The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-15
His Visit Here Considered Sig
nificant to Kansas.
FARM LOAN BOARD HERE, TOO
Sunday and Monday to Listen
to City's Claims.
Kansas City Will Present Her
Claims at This Time.

With announcement from Wash
ington concerning the coming of Sec
rotary McAdoo of the federal treas
ury department, new interest today
centered in the meeting in Topeka
next Monday of the federal farm loan
board. Secretary McAdoo, as ex Of
ficio member of the board, will sit
with the four appointed members dur
ing the meetings in Topeka and
Hutchinson. He will carry to Wash
ington special reports concerning the
claims of central western towns for
the new farm loan bank.
McAdoos coming to Kansas is re-
garded as most significant in the set
Element of the fight for location of
the loan bank. The secretary of the
treasury has to date attended none of
The western meetings, altho he has
voice in the selection of towns in
which banks are located The red hot
Topeka-Ka City-Hutchinson fight,
however, is said to have interested
McAdoo and he will come to Kansas
and view first hand the claims of the
towns in the contest.
NcAdOo Here Sunday.
Plans announced today will bring
Secretary McAdoo to Topeka Sunday
afternoon. 1t will be his first visit to
Topeka. altho he has on several occa-
sions visited in the west. On two oc
casions in the last eighteen months
/ Secretary McAdoo has planned a trip
to Kansas Both times he was COM
PEELED to change his plans. Once the
secretary had accepted an invitation to
speak before Kansas Democrats at
their annual banquet
This time, tho. McAdoo has COM
pleted all of his plans and will be in
] Topeka for Mondays meeting. He will
| probably leave Washington tonight.
stopping in Chicago for a short con-
| ference with party leaders and MEM
bers of the Democratic national cam
/ paign committee.
The four appointed members of e
farm loan board - Norris. Quick.
smith and Lobdell-will arrive in To-
| peka Sunday afternoon at 2:47 o'clock
over the Union Pacific. They will
where a meeting is being held this
! week. Consideration of the bank sit
uation in this district will not be taken
up until Monday afternoon.
Members of an entertainment com
mittee appointed by the commercial
club. will meet the board members. A
| special entertainment program is be-
ing worked out. 1t will include drives
thru the city and probably an evening
| dinner at the country club. At noon
Monday a special luncheon will be
| given for the members at the CONNER
cial club rooms.
May Speak at Luncheon.
| Secretary McAdoo is expected to
| arrive in Topeka Sunday afternoon
unless his conference in Chicago
| should delay his arrival. In that
event. he will leave Chicago Sunday
evening, arriving in Topeka over San
ia Fe at IL O'Clock Monday morning
| or l o'clock in the afternoon. He will
probably be urged to speak at the
| commercial club luncheon.
| Facts and evidence favorable to the
| location of the loan bank in Topeka
| has been prepared and will be present
ed at the Monday afternoon meeting.
| Kansas City representatives will pre-
sent their evidence at the same time.
Following the session in Topeka.
members of the board will go to
| Hutchinson. They will leave Topeka
over the Santa Fe Monday night and
will meet Hutchinson representatives
| Tuesday afternoon.