The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-20
Kansas Delegation Introduces
Measures in Congress-.
Unusual Activity Displayed by
N0tables at Washington.
LARGE EFFECT ON INDIVIDUALS
Special Legislation Is Asked
by Congressman.
Military Highway Between Forts
LeayenwOrth and Riley

Washington. d. C, Dec. 20.-The
Kansas delegation in congress has
Been unusually active in the introduce
con OF bills of various nature during
She past week in both the house and
senate These measures for the most
part affect individuals while at the
same time there are quite a number
81 general nature The more i'm
portant measures presented are noted
below.
Bills introduced by Congressman
Phll p Campbell: Bill providing
&ensions for honorably discharged SOL
diers who were in the military service
Of the United States in the campaign
against the Indians in the years 1858
and 1869; bill to amend the pension
act Of June p, 1890 and all other like
acts following; Dill granting pensions
% eN-prisoners of war; bill amend
fRg section l of an act entitled grant
ing extra pay to officers and enlisted
men of the United States volunteers;
hills for the purchase of sites and
erection of public buildings at Column
bus and Oswego; bills for the relief
Of Josiah Wilcox, John Carr, David
Potter Hazeltine. Philander p. Coats.
George w. Mexican. William T.
Grady. Cary Lance. Charles W. Mum,
Samuel T. King, Thomas F. Kelley, G.
f. Moore. and the legal representa-
tives of John D. Sheridan and ]. NJ.
Johnson.
E BY Congressman Joseph Taggart:
Bill to extend the provisions of the
pension laws to include the Eighteenth
and Nineteenth regiments of Kansas
cavalry; bill authorizing and di
rsctinS the secretary OF war to do
nate obsolete piece of ordnance,
together with its carriage or mount
ing and six cannon balls to the city of
Kincaid: bill for the erection of an
addition to and for the alteration and
repair of the pOstoffice building at
Fort Scott; bill for the erection of a
federal building at Garnet; bill for
the erection of an addition to the post
office building at Lawrence
Curtis on Neutrality.
BY Senator Charles Curtis: A joint
resolution declaring the position of
the United States on the question of
neutrality.
BY Senator w H. Thompson: Bill
proViding for service of subpoenas for
witnesscS in tie district courts of the |
United Stat. in addition to the meth |
DDS now provided by law; bill relating
to the naturalization of married wom- |
en-; bill TO extend the benefits of the |
pension acts of 1890 and ! 800 to SOL |
disrs AMI sailors who served in mill |
sary or naval forces, their widows, |
their minor children and dependent |
parents.-as- well as to include the off |
Gers and enlisted men who served in /
the Nineteenth regiment of the Kan /
sas volunteer cavalry; n joint ~esolu- |
ton proposing an amendment to the 1
Substitution of the United States pro- |
ridinE for national prohibition; bill /
TO prohibit the manufa cture, sale or /
giving away of intoxicating liquors in /
the District of Columbia; a joint reso- !
Intion proposing an amendment to the |
constitution of the United States for |
woman suffrage
CHRONOLOGICAL Station at Wellington. |
BY Congressman William A. Ayres: /
Bill providing the order of procedure |
ia the district courts of the United |
States; bill providing for service of |
SubpocnaS for witnesses in the district /
cpurts of the United States, in addition |
tlan aCfh No mr. Cd hxy1 Low
hill granting pensions to certain en-
listed men, soldiers and officers, who |
sArved in the Civil war; bill for the |
purchase of a site and erection of a |
Building for the chronological sta
ton at Wellington; bill to prevent |
discrimination in prices and to provide |
for publicity of prices to dealers and |
TO the public: bill for the relief OF
Lewis K Marshall.
BY Congressman Dudley Doolittle:
Bill to establish a government bureau
to loan money on agricultural lands
as security.
BY Con gressman John r. Connolly:
Bill for the relief of DR.. z. V. Hail
man.
Congressman William c. Adamson,
of Georgia, has presented a bill in
the house providing for the construc-
ton of a military highway between
Fort Leaverworth and Fort Riley.
-.By Senator Curtis: Bill providing
for the grading, weighing and inspec-
don of interstate shipments of grain
and hay: bill to pension the survivors
Of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Kansas volunteer cavalry: bill for the
relief of V. Z. Shemerhorn, E. c.
Galley, G. w. Campbell and Phillip
Hudspeth.
To Pawnee Rock.
. BY Senator w. H. Thompson: Bills
for the purchase of sites and erection
of public buildings at the towns of
Oswego and Seneca; bill authorizing
the secretary of war to donate the
town of Pawnee Rock two obsolete
cannon or field. pieces.
BY Congressman Ayres: Bill to