Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-30
MORE ROOM IS NEEDED
Executive Council Finding Difficulty
in Providing Location for Board !
of Control. u
Present Quarters Must be Vacated
Before the Legislature Meets
This Winter.
Insurance Men Uneasy at the Pros.
pect-Program for State Teach.
ers' Association.
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Des Moines. Sept. sO-The state
house. which seemed so large few
years ago, more than ample for all the
demands that would be made upon it
| for many years. is already badly
crowded and has not nearly enough
room in it to accommodate the growing
needs of the states business. The great
state board of control. 1t is now occu-
lpying the Office of the lieutenant gov
| ernor and five committee rooms back of
| the senate chamber These must all be
vacated before the legislature meets.
| The executive council has partly de-
| tcided to move the board into the three
rooms in the basement now occupied by
| the state historical department, and has
notified that department that it must
vacate the rooms for this purpose. The
new historical building is not COM
pleted, but it will be ready for occupan-
| cy in few weeks. and the council is
planning that the department over
which Mr.. Aldrich presides shall move
/ in al once, though there is no appropri-
alton for furnishing the building and
the department has very little furni-
ture, practically none that will be
l7available for the new building. except
a few cases. The present historical
rooms are wholly inadequate for the
t use of the board of control, which is
now crowded into seven rooms and
Ishould have two or three more. One
plan for settling the difficulty is to fin
lish and furnish the interior of the power
house across the street from the state
house and move the custodian, mine in
spectcrs, labor commissioner and one
Tor two other Offices into that building,
| thus making more room in the base
Iment of The state house. The next leg
lislatuie Will have this question to deal
With. Mr.. Aldrich does not want to
move until his new building has been
4 finished and furnished, so he can &C
into ii in proper condition and not have
Ito camp out for some months, wait
ling for furniture.
This is a great year for the education-
al business as we'll as all other kinds of
Legitimate business. The State Univer-
lsity. the Agricultural College and many
tother schools are at the top of their rec
] ord ard beyond. Charles F.. Shelton,
4 formerly superintendent of the public
schools of Burlington. now president of
Simpson College at Indianola. was here
yesterday To attend the meeting of the
lexecutive committee of the State Teach
ars' Association, and he says Simpson
lis enjoying boom. having more stu
i.lents fhpn eyer. before
The friends of the State University
feel more confident of its future than
lever before. The new president comes
Into his position with the most favora-
ole conditions possible. He has no
Ipreiudices TO combat: the regents, the
faculty and the students are all ready
70 cooperate with him in every posi-
Ible way to make his work successful
They are all his friends: they are not
looking for flaws, but they are filIed
with the idea that he is to succeed. He
has made good impression every.
where, and the friends of the university
confidence IN him.
Insurance men are again in state OF
losses of the past nine months and tn,
prospect of a letting down of the bars
ION commissions in Iowa. The latter
proposition interests more men than the
former 1t is runored that the limit or
commissions imposed by the union vii
he removed as to Iowa. under the modi-
tication of the rules that makes then
adjustable to the laws of the states
There is no regulation of commissions
by statute in Iowa and it isl reported
y that some of the companies have al
ready started to offer high commissions
This will of course bring all the com.
panies to the same action and Will re-
suit in reckless work on the part OF
many agents. 1t may all be another
wild rumor. such as the reported In
surance war" was two or three months
ago. The heavy losses suffered by the
companies is another thing. 1t is the
worst for years and the managers are
thoroughly frightened 1t is all tht
more surprising and hard to account fol
because it comes in a time of such gen
!eral prosperity, when the moral hazard
lis supposed to be so slight compared +
such a time as 1893. when more thar
one merchant sold his goods to the in
Isurance company rather than have tn,
sheriff sell them.
No better program has ever beer
lpreparad for the State Teachers Asso
citation than that arranged for the mex
meeting, Dec 81. 2S and %. The execu
tive committee has been in session here
yesterday and today completing the de
tails and has been congratulated upoI
1.-THE success of its work. Presiden
Charles F. living, of the Western Re
. serve University, of Cleveland, o., viii
speak the first evening, and Presiden
F. II. Bloodgood, of the State Associa
ton, will deliver his annual address
The program will be followed by re
cersion in the new auditorium, whel
the meetings will be held. This recep
, Ition will be more pretentious affai
than the previous receptions of the as
sociation. 1t will be given in the audi
torium by the people of Des Moines
, and it will be a strictly high-class af
fair, such as the teachers have not ha,
, before The city will have as its guest
of honor on this occasion all the forme
! state superintendents, all the forme
presidents Of the association. the stat