The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-30

were killed and wounded and some
Jured. l think in the last year, in
every accident that has occurred by a
head-on collision, railway mail clerks
have been killed or wounded, some
times an express messenger wounded,
and often no passenger injured.
THE great Union Pacific railway
claimed to its credit that for the last
year it had not had a passenger killed
or wounded on its trains and it has a
good record for care; vet there was
not derailment where the engine, fol-
lowed by the mail car. left the track
that did not either kill or wound a
railway mail clerk A showing of this
kind is not creditable to the govern
ment or to the railroads either; and if
the postal department has the power
to require the roads to put on special
cars, that order ought to be enforced
now without waiting until the year
1916 or any other year after this.
These clerks are required to do their
work with speed and accuracy, and to
do it while the train is in motion. The
car being the lightest car in the train
receives the osciliating motion with
shock at every variation in the track.
The clerks must do their work stand
ing on their feet, and l have seen men
the other while they held packages of
letters in their hands, distributing to
the pouches hanging on the frames,
and receive injuries because there was
not room enough to shift their posi-
ton. I have been in mail cars where
the sanitary fixtures were a disgrace
to the owners of the cars and to the
department which accepted them in
any contract. There is no reason why
such conditions should be permitted to
0OnfiD1l0 another no ole
serve with unfailing fidelity and the
utmost care of the government while
they are working is due to them, as
well as due to the good name of the
government
Congressman Dan Anthony has pre-
sented a bill in the house directing
the secretary of the treasury to pay to
Phil Sours the sum of $3.50. being
balance due Sours for services rem
dered the department of the interior
at the instance of the secretary of that
department
Mr.. Anthony filed a petition in the
house from the Philamathean club of
Leavenworth against the tax on oleo-
margarine.
George H Ahlborn of Kansas has
been appointed a laboratory assistant
in the bureau of standards of the de-
partment of commerce and labor at
91sAOV d year.
Prof. H. L. Jackson of Lawrence.
Kan, at the hearing of the national
board Of food and drug inspection, pre-
scented a brief for the Kansas state
board of health. He urged the demand
for Kansas that the sale of any but
pure vinegars, even when properly
branded be forbidden. Kansas, he said,
is anxious to have vinegar diluted with
water. vinegar manufactured from
sugar wastes and a mixed blend of
various varieties of vinegar declared
Illegal.
The other day Mr.. Tawney, chairman
of the house committee on appropria-
lions, declared on the floor that this
country has expended for military
preparedness $2,192, O00,0 900 in the elast
ten years. Congressman Dan Anthony
of Kansas rather resented this claim.
In answering Mr.. Tawney, during the
debate of the military bill. he said:
In military preparedness
ness for war? I think it should be
stated that at least rs per cent of that
amount, or over rs per cent, has been
expended in maintaining our navy and
our standing army in the actual expense
Of maintenance of our regular military
and naval establishment
rs not that part of our prepared
ness for war;" queried Mr.. Tawney.
IF 1t is not, what Is it?"
mo. SIR interrupted the elongated
Dan from the First Kansas district
1t is a very necessary function of gov
eminent. We maintain standing army
and navy. I call military prepared
ness a surplus of military supplies
necessary in a time of war, that we can
call on in time of emergency. Our
standing army is perhaps the most ex-
pensive for it's size on the face of the
P3rfh Tho American oh tn,
paying reasonably large amount for
the pay of the men who compose that
army. They want to see them paid
exactly in proportion to the wages that
are paid Americans in any other pur-
suit of life, and think it is a little
unfair for the gentleman to charge up
all that great amount If something over
two billion of dollars, largely expended
for the necessary regular maintenance
of the military and naval establish
ments, to what he calls military pre-
paredneSS.'
Mr.. Tawney did not come back"
Presidential postmaster appointments
in Kansas confirmed by the senate:
Philip S. Dick, Mount Hope; Charles N.
Hunt, Arkansas City; Elwood ]. Muzzy,
Lenora; Jonah E. Nichols Atwood:
William P. Olmstead. Anthony; John
NJ. Van Scoyoc. Luray.
Dennis Flynn, former Kansas man,
now of Oklahoma. and for number of
years delegate to congress from that
state when it was a territory, is not on
the trail for appointment as United
States marshal for Oklahoma, to sue
coed the vacancy of Jack Abernathy,
who recently resigned
KIPLING'S FATHER DEAD.