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

The serious objection to the bill to
raise the salaries of supreme judge oi
Iowa as it was originally presented by
Mr. Cummings, which is the form
which met the approval of members of
the bar and the judges of the state,
was that it contemplated an evasion
of a plain cause of the constitution
| Iforbidding the increase of salaries of
state officers during their terms of
Office 1t was sought to get around
this clause by providing additional pay
for clerk hire. The intent of this
clause was evident. Members of the
Legislature do not like to have the leg
islature violate the constitution, In
spirit If not in letter. in this way; and
thus the clerk hire clause was strick-
en- out by the judiciary committee of
the house. But 1t has been suggested
that the bill to increase judges salar
les in the future from $4,000 to $4,000
ought not to be lost because of this
| inability to compensate the present
judges. 1t has also been suggested
that in case the present legislature
finds no way to pay the present judges
a future legislature may make them
donation in some form that will even
up the salaries. AT any rate there is
practically no opposition to the pro-
posal that Iowa shall pay the SUI
fpreme judges at the rate of $4,000
year.
! The house did a fine business yes
/ terday morning. The session was
called to order promptly at 9 o'clock
and ten minutes later bills We're being
introduced. The scheme of an early
/ session was so pleasing that when ad-
journment time came big, burly, good
natured Tim Donahue. of OBrien
| county, accustomed to beginning his
days work at daybreak on the farm,
moved to adjourn until S a. m. the
next day. This was a little too much
for the majority of the members and
they put the hour at 10 o'clock.
The English bill to provide that rail-
road companies shall report their
earnings with division made as be-
tween Iowa business and business out
side of Iowa, went on the calendar to-
day marked o. X. by the committee on
ways and means, to which it had been
referred. This bill is likely to cause
great deal of discussion. 1t may be
laid over in some way until other bills
come to the front. For instance, the
sub committees of the senate ways
and means committee is hard at work
on the question of railroad taxation
and may bring forth something that
will be better or worse. The COM
mittee is sending out for information,
| is getting facts regarding the opera
ton Of various laws in this and other
states. is examining the statutes of
many states and in general is seeking
to secure all the information possible,
but as yet has taken no definite step In
the direction of preparing any bill on
the subject. The sub committee has
been somewhat handicapped from the
fact that Senator Healey has been
compelled to be away. Il
Governor Cummins went today to
Lincoln. where this evening he will de-
liver an address before a state meet
ing of republican clubs on the occasion
of Lincolns birthday He will go to
Kansas City for similar errand there
Friday evening. He will speak in Chi
cago on Washington's birthday. On
Tuesday of next week he expects to
accompany the G.. A. r. boys to Mar
shalltown and will visit the Soldiers
Home. The governor might put in all
his time preparing or making speeches
if he had nothing else to do.
The governor last evening named the
members of the commission to make
of the mine explosion In
Mahaska county and similar mine dis
asters and to report. Those who
will assist the state mine examiners
are James E. Stout, Des Moines;
Thomas j. Phillips, Ottumwa; John
P. Reese Abba; and John Z. White,
Oskaloosa. The first two are operat-
ors and the others are miners.
The resolution by Mr.. Dunham In re-
lation to the Iowa State University
commended itself to nearly every one
at the outset. Mr.. Dunham explained
that the remark had been common
among those who visited the State Uni |
yersity at Iowa City that it was a
shame that the state should be putting
money into university buildings at q |
place where there is no possible way
of ever making a really fine university. |
He believed that somewhere out on the !
Deaut1rul Nils near iOWd Slty SuiilSicHl /
ground could be secured to make fine |
university campus and the state ought |
to begin to figure on this. The resolu
ton was passed unanimously. Mr.. /
Dunhams speech was loudly applauded. I
1t was plain he had struck a popular I
chord The following is his resolution
in full:
Whereas. The interests of this
state demand that there shall be within
her borders educational institutions
which shall be recognized among the
leading institutions of the kind in the
nation, and this state, by her record
of the past and virtues of the present, is
worthy of the best.
Whereas. The university of state
is and has always been looked upon as
the ideal of it's citizens as place for
the proper education and fitting of her
sons and daughters for the battle of
life: and
Whereas, Owing to an unfortunate
location of our State University on too
limited an area, in the heart of a city,
with no room for growth or for the
erection of commodous and artistic
placement of proper buildings for the
uses of such school. also making 1T i'm
to surround such school with
the proper intellectual atmosphere
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