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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-04
PARTY HARMONY
Sneaker Brown DilateS on
Work of House.
Denies That Democratic Ma
jOrity Not Working Together.

Speaker W. L. Brown today issued a
statement concerning the work of the
Democratic members of the house. He
believes that the party promises are
to be fulfilled before the close of the
session and that all of the 72 Demo-
cratic members will work in unison in
redeeming the platform pledges.
In his statement today. Speaker
Brown said:
II wish to emphaticany deny the
allegations made in the papers that
there is any division among the Demo-
Gratis of the house and to give the
facts in regard to party measures so
far.
Il have never seen better team. work
done by a party in all of my legisla-
tive career than has been done by the
house Democrats since the day the
session opened. Let me recite a few
things:
''On the repeal of the inheritance tax,
which was a platform promise,
there was not dissenting vote
on the Democratic side. All of the
Democrats present-66-voted for the
amendment to the initiative and refer
endum containing the words-"And no
state court shall have power to hold
anything so ordained to be unconsti-
tutionaL'' One member voted against
it besides myself, who voted in the
negative in order to be in position to
reconsider.
the resolution seventy Democrats voted
for it and two were absent. The only
votes cast against it We're three by
Republicans. This, too, was a plat
form measure and was moulded by the
judiciary committee, the majority of
whom are Democrats. As to the recall,
another platform measure, on the
question of excepting judicial officers,
which the Democrats maintained
should not be done, there were only
two Democrats voted to exclude them
the balance stood as solid as a stone
wall. as the records will show.
ION the passage of the resolution
every Democrat voted for it, who was
present, but it failed on the two-third
vote for the reason that the minority
voted nearly solidly against it. On its
reconsideration next morning, the
Democrats voted solidly to reconsider
in order to give the minority an OPP
nortunity- to go on record right On
its final passage sixty-seven Democrats
~, pa TwO1
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HANDLE MILLIONS
DIR. Thompson, Ex-Kansan,
Pension Disbursing Officer.
Has Been With Pension De-
partmept Many Years.

Washington, Feb. 4.-Dr. A. H.
Thompson, of Kansas. will handle
more money than any other official of
After many years of employment in
the United States bureau of pensions,
he was today sworn in as disbursing
officer for the bureau. He will over
see the payment of monthly allow
soldiers widows and minors through
out the states every quarter.
DIR. Thompson first entered the bu-
reau as an examiner Until today he
was chief of the financial division.
He was appointed by. Commissioner
Davenport several weeks ago in ac-
cordance with the last appropriation
bill for pensions, which abolished the
eighteen pension agencies. Twelve OF
the agencies have been installed here,
and the other six will be soon as pos
sible.
The new division of the pension bu-
reau has arranged for the prompt pay
ment of the quarterly pensions, which
fall due only in six of the cities whose
agencies have been transferred TO
Washington. One of these cities is To-
peka.
About 255 clerks have been brought
to Washington with the agencies, SO
of whom came from the Topeka
agency.
Congressman and Mrs. Philip p.
tending the last state dinner given al
the White House last night by PreSi-
dent and Mrs. Taft.
F. d. Sell of Oswego, end M. d,
Allen of Fort Scott are among Kansas
visitors in Washington this week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-04
House Passes the COnSOlida-
ton Bill.
Make Three Labor C0mmiS-
siOners Into One.
THE VOTE WAS Is TO IS
The Measure Is Now Up to
Hodges.
1t Is Platform Pledge About
Redeemed.

Another platform pledge was re-
deemed by the Democratic legislature
today when the house by vote of 7S
to 16 passed the administration bill
consolidating the state society of Ia
Dor and industry the bureau of mines
and mining and the free employment
bureau and making the labor COM
missioner appointive by the governor.
All that is now required to make the
bill a law is the signature of Governor
Hodges, which will be attached this
week.
This morning the senate mesSaged
to the house the fact that it had pass
ed the labor bill, stipulating certain
amendments in which the house was
asked to concur on motion to con-
cur in these amendments, the measure
came up for final passage ana was
adopted IS members voting in FAVOR
of the motion and 16 opposing it. AS
soon as the bill becomes a law, the
consolidated under the supervision of
a labor commissioner, who will be
named by the governor. The require
ments of the new commissioner are
that he shall have had five years
actual and practical experience in the
workings of organized labor and shall
have been a resident of the state OF
Kansas for taht period of time.
The passage of the labor bill is the
very thing that the labor organization
which met in Topeka Monday did not
want Their delegates to the Topeka
meeting crowded into the senate gall
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-04
FREAK LEGISLATION.
A Sample Is the House Bill on Ad-
yertiSing.

