Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-27

house In the comm uttee rooms and the
speakers ruomi there is vast amount
of work yet to be done. The walls are
only now being cleaned of and the
gcaffolding is up In some OF them
II about ready to do the decorating. None
Of the decorating In these srooms is
more than begun yet. In some Of them
there Is moi. even scaffolding.
Over in the senate chamber things
are somewhat chaotic. The chamber
lis filled with desks and settees that
are being s'craped and sand papered
and revarufahed. The desks and fur
I niture for the house to a large extent
ls In the senate chamber and is be-
( Ing over hauled. Much OF it must be
retipholstered. The carpet is not down
and the new carpet that has beer pur-
chased 10 not even In the city vet. The
rooms Of the lieutenant governor and
the committee rooms for the senate
are not being overhauled. They are In
good condition. The chief work on the
senate is IN getting the furniture in
shape. Tie committee rooms for the
I house were damaged 6y fire which ne
{ cessitates the redecorating and refur-
nfshing there The old furniture In
the house and senate It is believed
when thoroughly overhauled will be
better than new furniture The fur
niture was good IN the first place and
Its age has only seasoned the wood in
It and made 1t better. Every piece IS
X being gon. over, the varnish all re-
moved and the wood sand papered and
ecnaped and when revarnfshed can
l hardly be told from new furniture.
$50
In the house chamber the light coll
orea scagiola columns and pilasters
add greatly to the beauty OF the hall
There have been found few who crit
icised the color and thought It was
not as pretty as formerly when the
color was a very dark blue or slate
/ such as is seen in the senate room now
The lighter color undoubtedly makes
the entire room look lighter.
The run on the Keokuk bank Is Civ
On as an example Of the great care that
bankers should, but do not always take
I Il IL claimed that the bank Is absolute
" sound and there was nothing to fear
How the rumor Of trouble got started
10 difficult to fathom. There is one
possSble explanation given for the run
It Is learned that the bank has been
careless in some respects In making its
reports. For instance It would report
10000 on deposit in some other state
bank. When communications was had
with the other bank the report would
be that the Keokuk bank had but $5.-
900. This would be investigated The
bank where the deposit was held would
would insist that the amount was 3d.
ZOO. Then the Keokuk bank would be
asked to. explain. It would then be
discovered that but $1,000 was on de-
post In certificate Of deposit, but
that there was an open account OF 3d.
900, making $4,000 In money in the 9TH
er bank. Il had simply been incorrect
" placed so far as the report was con-
cerned. It Is supposed that when sew
eral banks have been asked to verify
the amount on deposit to the credit of
the Keokuk bank they have grown sus-
pacious and the run has resulted. It
ID not known that this is the cause for
the run In this case 1t is known that
the bark has been careless in making
1ts reports In the respect spoken of
and in other similar respects though
always It has been discovered on care
f,l Investigation that the bank had the
oruper amount Of money and was SOL
vent. e is learned that many banks
ret careless In that regard. It some-
times occurs that bankers who embez-
lie funds make false reports and once
the report gets current that the bank
exasniners are rechecking the report OF
Z hank and suspicion is naturally rails
ed. The rest is easily explained for
nm on q bank Is easily started.
Tine article by Ray Stanard Baker,
rho was in this state some months
AFRO to study at first hand the railroad
rate question is published In the cur
rent number of McClure's Magazine. 1t
does rot especially give attention to
Iowa but rather is an attempt to show
mn the difficulties in the matter OF
making railroad rates. It first gives the
fundamental reasons why the present
rates are needing doctoring giving
manv specific instances of unjust dis
examination and Inequalities In the
matte,. Of railroad rates and then gives
the difficulties in the way Of making
rates and Of correcting the abuses.
when Mr.. Baker was here last sum-
ner the impression became current that
ne would write up the political affairs
of the state. Such an article - still
promised, but to come from lincoln
stefen and not from Baker.
The census difficulty gotten into at
Atlantic by tho temperance people and