Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-20
FOR SUPERIOR GlIl1S
Legislature May Be Asked to Abol.
ish Justice Courts in the
Cities.
And to Substitute Therefore a su.
perior Court Evils Of Present
System.
County Treasurers Who Have Kept
Office Many Terms Remley
and Trusts.
Special to Times-Republican.


Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Sept. 2O.-The coming
session OF the legislature is likely to
have presented for its consideration a
proposal to abolish justice courts in
cities and to substitute therefor a su-
perior court. There is general com
plant against the justice courts as fee
manufacturing machines, whose infu-
ence is bad. 1t is represented against
litigation and small bore neighborhood
rows because out of these fees may be
earned. In Des Moines four justices
make good fees each year, while the po-
lice court is grinding along all the time
Not only this, but police officers con-
cerned in arrests of offenders have to
be paid fees for testifying in these
petty courts, and there is a general
feeling that a policeman ought to tell
his story of an arrest for the same sail
ary for which he makes it.
There is now a state law under which
city, If it desires. may establish su-
perior court. This is simply a high
toned police court, with Jurisdiction, in
certain cases, coordinate with that of
the district court, and also acting as
police court. The proposal is to sub
stitute a superior court for the police
court and abolish the justices entirely
1t is claimed that this would greatly
lessen the amount of petty litigation
and save the community a good deal in
fees.
Frank NJ Shoemaker, who was de-
feated in the Black Hawk county pri-
ton for treasurer of that county, was
with a single exception the veteran
county treasurer of the state. He has
been in the treasurer's Office of his
county consecutively for twenty four
years. of which eighteen have been as
treasurer. Previous to that time he
was deputy. He was a most efficient
officer, as well as popular citizen. He
was defeated by II. B. Crapper, the real
fight being in East Waterloo.
Buchanan county has kept James
Poor in the Office of treasurer for thir-
teen years or fourteen terms of two
years EACH making him the Nestor of
county treasurers. The two term and
three term rules which prevail in most
counties occasionally find striking ex-
ceptions. A state house attache tells
of an uncle OF his down in Virginia
who has been recorder of his county for
over half a century. He was elected
when he was barely of age and has
been reelected ever since till it has be-
come a part of the political CODE that ii
would not be right to turn against him
He never lived in Ohio, but he began
his political career when Virginia was
still in the glory of its fame as the
mother of presidents" and other Office
holders, and he never got out of the
habit.
Attorney General Remley is back in
his Office after attending the trust con-
ference last week. Mr.. Remley was on
the program of Saturday for an adj
dress on legal remedies for the trust,
but it was not given. On account of the
time consumed by other speakers on
the earlier programs the Saturday or
der was dropped entirely, with a reso-
luton that the programs for that day
should be printed. Mr. Remiey was to
have spoken, together with the attor-
ney generals of Indiana and Michigan
on the same theme. He is of the opin-
ion that the conference was decidedly
against the trusts. The sentiment of
the conference was decidedly against
the trust" said he. Many plans were
proposed end out of it all 1 believe
some substantial good will come"
Mr. Remley is strongly in favor of
whatever action may be necessary L
suppress the trusts. He believes that
great deal could be accomplished by
limiting corporate powers, believing
that the public fails properly to distin-
guish between trusts and corporations.
He would require a corporation to en-
gage in a single line of business and in
that only, and he would subject trusts
to examination and the publication of
the showings.
People all over Iowa will be glad to
know that Matt Parrott, of Waterloo,
is greatly improved in health. He has
not been We'll for a year or thereabouts.
but recently has been getting better
and hopes to be about again in another
week. Mr.. Parrott has been state
binder, senator from Black Hawk and
Grundy and lieutenant governor. In
the earlier stages of the campaign of
1897 he looked like a winner for the
nomination for governor. But there
We're too many members of the legisla-
ture before that convention, with Par
rott, Funk and Byers, neither of whom
would withdraw in favor of the others,
and Shaw was finally the winner.
There have been nominated about
eighty republican candidates for the
house of representatives, so that the
list still to be named includes only
about twenty. A considerable share of
these are in close districts For the
senate a large majority OF the districts
have made their republican nominal
tions. The Cummins peoples latest
claim is that they have a majority of
about ten in the house and an even
break in the senate. The Gear people
since Cherokee's convention was heard
from, have been claiming the earth.
But they are still working diligently
notwithstanding. The districts will be