The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-14
AT THE CAPITAL.
Tariff Legislation Causing No
End of Worry.
West and Middle West Respon-
sible for Anxiety.
VOTERS ARE AROUSED
Are Carefully Following Pend
ing Legislation.
Senator Curtis Question About
Wool Duty.
VOTERS ARE AROUSED

politics of the tariff mea sure is be-
ginning to give the leaders at both
ends of the capitol building lot of
worry. They are just beginning to
appreciate that large political re-
suits are hanging on the question of
how the tariff is revised.
While it has all along been talked
that a Democratic house may be the
outgrowth of the enactment of a
tariff measure, it is only recently that
there have been symptoms of a wax
ing up to the fact that not merely the
house but much more is in danger.
1t is only of late that there has ap-
parently been serious appreciation of
the fact that much more grave re-
suits to the Republican party than
loss of the house may follow If the
tariff is revised upward instead of
downward.
But the advices that are being
brought to Washington by members
of the house who have been in their
districts. in the middle west and the
far west have been such that they
cannot be overlooked. They are be-
ginning to make Senator Aldrich ana
''Uncle Joe" Cannon lie awake nights.
They tell of strong sentiment among
radical revisionists and standpatters;
that is, those who formerly were
andpatters, that the tariff bill must
accomplish revision downward This
is true in the middle west and much
Of the far west alike. Moreover, the
reports are that the voters are not
ignoring the tariff, but are in reallty
following it with zest and intelligence
A reflection of this is seen in the
vehemence with which large num-
bers of influential western newspapers
are attacking the pending tariff bill.
Moreover, there are indications of
powerful eastern sentiment that is
opposed to the way the tariff is being
revised by the senate and house lead
ers, more especially those of the SEN
ate.
The Washington Herald says: The
prosperity of Kansas was uppermost
in his mind when Milton Greenfield, OF
Kan, a merchant of that place.
state last night Mr.. Greenfield IS
young man who is full of Kansas op-
tinaism and is here on his way to
Europe on a pleasure trip
business in Kansas is fine. said Mr.
Greenfield, land we don't have to wait
for the tariff. we really don't depend
or the tariff SO much for business With
is 1t is wheat and corn and other prod
ucts of the farm. AS long as We can
get the price for wheat we are getting
now, Kansas will always be one or the
most prosperous states in the Union.
Prohibition? Why, Kansas is alto
gether dry now. You couldn't even get
a aicohol on q doctors prescription IT 1t
was needed for the bath of sick per-
SON 1 don't believe. however, that is
the right point of view to
take.
During the discussion of the wool
schedule in the senate. Senator Curtis
asked Senator Doliiver OF Iowa il he
was not aware of the fact that while
the sheep industry was ruined in this
country. the importation of wool in
creased to the extent of over a hun
cred million pounds.
"Oh, yes replied Senator Dolliver,
latter killing the sheep. before We could
restore the hocks. / do not deny that
putting wool upon the free list was a
fatal error, Injurious to the sheep in
dustry in the United States. On the
contrary. I offer here proposition to
enlarge and make certain the full meas
ure of the protection which we have
been laboring under the impression
that we have been enjoying during the
past IL years without actually getting
the benefit from it in most cases.
Kansas postmasters appointed:
Peter L. Hyde at Inman. Mcpherson
county, to succeed I. B. Klopfenstein,
declined reappointment; Howard D.
sebring at Pennington. Atchison
county, in the place of w. r. Drol-
linger, declined; Paul Q. Coons at
Spring Hill. Johnson county, vice G.
A. Hartley, resigned; Minnie A.
Brown at Acres. Clark county; Edith
Stewart at Sid, Morton county; Phena
McCue at Post, Gray county; Sam
uel c. Griffith at Brownell; Charles P.
Couch at Rantoul; James Suther-
land at Lewis.
Ralph L. Parr of Kansas, is one of
the star graduates at the naval aca-
denny this year. His rating is eighth
place in the third class. and his per-
centage is 63.71.
J. G. H. Lee of Junction City. Kan.
is q member of this years graduating
class at West Point.
Capt. Charles J. Badger, superin-
tendent of the naval academy at An
napolis, has been placed in command
of the battleship Kansas.
Congressman Charles F. Scott pre-
sented petition in the house of the
Bankers association of Kansas and
Merchantile club of Kansas City, ur-
ging an early passage of the tariff bill.
J. T. Shearman of Wichita, Kan, is
employed as one of the governments
experts in handwriting. He is fire.
quently called into consultation in
court cases of the District of Column
bia to determine handwriting on
bank checks and other bankable pa
per.
Rev Manager J. H. Liken of Wich-
ita. Kan. is here attending the Cath
Ollie Missionary union OF America,
which is holding it's annual meeting.
Benjamin r. Brown and George G..
Stapleton of KinsIey, KAN, have been
appointed rural letter carriers
General w. II. Sears of Lawrence.
Kan. has arrived in Washington
Weather Indications.