Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-02-20
KANsANs AND KANSAS
DorNGs IN WASHINGTON

Morgan, publisher of the Hutchinson
News, is spending week visiting
Washington folks. Mr. Morgan said
he had heard q lot about the capital
city but had seen nothing that
would cause him to remark as he
had in Paris, This Is no place for
: a man from Kansas" While here
Mr.. Morgan was the guest OF Henry
~. Allen of Wichita and Senator
Bristow.
A resolution has been introduced
in the senate by Senator Bristow
providing for an additional appro-
priation of $4,000 for completing
1.-THE Salina postoffice. If passed this
will make total appropriation of
$50 900 for the federal building at
Salina. The additional amount is
for the purpose of providing paving,
guttering, curbing and putting on
the finishing touches. Another res
olution has also been introduced by
Senator Curtis to complete the fed
eral building at Clay Center.
Judge John H. Mahan, resident
of Kansas for "a years and former
ly presiding judge of the court of
appeals, was in Washington last
week from his home at Kensington,
Md, to call on members of the
Kansas delegation. Judge Mahan
was member of the court of APP
peals which was abolished some
years ago, for four years, and left
his home at Abilene in 1901.
Mrs. Henry ]. Allen, wife Of the
Wichita publisher, and daughter,
Henrietta, left here the first of the
week for New York and expect to
sail in a week for an eight months
tour of Europe. They will visit all
points of interest on the continent
and in England.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe White of abb
lene are here visiting Congressman
and Mrs. B. W. Cravens. They will |
remain until after the Inauguration. |
They spent month at Atlantic City
before coming to Washington.
The Washington. Star says Of a
former Abilene man: James H.
Brady was today sworn in as United
States senator from Idaho, to fill
out the unexpired term of the late
Weldon B. Hepburn. He succeeds
Senator I. X. Perky,
Democrat, who was appointed to
serve until the Idaho legislature
elected. Mr.. Brady is Republican
and has been chairman. of the Re-
publican state committee and gov
ernor of the state of Idaho. He is
a native of Pennsylvania, from which
state also came his predecessor,
Senator Hepburn. For several years
he was resident of kansas and he
attended school in that state. He
went to Idaho in 1894. Senator
Brady is chairman of the advisory
board of the National Council of
Women Voters, an honorary vice
president of the Panama-Pacific in
exposition and president
If the Trans Mississippi Commercial
Congress. Before he had served in
he senate fifteen minutes his vote
Is a Republican was of material as
distance to. the Republicans of the
Ienate. He voted with the other
in favor of an execu-
i've session. The motion was car !
led, 36 to "a. Had Senator Perky
till been serving he, as Democrat,
would have voted with the Demo.
rats and the motion for an execu-
i've session would have been lost
" a tie vote.
Representative Rees of Kansas, !
made his maiden speech in the house
asst Sunday when he spoke in eulogy f
f the late Representative Utter, of e
lhode Island, at memorial exercises v
n honor of the New England states n
nan. !,
Representative I. D. Young of t
Kansas, this week introduced in the c
ouse a bill authorizing the secre-
airy of war to deliver to the city S
f Beloit, condemned bronze or c
rass cannon, with equipment. g
The secretary of state was called y
pom to furnish information to the n
ouse of representatives as to what
tops, If any, nave been taken to,
rotect the lives and property of S
.merican citizens in the republic OF n
Iexico in a resolution introduced o
y Representative Victor Murdoch. r.
Pow Charles M Sheldon of To- m