Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-11
and the warden has reported her as
model prisoner.

OF the work of the pardons commit
tees of the two houses. in general,
members have freely expressed them
selves as exceedingly well pleased. No
legislature ever had as many applica-
tions for pardon before It. Some, OF
them were utterly lacking in merit
while others were cases where most
excellent arguments could be put up
for the convicts and these cases had to
be considered carefully. The older
members, recalling the experience OF
last year, feared that the legislature
would be called upon to release a half
dozen or more from the penitentiary.
There was much criticism on account
of what was done two years ago ana
this made the committees more conser-
vative. But there has been no criticism
among the members of what the COM
mittees have done at this session and
there Is hardly one who feels that any
injustice has been done in leaving In
the penitentiaries all of the fifteen who
originally applied and who have not
been pardoned The one who is to be
pardoned-Frank Hall-will probably
go to the Father Coffin home in Web
in quiet.
The state board of health did not sue
ceed in having the legislature establish
a new psychological laboratory as was
desired, but the legislature made pro-
vision for paying the expenses OF bac-
THEOLOGICAL work to be done at the state
university practically under the drec-
ton and control of the board Of health.
This will be step forward. AT pres
ent the state board has no place where
it's investigations can be made with au-
thority and 1t was desired that labor
atory should be established at DeS
Moines under the direct control of the
state board, and that here all material
for investigation relating to public
health might be sent Some work of
this character is being done in two col
leges in Des Moines, but 1t is unofficial.
Now the meteorological department of
the state university at Iowa City will
do the work. AS nearly all the material
viii be sent by mail 1t Will not be diff
cult to have it done In this way. Prof.
Henry Albert is the head of that de-
partment and 1T is assumed that he Will
ba designated by the state board of
health as its official representative IN
this work, and that he will consult with
the board and arrange for uniform
system of making their Investigations
ees
There Is much Indignation among the
friends of the pure food bill over the
manner In which that bill was killed
off. When the state agricultural de-
partment formulated the bill and
adopted it as the desires of the agricul-
tural interests of the state and 1t was
endorsed by the retail merchants as
ssocfation and by the iobi,ers and man
ufacturers it was supposed that would
end the matter. But in fact the job
bers, and especially those OF outside
cities who sell goods in Iowa, were OPP
posed to the measure In its entirety and
no effective measure could have been
prepared that would not have been
fought by them. They at first made pre-
tense of favoring the bill and thus Sc
cured amendmentsF-but covertly fought
the whole bill ana had 1T killed off In
committee. The bill was one that new
er would have affected any honest mer-
chant or jobber or manufactures, and
it's defeat simply means that the desire
that Iowa people snalt eat adrlterated
and impure goods is stdll very strong.