The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-09
VIII Oppose Adjournment Be-
fore LOrimer Case Ends.
Fights Pension for Girl Scalped
in Census Bureau.
ASKS LOWER SUGAR RATE
Kansan Superintends Expert
ment in Raising Bamboo.
Jackson Fights Appropriation
for Indian Police.

washington, April 9.-The other
day Senator Joe Bristow served notice
on the senate that he viii oppose any
adjournment of the senate until that
body disposes of the Lorimer cases.
ST do not think the senate desires
IN snend another summer in washing
tom said the Kansas senator. put
there is the Lorimer case, and then
we have not had from the commlttee
on finance a report on any OF the Jar
If bills. It seems to me that unless
we expedite business somewhat we
shall soon have a congestion which
will keen us here until August.
.sI would regret to be compelled to
.,a,,d .pother summer in Washington.
am now, serving my fourth year IN
4ha senate and every summer since l
800 been a member has been spehl
in session, We have now the EoII1 1.or
case. and other important leSisl<A ~, . = =
to consider, and unless we Sel eoe -
business soon we shall have not Mee -
er with MS. and then we VIII nIlu o.a
~etves struggling through alotneL 81 81 . q
T11er to conclude our Work. 81 90 -
7 am concerned, I shall Oppose go
T,oriFner case and other lrnpoI'AA1 Ae7
~ 9TaiIo1vinr q. spirited debate, during
which Senator BristoW protesteu III, Si
he
sI,;l+Y of negligence, the senate yeseea
dav voted Alice Houghton, tne 1oi ~ Ii =
o1nSn1ovee of the census bureau, WV tlO
Iras scalped more than year ago 80
sum OF $4,000 to be PAID Ears az slio
of $50 a month for seven years.
Tho71rh Senator Bristow ana seN
eraI others offered formal Prore e,,
AGAINST the expenditure or the Iilo -..lI ,
o6 the ground that the governnnent
ras not responsible and had ALREADY
done Justice by the girl. the Vore ~
60 hsr 9 special annuity was pracu-
eai1v unanimous. The house propo90~
to increase the amount. o,o,,-red
Miss TIoughton's accident occut 80 %
while GENERATING a tabulating macnlne,
she stopped to the floor TO PICK op .
card which she dropped "hen -. =
hair became entangled IN d IeN @,-bi i1tE
1haft attached to the machine WlllIr
she was operating. Her entlre Sca at
1ras torn off from the foreheao par
70 fhe neck. Effort to make her scall
adhere to her head has 1alheo' anu ~
<3av she is a hopeless inVaho. A.,
senator Bristow introduced IN tn'
sane+e an amendment to the nouS'
9raa sugar bill designed to ellnllhal'
from the law the Dutch stanuaLue a t az
tbe 71L cents differential for rennet
s,1gar which is added to the presen
s4 1E,aa amendment would fix the maxi,
Mum duty on refined sugar at So :;
ner hundred and would retain ~ PEI
ten+ REDUCTION on Cuban sugars unoei
the cuban reciprocity agreement
Senator Bristow said these rates
,,,orld protect the beet sugar lnousliS
Iuollld reduce prices to the Guns u l-1'.
80 T,rovide light brown sugar at rea
eonalIe prices. He said that the pro
nsosed reductions from present revenue
would approximate $S,OOO'OoO-
Kansan Has New Job.
Prof David F'airchild, of Kansas
onief of the bureau of foreign plan
Sn+roduction. department of agriculture
a. charge of a new industry nov
under way in Florida. 1t is the rals
az Of bamboo for the market Inc es
+ahlishment of the Florida crop Is LII
result of over four years nara "oiA
ssrrhe hardest part of the problem o
-aistos, bamboo in this country, san
prof. Fairchild, to the state Jourhd
CORRESPONDENT, lis in the shipment iron
Japan of the young plants II mas new
been accurately determined just VIVA
+be structural strength of bamboo Is
though the strength is immense 10
the weight. Some tests are to be mao
IF the new government crop at tn
h,,reau of standards. The wood is al
vaadv much used in the manufacture o
aeropIanes and when 1t is known Jus
What can be expected of it there WI
he even a greater demand for 1t III TN
held-"
Attacking an appropriation of 5000,
600 for Indian police, carried in tn
Indian appropriation bill, Congressma
Fred Jackson, of Kansas, charged tina
the police in this branch of the serVlc
constituted a political machine.
John E Eyler has been appointe
postmaster at Acres. Kan.
Bremen postoffice, Doniphan count.