Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-19
Judiciary Committee Reports
Favorably Measure Of Great !.
Importance in Iowa
BILL is CAREFULLY DRAWN
Gives Banks and Trust Companies
Right to Act as Trustees, Guardians,
Executors and in Similar Capacities
To curtaiI Printing of Public Doc
uments-LesisIative News.
[By Ora williams.1
ial to Tlmes-Republican

| ldNoiaDly lOudy d measure WHICH is
certainly one of great Importance. it
was the bill introduced on Saturday
by Mr. Wise providing for the organ
ization of trust companies in Iowa.
Early in the session a bill was intro
duced to authorize banks to act as
| trustees. This was drawn by the at
| torney general. 1t was deemed not suf-
ficiently complete and SO the committee
had Capt. w. S. Hart go to work, in
Mullan, and prepare a new bill which
provides for an entire new class of
corporations organized especially for
| fiduciary purposes and authorized to
act as trustees, guardians, executors,
administrators and in similar capaci-
ties. 1t appears that no Iowa corpora
lions have this right now. The bill
gives the right to banks. as well as to
these new corporations. Lawyers and
| courts regard the scheme as one of
great Importance.
Hereafter there will not be as many
of the official documents printed for
the state as in the past and this will
save the state between $4,000 and So
500 a year, and the emolaments of the
Estate printer and the state binder will
be reduced. There have been too many
of most of the reports printed, and they
have been scattered about pro1niscu-
ously or piled up to decay in the state
house garnet. The only document
which will have full swing is the Off
cial Register. Heretofore we have
been printing about $4,000 a year OIL
an average and the supply has never
been large enough. In the future they
copies will be printed. They will be
issued in the odd numbered years, SO
that they may be printed promptly at
the beginning of the year, whereas
now they are always delayed when the
legislature is in session. These Official
Registers are much sought after, and
many of them go into the public schools
of the state. The book will probably
be larger because of having two years
business contained therein.
While salary raising is not to be a
speciality of the present general as
sembly it is highly probable that the
compensation for future legislators will
be more than at present. The house
had reported to 1t this morning by
committee. the Wright bill which gives
members Of the legislature $500 for
each session regularly held as against
$500 now. This is only a slight in
crease but 1t is recognition of the fact
that legislators are not sufficiently
paid for their time and labors. There
is hardly person familiar with the
legislature and it's work but that will
say that a still higher compensation
session the legislators are to get a
pro rata compensation based on the
last regular session, but not more than
81 a day.
The bill to give the superintendent
of the industrial school for, girls at
Mitchellville a salary. of $1,000 a year
instead OF $1,000 has been acted on
favorably by house committee after
the senate passed it. This is recogniz-
ed by all as entirely proper The bill
to increase the pay of the custodian of
public buildings will be reported to the
house making the pay $3.50 year. A
bill increasing the compensation of
constables and justices of the peace in
the matter of certain fees has been act
ed on favorably. A bill to permit
county boards to enter into contract to
put justices and constables on stated
salary has been killed of, also bill to
authorize the election Of county assess
ors and naming of township deputies.
There has already been some discus
sion, at least among members of the
legislature, as to the probable sue
cessor to Judge Kline on the board Of
control. Probably fifty men have come
to Senator Thomas Lambert, Of Jack
son county, suggesting that he would
be the best man for the place, and
everywhere his name has been receiv-
ed with approval. Senator Lambert
takes the ground that no person should,
in the ordinary sense, be a candidate
for the place, and as for himself he
could make much more dn private
business than as member of the
board. There have been other names
suggested-W. L. Carpenter w. w.
Wilmer, Walter Butler, Cato Sells. Will
Whiting, Claude Porter and others.
The fact that the governor must Sc
lect democrat relieves him of some
possible embarrassment at this time:
but it is agreed on all hands that it
will he impossible to ever replace the
late lamented Judge Kline.
The pardon case of A. d. Storms
will not be considered by the legisla-
tive committee at this session, for the
attorney for Storms has withdrawn
the case with the explanation that he
has been unable to secure certain evil
dence which he regarded as, essential.
Storms is the young farmer who about
eight years ago visited the home of
a widow and her daughter living in
the suburbs of Burlington, where he
had often made friendly visits and
about week later the dead bodies
of the two women were found in the
house. There was only crcumstan-
tial evidence connecting Storms with
the crime and it is now claimed that
he established a complete and sue
cessful alibi, but feeling ran high in
Burlington for some time and there
was danger OF lynching.