Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-25
DISLIKE THE NEW ROAD LAW
Bfsrt Will Probably Be Made to Have il
Declared Invalid.
SUIT AGAINST INVESTMENT COMPANY
Welsh People of Iowa Not Agreed
over Management of Their AM
nuaI EisteddfOd ASH split
Is Likely.
fFrom a Stan Correspondents

into effect this spring In Iowa, under which
the road tax on all property is to be paid
in cash like other taxes and the road work
will be done on contract or under direction
Of a township superintendent, who will
employ labor at stated wages. 1t is con-
tended in many parts Of the state and by
good lawyers that the law is unconstitu-
tionRl in that 1t provides for two levies OF
taxes on the assessment OF property 90
of date January 1 Of this year. one levy
to be collected this year in cash and the
other next year. II was necessary to make
this shift In making the change In the time
of the collection Of the taxes, as hereafter
all road taxes will run over a year before
collection like other taxes. There has been
a great deal Of complaint about the law
and in many counties efforts are being
made to evade it or secure practically
the old system under some subterfuge.
Several farmers institutes denounced the
law and demanded its repeal and II was
only with d~ificulty that the meeting Of
boards Of supervisors was prevented from
indorsing a movement for repeal. 1t Is
now believed a case will be taken to the
supreme court as soon as pcszitle with a
view to having the law knocked out.
Suit Against Investment Company.
All ulpO Nuul suit d tOluulonCOu NOudl
in the district court against the National
Life and Trust company. organized under
the insurance laws OF the state and doing
business in this city. The company is one
in which Secretary Shaw was at one time
interested to a slight degree and he was
one Of the directors. The suit Is for the
recovery Of money paid to the company by
the purchaser of q gold bond maturing in
ten years. This is George jenkins, a we'll
known railroad man Of Dubuque and prom
lnent in secret society work in the state
The grounds on which he asks recovery
is that he was induced to purchase the
bond on false representations, particularly
as to that Governor Shaw was a large stock
holder and personally Interested IN the
management, but more particularly because
the company is now so extravagantly man
aged that 1t Will rot be able 10 repay the
sums paid In for the gold bonds maturing
in ten years. The suit is based on recent
oflcial examinations showing a state Of at
fairs in the company not calculated TO in
spire confidence.
EisteddfOd May Cause Trouble.
A call has been issued for a meeting Of
Welsh persons Of Des Moines and other
cities OF central Iowa to form an. associa-
tion and Saturday evening, to held an Iowa
Eisteddfod separate from the Welsh singing
festival held annually fer many years by
ar association having headquarters in OF
tumwa or oskaloosa. This call has revealed
the fact that there is a sharp division
among the Welsh and charges Of question
able transactions on the part Of officers.
Those who are ready to form the new as
ISOLATION declare that the last one, which
was held in Des Moines, was a failure and
that there has never been a proper account
ing for the money raised. 7. ]. Phillips
Of Ottumwa, ex-mayor and former candi-
date for governor, is at the head Of the
Iowa Eisteddfod association, and plans are
being made for the annual event. probably
to be held in oskaloosa this year.
New Volume of Reports.
Another volume of the reports Of the
state supreme court has been printed, No.
lis, and the lawyers OF the state will be
able to secure them Immediately. The
court has turned out a sufficient number of
opinions for two more volumes, but these
will not be printed for some time.
The adjutant general has received word
from the regular army inspectors who
have been directed to inspect the Iowa Ma
tional Guard that they will report 70. duty
in Iowa not later than next Monday.
Governors Party and stan.
Governor Cummins has arranged to leave
Des Moines at II o'clock Monday evening
by special train and go to Clarlnda, where
breakfast will be had, after which he and
his party will go to Shenandoah to meet
the presidential train. The governor will
be accompanied by the elective state off,
GERS, Senator's Allison and Dolliver. Con-
gresham Hull, Mayor Brenton and a few
others. The governor will have his entire
I nnWW aN.S l. ~. H.
sion OF the visit OF the president. The
military staff consists OF Adjutant General
Byers and Colonies John c. Lopez. John r.
Prime, Hugh B. Hedge, Wilton Mccarthy
and Edward G. Pratt. all Of Des Molnes:
Colonel C. G. Saunders, Council BLUFFS;
Colonel W. e. H.. Morse. Algona; Colonel
C. s. Grail, Fairfield; Major Joseph Beeson,
Oskaloosa; and aides as follows: /. b. San
tee, Danbury; Truman A. Potter, Mason
City; Charles E. Mitchell. Marion; A. A.
Penquite, Colfax; Walter NJ. Davis, Iowa
City; C. W.. Bopp, Hawkeye. and H. NJ.
Bigelow, Grundy Center. There will be
about twenty other guard officers present.
Prepare for One Convention.
The prohibitionists Of the state are pre-
pairing for a state convention at Marshall
town in May, and a state ticket will be
nominated. Undoubtedly Captain X. A.
Brown OF Ames Will be nominated for gov
ernor. The selection of delegates from
this county was left to a committee, but
resolutions were adopted at the county con-
vention which declare the liquor trafhc to
be a gigantic monopoly sheltered by a po-
litical party and detrimental to social, ma
terial and political prosperity in that II
produces dTunkards, paupers and criminals;
oppose "the licensing and federation OF evil
practices to produce revenue for govern
mental purposes" declare that every
paper that helps through its columns to
popularize the different brands of whisky
and beer is aiding an evil that should be
suppressed" recognize that Legislative,
judicial and executive officers all owe their
positions to the dominance of the saloon
POWER" lament that many pulpits are ST.
lent on the liquor question, and favor the
repeal OF the so-called Iowa mulet law and
the United States revenue law that places
the state and the nation in partnership with
the saloons" The resolutions also declare
for woman suffrage.
Federation of WOmen's Clubs.
Those having charge Of the program for
the State Federation Of Woman's clubs, are
gradually brin. ing their work to compile
tion. Among those who will speak on spe-
eial subjects is Mrs. Condo Hamlln OF st.