House bill No. 291 has been favor
ably reported by the judiciary COM
mittee. The bill provides a fine or Jail
sentence for the author of an adver-
tisement containing any false, mis-
leading or fraudulent statement"
The act would tend to make useless
and harmful law. Truthfulness in ad-
vertising is a desirable thing-and the
common and usual thing. Public
opinion and good business regulate tie
matter better than a statute could. 1t
does not pay to lie in advertising. Ad-
vertising is merely the selling talk of
the merchant. 1t is natural for the
seller to praise his wares: The mer-
chant tells OF his goods with glowing
praises and does it conscientiously,
but his competitor will brand those
statements as false. misleading or even
fraudulent and he, too, believes he is
telling the truth. 1t is doubtful if
there could be a conviction under so
vague and indefinite a law as the bill
proposes. but it might easily be used
by a jealous competitor as an instru-
ment to annoy and harasS legitimate
advertiser.
The law would make a useless addi-
ton to the statute book, commendable
as lecture of instruction to the ad-
vertiser, but of no value as to its prac-
tical enforcement, and of possible
hinderance and injury to honest ad-
vertiSers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-04
TODAY IN CONGRESS.
Bill to Seize Goods Imported by
Trusts Is Passed.

Washington, Feb. 4-Senate conven-
ed at noon. Fortifications appropria-
ton bill carrying $5,215,250 was report
ed. An effort to have former Senator
Bailey's faewell addess pinted a
public document was defeated by OBJ
lection of Senator Smoot. House bill
to authorize government to seize i'm
ported goods brought in by trusts or
under Illegal contracts passed. Elec-
tions committees investigation of the
election of Senators Watson and Chill
ton was halted by withdrawal of state
ments made in charge.
House convened at 1920 q. m. In
terstate commerce committee cancelled
all hearings for session owing to pres
sure of business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-04
Standard Throws Another
Scare Into Kansas.
New Rail Rates Would Ruin
Local Concerns.
CONFERENCE IN Topeka
Representatives of Independ-
ent Firms Are Here.
Fight Against Railroad Case in
u. s. Court.

W. e Macewen, traffic manager for
the National Refining Company, which
company has refinery located at Cof-
1eyv1lle, Kansas, has been in Topeka
several days in company with Mr..
Speer, local manager for the National
Reflnlng Company in connection with
petition filed by the Santa Fe. Rock
Island and Frisco railroads in the
United States district court with a
view of having the present statutory
rates in the state of Kansas declared
null and void, and to restore the old
basis of rates that were in effect in
1905.
The National Refining Company, the
largest Independent oil company in
Kansas, Macewen claims, will be abso-
lutely barred from doing business in
the state of Kansas, if the old rates
are restored, and he declares this will
be the practical effect on all other in
dependent interests.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-04
TOUCH REAL WINTER.
Aud 1t Will Last Several Days, Says
Flora.

TT looks like a touch of real winter
for the next two or three days." said
sunny Flora, the weather man this
afternoon. Today the temperatures
have averaged eleven degrees below
normal for this date, and Wednesday
morning the mercury is expected to
hover around the zero point. The min
imum temperature today was nine de-
grees at 7:15 o'clock.
The forecast: Snow tonight or
Wednesday; cooler in the northeast
portion of the state tonight"
Shippers forecast: Protect SO
hour shipments north against tenn
peratures of from to 10 degrees be-
low zero; south and east against tenn
peratures of from to 10 degrees
above zero, and west against tempera-
ture of zero"
The wind was blowing at the rate
of Is miles an hour from the north at
o'clock this afternoon. There was
a trace of snow early this afternoon.
The hourly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-04
SAYS HE Lied TO US.
Mexican Minister Declares 1t Is Time
to Tell the Truth.

Mexico City, Feb. At lied to the
American government for ten months,
telling them the Mexican revolution
would be over in six weeks. I was
forced to invest my diplomatic mission
with a domino and mask" This state
ment was made by Manuel Calero,
formerly Mexican ambassador to the
United States during the discussion Of
the loan measure in the senate last
night. He continued:
1.-The truth is that the department
of finance has not painted the situa-
ton as it really is. We should speak
the truth though it destroy us.
''The truth is that the situation is
desperate
Senior Calero's speech created a
tremendous sensation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-04
CRAWFORD CONTEST.
1t Showed Gain of 81 Votes for
Hodges.

