Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-28
ELEVENTH HOUR
SENSATION SPRUNG
A Judiciary Committee Con-
tract Being Used Against
Candidates Reelection
NOT KNOWN UNTIL SUNDAY
Being Used In Each Ward Where Can
didates Are Up For Re-eIection-To
days Contests Are Heated In Each
Ward, and Heavy Vote Will Be Poll
sd-The Vote at 2 O'clock.

A roorback in the municipal cleo
don today. when certified copies
Of a contract made by the
judiciary committee, employing Board
man. Aldrtch & Lawrence to assist City
Solicitor C. III. Van Law in an appeal
from the special paving assessment.
was sprung in the wards where there
are candidates up for re-election The
scheme was not known until Sunday.
when it was noised about, and today
was being used by all the workers
against present dncumbents.
The roorback is in the shape of
the contract of the judiciary committee
of the city council, made with Board
man, Aldrich & Lawrence, which re-
tained that finn in all of the paving
eases that might be brought against the
city. The retainer fee, according to the
contract, is $50, but those who are us
Asg the contract are lnterpreti ting II
to voters to mean that the
firm Is to be paid $50 for each and
every case. They are also using the
contract to mean that the firm of at
torneys Is TO receive $3.50 for each and
every appeal from paving assessment,
made TO the district court. As there are
likely to be several cases, in the event
Of favorable decision TO the appellant
In the Brown case, TO be tried as test
case, the money for the attorneys fees
would amount to more than the total
amount that the cases could be settled
for.
The fact about the contract. how
ever. is not as the Interpretation IS
made by the anti administration
workers. The firm in question was en-
pioyed, on Jan. %, 1904, before it was
known how many paving cases there
would be, to assist the city solicitor
In the presentation for trial and trial
OF one Of the special assessment APP
peais. The case was not designated, as
Il was not known then which would
be used as the test case. The amount
of money to be paid for such services
Was WOO. payable 500 on April Is, 1904.
and 500 on May Is, 1904 The So,
retainer fee is for all the other cases.
in order to prevent the firm from taxi
ssng any of the cases, and not with the
Intention of securing actual assistance
80
Of recovery, according TO the contract,
Is $3.50, and not seventeen times $3.50,
rs some Of the workers are advocat-
Ing. City Solicitor Van Law, who is
Tot interested in any one candidates
night over another. says he will stake
his professional reputation on the con-
tract, which he drew. He stated to
the council at the time it authorized
tai s4+ <
counsel, that after the trial of one
case he thought he would be able to
handle the others alone, without extra
expense to the city.
Just what effect the movement will
nave is not known, but Their.
Is no doubt but that it has already had
some effect.
Vote Is Heavy.
The vote in the city at today's cleo
tion is going to be very heavy. If the
present rate is maintained until the
time for closing the polls, at 7 O'Clock.
AT 2 O'clock the total vote was 1892.
which was within 1872 of the total vote
cast for the head of the ticket last year.
The vote In the different wards at
o'clock was as follows:
First ward. 245
Second ward 345
Third ward. 275
Fourth ward. 229
Fifth ward >. 49,. =. lib
Sixth ward. -. 125
lolaa -. 1882
4 Saturdays registration was heavy /
1hruout the city. and the total in the
Sixth ward, in which everyone was |
compelled to register, in order to vote |