dent of Marshall college in West VIr-
ginia. This office he held for one
year. Later he graduated from a law
college in Cincinnati. and went to
Kansas to hang out his shingle. Mr..
Clark settled in Wichita. but remained
there but eleven weeks.
Tn Cincinnati I became acquainted
with 7. ]. Hudson, lawyer of Ere
donia, KAN" said Mr.. Clark. He of
fered me a partnership in his business
n ha I
was an idiot to go to Fredonia I would
starve to death, whereas IL went to
Wichita would be In the center of the
Texas cattle trade where greasers
hiring lawyers to keep them out of Jail.
Accordingly, I turned my expectant
face toward Wichita. But the cattle
trade had been moved I'D the river the
greasers had disappeared, and the
grasshoppers were hourly expected
saw people scanning the heavens with
glasses. What are you doing?' asked
one man. Watching the hoppers.' he
replied. What he really saw was the
bloom of cottonwood trees floating in
the air. got $25 for an essay which I
wrote for a student at University Of
Kentucky paid my debts, and depart
ed. Anyway. Wichita was filled with
Yankees, and I wanted to get among
my own kind of people.
I'm st. Louis 1 borrowed SO from a
young man named Priest whom I had
never seen before. Just went into his
office, and asked for money. Years
afterward he became a United States
judge but 1 shall not attempt to point
the moral, which is obvious. 7 stopped
at Louisiana. Mo, where I taught
school for 800 a month practiced law.
and absorbed a weekly newspaper.
made $1,000 in eleven months on the
newspaper, and then sold it back to the
man from whom / had bought at
profit of 500. I moved to Bowling
Green. the county seat, obtained good
law practice, and then began to run for
congress. an occupation have followed
biennially with middling success.
Had I remained at Wichita" and
Mr. Clark looked as benign as a crock
of milk. II might have grown rich; but
I was afraid of the grasshoppers. Be
sides, had to sleep in a lawyers office
and listen to d lot Of Yankees cuss the
south"
Under the act of 1890. which applies
a portion of the proceeds of the public
lands to the more complete endowment
and support of colleges for the benefit OF
agriculture, the Kansas State Agricul-
ture college at Manhattan will receive.
like other similar state institutions,
the twentieth instaIlment of the grant.
sS5, 900 for the fiscal year ending June
so, 1909.
Kansas postmasters appointed: owen
f. Sutter, Croft; Lawrence NJ Wood
cox. Berryton: Albert r. Walker. Nina.
Sudden Death of Mrs. WiIISie.
Wichita Kan, Dec. 25.-T. c. Wilkie
who is employed in the packing house.