A gain of 81 votes for Governor
Hodges was the result of the recent
contest in the Kansas senate over the
seat of the senator from the Ninth
district. A total of 593 votes thrown
out gave Capper 213 and Hodges 1872.
The result would have Seen to in
crease Hodges majority, if the contest
had had any bearing on the guberna-
torial situation.
The five precincts which were thrown
out bodily, and the vote in each for
the gubernatorial candidates is as fol-
lows, showing that Hodges carried one
precinct by a big majority, and one
by a narrow margin, while Capper car
ried the other three:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-04
Ottawa Wrestler Gets Draw

Ottawa. Kan, Feb. AFTER wrest-
ling for two hours and thirty-five min
utes without securing a fall, Ernest
Dougherty, the welterweight wrestler
of Ottawa university, secured a draw
with Harley Roundtree. champion of
Elk county. at Howard. Roundtree
secured the first fall on a questionable
decision with body hold after the
first eighteen minutes, but was unable
TO stay with the Ottawa wrestler in
the second grapple. A return match
will probably be held at Howard in a
few weeks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-04
Coroner Inquest Finds No Blame.

A coroner's jury in the case of Kath-
crime Woods coIored, who was burn
ed to death Sunday afternoon at her
home, 1173 Lincoln street, failed to
find any evidence of crime in her
= finding that she died
through being burned, and attaching
L.. -ons.D-I-ly 1or the burning. Sew
eral suspicious features of the case
that attracted the attention of the Of
ficers were explained quite readily.
The origin of the fire still remains a
mystery, but nothing that even
srnacked of foul play was discovered
The inquest was held by Justice of the
Peace M. r. Laycock-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-04

Interested in knowing what effect if
any, the contest might have had on the
gubernatorial situation Secretary of
State Charles Sessions dug up the fig
ures. So when a reporter for the State
Journal asked for them he smiled and
said there would be on need to go to
the records.
II guess I know what you want, and
1 have them here" he said and read
what is given above TT would have
been peculiar situation if the figures
had been reversed % he commented
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-04
.SHEPARDS SAIL AWAY
Will Spend Remainder of Their
Honeymoon Abroad.

New York, Feb. 4.-Mr. and Mrs
Finley Shepard sailed on the Kron
Princess Cecilia today to spend the
rest of their honeymoon abroad. Mrs.
Shepard was Miss Helen NJ. Gould.
They intend to go by easy stages to
Egypt and to stay abroad until May.
The Duchess de Talleyrand who
was Miss Anna Gould, was on the
same boat with the Duke and little
Prince de Sagan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-04
Big Grocery Store Burns.

Kansas City, Feb. 4.-Fire totally de-
stroyed the seven-stor- building occu-
pied by the Kansas City Wholesale
Grocery company at Eleventh and
Santa Fe streets in this city. The loss
was estimated at $125, 900
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-04
BOMB KILLS TWENTY.
1t Is Thrown at a Chinese Governor
But He Escapes.

Foo Chow, China, Feb. A bomb
thrown at the civil governor of Foo
Chow today killed twenty bystanders
but the governor escaped uninjured.
The governor at once dashed at the
assas assin and with the aid of others
succeeded in arresting him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-04
Tax on Every Corporation LO-
Gated i'm Kansas.
1T is A DEMOCRATIC MEASURE
introduced by Senator J. w.
Howe of Dickinson.
Money Will Go Toward ApprO-
priatiOnS for 1913.

