The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-08
ton for several days attending 20 some
matters before the departments.

ton for several days attending 70 some
matters before the departments.
The nomination of Frederick w
slater OF Topeka to be United States
consul at Sarnia, Canada, is stin held
up, and judging from the determined
e1orts Of Senators Smith and Burrows
OF Michigan it seems rather doubtful
II the appointment will be confirmed.
Inc Michigan senators insist that Neal
Mcmillan of their state, who is the
present consul at Sarnia, be retained.
The International Typographical
union VIII hold its annual convention
at St Joseph, Mo-. August to IA,
and delegates will be in attendance
from all sections of the United States,
Canada and Mexico.
The Sunday following the conVen-
ton a delegation representing Wash
| 1ngton union and the international
Dody VIII dedicate a monument erect
ed by the printer employees of the
| Government Printing office at EN-
por1a, Kan, to the memory of Edwin
| e Jones, an ex-president of Columbia
| union of this city, who died at Long
| Beach, Cal, upon his return from the
! Philippine Islands, Mr.. Jones was a
resident of Emporia, and held
number of responsible official posi-
| tons in the great printery here and
was superintendent of the government
| printery in the Philippines at the
| time of his death.
President Frank A. Kidd, of the
International Typographical union,
| Senator Curtis and one or more of the
| members of the Kansas house deIega-
| ton, William Allen White and others
| VIII be the speakers at the ceremon-
les of dedicating the monument.
In commenting on the successor
| ship to Secretary Wilson of the depart
/ ment of agriculture, the National Trib-
| une of this city, has this to say re-
| garding Charles F. Scott entering the
presidents cabinet:
Again the resignation" bee is fly
ing around Secretary of Agriculture
wilson's head. Some of the reports
give him until next December to STAY
| in the presidents cabinet It was
| Secretary Wilson's ambition to serve
longer in the cabinet than anv man
before him had ever served, and he
has now had that distinction and
some say, is about ready to get out of
public life and take some rest. No
sooner was the suggestion on the
street than it was followed by an alb
soIute denial by Secretary Wilson. He |
says he will not rsign until the presi-
dent asks him to, and that he has not
preferred such request, and that |
Hon. Charles Scott of Kansas. was
to take the place which Secretary Will
son would leave, and if such a choice
were made it would probably be sat
1sfactory to everybody: Mr.. Scott is
a newspaper man, and it isn't posi-
lively known that he could differen- |
tiate between the COW that gives sweet /
and the COW that gives buttermilk;
but being a newspaper man of the
practical type, he can adapt himself
to all circumstances.
F. M. Hatch. a lawyer of Honolulu.
who is now in Washington, defends the
Hawaiian planters, in reply to a recent
criticism of Congressman Victor Muir
dock. Lawyer Hatch says:
Mr.. Murdoch is mistaken in his
FfeVUv to
unfair treatment of japanese Iaborers,
the abuse, bullying, and contempt
which he charges, do not exist and
never have. The men now ON strike
make no claim of i'll treatment. They !
have no grievance other than a ques-
ton of wages. If any such state of af- .
fairs had existed in Hawaii the Jap (
anese would not have continued to I
nor would they have re-
manned there.
THE charge usually made against
Hawaii has been that she has been too
too much encouragement to their COM i
ing. The truth is, Japanese laborers t
have been welcome in Hawaii and have
been we'll treated. They have been an
factor in the agricultural S
development of the islands, and they I
have shared in the results. They have I
bettered their own conditions have !
made large savings, and have sent large
shutting off of immigration gave the
Japanese now in Hawaii such an OBJ
vious advantage that strike for high l
er wages was bound to come sooner or I
later. '
THE one thing Hawaii has courte1 r
Is publicity. With that view 1t invited 7
out a large party of congressional Wis S
TORS in 1907 to study conditions there,
and hopes to welcome another party V
this year. The Hawaiian sugar indus '
try probably will be found to be in the I
hands of fairly reasona BILE and inteli-
gent people, who will compare favor {
ably with business men in general, and a
not the abnormal characters Mr.. Muir c
dock describes" a
During the month of June much i'm f
oortant work of an experimental ma t
-ure was carried on at Fort LeaVen- l
worth by companies A and D of the a
signal corps, under direction of Major F
Edgar Russell who is commandant Of a
The signal school at that fort. Many
new devices for signal work we're test n
I'd the most important of which was {
he new reel cart for laying and TAX Y
ng up telephone and telegraph wires s
n the field. This cart works auto O
AN either telephone or telegraph while
wire is being laid or taken up and r
while the draft horses are proceeding 4
either at a, walk or gallop. Provisional g
technical drill regulations were also =
ried out b. the companies, with a view Z,
o ascertaining the defects, if any, and e
making recommendations for improve :,
nents. The results of the work at Fort =
Ieavenworth are set out in a. compre- n
lensive report made by Major Rus
iell. which is now in the hands of :
Brig. Gen. James Allen, chief signal Of Y
1cer of the army. 7
The work 81 revising the army cook h