The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-01-10

attend school. The compulsory edu-
cation measure is designed to remedy
this situation. The teachers repeated
their declaration of several previous
years in favor Of the establishment OF
additional normal schools by the state.
The teachers incline to favor the pro-
posal of the town of Knoxville to
| transform the abandoned state indus
| trial home for the blind into normal
| school. However, a large number of
| Iowa towns will be candidates for the
| location of the school if it shall be es-
| tablished. The teachers went on rec
ord in favor of a large appropriation
for the St. Louis exposition.
Shaw Goes to Washington.
| Gov. Shaw, who is the new secretary
of the treasury in President Roose-
velt's cabinet, left for Washington
Wednesday night for a conference with
his chief and his predecessor in the Of
fee, expecting to return to Iowa this
week. The Grant club, the principal re-
publican organization of the state, ar
ranged before the governor left for
Washington to entertain him at po-
litical reception and banquet on jan
uary 9. Gov.-elect A. B. Cummins, who
will succeed Gov. Shaw on January 16,
accepted the clubs invitation to make
the principal speech at this affair.
Declines to State Policy.
Gov. Shaw expects to assume charge
of the treasury portfolio soon after
February ]. He has declined to make
any statements with respect TO his
policy in the administration of the
secretaryship and has not Endorsed or
criticised any of the financial policies
of Secretary Gage. In a speech deliy-
cred last April in Nebraska before a
bankers association the governor took
occasion to indorse the idea involved
in Secretary Cages so-called "asset
currency scheme" but he has declined
to say since his appointment whether
he continues TO hold to the views then
expressed in that speech, in which he
Endorsed the asset currency" idea, but
said that, in his opinion, the people
were not ready for it. Asset currency
is bank issue of money based on the
assets of the banks, and which, it is
argued, would afford an expanding and
contracting money supply with respect
to demands for it.
Will Remain in Des Moincs,
Mrs. Shaw, The wife of the secretary
of the treasury, will probably not go to
Washington with her husband this Win
ter. The children will continue in
school until the end of the next school
year. Miss Enid in Cornell college at
Mount Vernon, Earl in Culver military
academy and Miss Erma in the high
school in Des Moines. Mrs. Shaw will
retain her apartments in the Victoria
hotel here and probably will not join
her husband in Washington until after
the vacation season next summer.
Want Teachers to Go.
II. E. kratz, of Sioux City, is in charge
of the nlans-f for organizing a delega-
ton of Iowa teachers to go to the an
nual convention of the National Educa-
tional association at Minneapolis in
July. President w. NJ Beardshear, of
the Iowa agricultural college at Ames,
is president of the national associa-
lion. 1NF. ArdlZ says:
I'VE hope to secure the attendance of
at least loo Iowa teachers at the Mime
apolis meeting, as much on account of hon
oring the noted Iowan who is president of
the body as to enjoy the sessions which will
not be SO convenient again, probably, for
many years. shall secure headquarters
at Minneapolis at once, and shall then be-
gin to circuariZe the teachers Of the state
and to write personal letters concerning
the convention.
Over Five Thousand Employees,
Gov. L. NJ. Shaw. S secretary of the
treasury in the cabinet Of President
Roosevelt, will have 5,547 employees in
the treasury department at Washing
ton alone under him. Most of them,
however, are under civil service, SO that
probably few more Iowans will be bic
to find employment at Washington
than now do so. 1t is estimated that
as many more employees of the depart
ment are located in other p,aces.in con-
nection with the custom house, minis,
etc. The treasury department has
more employees in Washington than
any other department of the govern
ment except the department of the in
terror, which has 1872. The depart
ment of agriculture, over which James
Wilson presides, has but oS2.
Reside in Iowa.
Of the employees of the federal treas
ury department., TO the head of which
President Roosevelt has just called
Gov. L. NJ. Shaw, the following reside
in Iowa:
Solicitor of the Treasury NJ D. O'Connell.
Fort Dodge, $4,000.
Director of the Mint George E. Roberts,
Fort Dodge, $4,000
Deputy Auditor Edward McKittrick,
Burlington, 5000.
Eleanor Gihland Burnley. Jefferson,
clerk, $1,000.
Mrs. Cora A. Wilde, Fort Madison, clerk,
$1,40O.
George B. Bennett, Dubuque clerk, 81, 400.
Mrs. Bessie M. Cowler Cedar Rapids,
clerk $1,000.
Miss Mary De Mowbray Dubuque, clerk,
$1,000.
William Uttz. Fairfield. clerk, $3.50.
Mrs. Elizabeth l.. Pierce, Muscatine,
clerk, $500.
Jonah w. Corkhill, Mount Ayr, clerk,
$1,000.
Mrs. Lizzie s. Henry, Des Moines, spe-