An administration measure, which
promises to bring to the state of Kan
sas nearly $1,000,O00 in revenue an
nually and which provides for a
straight tax on the rights of corpora
t1ons to do business in this state was
introduced in the senate by J. w.
Howe, of Dickinson county, late this
afternoon The money collected from
these corporations will be placed in
the general revenue fund and will be
used to take care of the additional ap-
preparations to the penal, charitable
and educational institutions in the
state.
only educational, religious charit-
able, corporations and banking fnsur-
ance, building and loan associations
and companies not organized for pc
cunlafy profit are exempt from the
provisions of the new tax Jaw. Tt is
known in political circles that the bill
has received the approval of the ad
m1nlstration leaders of both branches
of the legislatures and that it will meet
little dangerous opposition in either the
senate or house of representatives.
Under the Howe measure it will be
necessary each year in the month of
February for every corporation to
make a report in writing to the secre-
tary of state The name the loca-
ton of the principal offices, the names
and addresses of officers and directors
the amount of authorized capital stock
and par value of each share, the nature
and kind of business, a statement of
assets and liabilities and other minor
details must be furnished in this re-
port.
The annual fee depends on the paid
up capital stock.
The table follows:
Paid up capital stock $1,000 and
less .........S 25 90
Between $4,000 and $4,000. ......... $500
Between $500 and $4,000. ..-.....- 5000
Between $4,000 and 800 900. 1890
Between 800 600 and 100000. 100 70
Between S2S0OOO and $500 coo. .. $50. GO
Between $500. 600 and $1,000 600. 49,. 5OO.0U
Between 81 900 900 and 81. 900, 000.... 75u. 90
Between 81 100000 and s., 900, 600 LOO. ~
Exceeding 5000, coo ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2, 500 o.
All foreign corporations with bust
ness interests in the state shall make
visions in the Howe administration bill
They shall pay in addition to the initial
fees for the privileges of exercising
their franchise rights in the state an
annual fee in proportion to the cap
ital stock as devoted to the Kansas
business. The amounts correspond
with the amounts named in the other
table.
If a corporation fails to make it's re-
ports in the period assigned a penalty
of 800 will be inflicted by the state
with an additional fine of five dollars
a day for each days omission after the
limited time The money collected from
penalties will be apportioned to the
state county school fund,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-04

Weather Forecast for Kansas.
Snow tonight or Wednesday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-04
With a Terrific BOmbardment
of the Turkish Stronghold.
ARE POUNDING At THE GATES
With 100000 Men and siege
and Field Guns.
Turks Declare They Will Fight
to Last Man.

Sofia, Feb. 4.-Some quarters OF
Adrianople are in flames as the result
of the bombardment by the Bulgarlails
and Servians which was resumed with
even more intensity today, accorolhs
to advices received from the front.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-04

London, Feb A full division Oh
Bulgarian infantry advanced to the
attack of Adrianople today under COW
er of a fierce bombardment, accord
ing to "a news agency dispatch from
Sofia. The result is not yet known
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-04

(Continued on Page Two.)
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STANDARD OIL SUBSIDIARIES.

FURNISHED by Carl II. Pforzheimer, No. .
Broad street,
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TO END VOTING TRUST
Guaranty to Follow Lead of the
Bankers Company.

Following the example set by the Bank
ers Trust Company, II was learned yes
terday that the Guaranty Trust Company
will announce the termination Of the
trust agreement by which its stock is
voted by George +. Baker, chairman OF
the First National Bank, and Henry =.
Davidson and William II. Porter. Of j. Z.
Morgan & Co.
When Henry =. Davidson testified be-
fore the Pujo committee last winter he
was closely questioned by Samuel Inter
myer on the uses OF voting trusts such as
those exercised over the Guaranty Trust
and the Bankers Trust companies. Mr..
Davidson declared that voting trusts were
a useful instrument during the infancy OF
a corporation. but admitted that they
were not necessary later.
The Guaranty Trust Company owes It's
rapid extension during the last three
years TO the absorption of other trust
companies on October /. 1912. its capital
stock was increased from 100000 TO
81. $1,000 following the merger OF the
Standard Trust Company into the Guar
anty Trust. Again the company further
increased It's capital 10 100000 on Octo-
Der 10 of the same year. According 10
the latest report. there is now on deposit
I'm this institution slS9.S75,co
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MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES.

Furnished by Harvey A. WINS & Co. 40. -
ErOadwayJ
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MONEY AND EXCHANGE.

