Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-01-05
An APPELLATE COURT
The Idea to Be Again Suggested
in Measure Before Iowa
Legislature
SUPREME COURT BURDENED
Appeal Direct from District Court to
Supreme Court Results in Too Much
Work for High Tribunal-Talk of
Aboishins the Office of State
Printer.
uPREME COURT BURDENED
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican
that the appellate court idea is again to
be suggested and a hill introduced to
that end. The appea direct from the
district court to the supreme court it
is claimed overburdens the supreme
court and keeps inpo1 tant cases a long
| time in litigation. 1t is estimated that
from four to ten years is required in
getting cases through all the courts of
the state and it is claimed that with
an appellate court there would be such
vast number of cases stop there that
considerable relief would be expert
enced all round and cases handled with
greater dispatch A bill is being drawn
and will be offered and it will divide
the criminal and civil business.
According to a report that is current
here, Senator w. c. Hayward has
drafted a bill which he will introduce
at this session abolisaing the offices of
state printer and state binder and pro-
viding for having the work done by
contract to be given out either by the
executive council or a commission.
Senator Hayward has not yet reached
the city. 1t is claimed that his bill is
drafted on ideas obtained from both
the Wisconsin and Illinois laws. LII
Wisconsin the state printing and bind
ing is let under contract to the lowest
bidder, one person getting all the
printing and another all the binding for
a period aand being then designated as
state printer and state binder. In Ili-
nois the law provides a commission
which let's out the work by contract,
each job of printing being separate.
l.. K. knowelton is said to be in the
lead strong for reading clerk of the
house. The election will be determined
at the caucus of the republicans Sat
urday. Flenniken of Clayton. from.
whose county Corlett. the former clerk
came has no candidate for the place and
is understood now to favor Knowelton.
This will be almost determining fac
tor but the general talk of the early
arrivals is that the successful candi-
date will be Knowelton.
Representative A. F. n. Hambeton,
of Mahaska county. is a strong candi-
date for the position of chairman of the
committee on mines and mining. 1t is
expected there will be a vacancy in the
committee by the appointment of H. F.
Teachout of Polk as chairman of NUM-
-cipal corporations. Kendall is the
ranking member after Teaclout, but he
ie- oh inv, % A.
larry. The next on the list is John r.
Offill of Jasper county. Hambleton
claims that the mining interests of Ma
haska county are so much greater than
those of Jasper and in fact as extern
sive as those of any county in the
state, so that he should be shown a
preference in the matter of the APP
pointment.
The week previous to the opening of
the legislature is the most quiet that
this state ever experienced or probably
ever Will experience again. The fact
that there are only two or three clerk
ships and positions to be disposed of
and but two or three committee
changes to be made is the reason.
There will probably be plenty of inter
est next week when the legislature is
formally opened. The caucus will be
held Saturday afternoon and it is pre-
sumed some of the members will re-
turn to their homes for Sunday The
caucus is called at the hour given i'm
order that those desiring to return
home can.
1t is counted by some shrewd politi-
clans as extremely unfortunate for Col.
Lafayette Young that just at a time
when by gross Misrepresentation he
seeks to show extravaganza in the Of
flee of Governor Cummins the attorney
general should perfect his brief and
argument in the case of the state vs..
Lafayette Young in which the defend
ant is charged with over charging the
state to the tune of something like
$4,000 for state binding The attorney
generals now at work on the argu-
ment and brief and will have them
ready to file in short time. The alb
street Of the case heard in the district
court is now ready. Governor Cum
MINIS can draw from the state treas
ury only such amounts as the legisla-
ture appropriates for his use and the
comparison between the expenditures
of his administration and that of Gov
ernor Shaw is no different essentially
from a comparison between the admin
istrations of Shaw and his predeces-
sors. 1t is a very easy thing to take
the figures from the auditors report
or the state treasurer's report and
show all kinds of things by misrepre-
sentation and little use of ignorance
bur a careful and scientific analysis
of the figures and a full and complete
showing is a different thing. But with
a direct charge OF deliberately over
charging the state to the amount run
ming into the thousands there is some
little difference. The case of the state
Us. Lafe Young Will be ready to be
submitted to the supreme court prob
ably during the January term and de-
cision will be had in all probability
before the campaign is over with.
1t is now believed that the confer
e.,lf4a of I'difc,. ia VINO v.ith I.afa Yotlpc