The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

besides that, he has been working for
the better part of a year on the legal
and constitutional problems connected
with national corporations.
One Of the most unusual attempts on
record to bring outside pressure to
bear upon cont ress in support of the
passage of pending legislation is being
made in behalf either of the anti
gambling bill relative to farm prod
ucts, the parcels post bill, or both, no
one has been able to discover which.
For days members of both branches
tiers from their constituents, all word
ed exactly Like, and indorsing the
anti-gambling and parcels post bills.
AS there is no connection between
the two measures, that anyone is aware
of, the fact that they should be linked
together is proving almost as puzzling
to the members who have been re-
Quested to support them as that all
the letters should have ben couched
in precisely the same phraseology and
in many inSSonceS, addressed in the
same handwriting, although signed by
different persons and mailed from diff
ferent sections of the country at ap-
proximately the same time.
President Taft has given his ap-
prevail to the bill of Congressman Ed
Madison of Kansas, providing for the
appointment of commission to pre-
pare cOQe OIL procedure IN the OnlLeO
States courts and to expedite the bust
ness of those courts.
The president has advocated this
step for some time and hopes that
congress will give the subject careful
attention. The bill is pending before
the judiciary committee of the house.
1t authorizes a commission of five
lawyers to report to congress a COM
plete code regulating the procedure in
the courts, designed to expedite trials
i oil h
appeal without unnecessary Formally
or expense. A similar bill was pre-
scented in the last congress by Judge
Madison, but did not not get out of
the committee.
A commission of six, two from the
senate, two from the house, and two
to be appointed by the president, is to
be created under bill introduced by
Senator Charles Curtis to investigate
and report to he president on Novem-
Der 1, 1910, on the subject of employ
ers' liability and workingmen's COM
pensation.
Booker T. Washington has not the
influence at the White House in this
administration that he had under the
Roosevelt regime. When Roosevelt was
president, DR.. Washington was fire.
quently consulted when it came to set
ting whether this colored man or that
President Taft. so the gossip goes in
colored political circles here, told Book
er T. that before settling appointments
he would confer with such ;neE as
Bishop Grant of Kansas, Bishop Gaines.
Charles Anderson, who is collector of
internal revenues in New York city,
and others of prominence among the
colored race in this country. North
ern colored men of prominence are to
be given more attention than in the
preceding administration.
Senator Foraker at one time in the
senate alluded to Booker T. Washing
ton as 1.-The third senator from Ohio"
The remark was apropos of an appoint
ment of .colored man in the Buckeye
state by Roosevelt, without the senators
being counseled with.
Senator Curtis today stated that he
expected President Taft to announce
the federal appointments for Kansas
either next Monday or Tuesday. The
inspectors report dealing with charges
filed against Harry ]. Bone has just
been received, and the department of
Justice is now engaged in going through
the papers to make a report to the
president.
AS has been heretofore stated in the
State Journal, the charges against Bone
have fallen fat. He will be appointed
district attorney; Fremont Leidy will be
named collector of internal revenues
for the state, while A. w. Smith VIII be
selected pension agent at Topeka.