Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-03-31
CHARLES ALDRICH
GETS A MONUMENT.
While Its Founder Is Dying
Legislature Votes Fund to
History Hall.
PATHos i'm LEGISLATURES
life Work of One Of Iowa's Grand Ola
Men Is Crowned With Success
Just i'm the Last Moments of
Its Existence.

Des Moines, la. March 31.-Iowa's
gratitude aud reverence to Il grand old
man. The noble and devoted work of a
useful lifetime WAS given its laurel
crown in its closing hours by the pass
age of a bill giving 100000 to complete
the state historical building
Charles .AIdricl, pioneer settler. SOL
dicr, laMmaker, historian and journals
list, lies i'll at his home at Boone. He
viii hardly rise from his present illness.
a generation ago he founded the Iowa
historical department and musum, now
the repository OF a great mass OF price
less documents and relics. For two de-
csti.s il has been his highest ambition
to see this collection housed in Il lifting
structure. f.isht years ago he secured
$4,000 10 build one wing of the histori-
built, and is now utterly inadequate TO
The accommodation Of the treasures
that Mr.. Aldrichs interchangeable efforts
have gathered into it.
Bill Finally Passes.
For several years MIR. Aldrich has
been failing in health and strength.
Every ounce of strength left in his
frame has been devoted this winter to
the effort to secure his appropriation.
He is an indefatigabl lobbyist, an en-
thusiast, and a man for whom every
member of any legislature in fifteen
Years has conceived Il real affection. He
has Interested the whole state in his
great work.
But there have been reasons for post
poning the big appropriation. There
was extraordinary demand for money
for one purpose or another; or revenues
We're low on a spasm of economy held
sway; and SO session after session
passed without "Uncle Charley getting
his hearts desire.
But three days ago word came from
Boone that the old man might never
meet a legislative committee again.
His strength was fast waning. Should
the lawmakers gave him his monument
before he was gone, and grant the great
wish of his life as the greatest happi-
ness that could come to him in his lat
est hours?
When the question was presented In
this form there was little hesitation
about the answer The bill passed the
to finish the structure. This morning
it was called up in the senate. There
was practically no opposition. The
bill passed, and inside an hour tele-
grams of congratulations We're flashing
over the wires to the bedside of the
good old man whose life work was thus
happily rewarded in it's latest hours.
Chased Bill Killed.
The senate INDUCED in a spirited de-
bate over the Chassel bill, providing
for changing back from the present
road law, and wound up by killing the
bill by vote of % to 49, Chassell had
got it through the house, but was
against it in the senate. Senators Tur-
ner, Bruce, Gillland and Warren made
the principal speeches for the bill and
Molsberry, Courtrght, Durham and
Hasselquist led the assault against it.
Efforts of the appropriations commit
tees of the two houses to get together
in regard to the educational Institutions
have signally failed. The recommends
ton of the senate committee of Sl49,-
100 was rejected by the house commit
tee in special session this forenoon.
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