The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-02
Kansas People Directing to the
Reciprocity Treaty.
Delegation Is Receiving Tele-
grams of Protest.
TWO POINTS TOUCHED.
One Is Grain and the Other
Gypsum.
essmanCampbellTellsW Why
He Opposed Judges Increase.

washington, Feb. kansas peo-
PIE, In large numbers. have already
registered their strong disapproval of
the canadian reciprocity treaty Let
.eis ana kilograms are coming in daily
70 members of the Kansas delegation
IIoIn the people who oppose the
treaty on account of the provision re-
iatlng TO grain and gypsum. The rails
ers or these products indicate that they
would rather see their representatives
IN congress vote against the whole
treaty if necessary in order to protect
their interests
Senator Curtis and Congressman
Campbell and other members of the
delegation have talked to President
Taft about the Kansas interests affect
ed by the treaty.
Congressman Phil Campbell helped
to knock out the increase of salaries
proposed in the house for circuit court
judges He, in part, said: Much
crease in the salaries of the members
or TINS house. / voted against that in
crease, and 1 have not noticed very
much difference in the annual savings
of the members salaries. The hotels,
the boarding houses, the apartment
houses, and those who have houses to
rent in Washington seem to have a
system whereby they can collect from
the members of congress about all of
their salaries, whether it be $4,000 a
y
an argument with me for this PROPOSE
ton to increase the circuit judges pay.
Many good lawyehs are always anxious
to get on the circuit court bench.
There is not a lawyer in this house
! who would not yield the position that
| he now holds, even if he knew that he
would not have contest during his
natural life, for a position on the cir
| cult BENCH
Interrupting Mr.. Campbell, Con-
rYo C111za of h
| supposed if a man was rich man he
Pwould take a circuit bench appoint
ment for nothing.
| some of the greatest opinions have
| been handed down. continued Mr..
| Campbell "by men who were serving
| for smaller salary and for love OF
the position and love of the law. The
| Office of circuit court judge is of such
/ dignity and character, and in it's ten
ure and in the. fact that after a service
/ of years the judge may be retired at
| full pay. he does not need to worry
| about his living expenses, for he has
enough to live upon comfortably. Any
| man can live comfortably on $1,000 a
| year in the United States. Thousands
| of mer live decently and we'll on much
less than that, and am not in favor
/ of increasing salaries to officials in the
United States above a salary sufficient
to provide for the comforts of the off
| GERS. These circuit court judges live
1 as well as others in the communities
| in which they live, and the average in
! come of the best citizens of the coun-
| try does not rise to 81 900 a year.
1 Senator Root bowled over Senator
Bristow in the senate the other day
during the discussion of the shipsubsidy
| bill While the New York senator was
| quoting figures to show the profits from
ocean mail service, the Kansas senator
formerly fourth assistant POSTMASTER
general, asked Senator Root where he
| ohfa his figures
| From the postmaster general re-
| piled Senator Root
How did the postmaster genera
reach such conclusions?" persisted Mr.
| Bristow.
"Oh. WE'LL replied Mr.. Root. waving
Mr.. Bristow aside deprecatingly 81 an
| willing to answer any proper questions
but 1 decline to enter into a colloquy
| with the Kansas senator to the value
of the postmaster generals official fig
! ureS.'
Congressman Phil Campbell was one
| of the orators Of an occasion celebrat-
ing the 1920 anniversary of the birtf
| of Robert Burns. the Scotch poet a
| a banquet given the other night by the
Caledonian club of this city.
Kansans in Washington: r. J. Brock
| Manhattan: F. B. Dawes, Clay Center
"A E. Crane, Holton; J. F. Williams
Clay Center.
The postoffice department has order
ed the site changed of the postofice a
Minneola. Kan, to building on MaiI
street, opposite the present site. Tit
change will be made this week.