The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-07
Stubs AT HOME.
Treated in Royal Fashion by
President Taft.
Got a Square Deal in the Con-
ference.
GREAT OPPOSITION.
OPPOSITION.
All the Eastern Banks Fought
Guaranty Plan.
Spent an Afternoon With Gov
ernor Hughes.

ernOr HugnoS.
Governor w. r. Stubs returned this
afternoon from his ten days trip to
Washington in the interest of the ma
tional banks being admitted to the
privileges of the new Kansas guaranty
law. His mission was unsuccessful but
he had a most pleasant and beneficial
trip, nevertheless.
IT went to Washington to do every
thing possible to give the new guaranty
law of deposits of my state fair and
complete trial. said the governor this
afternoon, 'and though we failed in
our mission, yet we succeeded in car
rying the matter over the head of
Comptroller Murray and secured a
hearing from the president ana mis- chief
legal advisor, Attorney General Wick
ersham. While we failed, yet we did
everything possible and had the mat
ter passed upon by the court of last
resort and highest authority.
st want you to emphasize the fact
that President Taft treated us in royal
fashion during our stay in Washing
ton. He did all that could possibly be
expected of him, and more. He was
patient and courteous and listened at
tentiyely to our case while his off1ce
was besieged with senators and con-
gressmen from all over the country ana
every kind and manner of delegation
possible. He assured us a fair and I'M
partial hearing, and / believe that we
received it. MIR. Wickersham decided
against U.S. but he is a big man. ana
II believe that he decided the case as
he saw it, and if he was Influenced by
the eastern interests 1t was IN an un-
conscious manner
'An the big banks and financial in
situations of the east were lined up
soIidly and bitterly against the guar
anty of bank deposits in any form or
Fashion. But in the face of this fact
we got a square deal in our conference
and trial Of the case afterwards In the
department of justice. OF this I am
sure.
81 am perfectly delighted with my
trim and stay in Washington. Mr.. Taft
is Just as big and broad man in the
presidential chair as we hoped and be-
lieved he would be out here in Kansas
when he spent a couple of days In
whirlwind trip across the state last
summer While the administration de-
cision is that national banks cannot
guaranty deposits under the Kansas
guaranty law, / want to tell you that
1 am a greater admirer of the president
than ever. We received fair considera-
ton and a square deal at his hands,
and that was what we wanted when we
entered the fight for a fair and full
| trial of the Kansas law.
81 spent all of one afternoon with
Governor Hughes of New York in dis
| cuSSion of the utilities law and its
workings in New York. I went out to
| the governors house in the evening in
| order to finish the conference. He went
| into the details of the law and the sat-
isfactory manner in which it has work
| ed out. He declared that he regarded
| the state control Of utilities as one of
| the best laws on the statute books of
| his state
st also talked over the matter of con-
troll of utilities with several United
States senators and congressman while
| in Washington and gained great deal
| of useful information about the law
from their observations and ideas.
State control of public utilities is
matter that is being studied by men of
affairs in every section of the country
| as one of the coming issues of the
country to be settled state by state in
the course of the near future"
The governors voice and gesture boer
out his words that he had had fine
trip and that he was not cast down
over the failure of his mission for the
reason that he knew that he had done
his best and had a square deal at the
hands of the head of the nation.
Would Have Called Session.
When asked what the national
banks would now do about the matter
governor declined to commit himself
"You will have to answer that ques-
ton yourself" he said. ST went to
Washington solely in the interests of
a fair and complete trial of the
guaranty law. It now seems that we
will have to try it with the safe banks
alone as far as the state is concerned
in the matter
The governor was accompanied to
Washington by Attorney General Jack
son and Bank Commissioner Dolley.
These two officials returned to Topeka
Sunday. The governor remained to
hear the opinion of the attorney gen.
eral in the matter.
+I read the opinion through said
Gov. Stubbs." and staid in the hopes
that he would lay down some rule or
regulation by which we might change
our law in order to let the national
banks in. but there was none. The
burden of the ruling was that congress
would have to grant that permission.
Eyes, I would have called a special
session of the legislature to have
remedied the law had Mr.. Wickersham
ruled that any change whatever would
have allowed the national banks to
come within its regulations