Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-08
N|)T LIKELY D
NANE A SENATOR
Next Iowa Legislature Not Like
~ to Have Responsibility of
Electing a Senator
The LAW ON THE SUBJECT
Death of One of the Senator'S Now
Holding Office or Defeat of the BIZ
enniaI Amendment Only Contingen-
cies-About the Census Returns =
Many Cards are Sent Back.
necial to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican,.
| Des NIoines, Feb S-There are only
two chances by which the legislature
which assemblies in January, l906,
could elect a senator to succeed SEN
ator j. p. Deliver of Fort Dodge. One
of these would be to have the blen-
NAL elections law declared unconsa-
t,tional and the other would be the
death of one of the present senators.
| There has been revision of the ru-
NOR and contention that the legtsla-
| ture in 1906 could, if it wished. elect
a senator. There has been some search-
| ing of the state code for the provision
by which the senator is elected. There
| is nothing in the state code to cover
| the matter. It is a regulation of the
United States statutes. The provision
is that the senator shall be
elected by the legislature which
meets last before the term OF
the senator expires. Senator Dolli-
vers term expires March 4, 1907. The
| legislature will meet in January of
that year and it will therefore be i'm
possible for the present members OF
the legislature who assemble again In
| 1906 to make selection If the BIZ
ennial election law is defeated as il
seems unlikely, there might be some
rapid specializing as to what the pres
ent legislature would do. That the
senatorship will be a feature of the
campaign of 1906 seems now unlike
~.
For the first time in the history
the state the census returns are be-
ing given some correction. The I'M
corrected cards as they are now arriv-
ing are exactly the information on
which the previous census reports Of
the state have been made. This year
the reports as they arrive are placed
on shelves in large pigeon holes by
counties. An effort is being made to
run over at least 100 of every assess
or's cards as soon as they arrive so
as to note if he is doing the work
right. If not he is sent letter telling
him of his mistakes. 1t will be impos-
sible to correct the last of the cards
which reach the office Of the executive
that most of the mistakes will have
been weeded out.
The postoffice room OF the legisla-
ture and the Hobbies Of the senate are
being used for the census work In
the postoffice, thru the entire length
there have been constructed of rough
lumber large pigeon holes, one for
each county. In the senate lobby there
are more. In the postoffice room are fill
ed the population cards as fast as they
arrive. BY plan of Secretary Dav-
idson it will not be a great while after
the last cards are filed before the to-
tai population of the state is known.
Sheets with three rulings for each
entry will be on hand and the cards
gone over in three divisions as they
arrive. The last division will make
up the total for the entry. The post
office furniture Is admirably adapted
to part Of the work In one pigeon
hole will be placed the cards for each
person in q township over military age
Of 45 years. In the next below those
between 81 and As and below that those
between 10 and 81. Below that those
between and Is and below that those
under s. Then horizontally these are
to be sorted as to color, nativity, whe-
Their one or both parents are native or
foreign born, and so on. When all are
arranged the cards will be counted and
tabulated. Then the cards will be ia
ken out and another township put in.
The cards for agricultural statistics
will be tabulated in much the same
manner. Formerly there was but one
way. When an assessor or enumeration
had completed his work he sent in his
book. These books had then to be gone
over and the Information written out
in tabular form necessitating an en-
ormous amount Of work. BY the end
of this week tho clerks OF the office
will have gone over some of every as
SCISSORS work that was in the office
Monday morning. The best work that
reaches the office still continues to
come from the country. According to
Secretary Davidson Of the executive
council, the mistakes made by the city
assessors are due to carelessness and
failure to fill in all the blanks while
the country people are pains.aking.
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me 1lTSC WOih LOW al u uSCOI DUNG lHC
state house was done yesterday when
workmen began to size the walls. Work
was begun both in the lower corridor
and also III the dome. The wall is
cleaned and the holes all filled UP. Five
men were put to work in the basement
corridor and about as many more in
the rotunda and dome.
Colonel S. A. Moore, who died at his
home in Bloomfield Tuesday, was one
Of the most brilliant orators in the
Iowa legislature His address on the
Vicksburg monument is considered by
many almost classic. The address
was published in the house journal.
At the state house there was untver-
sal expression of sorrow Tuesday at
the news of his death and it is prob
able that there are few other men in
the state known by more Of the politi-
clans and public men than Colonel S.
A. Moore.
All of the state mutual insurance
companies have now made their an
nual reports to the state auditor and
all but about sixteen of the county
mutual insurance companies have re-
ported While the figures are not
known now there 10 every indication