THE MONEY MARKET-Cal money
was firm; renewal rate 8 per cent. Rates
Opening per cent, highest per cent,
closing per cent Time money was dull
and rates were unchanged. Rates: aga
IS. per cent for sixty days, per cent Tor
ninety days per cent for four months,
4S.d5 per cent for five months. 4AQ0 per
cent for six months Mercantile paper
continued quiet. Rates: 519d6 per cent
for sixty to ninety days Endorsed bills
receivab BILE. 5l.I6 per cent for choice four
10 six months single names and per
cent for others
FOREIGN EXCHANGE.-For eX-
change closed steady. The supply OF bills
was moderate and the demand was fair.
Yesterdays quotations: Demand sterling,
4S5l5d4 $500: cables, 1850; siXty-day oils.
4SO3.; short francs, 5.2lI plus Lea; short
reichsmarks, 1858 plus 1-6id9i9s plus 1-32.
DOMESTIC EXCHANGE.-Bcston par;
Savannah, buying 3-l6c discount. selling
par: San Francisco, 35c premium, DC up,
Charleston. buying par selling l-l6c pre-
MUM; Chicago, exchange 25c discount bid,
l5c discount asked; New Orleans COM
mercial zoe discount. bank 81 premium:
St Louis, exchange l0c discount bid, par
asked
SILVER MARKET.-Ba silver in Lon
don was steady at q l3-l6d, an advance
of 1-l6d
SUB-TREASURY.-T United States
Sub-Treasury was a creditor at the Clear
ing House yesterday TO the extent of ST.
81, 492
BANK CLEARINGS-New York, ex-
changes S2i1, lS5, 800. balances $40 $40, S3.
Boston exchanges slS,5SO, S23. balances ST.
1884; Philadelphia, exchanges $50, $4,000,
balances 81 ,393 449; Pittsburgh, exchanges
$l0,77S, 1898; Baltimore, exchanges s,6SS, SIS,
balances S9S7, 574; Chicago, exchanges $50
52l. 4S5, balances S2232.2Sl; st. Louis, eX-
changes Sl4SOS,4 25, balances Sl2s9,S5l.
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NEVADA QUOTATIONS,
TONOPAIIS

FURNISHED daily by Weir Bros & CO., y,
- Broad street,
October q. 1918
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GERMAN DISCOUNT RATE DROPS.

'Nev Stock
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FINANCIAL FIELD
London Spends Day Evening
Up Commitments.
fBy Gable 10 The Tribune.

London Oct. N.-The business or tns
day in the stock market was mostly con-
fined to evening up commitments BEFORE
the commencement Of the new account
tomorrow. In some departments there
was tendency to lower levels but In the
investment issues. coppers and the better
class OF speculative issues an improve
meut began in the afternoon that con-
tinued TO the closing. which was hrtn'
American shares were irregular at the
opening, but in the late trading showed
Improvement, and closed higher lnere
was a strong demand for money and IL
is expected that the Joint Stock Bank
will charge AZ to per cent on Sto-K
Exchange loans al the settlement.
Consos closed X higher, at T9s, for
money and Lie higher, at 70 Ills, for the
account. Canadian Pacific was q higher.
at 23jI
The premium on gold at Madrid to-day
was quoted at $500, an advance of 10
and at Lisbon at Is. unchanged.
Paris. oct. 27.-There was no trading OF
importance on the Bourse to-day, ana
prices were Irregular at the close.
Three per cent rentes closed ~ CEN
times lower. at 81 francs 30 centimes for
the account.
Exchange on London, % francs 2s19 cen
times for checks.
Private rate of discount, 3B per cent.
Berlin. oct. 27.-No actiyity was appar-
ent in the dealings on the Boerse to-day
but a firm undertone prevailed, and the
closing displayed slightly higher prices.
Exchange on London, ~ marks f''2
pfennlss for checks.
Money, 8 per cent.
Private rate of discount 4aA per cent.
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GREEN HIDES HIGHER.

Toledo. Oct T.-Wholesale buyers OF
green hides advanced the buying prices
sharply to-day making new high rec
ord No. and No. 2 green calfskins eaeh
were advanced Sc. the former to oc ana
the latter To lie. No. l and No. KIP
hides were advanced the same amount
the former TO l6c and the latter 10 .'o'
General shortage and strong demand arc
given as the causes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-28

Berlin. oct 27-The rate OF discount OF
the Imperial Bank of Germany was re-
duced from to 81 per cent to-day
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FOREIGN GOVERNMENT AND, MU.
NICIPAl BONDS.

Furnished by Zimmerman & Forshay. No. 3
Wall street,
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HANDY REFERENCE.

Yields OF leading active stocks, based
on the present selling prices and fixed
dividend rates:
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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE QUOTATIONS

Oct 2Total for the day. 22216o shares compared WIN
shar So n 1912.
~ 73tofol sde'
pared ~th10 sha for he period in 1912