Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-11
Statute Relative to the Election
of Supervisors Bound to
Cause Trouble
1T is DIFFICULT TO INTERPRET
Lawyers Find 1t Difficult to Make 1t
Fit All Cases - Effort to Have Only
Part of Board Elected Every Two
Years Leads to compications-Gen-
eraI News of the State.
.pecial to Times-Republican

: Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, July 11.-Of all the law
enacted at the last session of the leg
: islature that fixing the term of offic
of supervisors will probably cause thu
most trouble and be the hardest to UNI
dersItand. The law is the result of {
compromise in which an attempt i:
made to fix the term of office at three
years and hold elections every two
years Senator o. b. COPYRIGHT
counted one of the best constitutional
lawyers in the state, drew the bill, but
did not draw it as he wanted it. He
wanted the term four years, electina
the other half at the next election, and
this will likely be done at the next
| session of the legislature. The house
would not have it this way, and the
senate would not reduce the term to
two years electing the entire board at
each election, and the three-year term
was the result. The attorney general
has not yet interpreted the law, and
there is some question whether or not
! it can be made to fit every county in
/ the state. A number of counties are
! having trouble Interpreting it.
! Boards of supervisors have three,
! five and seven members, the number
| varying with the counties. The term
of office was three years heretofore,
| with an election every year, which
was easy. Under the new law it is
necessary to elect at general election
| members of the board who will not
take their office till a year from the
following January. They will be thus
elected fourteen months before taking
their office: One attorney gave the
new law three days study before he
could apply it. Under the new law,
successors will be elected this year to
those whose terms expired regularly
this year, and these will be elected for
a three year term. There are super
visors whose terms do not expire till a
year from next January, but as there
will be no election in 1907, their sue
cessons must be elected this year Since
there was no election last year the
terms of a third set of supervisors
were extended till Jan. l, 1907. Sue
cessors to these must also be elected
this year but they will be for two
year term only, and beginning with
1908 their successors will be elected for
terms of three years.
The new law changes the word AN
nually" to "biennially" in the 9th line
of Section 40. 1t repeats Section All,
and substitutes the following:
eat the general election in the year
1906 there shall be elected for term
Of two years members of the county
board of supervisors to succeed those
whose terms were extended one year
by the biennial election amendment I
At the general election in 1906 and BIZ
ennially thereafter. there shall be
elected members of the board of super-
visors for term of three years to
succeed those whose term of office will /
expire on the first Monday in January
following said elections there shall also !
be elected members for term of three |
years to succeed those whose terms |,
will expire on the first Monday in jan /
uary one year Later than the aforesaid /
date 1t shall be specified on the ballot
when each shall begin his term of Of /
is resident of the same township with !
either Of the members holding over |
(but member elect may be resident t
OF the same township as the member
he is elected to succeed), except that, I
in counties having five or seven super>
visors, and having therein a township t
an entire city of $4,000 in /
habitants or over, he may be resi-
dent of the same township: and in no
case shall there be more than two SUI
pervisors from such township"
Adjutant General w. H. Thrift, Col
James Rush Lincoln. of Ames and Col. i
William H. Evans, Of Red Oak will
each be given gold medal by the state
IF Iowa for having remained in the
service Of the state in the National
guard for twenty-five years and over.
A committee Of guard men are now at
work selecting the designs of the gold
medal badges. The presentation will
De made in accordance with bill that
was enacted at the last session of the
legislature.
The same bill provides for bronze
medals for every member who has been
n the guard five years or over and
provides that a bronze bar shall be
,dded for each five years above the
irst five. They are quite number
Who will be entitled to the bronze
>aGges and some to the bars The
anne law provides that as soon as a
nan shall have remained in the guard
or twenty-five years he shall be given
gold badge. At present there are only
hree in the guard who have served
Who have served nearly that long and
within year Or two will be in line for
,old badges, too.
The gold badges will be of an espec-
ally selected pattern, most likely with
he seal of the state. worked in the de-
ign. The medals will be valued for
he honor attached to being the recip-
ant of one of them, and will also be
aluable for the amount of gold con- I
aimed in them. While the design of j
either the gold or bronze badge has y
cen decided upon as yet the committee !
at work with large number of de- {
igns before 1T and will have the badges {
eady shortly having nearly agreed l
pom the design. (
Altho the anti-pass law explicitly eX-
nptS members of the national guard
rom the provisions of the law allowing
hem to ride on passes or on reduced
ates, Ad1utart General w. H. Thrift
ays his fare. When he rides on Off s
al h1ysi hn 20 nd