Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-15
M K|kBA|L'S HONOR
Iowa House Appoints Committee
on Memorials for Deceased
Members.
Kendall Wants Early Action on
! the Appropriation Bills.
Vote Counted.
A Lively Contest for a Janitor.
ship..News Of the Legis.
lature.
,ial to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Jan. 15.-In the house
this morning the only business done
was to appoint committees on mem
orials for two members who have died.
The committee on the death Of Kim
ball, of Marshall. consists of Sweet,
Cummings and Edwards. Committee
on James Hilton of the Fourteenth
general assembly is Kendall, Moore
and Temple. A resolution was intro
duced by Kendall to compel all ap-
preparation bills to be introduced be-
fore Feb. go. There was strong oppo-
sition to the resolution and it was
laid over. In the afternoon q joint
session of both houses ives held to
complete the count of the vote and
correct an error of one thousand in
the vote from Dallas county on lieu
tenant governor.
The most pleasing event of the leg
islative week was the republican joint
caucus in the hall of the house OF
representatives last night. 1t was, as
lit were, the elimination of the prepar-
ations for harmony session during
the past few weeks. Altho everyone
knew that the caucus would be
formal affair, and that not only the
two senators but the state printer,
state binder and code editor. would be
elected without opposition, there was
a goodly attendance at the caucus and
every republican vote was recorded for
the two senatorial nominees. AS a
matter of fact there We're few alb
sentees but that doesn't count on such
an occasion. The speeches of Allison
and Dolliver before the caucus afte.
the nomination were notable for any
thing they said. Both We're speeches
good to hear; one expressing the deep
gratitude of a venerable statesman
plodding along filing his place by
force of years of experience, the other
an address breathing the strength of
youthful hope and ambition. It was
lin the manner of the men rather than
In the yerbiage that they showed their
gratitude. Senator Allison was Wis
IDLY affected while expressing his
thanks Senator Dolliver was plainly
holding back the words which might
nave COIIle 10 eUltIthlIi IllS 1ilSloS AoA
an hour. The nominating speeches
were all good. Senator Blanchard did
not seem to come up fully to the oc-
casion but Senators Hubbard and
Trewin and Representatives Temple
and Hamann spoke eloauently. Mr..
Larrabee said but few words but to
the point.
sss
Twelve years ago, on a similar oc-
casion, when Senator Allison had been
nominated for fourth term. he turn
ed to group of reporters, Of which
the writer was one. and said:
II assure you, gentlemen. that this
is positively and absolutely the last
time / will appear in this role"
How little did he realize that he
should twice more appear to give
thanks to the republican caucus for
election to the senate.
There are two G. A. r. posts in Des
Moines, both strong and having large
mberships-Crocker post and Kins-
man post-and their friendly rivalry is
quite often turned into antagonism.
A cause of antagonism between them
Just now is over the janitorship in the
state house. The effort has been to
have practically all these minor posi-
tions given to the old soldires. There
are six janitors who are members of
Kinsman post and none members of
Crocker The members of Crocker
post have set out to secure for Henry
Lucas. a member of Crocker post, APP
pointment as janitor of the agricul
tural rooms in the capitol. This place
was formerly held by an old soldier
who made himself somewhat offensive
and when he was injured he was sup
planted by a son of the secretary. 1t
was largely for this that the Iowa
grand army men made war on the sec
retary and accomplished his defeat.
Now they are demanding that an old
soldier be appointed to the place. The
new secretary has been apprised of
the jealously between the two posts
here and has also looked over the pay
roll of the custodian and finds that all
but two of the general janitors are
residents of Des Moines. He is there
fore disposed to ask the board of ag-
riculture which meets next week to
select an old soldier for janitor who
does not belong to either of the Des
Moines posts The board will GER
tainly elect an old soldier for the
place.
Mr.. Gilbertson, state treasurer,
looked over his books yesterday and
found that the state of Iowa has less
cash than a year ago by an amount in
excess of s140O00. The following are
the treasury balances as shown by the
books
Balance July IA, 1901. .... .$795.752.4s
Balance January IA. 1902. 655,117.s7
s140,634.51
The meeting of Iowa newspaper ed
itors and publishers on Friday of this
week promises to be one of the best
meetings of the kind ever held In
Iowa. There are at least four good
local associations in Iowa. namely, the
Upper Des Moines, the Southwestern
Iowa. the Corn Belt and the North
ca stern Iowa and officers of each one
of these associations are Interested In
the general meeting here this week at
which time 1t is expected the old Iowa
Editorial Association Will be revived
and installed with new life that 1t may