Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-09
PRINTING IS HELD Up
State Printer Comes in For Sc
we're Criticism Because of
Long Delays
DUE TO STRIKE IN DIES MONIES
Officials Reports Are Held Up For
Month and Work of the State Offices
Delayed by the Unreasonable Delay
Little Excuse For Such situa-
ton.
,uE TO STRIKE IN DIES MONIES
officials Reports Are Held Up For
Month and Work Of the State Offices
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican,.
i Des Moines, July because it is
| impossible to get any printing within
rea sonable periods from the state
\ printer, officials at the state house are
4 using typewriter blanks instead OF
1 printed blanks. Monographs and the
4 like are being used to duplicate the
4 blanks. Some officials have their re-
i ports ready to print but are expecting
to hold them over till the new state
printer comes into office next January
/ because they know that they cannot
| get them now. 1t is likely that num-
/! Der of reports that should appear this
/ fall will not be. delivered to the state
| printer till after Jan. ]. The state
! auditors office delivered a report
| blank to the state printer April Is. The
blank was one on which the county
auditors make their semi-annual set
/ tlement report to the state auditors
/ office and this report from the county
auditors is required by June 1. The
state printer was informed that the
| blank must be completed and delivered
by May l and he thus had little ov-
er two weeks in which to do it, He
kept it fifty-seyen days without touch
! ing it and Auditor Carroll then de-
| manded preemptorily either the copy
for the work or else the completed
printed report. The printed report
could not be delivered for the reason
that it was not printed and so the
copy was sent back to the state house.
The auditor then took it up with the
executive council and it was ordered
printed elsewhere, but Secretary Dav-
idson of the council finally succeeded
in bringing enough pressure to bear
to get the report printed and it was
finally delivered some time after June
I when the reports from the county
auditors should have been made.
The state auditors life insurance re-
port has been completed so that copy
for the work could have been delivered
April 1. Some of the copy is now in
the hands of the state printer and has
been there for long time but not a
line of tpye has been set on the report.
The rest of the copy is held in the Of
flee of the state auditor for safe keep
ing till the state printer begins work.
Every day there is promise from the
state printer that proof will be sent
over but the proof never comes. Two
or three times the state printing office
has been called up by telephone and
has declared that a boy was on the way
then to the state house with proofs.
This was several days ago and the boy
has not reached the state house yet.
This declaration that boy was on the
road with proofs is equalled only by
the statement made over the telephone
by persons at the state printery that a
wagon was on the road to the state
house with completed printing. 1t was
two weeks afterward before the print
ing arrived and 1t is less than two
miles from the Iowa Printing Com
pany's office to the state house.
The troubles Of the state auditor,
however, are as nothing compared to
that of the superintendent of public in
struction, dairy commissioner and adj
jutant general. The dairy commission
er's report, state superintendent re-
port and adjutant generals reports
should all have been printed last Oc-
tober and November. The copy was
delivered in ample time and none of the
reports have been printed yet. Copy !
for the dairy commissioners report was
delivered Nov. 16, last.
The state printer could relieve the
situat ton in Il very short time if he
would. The trouble started with the |
strike in the job printing offices in this
city, which included the Iowa Print |
ing Company. There are numerous
job printing offices in this city, and
some of them have scab labor and
some union labor. Now that the Iowa
Printing Company has gotten so far
for it to catch up some of the work |
could be taken to the other printing
offices in this city. If it is desired to
fight the union labor movement it is
rot necessary to make the state Of |
Iowa suffer, for there are non union
offices in the city and big establish |
ments too, besides the Iowa Printing
Company.
There seems low no chance whatever
for the state printer to catch up before |
the expiration OF his term, January L.
Knowing this, large number of the
offices expect to hold the copy for their
reports and deliver them to the new /
state printer after that date. The ses-
sion laws of the Thirty-first general
which closed April s, have
Just been completed and delivered at
The state house.
1t is quite likely that this condition.
which it is claimed is brought about
argely by the state printer devoting
ais time and attention to trying to
dominate George .. Perkins for gov
,rnor, will call for some legislation at
he hands of the rext general assem-
ply, SO that Il such contingency
arises again the executive council will
lave authority to contract elsewhere
or some of the work. The same thing
will be done in regard to the publica-
ion of the laws. which but for the
PRESSURE OF public opinion would have
been made null and void by the refus-
Il Of the Daily Capital to print them
asst spring.
A few days ago some of the standpat
newspapers attacked the auditors of
ice for allowing its clerks to engage
heir time in politics. Only one clerk
las done anything in the political line
Who is employed in the auditors Of
ice. That one is Bob Haines and he is
or has worked, tooth and toe ,
t1iI for the nomination Of Parlxi,,c In, !