Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-01
| OPPOSES STATE MARSHALS
Governor oummins Expresses Belief Law
Would Be Insffectual.
SAGE ENDORSES cosNIrs STATEMENT
Legislative Committee VIII RecOm-
mend Small Board OF Control for
All state Educat ionRl
Institutions.
lFrom a stan CorrespondentD


ernor Cummins today, in addressing the
State Marshals club, stated that he was
opposed to the proposition to create state
marshals for the purpose of enforcing the
state LIQUOR laws. The State Marshals'
club opened its convention. last evening.
Governor Cummins appeared before the
organization this morning at its invitation
and expressed his dlsapproval Of the meas
ure they advocate. The club is here to
prepare for its campaign at the coming
session of the legislature. when it hopes
TO get its bill enacted creating the state
marshals. Governor Cummins told the club:
This state enforcement would never do.
! have been governor of the state OF Iowa
for four years, with the power to enforce
laws, and have had no more power than
an unborn babe. What we need is power
high enough to remove the local authori-
ties There are any number of county
attorneys in the state that / would be glad
of the power 10 remove for incompetency
and their fragrant disobedience to the laws
for the control of liquor The most prac-
to make initial officers responsible 70 some
other power than the Board IT Super
visors.
The bill which the club will present to
the legislature is being gone over section by
section before the club
Says COwnie is All Right.
Director of the Weather and Crop Ser
]
criticism of the crop estimates was direc-
ted at other states and not toward John
Cownie, who had made an estimate of
thirty-siX bushels to the acre to the gov
ment. THE estimates of other states sur
rounding Iowa are extravagant," said Mr..
Sage today. 81 have carefully compared
the weather conditions in the surrounding
states with that of Iowa and there have
been better conditions here than in other
states for corn, and vet the estimates of
the other states are above that Of Iowa. l
believe the Iowa estimates are about right
and those of other states too high, and yet
the showing in the published estimates
make Iowa's crop appear small"
VIII Ask for Small Board.
} A movement to have a bill introduced
asking for small board of control for
state educational Institutions is being ar
ranged. The publication that the legisla-
tive committee which has investigated the
matter the past summer will recommend
| a large unsalaried board does not satisfy
the adherents to the Consolidation Of the
state educational institutions. They PRO-
pose to offer a bill favoring a board of
three men who will be asked to devote all
their time to the work. They will embody
1 in the bill that the board shall have control
of the State Normal, state university. State
Agricultural college, SCHOOL for Deaf at
| Council Bluffs and School for Blind at
| Vinton. .
| Wreck Victim Lives Here.
Lee Montgomery, one Jof the victims in
the Santa Fe wreck efoYesterday, whose
residence was given in the press dispatches
| as at some Missouri town,-is a resident of
Des Moines Mrs. Ida Evans of East Fifth
| and Locust is sister. Montgomery is
married and has two children Some weeks
ago his wife left for Mt. Ayr to visit and
relatives today in attempting to get word
| to her found that she had left there but
are unable to find where she has gone.
Asks More Specific Statement.
Major Charles Mackenzie and Senator
e. c. Dowel attorneys for Thomas
Graham, the night Waterman at the state
house. have filed with Custodian McCurdy
a petition for a more specific statement as
to the charges on which he has been dis
charged. McCurdy charged that he was
unfit for duty, left the doors open and
lights burning The attorneys demand to
know just when he left the doors open and
what doors. Attention is being attracted
to the case chiefly because of the new
points that are raised under the soldiers
preference law. The hearing will be on
November g.
Philippine Soldiers Reunion.
The seventh annual reunion of the Philip
pine veterans will be held in this city next
summer according to officers of the national
association. Walter Wagner Camp, one
of the officials is in the city at the present
time making the preliminary arrangements.
An effort is to be made to get President
Roosevelt to attend,
Charles City Coolest.
Again last night Charles City was the
coolest place in the state, the thermometer
registering twenty-five above. 1t was the
coolest night this year thus far. At Du-
buque 1t was twenty-sx and at Davenport
and Sioux City twenty-eight. At Des
Moines it was twenty-four.
Want Winter Inspection.
Advocates Of the winter inspection Of the
guard have made their representations to
Governor Cummins, and the governor has
the matter under adyisement. 1t is believed
Inspector General, Prime favors the winter
inspection. The argument is being ad-
vanced that by having a winter inspection
the guard will be kept up to a high stand
; ard the year round, the summer encamp-
ment keeping things going in the summer,
The question is largely one of guard poli-