Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-29
AUDITOR CARROLL
FOR INSURANCE JOB
His Name Being Connected With
New Department Position
to Be Created
cHlLLs AMONG INSURANCE MEN
Worked for the Bill in Order to Get Rid
of Carroll, and Suggestion Gives
Them Frisht-Mrs. jennie HuegIe
Makes a Hit With the Legislature
The Shortage of Teachers.
Special to rimes-Republican.

Special to IlmeS-RepuDucdH.
Des Moines, March 29.-B. F. Carroll
fer insurance commissioner for Iowa
at the head of the department that will
be created by the bill now pending in
the house.
The suggestion of such a thing, as
first made on the floor of the senate,
when 1t was developed that much Of
the desire for the passage of the bill
comes from desire on the part of
interested persons to get away from
the present state auditor, came near
causing a fatal chill for the bill.
If it had been believed possible that
State Auditor Carroll would become
the head of the new department very
large part of the activity for the de-
partment would never have been wit
messed. But the runor is in circula-
ton that he will be, or may be, or
ought to be. the new insurance COM
missioner; and it is learned counter
fight will be started to prevent any
such possibility.
There are several avowed candidates
for the position soon to be created,
namely: Ole o. Roe, who has persons
al charge of the insurance department
in the office of auditor Of state, and
who would represent a continuance of
the present policy: c. G. Mccarthy,
former state auditor, whose long ex-
perience in the work fits him espec-
toll IL, fpv tba y,Io az nd.
rell, at present in California, more
recently of Chicago, but for many years
insurance clerk in the office of the
auditor of state.
1t is probable that one Of these four
men will be named for the place, and
there is very little doubt that Gov
ernor Cummins will first tender the
place to State Auditor Carroll and urge
upon him that he accept.
The bill is in the hands of house
committee. The bill is defective in
that provision is made for commenc-
ing the term at the worst possible sea-
son of the year. 1t is declared, also,
that there is no provision in the bill
to the effect that the new insurance
commissioner shall assume all the
duties of the present state auditor in
regard to insurance. An innovation
very much desired by the insurance
companies was inserted in the bill at
the last moment, providing for ju-
dicial review of the acts of the COM.
missioner so that in case a-commis-
sioner becomes arbitrary a company
may gain relief. The appellate body is
the, state executive council, and any
company not satisfied with the rulings
Of the, commissioner may appeal to
this body. which may reverse his rul-
ings. Thus the state executive coun-
ell becomes in fact the head OF the de-
partment, and it will be Impossible for
a commissioner to act hastily Or WITH
out considering what will be the at
titude of the state officers.
Mrs. Jennie Huegle, the plucky little
woman who beat all the politicians IN
POLK county and wont the election OF
county superintendent of schools when
the public knew she did not have
teachers certificate and is now about
to beat out the supreme court in a
lawsuit to retain her position, has all
but captured the Iowa legislation. Inc
house has already passed the bill MAX
ing her illegal selection as county SUI
perintendent legal and the senate IS
considering the bill with probability
that it will pass it. Furthermore she
has gotten the legislature scared into
believing that big per cent Of the
schools of the state are without teach
ers and that unless something is done
and the state teachers certificate law
is repealed, the youth of Iowa will go
without education.
The other day Mrs. Huegle gave an
interview to one of the local papers to
| the effect that in one township in War
rem county nine schools were without
teachers. County Superintendent j. w
Rodabaugh of that county. says there
are Just three vacant schools in the en-
tire county and one only in the par
| ticu1ar township named by Mrs
Huegle.
| letter from the county superin-
| tendent of Woodbury. county, where 1t
was reported that there was a terrible
dearth of teachers and for the benefit
| of which Senator Jackson said 1t was
| ouantity and not quality that was
wanted, gives the information that the
| bnly vacant schools are in districts
where the directors refuse to pay more
that s2s or $50. a month, with but two
| months spring term and that high
school girls are being hired to fill these
positions. The Woodbury. county SUI
perintendent says that the schools that
nav well there are having no trouble to
get teachers.
In the office of the state superintend-
ent it is said that there are no less
teachers to fill the positions than there
has ever been and that the solution to
the slight shortage that there is in
teachers can readily be remedied by
| paying adequate wages, and can be
| better solved in that way so far as the
best interests of the state are con-
| cerned than by flooding the state with
| low grade teachers. To make it pos
sible for new teachers to take exam
nations to fill the shortage in teach
ers special examinations are being held
| in twenty-three counties of the state
| In some of thees counties where wages
are especially low there are several va
| cancies while in others the vacancies
are few.
There is no question but the great
| n, n ior;t,, of tho Ion ding school teach