Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-04-03
WILL WELCOME president
Mayor Brenton Wants Sixteen Thou.
sand Children to Greet Chief
Executive at Capital.
WILL MASS ON STATE HOUSE GROUNDS
state Treasurer Well Supplied with
Money by Insurance Companies-
Veterans Going to Sliiloh-Lawyer
Advises Tax Ferrets-Other Iowa
News of General Interest.
Especial Correspondence

News OF General Interest.
Especial Correspondence
Des Moines, Ia, March 3O.-|
Mayor James Brenton has devised a
scheme which he believes will be salts.
factory to President Roosevelt when
the chief executive visits Des Moines
April 2s. 1t is to mass the 10000 school
children of the city on the state house
grounds opposite the stand on which
the president will make a speech. In
view of the presidents recent utter.
ances the mayor believes this scheme
would attract his attention and make
him like Des Moines. Mayor Brenton
also has drafted an ordinance which he
will ask the council to pass, if the legal
department. decides that it is consti.
tzaional, establishing penalty of $500
fine for all landlords who put clauses in
their lesases excluding families with
children from their properties as ten
ants.
Pay Their Taxes.
The state treasurer has received
more than $25O,000 of taxes from in.
surance companies during the past
three months. This sum is sufficient to
run the business of the state so far as
the capital is concerned, and outside of
the state institutions. for the entire
year. 1t is greater sum than the
executive council found it necessary
to expend last year at the state house.
The income during the first three
months was larger than last year by
$4,000, which is significant of the in
crease in the insurance business in
Iowa. The current year will be rec
! ord breaker in the amount of insurance
written in Iowa, it is believed.
Veterans Going to Shiloh.
"A large number of the veterans of
Shiloh are going to that battlefield on
the anniversary for the annual cele-
bration which will be held there April
6, and in which large number of the
confederate veterans will also gather.
| The monuments of the state of Indiana
will be dedicated on that day. Hadthe
matter of the dedication of the Iowa
monuments been left to the Iowa vet
| Grams they would have voted to have
| had the ceremonies on the anniversary
| of the battle so tl< they could have
been there on that date and have at
tended the Indiana ceremonies and
| greeted the confederate veterans who
gather there every year, all at the same
time. The commission, for some rea-
son or other. decided to select May 80
instead of the anniversary day of the
battle for the dedicatory exercises.
This was disappointment to the vet
Grams, hundreds of whom will attend
the anniversary exercises on the field,
but will not go to see the monuments
dedicated.
Advice to Tax Ferrets.
w. II. Baily, of Des Afoines, one of the
most expert revenue lawyers, has adj
vised the tax ferrets of Iowa that they
cannot collect taxes from persons
whose property has been reported to
the assessors and listed by them, how
ever inadequate the assessment made
by them. For instance, were man to
report to the assessor that he was pos
sessed of 100000 worth of property
and the assessor should assess him $40
the tax ferrets, could. not maintain a
suit to collect the additional taxes
which the man should have paid. The
same rule applies to corporations. II
a corporation makes the report to the
assessor, as required by law, and that
officer decides not to assess the cor
poration at all, the tax ferrets cannot
maintain suit to recover for the county
OF the public.
Had No Right to Vote.
Rev. J. w. Bissell, of Waterloo, dis
covered the past week that for 40 years
he has been voting at elections in this
country without having any right to
do SO. He promptly completed the nat
uralization process and now, for the
first time during his residence in Amer
lea, he has the undisputable right to
exercise the franchise. He recalls nc
election in which his vote would have
changed the result, so that his con.
science is clear. For years he was presi.
dent of Upper Iowa university and has
been prominent in Iowa educational
and church circles for all his lifetime.
He took out naturalization papers to
cover the defect of 40 years ago, when
his father died before the family moved
to America from Canada. He had sup
posed that he had gained right ia
suffrage here, having come in before
he was 81. He would If his father had
been living when the family came in.
Going to New York.
| Former Speaker d. B. Henderson, of
the national house, resident of Du-
buque, will leave this summer for New