The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-25
TOOK HIS OXEN.
Senator Curtis Would Have Mrs.
Gray Paid.
Soldiers COnfiscated Property
During Civil War.
MONEY FOR GUEST.
This Is Due for Services as an
Army Officer.
Mrs. Harris, of EmpOria, Guest
OF Honor at Banquet.

washington, April Ex-senator Cur
us mas introduced a bill in the senate
directing the secretary of the treas
ury 10 pay the sum of $4,000 to Ange-
line L. Gray of Kansas for losses sus-
| tanned by her husband James L. Gray,
by the taking of % sacks of corn 20
sacks of wheat, the use of Fl yoke of
Catlle Tor SIX days and the loss of 10
mead of cattle by troops of the regu-
lar army during the Civil war
another bill presented by Mr.. Cur
tbs is to pay to Lewis H. Guest of To-
peka $645.55, being the amount due
MIN Tor services rendered as second
| lieutenant of Company C, Twenty
sixth regiment Indian volunteer infan-
| try, covering period of six months in
1855.
| A third bill introduced by the Kan
sas senator provides the payment of
$4,000 for the relief of the heirs of
John w. West, deceased.
| A reception and banquet attended
by over 800 people closed a week of
continuous entertainment for Mrs.
Belle c. Harris of Emporia, national
president of the Women's Relief corps,
the other evening. Mrs. Harris has
been here the guest of the Department
of the Potomac for the last week, in
which she has been entertained at
teas, luncheons, and dinners, with au-
tomobile rides and visits to various
places OF interest in and about the ma
tional capital.
She was the guest Sunday morning
at breakfast of Mrs. Anna NJ. Baden,
national aid, at her home in Pent-
worth, a suburb. The guests invited
to meet the national president includ-
ed many officials of the local organiza-
| ton.
Mrs. Anna w. Johnson gave an in
| formal tea for Mrs. Harris, at which
covers were laid for twelve. A BAN
lof or- civ 6n of ia M
Fredonia hotel, which was attended by
loo guests. On this occasion, Mrs
Agnes Keller, department president,
presided, and Colonel John McElroy,
past senior vice r-in-chief
! of the Grand Army, was POSTMASTER
Congressman P. P. Campbell, Con-
gresham Thistlewood of Illinois and
Mrs. Harris spoke.
J The closing feature of the banquet
was the presentation to Mrs. Harris
| of a handsome album containing over
/ three hundred views of Washington
and pictures of many prominent peo-
! pie. This was given as slight me-
| mento of the visit of the national
president to the department president
! The presentation was made by Past
| Department President Mrs. Isabel
Worrel Ball, Larned, KAN, on behalf
| of the department president, Mrs.
| Keller The national president ac-
cepted the album with thanks and as
1 sured the ladies of the department or
| the Potomac that it would be at all
times a lively reminder of her visit to
| Washington. Mrs. Ball is now asso-
ciate editor of the National Tribune,
| official organ of the Grand Army.
| The banquet was followed by re-
| ception at which every corps in the
department was represented. The re-
ceiving line was comprised of the de-
| partment officers and all but three of
the surviving past department presi-
| dents.
Mrs. Harris has left Washington for
an official visit to the department of
| New Hampshire, where large recep-
! ton will be given her.
| Edward w. Hoch, former governor
| of Kansas, who was recently seen in
| Washington, termed the initiative and
referendum a piece of harm eSS tom
| foolery.
81 don't like either the recall or the
| initiative and referendum said he.
| 1.-The recall will make towards and
| weather vanes of public officials. I'm
| der that alleged reform Washington
| Tories, Lincoln would have been re-
called by the copperheads, and Nc
| Kinley would have been recalled by
| the jingoes who were clamoring for a
premature declaration of war with
Spain.
What this country needs is strong,
| courageous public men who will tide
| the country over spasms of unwise pub
| lie sentiment. The people are generally
| right in the end. but they are often
| temporarily wrong. They go off on
| tangents on insufficient information.
| They get back all right, but the recall
| would play havoc in the meantime. The
| initiative and referendum is a harm
less piece of tomfoolery that is imprac-
| fico HE in a hio country like this