Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-11
Topics Of the Times

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Evidently the British note that the
council extraordinary has been called
to consider at Constantinople is not a
bank note The sultan would scarce
need call council over the latter.
| The chaplain of the house, who
prayed long and fervently for Uncle
Joe Cannon the other day, evidently
knows his business.
Doubtless the Steel Trust, like the
Standard, will declare IL never neith-
er!'
When Senator Tillman the other day
scored Judge Smith Mcpherson for the
scandalous exhibition Mcpherson made
of himself at the Council Bluffs ban
quet. Senator Carter bore witness to
McPherson's character as a good fell
low" and submitted that he should not
be criticised for entering into the
spirit of the occasion" at banquet.
Whatever may be the customs OF Sena-
tor Carriers state the inference is like
ly to be resented in Iowa. where
mautllin drunkenness is not recognized
as the spirit of business mems ban
uuets and where federal judges and
others are not privileged to insult 9th
err guests and speakers. Despite his
defense by Senator Dolliver and others
1t is pity in more ways than one that
the federal judiciary were not well rid
of Mcpherson
The candidacy for the United States
senate of Edward Rosewater, the aged
owner of the Omaha Bee, is announced
by his newspaper. Mr.. Rosewater hav-
ing reached the age where activity is
onerous and the grasshopper burden,
very naturally casts about for peace
full asylum and congenial company.
A landslide has damned California
river and is causing serious alarm to
the inhabitants of the Copay valley,
who are damning the landslide.
Even Mr. Young's eXuberant optim-
ISM Is scarcely lIool aSoiiSe ehe VII
tinued frost. 1t is not beautiful
spring" However, Mr.. Young may find
consolation in the fact that fishing was
never better at Spirit Lake.
The legislature. when it fixed the
weight of hens eggs should have en-
acted a frost limit not later than April
LIST.
Smith Mcpherson says he wasn't
drunk at the Council Bluffs banquet.
Somehow they never blame the booze.
It's always the salmon.
Clinton has woman of mixed negro,
white and Indian blood who remembers
George Washington and says she is
40 years old 1t is now up to the Des
Moines correspondents to find an elder
ly lady who met Moses on his return
trip from the mountain.
The senior senator of Iowa was re-
ported by the press bureaus as quite
i'll. unable to attend the daily senate
session. At once every Iowan thu:
reads a daily paper, and very few that
do not, was anxious for further news
of his condition, and relieved when he
was reported better. This bit of news,
only of general interest to the coun-
try at large, serves to mark the unus-
ual hold Senator Allison has upon his
constituents in this state. The report Of
his illness, the possibility of his death,
brought to the surface thousands Of
expressions of admiration for his char
acter ability and personal worth. 1t
would have been. a satisfaction
that carries to few men. if during the
hours of his sickness, some wireless
telegraphy system could have conveyed
to his mind these spontaneous and fire.
quent expressions of personal interest
and sympathy.
The Review of Review points out
that the only business operated by the
United States government today-and
that by explicit provision of the ma
tiona constitutions the post office.
In the number of persons employed,
moreover this is the largest business
concern in the country. Just how vast
are its operations and how almost mar
Vicious has been its growth may be seen
in the development of the New York
post office since the first year of Wash>
ingon's presidency. The average re-
ceipts of the New York office for just
a little over half day, during 1905,
exceeded the entire receipts Of the ma
tional post office during the year 1889.
The gross revenue of this metropolitan
Office for the fiscal year ending June
80, last, exceeded by good margin the