The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11

Mr.. Calderhead, and every opportunity
he has to recognize the Kansan in an
official way he takes great pleasure In
doing so. At the opening Of congress
he appointed him on a special COM
mittee of three from the house to call
upon the president and notify the lat
ter that congress was formally opened
and ready for business. Later, the
speaker has appointed Judge Calder
head on several important special COM
mittees in recognition Of his high
standing in the house.
Feeling Over Distribution.
Breaking out of the old trouble in
the senate over the distribution Of
committee places is imminent. Talk in
some quarters today is that this old
fight is likely to be renewed before
long with all its fury, and that in the
present embittered state of feeling be-
tween the regulars and insurgents, it
may become more rancorouS than ever.
The immediate cause of the threat
ened renewal of the trouble is the &C
ton of the committee on committees of
the Republican side of the senate in
the case of Senator Lafe Young, the
new senator from Iowa. Mr.. Young's
tenure Is likely to be brief, unless he
should be elected, which is not deemed
probable. But the committee on COM
mittees has determined to give him all
the ola COIlDllLLOS places 4ACAO ny LILO
late Senator Dolliver, whose term he is
filling out. Mr. Dolliver, through long
service, had a long and important list
of committee assignments, on such
committees as agriculture, poston1ces,
interocean canals, education, labor, and
several others.
Senator Joe Bristow, of Kansas, one
of the leading insurgents. wants a
place on postoffices. He deems himself
entitled to this because of his long ser
vice as fourth assistant postmaster
general But he is shut out by the
giving of the DOlliver places to Young.
He is not pleased about it and his fell
low insurgents are also displeased,
In the insurgent camp, the whole
business is looked on as an effort to
show unusual favor to Senator Young,
who is a regular, and thus strike at the
insurgents.
It has served to cause much discus
sion Of the old charges of the newer
members of the senate that the COM
mittee places are unfairly distributed
by the old and regular coterie, led by
Senators Aldrich and Hale. This de-
velopment is one Of number which
serve to show the insurgents and
regulars are as far apart as ever.
Vic Murdoch tells of his first ven
ture in the hotel line in the national
capital. When he first arrived In
Washington, after election to the
house, he felt that he had the earth in
q sling and. that money and expenses
were minor considerations. Accord
ingly, he went to one of the most ex-
elusive hotels he could find and took
an elaborate suite of rooms. So gor-
geous were his surroundings that,
when Mrs. Murdoch appeared on the
scene, she asked him what the charges
were.
ooh, I don't know" he replied, I'M
concernedly. "T guess they're all
right"
''At any rate" Mrs. Murdoch sug-
gested, you'd better go down and ask
the clerk"
A few moments later Vic returned,
rushed into the suite like an old-time
Kansas cyclone, and began to throw
things into the trunks. Then he stop
ped long enough to telephone for a
baggage man.
1--WE figured 1t QUIT" he shouted as
he slammed up the receiver. TITS cost
ing us two dollars and sixteen cents
every minute we stay here. And we're
going to move in a minute" 1t was
the New willard hotel in which he
was stopping And, casually speak
ing, that's going some, when one can
afford to stop at that hostelry in
Washington. It was only built for the
rich.
The senate has passed a bill grant
ing an increase of pension to William
H. Thompson. of Kansas, to $24 per
month. Mr.. Thompson was aamem-
Der of Company B, Second regiment.
Kansas volunteer cavalry in the civil
war.