Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-26
LITTLE FAITH IN
The HEPBURN BILL
State Officials at Dcs Moines In
clined to Think 1t Is Poor
Makeshift
MANY PROVISIONS CRITICIZED
Tho Measure Loaded Down With OBJ
jectionable Features That Will Mako
1t Ineffective If It Ever Becomes
Law, Which seems DoubtfuI-su-
promo Court Session Begins Fob. z.
,nec,ol 70 nj -Republican

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. Jan. 26.-The first
reach the state house was u copy which
reached the governor at Harlan, Ia.
where he made an address Tuesday
night before the farmers institute
there. The governor studied the bill
on his trip back to Des Moines.
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Those about the state house who
have been following the bill and have
gained their information from such
parts as have been published. in the
papers. for the most part can see moth
ing in its provisions that show a gain
over the present law. While everyone
admits that so important a measure
should only be discussed after "A
careful reading of the entire bill yet
they do not hesitate to discuss the
provisions of the bill that have been
published. 1t is admitted In The first
place that the bin confers on the in
terstate commerce commission the
right to fix rates but the provision
that the rate can not go into effect till
Il sixty Gays notice Is given destroys
it's effect for large class of shippers
who deal in perishable goods. Fruit
merchants could hardly wait sixty days
In some instances for the rate fixed by
the Interstate commerce commission to
go into effect.
1t has been the governors idea that
the rate should become effective at
once when the Interstate commerce
commission makes its report When
Governor Cummins Governor Van
SAINT. of Minnesota, and Mr.. Bacon
.of The Interstate commerce convention
who was given such sliscourteolls treat
ment by Mr.. Hepburn before the
committee of the house, called upon
President Roosevelt some weeks ago
to discuss the matter with him the in
terstate commerce commission then
laid stress upon that one thing that
the rates ordered by the commission
should become effective Immediately.
The president had already prepared
his message and they urged him to
incorporate that recommendation.
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From the general talk about the
state house there is a well seated be-
lief too that the provision of the bill
for a court of commerce to consist OF
five circuit judges to which appeal is
to be made and the other numerous
provisions increasing the number of
judges and the like are merely provis-
ions intended to load the bill down so
that it will prove unpopular and fail
to pass. The five members of the court
of commerce it Is understood are to be
appointed by the chief justice of the
supreme court. Chief Justice Fuller
was u corporation lawyer. There is a
rumor also going about that j. w.
Blythe, who has been in the east, and
is said to have been a regular attend
ant at the hearings OF the committee
and colaborator with Congressman
Hepburn in the preparation of the bill.
stated that he had little interest in
the matter as he was confident no
measure could be framed that would
pass the senate, u body of which
many of the members own blocks of
railroad stock. And I'm this same con-
nection it has been suggested about
the corridors of the state house that
Colonel Hepburn in drafting the meas
ure may have had In mind the fact
that when the bill reached the senate
it was likely to be killed. Thus the
railroads would not be injured and the
voters of the Eighth congressional dis
trict might be pleased with the meas
ure.
4.
that Senator A. c.. Wilson Of Oelwein
is gradually growing better and that
there is now a chance that he will re
cover. Some two weeks ago the word
came that he was given up by his
| physician and had arranged his finan-
cial affairs on his doctors advice. Sen
ator Wilson himself, is said from the
first to have declared that he would
recover and the fact that he is now
growing better will be matter of
great relief to numerous friends.
| Secretary John Simpson Of the de-
partment of agriculture has on his desk
as a paper weight a five pound lump
of sugar. 1t is in the shape of a cone
and is white. 1t is quite hard. 1t is
l '''''>'s
| in Egypt and was exhibited at the St
Louis exposition. The common custom
is to make the sugar i'm the form OF
cones that are about four inches across
at the bottom and about a foot long
| They are shipped to England and AM
erica In that form and are then work
| ed over into the various grades. IN
Egypt and European countries the
sugar is purchased by the poorer peo-
| pie in the cone form.
Reports from the factories of the
state to the labor commission are not
being received readily The labor Of
flee and federal and state census bur
eaus are working together this year
| gathering the factory and labor stat
istics Congress authorized the census
| bureau to take factory statistics every
J four years and this census is now oe-