Book excerpt: Excerpt from Eighteenth Annual Report of the Superintendent of Insurance of the State of Kansas, for the Year Ending December 31, 1887 Here is a shameless confession of bribery by Harper. It is placed on record here for the reason that Harper, having failed to get into Kansas through this department, will naturally appear with a bribery fund before our next Legislature. We owe him the courtesy of an introduction to that body. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.