The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-09
Senator Curtis Would Have
Money Spent at AtchisOn.
Asks $4,000 to Improve the
Missouri at That Point.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
One at Concordia, Another at
Abilene Proposed.
Anthony Hopes to Get Road Bill
Through.

Washington, d. c.. March Sem
ator Charles Curtis has submitted an
amendment in, the senate intended to
be proposed to the rivers and harbors
appropriation bill to provide $4,000
for improving the Missouri river on
the Missouri side across from Atchi-
son.
He has also submitted an amend
mcnt to the sundry civil appropriation
bill authorizing the secretary of the
treasury to rearrange the customs dis
tricts by abolishing such as he deems
unnecessary.
Bills introduced by the senior kan
sas senator follow:
Bill authorizing and directing the
secretary of the treasury to pay the
sum of SS2.26 to Jacob Samuel Weav-
er, or his heirs or assigns. on account
of services rendered as a second lieu
tenant in Pennsylvania volunteer
cavalry.
Bill authorizing and directing the
secretary of the interior under such
rules and regulations as he may pre-
pumping and storage works under the
irrigation system to actual settlers
until such time as the works are thor
oughly tested and the feasibility of
new methods is practically demon
strated.
Bill for the erection of a public
building at Concordia, Kan. 100000.
Bill for the erection of public
Congressman Booher of Missouri
has introduced bill to enable the
states of Missouri and Kansas to agree
upon a boundary line and to determine
the jurisdiction of crimes committed
on the Missouri river and adjacent ter
ritory.
Inquiries have been made of the
census bureau whether farm products
should be valued by farmers, in reply
ing to census enumerators, at the
general wholesale prices or at the ac-
tual prices obtained by the producer.
1t was pointed out by the inquirers
that many farmers sell a proportion
of their eggs for breeding, at much
higher than the regular price. Others
sell part or all of their milk. butter,
and cream, at retail. Quite a num-
Der sell pure-bred livestock of va
rious kinds at more or less fancy
prices. The bureaus correspondents
are of the opinion that if sales are
quoted in this way in the census re-
ports, the results might be somewhat
uncertain as a basis for the average
market prices.
Responding to these inquiries, Cen
sus Director Durand states that in
forming its inquiries and instructions
with reference to the value of domes-
tic animals and fowls, the census bu-
reau must necessarily follow the lines
laid down in the law governing it's
acC1Ons mat law requires the bureau
to ascertain the number and value of
animals and fowls. The value sought
is not the value of some particular
class of animals or fowls, but of all
animals and fowls. 1t is the amount
at which the animals and fowls can
be sold. Good pure blooded animals
will sell for more, and thus have a
greater value, than the poor animals.
Where there are many pure-blooded,
the average will be higher than where
ODnOSit6 n of ai ire n
walls, but, as a matter of fact, the
pure-blooded animals are SO thor
Oughly distributed that they left no
appreciate influence upon the aver
age published by the Twelfth Census,
except in the case of the young colts
of the state of New Jersey.
No appreciable influence on the av-
erage price or value of eggs, milk or
butter is observed in consequence of
the practice mentioned by the inquir-
ers. The high-priced eggs, milk, but
tier. ETC.. are found about as much in
one part of the country as in another.
The average which the census will
publish is not that of a particular class
of eggs, but of all eggs produced. 1t
is the same for all animals, fowls and
animal products. The relative num-
Der and value of thesanimals and pro-
ducts to which specific attention has
been called does not exert, for the
country as a whole or for MANY of
the states, an influence sufficient to
make the average published by the
census materially different from the
averages market prices.
Congressman Dan R. Anthony expects
to get action in the house soon on his bill
authorizing the construction of a macad-
amized highway between Fort Leaven-
worth and Fort Riley. The bill has been
favorably reported and now occupies a
good place on the calendar. 1t is expected
that the point of constitutionalfty will be
raised against the measure. If such is
the case the bill will not pass.
The senate has passed the following
E. Wagner, a member of Company A.
Twentieth Kansas volunteers. Spanish
war, $50 per month; Agnes White. widow
of George Edward White late of Com
pany B, Twentieth Kansas, Spanish war
So, and 81 per month additional on ac-
count of the minor children of the de-
ceased; Abner B. Corye1l, civil war vet
She Sank a Schooner