The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-16

JOINT resolution in the senate author
lzlng an extension of the tracks of the
Atchlson, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad
on the military reservation at Fort
Leavenworth The purpose of the
measure is to connect the tracks with
the government terminal switch tracks
on the reservation
Senator Curtis submitted an amend
ment proposing to appropriate $4,000
TO enable the secretary of the interior
TO purchase lands and water rights for
the use of the Navajo Indians who have
lost title to their homes on the public
domain in Arizona
Recent stories have been published
in Kansas and Missouri newspapers
10 the erect that William t. Vernon
OF kansas. would be succeeded in the
office of register of the treasury soon
after the Taft cabinet was formed
and sworn in. There has never been
any Intimation of such a thing here
in Washington. Vernon stands high
with the incoming administration. To
him Mr.. Taft owes much for cor
rai1ng the negro vote of the country
prior to the Chicago convention and
during the campaign. The noted
kansas negro also did a. great deal
to neutralize the effect of the Browns
vile action among the people of his
race.
the postal savings bank bill will be
passed at this session of the senate 1t
viii not get through the house, but the
changed attitude toward it leads to ex-
pectat1on that it will finally pass that
BODY at the next regular session-next
winter The change in the situation is
credited to the influence of Postmaster
General Meyer, who urged it upon Sem
ator Aldrich.
Aldrich opposed the bill pending the
report of the currency commission, of
which he is the head. He wants to
Drlng out of the commission a central
pank measure and believes that to add
postal bank system to the present
currency scheme would complicate 1t
ana make additionally difficult the adj
Justment to the new scheme.
Mr.. Meyer, however, urged upon him
that if a central bank is to be the solu-
uon, a postal bank system ought to be
estab1shed in advance, because in two
or three years it would bring several
hundred million, and probably a bill
hon, of dollars into the government de-
positorles. This could be used as the
basis OF new issues of currency and
the government could thus escape from
the present necessity of a bond-secured
circulation.
This view impressed the Rhode Island
senator favorably. and he is disposed to,
permit the measure to pass. Western
members are beginning to be very
hopeful of the measures success.
Pension bills passed by the senate
for Kansas: John A. Weir, $50 per
month; Alfred r. Rabb, $50; Malinda
Wood. helpless and dependent child
of John H. Wood, $12.
Rural mail routes ordered to be es-
tablished in Kansas on May 1:
Route No. 1 out of Plains, Meade |
length. % 4 miles; service to |
1O4 families.
Route No. 2 out of Sylvan Grove,
Lincoln county; length 271s miles; |
service to 80 families.
Route No. L out of La Crosse, Rush |
county; length 81 miles; service to
1O3 families.
Route No out of Lewis, Edwards
county; length, 3O1A miles: service to
Route No. out of Liberal Seward
county; length. 80 miles; service to
los families.
Route No out of Longford, Clay
county: length 2s1z miles; service to
"A families.
Route No 1 out of ogallah, Trego
county; length, So1s miles; service to
I01 families.
The postmaster general has ap-
pointed Almanac Caldwell postmaster L
1T Grand Summit. Cowley county. II
Kan, to succeed J. A. Elliott. re- K
'igned. He also named Dwight E
4amler for the office at RiverdaIe,
summer county, to succeed o. E. I
Eaton, resigned.
Kansas postmasters. commissioners: Is
Guy A. Swallow at Fort Leaven-
worth; John F. Bennett at Athol;
Claude E. Lamar at Barnard; George
". Pratt at Shook.
1t now seems very doubtful if the
Kansas claim of something over $40O,-
100 against the government for inter ]
.st and discount on civil war bonds
will be passed at this session of con-
5reSS. So far the appropria tions
committee of the house has made no {
and it is understood, will
lot at this time. s
1t is understood at the national
.apital among Kansans that Frank
7. Ryan, newspaper man and railroad
commissioner of the Sunfower state,
proposes to come down here and give
he Kansas delegation write-up this
winter. "
Last Saturday evening Senator :
curtis addressed a gathering of the )
'ons of Veterans of Philadelphia. 9
On Sunday he spoke in one of the
churches of that city. making an ad-
Iress on the life of Abe Lincoln.
COngreSSman | d.