Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-02-17

Cat10NaI (aSSOCla tl0n IS 10 meet
year in st. Louis. The date was :.
fixed for July 5. but owing to the demo-
cratic national convention having
been crowded into the week the educa :
tions have taken the week commencing
June oS But the Department of Su-
perintendence meets separately and
this year at Atlanta Prof. Barrett is
the leader of the round table of state
and county superntendents, and one OF
the chief topics to be discussed is that
of the recognition of certificates from
states and counties and from colleges.
There is much on the program with
reference to the Improvement of rural
schools. now recognized generally as
one of the 1--we problems in school af-
fairs. 1t is not probable that State
Superintendent Riggs can get away
from his official work to attend the
Atlanta meeting.
A meeting of THE state library board
will be held tomorrow and the nsm-
bers will go over the plans for work
with the library committees of the leg
islature. The library people are ask
ing very little from the legislature in
the way of changes In the laws of the
state as affecting them. The state ID
brary association is already planning
for t1le meeting OF that association
next October at ST Louis at the time OF
the general library congress at the ex-
position. The library association, the
library commission and the state ~
brary board all work in harmony to de-
velop the library interests of the state.
A friend OF Ex-State Auditor Mer-
Ram rs authority for it that the former
auditor will rest content in Okla hpma,
secure in his position because of letters
which he has from former members OF
the state executive council showing
that the examinations he made of IN
surance companies were with authority,
and that he viii not pay any attention
to the inquiry of the legislature into
his acts as former state official
The talk about removal OF the state
school for the deaf Is a reminder that
this school was almost located in the
extreme northeast corner OF the state
at one time. In the Gutenberg items
OF the North Iowa Times of January 13.
1858. was the following btt OF infor-
nation as to what was being done to-
ward locating the school In Clayton
county:
"a letter from Des Moines under date
OF 21st ult., says that an effort is being
made by Mr. Collins to have the asy-
lum for the deaf and dumb located at
Garnavillo, but tile correspondent says
that our senator Is not disposed to
sustain Mr. C. In his efforts-Mr.
Carter seeming to thipk that the loca-
tion OF such instirutton at GsArnlvai.o
would injarioalsly affect Elkader. As
a large amount of money will be ex-
pended by the state upon this instdtu-
tiun 1t is certainly worth united ef-
fort to secure the expenditure OF the
money-some $2O0.000-tn our county:
and II our members of the assembly
cannot unite upon Garnavilio they
might agree upon Farmersburg or
Monona, as either of the three points
conforms to the recommendation of the
board OF health, viz: an elevated prairie
location, with easy access to railroad
or commercial facilities
The decision of Judge Platt in the
district court at Waterloo, declaring
unconstituttonal the Iowa statutes
against pools and trusts and conspir-
acies to fix prices. etc. opens the way
for some remedial legislation that will
provide the Iowa code with at least a
little law on the subject. IF the Platt
decision in the demmrage case Is sus-
tanned by the supreme court, and 1t
probably will be. there Is nothing In the
iowa code forbidding pools and trusts.
Judge Platt held the law to be not
good because 1t provides sliding pen-
atty dependent on the capital stock Of
the corporation convicted, and uncon-
stttutional because there Is n clear dis
crimination against home corporations
that their charters shall be forfeited
while foreign corporations are not sub
ject to t1,ds punishment. It has long
been the boast OF Iowa statesmen that
lowe has one of the severest laws
against pools and trusts IN existence.
Now that 1t is gone some of the legis-
lators are questioning whether or not
another law should not be made that
would cover the same ground and by
providing milder and more consistent
punishment, not be open to the objec-
ton which rendered the present sec
tion OF the code OF no avail. The ques-
tion at Waterloo arose over the i'm
position of denurrage charges Sew
eral members OF the legislature have
been at work on bills to make possible
prevention Of the demurrage charges.
but say that they have not been able
To evolve anything that is satisfactory.
The committee on pardons has heard
the statement of the case OF Sarah
Kuhn of Keokuk county pleading for
release from life sentence. and the
impression made ON members OF the
committees was undoubtedly one high
ly favorable to the prisoner. Sorne-
thing entirely new was brought out in
the nearing and that was recent ami
davlt clearing UP the mystery of where
the poison came from which caused the
death of Mr.. Kuhn. No explanation has
ever been made of this. No evidence
has been secured to show that it was
procured by Kuhn himself from a. doc
tor now dead. to be used as medicine
and that he had been procuring 1t
there for some time in quantities. The
really strong point in the case in favor
of Mrs Kuhn has been all along that
there was no evidence whatever con-
Meeting her with the poison and as
far as the case related to her it was
purely circumstanual evidence, while
there Is now some evidence showing