Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-07-26
The Attorney General Will Probably
Decide II is Not and Does Not Go
Back to Date Prior to Time When
the Proratins Law Was Passed
News From the Capital.
nec,a1 to Times Republican.

Tho decision can best be understood
nv an illustration. The legislature two
wears ago last April passed an appro-
priation giving the state university
$4,000 annually for additional support,
and provided that the warrant for the
first quarter under the appropriation
should be drawn October ] following.
The law went. into force by publication
April Is. Following precedent the au-
ditor drew quarterly warrant october
and counted it as money earned dur
tne the quarter just ended. The at
torney general holds. however. that the
law went into force by publication and
the money commenced to be due at
once, and the first payment. October !,
should have been for fractional quar-
ter. or two months and q half rrior TO
July /. II this manner Of computation
is to be followed then the state uni
versity should get instead OF SIo,ooo ~
two years under this act, something
over $4,000 for two years and two
and half months. The Legislature has
, prov sed that ell fiscal periois shall
co,nmeace July !, and !: ID MAKE
them si, uniform that this computation
is niece 50 .rv. But II fc.'aS-' then the
univers ~ IS en.tasc TO more money.
than It has received, ana the state coli
leye and normal school are both en-
titled to decomposition under ne
approximation acts, so that the state
will be out about $4,000 mo.e :hcn
had been supposed. The decision oil
the attorney general was ea,led cut on
a Query affecting a sta. college ar:pro.
priation OF minor in. s1o"tairse, but the
state university Is more affected.
Treasurer Swisher, of the state NIL
yersity, was here last week and read
the decision and declared that IL 1t was
the law the state university would
present a bill for the unpaid sums I'M
der the appropriation acts. 1t is one
Of those peculiar cases growing out
of the revision of the laws to simplify
them and bring them into harmony
with each other, and for which nobody
can be blamed. 1t is probable, how
ever, the attorney general will decide
the law is not retroactive and does not
go back to a. date prior to the time
when the prorating law was passed.
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An investigation of the bank ac-
counts of Iowa people will afford some
material for the campaign speakers
this year. Willard F. Cox, In charge
OF the banking department of the state
auditors office, looked the matter up
the other day and found that while in
1896, when the demand was made for
more currency with which to do the
business Of the country, there was "a
the banks of Iowa. including state and
savings banks, national banks and
trust companies, deposits amounting TO
about $4,000, 900. Now there are de-
posts in these same financial institu-
Aions in Iowa amounting to over SILL
O00, 900, an increase of $113,000.000. or
1s9 per cent in eight years. This Is
q fair guage of prosperity in Iowa at
the present time.
When the contracts are LET for the
new work on state buildings at the
Soldiers Home, all the contracts Will
have been let which will be started
This year. The state architect Fl. f.
diebbe. has prepared the plans for all
the work, and the contracts have thus
Tar been let at prices that arr, entirely
satisfactory. The state architect will
prepare some time this fall the plane
md specifications for the new building
at Knoxville and the remodeiing OF
the old building and early In the winter
the contracts will be let on this so that
the Knoxville institution can be got
ready some time next season. The
legislature gave the state board power
to employ outside architects when
needed, but thus far the state archi-
2ect has been unable to get thru with
all the work.
# A local newspaper noted for its gross
MISREPRESENTATION OF anything and ev-
erything which the republican state
administration has anything to do with
Is responsible for the circulation of
Terrible story of how the tresco and
decorative work on the interior OF the
state capitol is going to be done by art
lists outside OF Des Moines arid the To-
cal contractors who would very much
alike to do the work are to be ignored
by the capitol commission under the
guidance of the naughty governor of
khe state. The last time the capitol
commission considered the matter no
conclusion was reached as to who
should be given the work of preparing
The decorations of the interior Of the
Eapitol but the commission VIII prob
hbly do Just what the sensible individ-
hal would do who had many thousands
bf dollars to spend in securing the fin
est art work for the interior of his
house The commission will probably
employ persons who are Of known
competency as painters OF finest decor
ttions. 1t will he recalled that when
The decoration of the supreme court
room was done by the old capitol COM
mission the panel. were made in Ger
many and brought here to be placed In
position. which the other work OF deco
ration simple as II was. was iptYusted
70 Imported artists Iowa is likely to
yet the best that Is possible with the
money available and tho work will not
be let by contract to Des Moines firms
bf decorators.
NJ the democratic state convention
1T iowa city last week there was a
Ro0d deal Of talk among the delegates