Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-03-30
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Adjutant General Ryers has returned
from Washington, D. O., satisfied with
the success of his mission to the CAPT
tai city. Adjutant generals from
thirty-eight states in the union attend
ed the conference which General Byers
went to attend, the purpose Of which
was to secure an increase in the ma
tional guard appropriation. At pres.
ent the guard of the United States re.
ceives an annual appropriation oi
100000, and it is hoped to raise this
to So, 600. 1000. The bill has been re.
ported favorably to both houses and
simply awaits calling up to secure its
passage. so General Byers says. Incl
dental to this mission, Iowa's adjutant
general spent some time looking up
Iowa claims for money expended on
troops after they were mustered into
the federal service, about $4,000 in all
He was assured that in due time the
state would get back the larger share
of this and at least all actually ex-
pended in the interests of the federal
government.
A dispatch from Lincoln, Neb., says:
After the banquet of the Abraham
sLincoln club of this city, at which he
spoke on the political situation of the
country, Governor Shaw of Iowa in an
interview called attention to an effort
now being made to force a national
issue out of the details of an economic
measure for supplying revenue for
Porto Rico He did not commit him
self as to the wisdom of the details of
the bill, but he said it seems likely to
be settled speedily and for all time,
that the United States can, if it
chooses, acquire territory, and con.
>gress can legislate for it as it pleases.
''Ihe question pending in congress-"
he said ''is not whether the tobacco
and sugar merchants, who now hold
the products of Porto Rico in ware.
houses, shall pay Is per cent of the
Dingley tariff, the same to be appro.
priated for the relief of the farmers OF
Porto Rico, who have been compelled
to sell at prices dictated by these spec
ulators, but whether, in fact, the
United States possesses the inherent
power to do whatever it deems wise
and expedient, and to manage its new
ly acquired possessions for the interest
of the people thereof in any manner
not expressly prohibited by the con-
stitution." ... ~
J. F. Vincent, proprietor of the Des
Moines Union Stock Yards, has filed a
complaint with the Iowa railway COM
mission against the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific railway. charging
that that railway refuses to receive
freight by the car load consigned to
the Des Moines Union Stock Yards.
Mr.. Vincent says that the Rock Island
does not desire to have freight brought
in from non-competing points to COM
peting point. here to be redistribnted,S
with the possibility that the Rock
Island may lose the. remainder ct tn
haul. Mr.. Vincent says that stock
yards companies have had these con-
tests with railroads in every city where
an effort has been made to establish
union stock yards, the railroads wan.
ing as few Of them as possible.
The settlement of the contest for the
federal judgeship to succeed the late
John. S. Woolson having resulted in
the agreement by the Iowa delegation
in congress to recommend the appoint
ment of Congressman Smith McPher-
son. of the Ninth district, nearly
dozen candidates for the republican
nomination for congress have been
proposed to succeed him. The list, at
present consists of Colonel c. &. Saun-
ders, Judge Walter l. Smith and Ern-
est E. Hart, Council Bluffs; John w.
Foster, of Guthrie county; Senator J.
NJ. Junkin, Red Oak; Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor Milliman. Harrison county: Rep
resentatives II. w. Byers, Shelby
county; Il. h. Swan, Cass county, and
x-Congressman A. L. Hager, Adair
county. Ex-Speaker Byers is the lead
ing candidate.