The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21
Congressman Would Regulate
Liquor Traffic i'm Washington.
Had to Come Back to Kansas
and Leave Bill to ReeS.
ABOUT PENSION AGENCIES
All Topeka Clerks Will b
Cared for at Washington.
But That Is Most Expensive
City in Country to Live In.

! Washington, Aug. 21.-The serious
| illness of the mother of Congressman
! Fred Jackson of Kansas has made II
necessary for him to leave Washing
ton Monday. He has been the princl-
| pal advocate for the passage OF the
| Jones' Work excise bill in the house.
which has a purpose to regulate the
liquor question in the city of Wash
| ington. With his departure the lead
ership on this fight has devolved on
the shoulders of Congressman Rees of
! Kansas.
Congressman jackson expected to OBJ
| tain from Speaker Clark the privilege
o. substituting either Congressman
Young or Rees on the list for recogni-
ton when the discharge calendar comes
before the house. Rees was finally Sc
leCted- Although the motion to dis
charge the District of Columbia COM
this bill is No. % on the calendar,
Mr.. Jackson is about IS among MEM
bers who are promised recognition by
the speaker for moving suspension of
the rules About 200 men are expect
ed to get busy this afternoon talking
10 congressmen and trying to get from
them pledges to support the Jones'
works bill. In addition to this list
OF advocates for a change to make
washington dry town, it is expected
lhat at least 700 Christian Endeavorer
VIII also be at the capitol this after
noon to use their influence in the mat
ter.
one OF the matters of special in
terest TO Kansas congressman is when
me topeka pension agency is abolish
clerks and employees of that office
De able TO come to Washington in
order to hold their jobs" The To-
peka agency is the largest of the Is
agencies scattered throughout the
country. In wiping out these various
agencies it is the intention of con-
gress that every man and woman en-
pioyed in these agencies shall have
the privilege of being transferred to
the general pension office in Wash
tngton if they care to come here. Be
fore the senate agreed to the house
provision for the adjustment of the
various pension agencies, Senator
Lodge said:
Il merely desire to ask Senator Nc
Cumber a question. In all these agen-
cies there are clerks. In the total, 1
suppose, there are considerable
number of clerks. They are all in
the classified service; they have AL
been appointed IN the regular way /
and it seems to ME that 1t would be a
great hardship if they could not be |
employed here to do the work for
which the additional clerks would be |
required. 1 do not think others ought |
service register and put into their |
places. 1 think they have prior
claim to employment, if they desire |
to come here
In answering, Senator McCumber |
said: I'm the amendments which
propose there is nothing whatever
that deals with that subject, for the
reason that l did not consider 1t as
at all necessary. After being in the
classified service under the interior |
department, they, of course, would be |
Immediately transferable to another /
bureau in that department; and as
sumo that, having the right to hold a |
position as long as there are positions
under the classified service, the de- |
partment would be compelled to give
them a transfer if they should request
it. 1 understand that to be the law
now. But if we thought it necessary,
of course, we could proVide-and
am certain that the house would |
have no objection-that all the clerks !
in these agencies, upon the abolition