The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22
Governor as q Private Citizen
Asked for Her Release.
FATHER is VERY ILL.
Asked That She May Be Freed
to See Him.
Items OF Interest From the
State House.

don for Jessie Morrison during Cover
nor Hoch's second term and nothing
came of 1t for family reasons but there
Is much better chance for the FL Do
rado girl now that W. r. Stubbs oc-
cupies the chief executives chair Gov.
Stubbs while a private citizen advoca-
ted the pardon of Miss Morrison. and
there has nothing happened In the
meantime to cause him to change his
mind.
| Col. Bent Murdoch. of FL Dorado.
started the ball rolling during his visit
here yesterday. He called on Governor
Stubbs bearing with him a letter from
Miss Morrisons sister in which it was
set forth that Miss Morrison's father is
in falling health and urging the FL Do
rado editor to lay the matter before the
governor and do what he could to get
date set for a hearing at once so
the father could see his girl free before
| he died. Now as Col. Murdock and
Governor Stubbs worked together last
year for Miss Morrison's freedom, the
colonel is the very man of all others to
broach the matter to the new cover
Tor.
| Col. Murdock spent most of the af-
ternoon in Governor Stubbs' Office but
the text of their conference was not
made public. Governor Stubbs was re-
ticent about what he would do or would
not do in the case of Miss Morrison
but said that he would not consider it
at this time. One thing is sure, and
that is that a supreme and final effort
will be made to secure the freedom of
Miss Morrison during Governor Stubbs'
term.
Col. Murdock Is the newly appointed
fish and game warden and he Is full
and running over with the subject of
| fish science. The veteran editor and
| the governor had a learned dissertation
| in regard to the Improvement of the
finny tribe in Kansas along the sama
| lines of breeding by which thorough
| bred stock has been brought to per-
fection. The question of the catfish was
paramount in the discussion. Col. Muir
dock talked of catfish as though he had
studied the subject all his life. He re-
ferred to the different varieties of this
standard among fishes. There was the
mud" cat, the 'blue.' the yellow"
the channel and the horned" catfish.
IL was treat to hear your Uncle Bent
glibly run over the list. Governor
/ Stubbs suggested that the horned cat
| fish be eliminated by breeding Just as
the longhorn Texas steer was replaced
| by the superior shorthorn variety. The
| governor gravely went into the details
of this scheme. but he finally reached
point where his argument resembled an
Arabian Nights tale in its high color
ing and Col Bent snorted right out in
his emphatic refusal to become party
| to any such proposition. The governor
and his new fish warden finally stopped
Joking ana got down 10 the serious dis
cussion of how much money it will take
to see the fish and game warden
through the term of his office. The leg
! islature forgot to make an appropria-
tion for this department and the gov
ernor will have to draw on his conting-
ent fund to pay the expenses of Col
Murdoch while engaged in his official
duties.
| But it is a safe guess that the Nor
rlson pardon case occupied the atten-
tion of the governor during most of
the afternoons conference with his fish
and game warden. Col. Murdock was
ger than fish. He is following the
Injunction laid upon Peter the apostle.
to be "a fisher of men,
Assistant State Auditor Davis, after
having read a page article in the
Guthrie papers inspired by Gov. Has
kell of Oklahoma In which the latter
seeks to make odious comparison of
the governme ent of Kansas in contrast
with that of Oklahoma, comes to the
rescue of his own state in the follow
ing interview:
81 notice that the governor of Okla
homa has given out a statement in de-
Tense of the appropriations of that
state, particularly of those of the pres
ent fiscal year, in which he attempts
to prove his defense by comparing the
appropriations of that state with those
of this state for the same year.
! "I have no concern in the amount it
requires to defray the running ex-
penses of Oklahoma, but it would
seem that something must be wrong
| when it becomes necessary to prove
the economy of the present admins
tration of that state by a mparison
with a statement of appropriations OF
this state which does not represent
the true amount.
| 1.-THE statement given out by the
governor of Oklahoma showed the ap-
preparations for this state for the pres
ent fiscal year to be in the neighbor-
hood of three and one-half million
dollars, and ii is mentioned that the
statement of appropriations was com
piled from the biennial report of this
i department for the fiscal years 1907
and 1908, when as matter of fact
the only place where the list of appro-
| priatfons for the present fiscal year
appear In the report shows the total
to be quite a good deal less than three
million dollars. The statement con-
tanned, on the part of Oklahoma, an
exhibit of the net amount necessary to
! defray the expenses of that state; that
is to say, that only the actual running
| expenses, such as salaries, matnten-
ance, etc, were shown, while the state
ment used on the part of this state in
cluded the appropriations for real es-
tate. new buildings. machinery, re-
pairs, etc, for the various education
al. charitab BILE and penal institutions;
the appropriations for which amount
ed to, in round numbers, 100000.
deducting this item, also the amount
of fees collected, which were covered
into the general revenue fund. leaves
an actual running expense of $4,000
600 for the year, as against S1,900.000
for Oklahoma
'It appears to me in view of>this