Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-20
THE NEW IOWA
CENSUS SYSTEM
The State Authorities Will In
sist That the Work BE
Properly Done
CHANCE OF BEING REJECTED
IL So a Man Will be Appointed to Go
to the Defective Assessment District
and tho County Will Have to Pay
the cost-BilI to Revive Old Law,
Pending in Congress.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
l Des Moines, Dec 20.-County audi
tors are to have a responsibility In
connection with the taking of the cen
sus which many Of them have not az
yet fully considered. AS a foundation
for the work the state officers wrote
out to the county auditors for infor-
ut In satisfactory manner from the
majority Of the auditors. But q num-.
Der OF these officials have answered
to the questions which indicated they
were Indifferent. The census schedules
and cards 80 out now very soon. There
Will be two sets Of cards in the main
census wofk--one for population ana
one for farms and farm products. To
these thdrd Is to be added which
might be called garden and city agrl-
culture. All the cards go out from
the state capitol marked In packages
for each enumerator in the state. Now
question has come up as to the COM
potency of the enumerators. and It
was pointed out that II the auditors
gave these cards into the hands OF
entirely incompetent persons many
would be destroyed or misused. The
attention OF the county auditors will
be called to the fact that the law con-
templates that they shall to it that the
enumerators are competent. They
hoy ho orrth TO
ial enumerator where they find that
the elected assessor Is incompetent to
take the census along with his usual
assessment work. 1t Is planned to
hold the county auditors to strict ac-
keauntabihty In the matter of the COM
petence of the enumerators II an en-
unerator Is found to be incompetent
the cards shall not be placed in his
hands for him to destroy or make
wrong use OF. In case the work Is I'M
properly done in any assessment dis
trict OF the state the state authorities
may reject the whole enumeration IN
that district and appoint a man to go
there and take the enumeration-and
the county will have to pay the cost
An interesting thing in this connec-
tion is the fact that there Is pending
in congress bill to revive an old law
giving federal add to states making
five years ago law was passed pro-
viding that where any state takes a
census on its own account 1t may turn
over to the United States government
duplicates Of the returned schedules
and receive from the United States
treasury pay for halt the cost Of taking
the census. This law has lapsed from
non-use; but now 1T is proposed that
1t shall be revived. II 1t should be,
then the state of Iowa may be able
to get back part Of the cost Of taking
the census this year.
Congressman Hull returned from
Washington yesterday. He takes the
view that since the president did not
refer to the tariff In his message he
is not in favor of tariff revision, but
that If he had been in favor Of rev1s-
ion he would have said SO to this con-
gress and not have waited for the one
elected with him. Congressman Hull is
also much In favor Of some one Of the
counter proposals in regard to modi-
f1cation of the interstate commerce law.
He would favor having an investiga-
ton made by the department Of labor
and commerce prior to taking any
steps looking to law to enforce the
rates decided upon by the commission.
Some of the radical opponents of
Governor Cummins and President
Roosevelt, especially in the matter Of
tariff and interstate commerce, have
become greatly excited because Of dis
covery of the fact that the governor
and his friends purpose to keep right
on making a fight for the principles on
which they won in the past Some of
the supporters of the trusts affect to
believe that it is an outrage that any
one should dare to stir up the people
in support of the president and his
The American Protective Tariff
League, thru it's organ of monopoly,
reprints an article from a San Fran
cisco paper purporting to tell some
facts about Governor Cummins and his
trip to Washington, declaring that he
went to Washington for the purpose
of advising the president to advocate
tariff revision. OF. course everyone
in Iowa knows that this was not true,
but that he went for other purposes.
But because of this supposed purpose
of the governor he is declared to be
though elected as republican, he is
not a republican," This represents the
temper of the opponents of the govern
or. for they desire to read him out OF
the party and to have 1t understood he
is not republican at all.
While the recent political campaign
brought very little of interest to cred
it to anybody living at Esopus, N. T..
yet it did afford opportunity for one
young man of Iowa to show the stuff
that is in him and as result the fol-
loutpo fo hoinp a Latter to the