Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-29
Politics Has Nothing to Do
With Salaries Of the Census
Employees
NO STRIKE HAS BEEN CALLED
A Number of Those Having Their Pay
Cut Lost No Time in Getting Down
Stairs" But Found No Relief There
Novel Case in Lawsuit From oIin
General News.
ecial to T,mes-Republican.

Special to Tlmes-Republican.
Des Moines, July 29.-While politics
may have more or less to do with the
census employees getting their jobs, poll
itics Is having nothing whatever 70 do
with the amount of salary they get.
The executive council has turned the
matter pretty completely over to Sec
retary A. II. Dawson, who IS
heartless enough to believe that
people working for the state
should do as much work for the
amount of pay they get as they would
do for private Individual for the same
amount of pay. A considerable num-
her of the employees have discovered
this very convincingly but rot entire
" to their satisfaction thru having
their wages cut very materially.
The census work Is being done in
several parts of the building, and IT
is rather a difficult matter foc Mr..
Dawson or his assistant. A. y. Swan,
TO watch the workers and see thai they
are at work continually. The greater
part of the work is being do.e In the
committee rooms Of the seEate, but as
these are scattered 1t Is ha-Gly possible
for the workers to be watched. The
rest is being done in tns postofftce
rooms and committee rooms in that
section OF the building. From the fact
that Mr.. Dawson and Mr.. Swan could
not be in all the committee rooms at
once it is possible the workers be-
came Indifferent and careless. But they
overlooked the fact that in the amount
Of work each person turned out there
is a sure indication Of the amount OF
work done. Secretary DAWSON IS am
bilious to have the work completed
within the appropriation made ',y the
legislature and found he could not do 1t
If the census employees NC. any sol
.siering." So he cut the pay of a num-
Der. When they received their notifi-
cation of the cut they burnt holes in
the carpet getting down stairs" but
there was no relief there. So far there
has been no strike called and the CEN
sus work is continuing with every
prospect that there will be no serious
Interruptions. Ice water is kept in
each of the committee rooms and 50
there is no vital necessity for any of
them to leave their work before re-
cess.
In the suit which has been started
by the assignee and creditors Of E E.
SNYDER Of the bank of Olin novel
case is presented for the suprcms court
to pass .pon. 1t is claimed in the trial
of the case in the lower court that Sny-
der was in the habit OF reporting to the
assessor about $4,000 Of taxable prop
erty and that he reported s11 600 just
before he assigned. The creditors and
the assignee have now sued the county
and the county treasurer to get this as
sessment cancelled and annullei on the
sround that heshad no taxable property
that was not Offset by his debts anl
had merely reported the amour. to de-
ceive the public. In the lower court
they, won the contention.
State Railroad Commissioner N. s..
Ketchum, of Marshalltown, believes
that some of the difficulties OF the
banking col. ditions of the west would
be eliminated if the depositors get in
the habit Of taking railroad stock for
their deposits as they do in some Of the
eastern states. II have some relatives
in the east and when on visit there
1 learned that depositor when he
places some money in the bank does
MT take merely the banks deposit
check for it," said Mr.. Ketcnum.
'.rhey take railroad stock and the
stock is as renumerative as the inter-
est to be had from the banks and In
many cases more So There>is no ne
cessity in doing this to enter into rail-
road speculation. The value Of rail-
road stock does not fuetuate a great
deal for most Of the systems. Pre-
ferred stock bearing a certain rate OF
interest sells for the same from year
to year. But if a bank becomes in
solvent and depositor has nothing
but the banks deposit check for his
money, he takes chances with the oth-
er depositors. In the eastern states
the banks handle the railroad stock.
They keep q. supply on hand continual
ly and the depositor turns his money
road stock which he can turn into cash
any time he wishes. If the bank
fails he has his railroad stock which
is worth as much as when he bought
it. The banks, there make business
of this. 1t is a part of their legitimate
business and they clear a reasonable
amount on the sale of the railroad
stock, as commission. l find the
banks there protect their customers
too. If they have sold stock of a GER
tain railroad to regular customer Of
the bank and later find that the earn
ings of that road win be off for some
reason or other and that the stock witt
not be as remnueratave. they exchange
other stock for it.. This is done as an
to the customer. The
depositors in the mean time always
have something to show for their mon
ey, more than they would have If 1t
was deposited in a defunct bank"