Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-16
Law Plainly Provides That Both
Glasses of Senators Get Ad-
ditional Year
PEOPLE WIDELY mlsINFoRMED
Tho Declaration That Only Ono
Half of tho Senate Gets the Addit.
ional Yoar, Has Boon Made BY a
Number Of Iowa Newspapers-saI-
aries Of Judges.
;pecial 10 rimes-n Republican.

Special TO Times Republican.
Des Moines. Nov. ia good deal of
mis-lnformation appears to have been
disseminated thruout the state In re-
gard to the effect of the biennial a
mendment as to whose offices are ex-
tended and whose are not. Dispatches
have been printed in many papers OF
the state with Des Moines date lines
, Indicating that. for instance. only half
the state senator's Will have their
terms extended, and that only one OF
the supreme judges will get an addit-
ional year under the law. The law
appears to be very plain on these mat
ters. If only half Of the senators get
their terms extended for a year, then
half of them would necessarily get their
terms shortened year, else we would
have the spectacle Of half the senate
commencing terms in odd numbered
years and half in even numbered years
and half in even numbered years. rms
certainly is not contemplated by the
law, and in fact, II has been PROVIDED
for in the most positive ana SPECIFIC
manner, that both classes OF senators
get an additional year. Yet numper
of newspapers have declared that only
one half of the senate gets the adolt-
ional year. They are to be treated III
the same way. Then as to the judges
az the supreme court. the new portion
Of the constitution Is very plain, for ~
refers specifically to "the terms OF Of
flee of the Judges Of the supreme court
which would otherwise expire on De-
: Gambler 81 in odd numbered years., ana
this hits Just three of the Jud ges. THESE
three Judges are Sherwin, Weaver and
Rishop. When the readjustment is
made there will be two elected each
election. and they will be grouped as
follows: Sherwin and McClain. WeaV-
er and Ladd, Bishop and Deemer.
-
An interesting thing In this connec-
ton is the reappearance of the streak
Of good luck in the life history OF
Charles A. Bishop. II ever there was
a state official in whose,career the ele-
ment Of luck became conspicuous le
was Charles A. Bishop. Originally ne
was a newspaper man ana not very
good one. Then he was committed TO
the legislature from Blackhawk county
and serving out his sentence he resolV-
cd upon opening law office IN Der
Moines. ,ro pave the way he agreed
to remain after the legislative session
had ended and do some work Governor
r,arrabee desired done in his Office. In
the way of indexing and sorting the
old files. He plodded along In the big
safety vault OF the executive ohice for
some months. One day Governor
I1arrabee was indicted for libel and as
he had consulted Bishop pretty freely
on other matters he entrusted the de-
fense to him. Bishop managed one OF
the most sensational trials in the his
tory of the state and acquitted his
client. He at once took front rank
as capital city lawyer. Soon there
after a vacancy occurred in the sup
RENE bench and Governor Larrabee ap-
nointed Josiah Given to the place. He
at the same time put Bishop on the
district bench to succeed Given. He
was nominated afterwards and elected.
Rishop was an aspirant for the bench
at the time Governor Cummins was
nominated. but refused to stand in the
vyav Of the complete success OF Cum
minis, and he retired again to the prac-
t,ce But then came the Waterman
resignation and Bishop was appointed
to the bench again. In the meantime
another thing had happened. Judge
bishop, while he was private clt,zeh
with no Immediate prospect OF eieva-
tfon to the bench went to the legisla-
ture on behalf of the lawyers OF the
atate and secured an increase OF pay
for all judges. He soon thereafter
vent on the bench and was among the
first to get the benefit OF the higher
.e,ary. Now he gets a year added
to his term without the bother or q
nonination. But it can be said tha1
in his case 1t Is not all luck.
An interesting question arises as to
ncreasing the salaries of Judges
whose terms are thus extended. Bish.
on and Ladd now get the Increased
salary. But the salary of a state OIL
c,al cannot be increased during the
term for which he was elected Ihe
other Judges will begin to get their
additional pay as soon as they be-
gin new terms Deemer Will get
salary boost next January when Sher-
win becomes chief Justice, But Sher-
win will have to wait two years before
he commences new term. VIII he
have to wait the same time for the In
creased salary? And the same Is true
of Weaver two years later Doubtless
other similar interesting questions VIII
arise from time to time.
Another erroneous impression has
heen given out, from what source does
not appear and that is to the effect
that special session OF the ieEisla-
t,>re Will have to be called some time
next year to fix up in regard to Jurors
and the lists of taiesmen from whicn
Jurors are to be drawn. Someone evi-
IDENTIFY wanted to make sensation ana
declared there was nothing provided
FOR the fury case. It will be recalled
4i,of tho legislature two years arc