Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-21
State Federation of Labor to
Launch Movement at Council
Bluffs Meeting
oELwEiN ASSEMBLY STARTED IT
Bill is Already Drawn Up and Will
Be Presented to the Federation
Are Prepared to Meet Argument
That it is sociaIistie-Is in Reality
Opposed to Socialism.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines April 21.-One of the
principal matters to be taken up at
Council Bluffs at the meeting of the
State Federation of Labor Is the
launching of a movement fer refer
endum and Initiative law. The move
ment it seems originated with the
Trades and Labor Assembly of Oel-
vein but has not received any atten-
ton over the state up to this time. Of
ficers of the state federation state that
the movement will be taken up by the
state federation in all seriousness and
that from appearances and reports
from over the state, a movement Will
be started to ask the Legislature to pass
such bill at the next session. The
Oelwein assembly has already drawn
UP a bill which it will present to tha
federation at the Council Bluffs meet
ing and ask that it be indorsed. The
bill is drawn up in the usual manner
and provides that on the petition of a
certain per cent Of the voters of the
to vote of the people and If 1t passes
the vote is o mandatory instruction to
the legislature to pass law in con-
formity with the vote. Likewise on the
petition of per cent Of the voters
any measure that passes the house
must be submitted to the people for Il
| vote before it shall go into effect. The
laboring people are expecting that tia
first cry will be raised against the
measure is that 1t is socialistic. but
are preparing themselves to meet the
argument. The state federationt Is III
reality opposed to socialism On NUM-
erous occasions the body has turned
down the socialists and refused to en-
dorse the idea.
There are nine rebel flags in the GUS
tody of the adjutant general at the
state house. The flags are not dis
played but are stored away in the pri-
vate Office of the adjutant The ques-
| ton has arisen whether or not they
will be. included among the flags to be
returned to the regiments Of the con-
federate army that carried them in the
late civil war. Old soldiers seem to
be divided in sentiment and while some
declare that the Iowa regiments that
captured the flags should be honored
by the flags being retained there are
others who think that as q matter of
sentiment tending to bury all i'll feeling
between the north and the south the
flags should be returned. One Of the
| flags Is supposed to have been captured
| by George Rollett of company D, of
| the Seventh Iowa infantry, at Corinth,
Miss. One was captured by Company
A, of the Nineteenth Iowa infantry, at
Yazoo, Miss, and was Presented to the
state by j. T. Chambers, who is sup
posed to have captured 1t. One was
captured by the Thirty-third Iowa in
fantry July 4, 1863, at Helena, Ark,
and presented to the state by Col. c. III.
| Mackey. Another was taken from the
South Carolina state house as the un-
| ion troops passed thru that state on
their noted march and was presented
| to the state Of Iowa by j. H. Tierney
| of the Twenty sixth Iowa infantry
Another was captured at Cairo, there
being no information as to who captur-
ed it. These five are all battle flags.
A rebel cavalry colors was captured by
Sergt. George III. Miller, Company H,
l. o the fOuELu iowa cavalry dL llS UdIS
tie of Usage, Sept. 25, 1864. 1t was
] taken from the Fourth Missouri caval-
ry and was presented to the state by
Capt A. B. Fitch Of the Fourth Iowa:
A rebel garrison flag was captured in
| Tennessee during the winter of 1864
by Capt. John Dance of Company K,
| of the Eighth Iowa cavalry, and was
presented to the state by Col. j. b.
Dorr of the same regiment. A rebel
cavalry guidon and staff is among the
| flags but the date Of capture and by
whom is not known. The first seces-
sion flag hoisted at Montgomery, Ala,
was presented by George Koon of the
Eighth Iowa infantry.
For the first time in the history of
the G. A. 3. of Iowa the department
/ is hunting for stenographer to take
down the proceedings of the encamp
ment at Oskaloosa and the man they
find will not be an old soldier. Capt.
Loman, who passed away at his home
in independence last winter, has taken
| the proceedings for the past twenty
wears or more and did faithful service
( up to last year. Then owing to his
/ age and infirlnities he was given an
| assistant Now the state would be
glad to find another old soldier to sue
ceed him, but there are none appar-
emily who are stenographers.
The case of DR.. Crofford, which will
be carried to the supreme court from
tClarke county, will be watched with
considerable interest by the lawyers
of Polk county and others as well as
it is likely to fix an important mat
ter in the criminal practice of the
state. Crofford was convicted Of mur-
der by performing an illegal operation
on Maude Stone of Decatur county. A
letter written by Miss Stone to
friend in which she declared her in
tention of going to the sanitarium OF
DR.. Crofford for the purpose OF hav-
ing the operation performed was ad-