Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-09
Effort to Pledge Iowa to Sup
port of President For Third
Term Rejected
NOT CONSIDERED GOOD POLITICS
State is Loyal to Roosevelt But OBJ
jects to Being Tied-Holmes Makes
Strong Plea for Notwithstanding
Of inheritance and Corporation Tax
Bills May Create Ghosts.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines April 9.-The house re-
ferred to the federal relations commit
tee the resolution by Holmes. of Kos
suth which stated that the condition
of public affairs demanded the renom-
ination and re-election of President
Roosevelt. The house was not opposed
to Roosevelt. Some polls of the house
recently made disclosed that the sem
timent is overwhelmingly for Roose-
Welt One democrat even gave his first
choice for president as Roosevelt. But
the house considered the resolution Ill
timed. Van Houten thought the state
ought not tie up to Roosevelt, for he
felt that circumstances might point to
the possibility of an Iowa man being
nominated and he knew OF no one bet
ter able to carry out the policies OF
Roosevelt than Dolliver or Cnmmins
Weeks of Guthrie. said that he was ir
favor of Roosevelt but he represented
democrats In Guthrie county as we'll as
republicans, and that the legislature
was not a convention nor a ward cau-
Gus.
Holmes, OF Kossuth. made a strong
speech for the resolution. He pointed
out that Roos evelt was under attack
by Hartman and others and that the
success of the progressive movement
depended on holding UP the hands Of
Roosevelt. He pointed to press dis
patches as claiming that Iowa Is fol
Taft and he declared that everyone
knows that Iowa is not for Taft but is
tied up to the Rooseveltian program and
that it is entirely proper that its leg
islature should give an expression alons
that line. He told them that 1t WASH
time for penny politics but a time t.
take a broad minded view of things
But the house voted against him.
An attempt was made during the
closing days of the session to get the
committee on retrenchment and re-
form to provide stenographer fol-
the secretary of the horticultural So
ciety. Col. u. j. Palmer, a member OF
the railroad commission, and Julian
Richards, correspondent for the Chi
cago Tribune, worked very hard it is
understood, to induce the committee to
make the provision and when this was
not done they had an amendment to the
committee report offered. 1t is claimed
that had the legislature made the pro-
vision Mrs. f. McCausland, of Wash
ington, Iowa, would have been can
didate for the position. She was uI
to January / last stenographer for the
railroad commission. Representative
Jones, of Montgomery county, an
nounced, when the amendment was
offered, that the committee had ascer-
tanned that the correspondence received
by the horticultural department was
very slight, so light in fact that no rec
ord was kept of it, and when a letter
was answered it was thrown into the
waste basket, and no file kept Be-
yond answering q letter once in q
while there is no work in the depart
ment except little work done by the
secretary, Wesley Greene, Of Daten-
port, who during the summer issues
a statement of the condition Of fruit
once month.
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It is said that Representative Kel-
ley, Of Polk, is a candidate for the
position OF assistant curator of the
historical building which this legisla-
ture has created The position is one
to be filled by appointment by Curator
Aldrich.
The house yesterday went on record
as opposed to the principle of an in
heritance tax and killed off the bill
taxing corporations. These two bills
had they passed, would have helped
a little towards raising the additions.
money necessary to pay the bill Gre
ated by appropriations of this legis-
lature. II is conceded that the bills
will run several hundred thousand over
the revenue that will be raised by the
old levy. The program has been fol-
lowed for several sessions of ordering
the executive council to fix the levy
at such !. figure as to raise $2000,000
This year more must be raised. Ar
Inheritance tax law and a tax on cor
porations would have gone far towards
making up the difference. When the
people come to pay their taxes they