The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-29
Plan Among Democrats on
Tariff Vote i'm Congress.
Place Thompson in Good
Standing in Kansas.
VOTE FOR DUTY ON THE FLOOR
Then in Conference Increase
Will Be Removed.
Other Items of Interest From
National Capital.

| Washington, May 29.-Plans to let re-
calcitrant Democratic senators down
easy on the wool and sugar schedules
are being worked out among the sem
ate leaders. They will be followed if
| the pressure for duties on those ar
| ticles becomes too intense
Briefly, these plans amount to a de-
sign to save the faces of certain west
ern senators (Senator William Howard
Thompson of Kansas included) with
their constituents. They will not af-
pa ssed.
If need be, certain Democrats will be
allowed to vote in the senate for
amendments to the wool and sugar
schedules imposing a Is per cent duty
on raw wool and emitting the three
year limitation as to imposition of a
duty ON sugar. The bill will then go 70
conference. In conference the increase
will be stricken out.
When the bill returns to the senate
from conference, and it is put up to
Democrats to vote the conference re-
port as a whole up or down, then it
is expected that all the Democratic
senators will line up for it, but the eve
from Louisiana.
This plan would get some of the
tight hole. They would be able to say
to their constituents that they had
fought against free wool or free sugar
or both. and had only yielded at last
when 1t became a question of passing
the bill or defeating it.
Senator Bristow has introduced an
amendment proposing to appropriate
$500 to be expended in the building of
a bridge across Chilocco Creek which
intercepts the state line of Kansas and
the Chilocco Indian reservation in
Oklahoma.
Congressman Taggart. of Kansas,
presented a bill in the house validating
the leases for oil and gas purposes made
by the Usage national council May 25,
1912, to the Uncle Sam Oil company
and to Wesley M. Dali and his assigns,
and directing the secretary of the in
terror department to approve the trans
fer of the lease from Dial to the Uncle
Sam Oil company.
Congressman Phil P. Campbell intro
duced a bill prescribing the procedure
in the courts of the United States in
actions at law.
Kansas, has introduced a bill in the
house to extend the provisions of the
pension laws to include the Eighteenth
and Nineteenth regiments of Kansas
volunteer cavalry. The text of this bill
follows:
That the provisions, limitations and
benefits of the several acts of congress
now in force granting pensions to the
soldiers and sailors of the late civil
war and to their widows and minor
children and dependent parents be ex-
tended to the surviving officers and
enlisted men of the Eighteenth and
Nineteenth regiments, Kansas vo1un-
teer cavalry, who served 80 days or
more and were honorably discharged
from the service in the Indian wars
of 1867, 1858 and 1869, and also to in
dependable parents
For Soil Survey.
The bureau of soils, in cooperation
with the state college of agriculture
and experiment station, will soon be-
gin a soil survey of Montgomery coun-
ty, Kansas. Montgomery county con-
tains approximately 643 square miles.
The survey will be made for the pur-
pose Of determining the different types
of soil in the county and what crops
they are best adapted to. The survey
will be finished in the fall, when the
report will be prepared and published
later, together with a soil map in COL
ors showing the locations and extent
houses, churches, schools, railroads,
public roads, and streams in the
county.
Complete soil surveys have been
made of Allen, Brown, Cherokee,
Greenwood, Jewell, Reno, Riley and
in Atchison, Butler, Cherokee, Finney,
Gray, Labette, Leavenworth, Russell
and Sedgwick counties. A reconnois-
sance soil survey was made by the bu-
reau of soils in 1910 of the western
half of the state Of Kansas, covering in