The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-29

ed he would do all he could as an ex-
ecutive officer to promote their welfare.
But the secretary has nothing to do
with legislation, and that is where the
present danger Is. The chairman of the
house committee on military affairs has
never been very favorable to the Kan
sas posts, principally because he could
not get all the consideration for his
own home post, Des Moines, Iowa, out
Of the war department. His present in
tention seems to be to limit the expen-
ditures at the brigade posts through
out the country, which will preclude the
department from doing some of the big
things it desires at Leavenworth and
Riley.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Anthony and the
Kansas senators are alert.
A Kansas young man who lives In
Wichita but who is attending school
at Boston was recently visiting friends
in this city. The panic was being dis
cussed, and he told q story. He said he
knew a young man in Boston who was
a shirt and collar manufacturer. Since
the panic, the establishment has been
running only about one-third Of the
time. And yet, the Wichita young man
says. in spite of this and though the
eastern business has fallen off vastly,
the orders from the west, and particu-
larly from beyond the Missouri river,
are about the same.
A. A Richards. special assistant to
the attorney general, has returned to
his home at WELLINGTON on short
leave of absence. He will attend his
county and congressional conventions
and then bring his family back to
Washington. Mr.. Richards has the
affairs of his new bureau in the de-
order by this time. and has been in
almost daily conference with the at
torney general since he came here three
weeks ago.. His jurisdiction having
been widely extended from that origin
ally contemplated, he has been a very
busy man. Matters growing orIt of
what was formerly Indian Territory
have been added to his growing list of
duties. and also the 2s-hour cases in
volving shipment of live stock.
Representative Miller does not want
the Forthcoming Seattle-Yukon-Pa-
cific exposition to be held in 1909 open
on Sundays. Therefore, when the
100000 appropriation for govern
mental exhibits, ETC.. was reported out
of the committee on industrial arts
and expositions, of which Mr.. Miller is
a member, he had the provision insert
ed that no part of this appropriation
was to be used if the exposition was
items for exhibits from the Hawaiian
and Philippine Islands doubled,
now to $4,000 each.
A claim similar to the Free State
hotel claim, assigned by the New Eng
land Emigrant Aid society to the Uni
versity of Kansas, on which Senator
Long has been at work to secure an
appropriation, has arisen at Lawrence,
and Senator Longs help has also been
aske don that. 1t is the claim of Mrs.
Josiah Miller, late of Lawrence. and
who still spends a portion of her time
there. She is the widow of the editor
of the old Free State, contemporary
destroyed. 1t is claimed, by the order
Of the United tSates marshal on the
same day the sheriff's posse RACED the
Free State hotel. No steps will be
taken at present in the Miller claim.
until the outcome of efforts in behalf
claim. The senate committee on
claims will dispose of this Tuesday.
Lincoln post, No. 1. Grand Army of
the Republic, Topeka, in resolutions
sent to Senators Long and Curtis for
presentation to the senate, in opposi-
ton TO the proposed concentration of
all pension agencies in this city,
states: Economic reasons given for
the change should not have weight at
this late day. even If 1t could be
that a change to Wash |
wishes and desires Of the pensioners.
to change the system now
would create anxiety, confusion, and
to the pensioners, who |
now look with almost absolute GER
tainty to the reception of their quar-
terly checks on a certain day and
hour by the clock"
Kansas lawyers in town this week /
were: John c.. Nicholson, Newton;
Carr w. Taylor, Hutchinson, and A. |
e. Crane. Holton. The first two
named were admitted to practice be- |
fore the supreme court of the United
States