Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-03
Indication That Red Oak Man
Will BE Next Assistant Adj
jutmt General
TAFT's DECISION AGAINST IOWA
Will Not Settle Matte, of Inscriptions
to Be Placed on Sh loh Monuments,
But the Grievance Will Undoubted
Iy Now be Carried to the President
Congress tho Last Resort.

ant adjutant general of Iowa. In the
first place CaptaincLogans geogrlph-
ical position in the state is to his adj
| vantage. Captain Logan was n soldier
in the volunteers in the Spanish-Ane
lean war and served in the Philippines
This would entitle hun to considera-
ton, but in addition he is prominent
In his section OF the state as having
served as auditor of his county. His
experience as auditor has been to his
advantage as giving him experience as
an accountant which would be valuable
j to him We're he to be appointed as
assistant adjutant general. There is
/ a probability now, according to all
/ indications that Miss Vieser, the stem
ographer at the adjutant's office. will
be the only one Of the old force to re-
4 main.
The dispatches that Secretary Taft
has decided against Iowa in the mat
| ter of the inscriptions to be placed
on the Shiloh monuments for the tlf-
| teenth and Sixteenth regiments was
not altogether a surprise to those who
have been interested. OF first with
confidence in the claim of the Iowa
people, it was felt that the secretary
would not decide any other than in
favor Of Iowa. But when the matter
began to drag along and the decision
was delayed, then 1t was feared that
| it was going afanst the Iowa conten-
| ton. In the government reports the
| officers In command of the Fifteenth
and Sixteenth regiments are shown to
have reported according to the ccnten-
| ton of the Iowa commission as 10 the
time the Iowa regiments were in ac-
ton, and yet the decision of Secretary
| Taft is reported to be that he could
| not take the word OF people forty years
after the event as against the govern
| ment records. Before the thing is
finally settled there is likely to be some
| strong statements. The Iowa people
| will now, of course, carry the matter
to tho president and believe that the
merits Of the contention will be seen
by him. If they fail there, the last re-
| sort will be to- carry the matter to
congress.
| Curator Aldrich has added to the
volumes in the historical library the
Life Of Father Pierre-Jean DeSrnet. s.
j., one Of the most able Of the .Fesuits
who worked among the Indiars and
early settlers Of Iowa. The four vol
umes of the work are written by Ma
jor Hiram Martin Chittenden, d major
in the engineering corps Of the Uni
ted States army and stationed at this
time at Sioux City, and Alfred Talbot
;oL rIe To dad
st. Louis in 1873. He made sevcra.
trips to Europe in the interests Of the
church and could have been bishop
but he felt that he could work better
among the people as priest. He
was trusted by the government and
was intimately associated with the
settling of this part Of the country.
Major Chittenden is a young man and
because Of his residence at Sioux City
can be considered an Iowa man. He
planned the Floyd monument at Sioux
City and was an engineer In charge of
the work of the government nt Vel
lowstone Park. His works undoubt-
eddy give the most complete and relia-
BILE information there is obtairable of
the movements OF the primitive white
people in the MISSOURI Wiley which
was the field of labors Of Father De-
Smet. Chittenden has written other
works.
State officials tre slow to make up
their minds about attending the inaug-
ural ceremonies at Washington Sec
retary of Treasurer Gnbertson will not
attend as he leaves Saturday for Cali
fornia where his wife and family ere
now. He will remain there till after
the inaugural ceremonies have taken
place. Governor Cummins and Gen.
Thrift will attend. The rest of the state
officials have not determined the mat
ter. There is a possibility that Audi
tor of State Carroll will attend, but
he thinks it unlikely. There has been
a desire to have a large numbe: of
the state house officials attend. Col.
Hedges, who is now in Florida, will
attend coming up from there. III. H.
Polk of Des Moines and Col. l. r.
Santee of Danbury have signiiied their
intention of attending as the aides 10
Gen. Chaffee to which they were APP
pointed by Governor Cummins.
While Gov. A. B. Cummins is quite
sick with the grippe which has SEEM
ed to settle in his back he has refused
to remain idle. He was able to be up
Thursday, but had books and papers
sent to him from the state house on
which he has worked. He viii prob
ably not be back to the state house
before next Wednesday, when he
speaks at the meeting of the Corn Belt
Meat Producers Association Gov.
Van SAINT has signified his acceptance
of the invitation to attend the meeting.
Gov. LaFollette, is yet to be heard
from.
There seems at this time to be a dis
position in some, quarters to argue that
Gov. Cummins was elected on a rail-
road campaign and that there has been
no change and therefore why raise the
question again The reports at the
state house do not bear out the conten-
ton that nothing has been accomplish
ed. When Leslie NJ. Shaw became
governor of Iowa and a member of the
executive council which equalizes the
assessments tie Burlington was as
sessed at S6944 per mile. That amount
gradually was reduced during his term
of office till ir 1902 it was $1,000 per
mile. Since then with Gov. "A. B. Cum
minis in the executive chair and
member of the council the assessment
has increased each year until for 1903
Ii was s6,Ol3. The 1904 figures have