The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17

Dental party, some very funny Incl
dents happened because of this
| estrangement between the speaker and
| the insurgents. Governor Shallenberger,
| Murdoch of Kansas sat at table talk
ing one day when the speaker passed.
| why, governor. awfully glad to see
| you,' exclaimed Speaker Cannon, ex-
shoulder of the red-headed insurgent
1 from the Sunf1ower state. The governor
| rose and they chatted for two or three
minutes. Mr.. Murdoch sat still and
looked over the rail at the river bank.
| The speaker didn't know he was there.
Speaker Cannon" demanded the gov
ernor when the speaker had passed
along.
| but 1 don't maintain relations since he
quit speaking to me-"
| We'll came blamed close to intro
ducing you,'' said the governor.
You'd have needed an overcoat if
you had made that mistake" replied
the Kansan.
Another story of the speakers pleas
ant way of ignoring the insurgents
comes from Congressman Morse of
Wisconsin. One day he was at the
treasury department on business with
an official when the speaker came in.
Mr. Speaker" said the official, OBJ
serving that they didn't speak, "let me
introduce Mr.. Morse
very glad to see you, Mr.. Morse
said the speaker, extending his hand
with assumed cordially. What line
are you in?"
I'm member of congress-" replied
Mr.. Morse, while the official looked on
in wonderment.
"Oh, yes, to be sure" said the speak
er dryly, 1--WE seen so little of you in
surgents lately that it's hard to re-
member you. Fact is, that if your man
LaFollette is a Republican, I'm just an
old fogy.''
well, Mr.. Speaker replied Morse,
''LaFollette's Republican, all right"
And the speaker passed on.
Edwin c. Grumley. of Kansas. has
been elected president of Columbia
Typographical union of this city. Mr..
Grumley was born at Plattsville, Wis,
and when II years of age his family
emigrared to the then territory of Kan
sas, finally settling at White Cloud,
where he served his apprenticeship as
a printer on the White Cloud Chief.
On July II, 1863. he enlisted in Com
pany c, Fourteenth Kansas cavalry,
and served with that regiment to the
close of the war. He was admitted to
membership in the typographical union
at Lawrence Kan, in 1865. and has
since held continuous membership since
in the locals of st. Joseph, ST. Louis
and Dubuque. He was first elected
president of Columbia Union of this
city in 1883, and during his term was
instrumental in defeating an effort to
decrease the pay of the printers of the
government printing office, and initia-
ted the movement that made Washing
ton a strictly union city in the news
paper field, and which had a far-reach-
ing effect throughout the entire juriS-
diction of the I. T. U.
Jack Roberts, of Emporia. who is re-
ferred to at the government printing
office as 1.-The man from Kansas" is
doing his usual winter stunt as correc
tor in the night pressroom of the big
printery. People get some pretty tall
stories about the Sunf1ower state, but
they don't have to believe them all,
and it passes the time away for the
printers.
Congressman Calderhead introduced
bills to increase the tensions of Mar
tin Low, Jackson, Walker, John H. Hair,
William W. Graves. and George H.
Dentzer.E
Similar bills were introduced by Con-
gresham Campbell for residents of the
Third district as follows: John Nc
NaJly, Andrew N. Stamm. Thomas Lam
born, and Lyman u. Humphrey.
Congressman Madison also presented
pension bills for Benjamin P. Addle-
man, Cephas Shuman, Adam Murphy,
Noah NJ. Markle and August Siederman.
Senator Curtis presented in the senate
a memorial of many citizens of Kansas,
demonstrating against any change be-
ing made in the present oleomargarine
law.
On January 1 the postoffice at La
Crosse, Kan. will be removed to a new