Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-12
Scramble for Routes.


No man in the house OF representa-
tives has a better system of keeping n
record of the rural free delivery routes
In his district than Mr. Cousins. of
Iowa Mr.. Cousins has absolutely COM
p,ete road maps of every township IN
every county in his bailiwick. ON these
maps he has jotted every house to be
served by the carrier. and consequent
Iy when a route is asked for he is pre-
pared to show the postoffice department
just how many houses are to be served.
their location and how many people re-
side in each. The other day he called
upon Superintendent Machen, of the
rural free delivery, and in spirit of
mild protest said that he was not get
ting the treatment accorded other rep
resentatives from Iowa in the location
OF rural free delivery routes. Mr.. Ma
chen called in one of his experts, and it
was found by actual count that Mr..
Cousins was far ahead of any of his
colleagues. Yesterday, however he
learned that Speaker Henderson had
been staying up nights approving re-
quests for the establishment of rural
free delivery routes in his district, and
that now he is two ahead of Bob Cous-
! ms.
Mrs. Shaw Equal to Occasion.
The first reception of Mrs. Leslie NJ.
Shaw, wife of the new secretary of the
treasury, was probably more largely
attended than any other reception held
upon that particular day in the nations
ca pital. Many of the persons in attend
ance went out OF curiosity to see the
wife of the secretary who had been
forced into the public eye in 50 unseena-
lily a manner. Curiosity, however, was
displaced by real fondness, and those
who expected to find ruralism discov-
cred that the wife of Iowa's former ex-
ecutive was thoroughly capable of per-
forming the duties. onerous as they are,
with that quiet grace which shows how
a we'll bred woman may arise to occa-
Sions.
At Expense Of Hull.
Representative Hulls bill providing
for a federal building In Des Moines, to
cost a million dollars has been the sub
iect of Il great deal of humorous COM
ment in the cloak rooms on the repub-
lican side during the past few days.
rs it necessary said Dave Mercer,
of Omaha, chairman of the buildings
committee, ito blow in another million
to save Hull's seat? We saved him with
an army post two years ago, and it APP
pears to me that it's rather expensive
to put so much money into one district
for even so good a fellow as Hull"
That's nothing" replied one of Maj.
Lacey's colleagues on the committee on
public lands. 1.-TWO years ago we gave
seventeen millions for one delegate. 1t
cost the government that much money
according to experts TO put thru Dennis
Flynn's bill for free homesteads. Den
mis- may not be worth seventeen million
dollars to this house, but nobody be-
grudged his vote on that bill, and /
think that the capital of Iowa is entitled
to as good a federal building as the
government owns in any of the western
states. A million dollars is no more
than ought to be provided, and we
ought not to continue the niggardly
policy of providing few hundred thou
sands for building only to find that 1t
is too small for the purpose designed by
the time 1t Is completed"