Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-28
PRINTERS OPPOSED
D DEMOCRATIC D[AN
Go on Record in Protest of
Scheme to Have State Work
Done by Convicts
ANTI, SAL DON LEAGUE ACTIVE
Doing Missionary Work in Connection
With Effort to Restrict Number Of
Illicit. peaIers-Grain Combine eiII
Favofsbly' Reported by Committee
state Deputies May Get More Pay.

State Deputies May Get More Pay.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Feb. 2S-1,he democrat
ic movement to make a bit OF cheap
political capital by an apparent effort
to have the state printing done by con-
lvict labor is not bearing any fruit as
yet. Yesterday Senator Dowen pre-.
senteds the resolutions of the Des
Moines printers on the subject. as fol-
flows.
| s.Whereas, there has been introduced
iii the general assembly of the state OF
|fIowa albil1 known as senate file No. Sc,
by Lam bert and house file No. $50, by
Miller, Of Bremen. which; has for its
purpose the abolishmerit Of the OFFICES
OF state printer and state binder, and
placing printing and binding done for
the state upon the competitive contract
system, also within the penitentiaries
and other state instit utions;;s therefore,
be it IS Is 4 II ss1 Il e s4i IN
Resolved, by Des Moines Typo
graphical union, No. lis, that we pro-
test against such action as being
against public policy and the best In
terests of the state, as II would have q
tendency to reduce wages because OF
incompetent bidders, ard would place
a stain upon the hitherto fair name of
Iowa, by pitting convict labor against
American citizenship"
49,
The state anti-saloorl league has
been doing some new missionary work
in connection with the effort to restrict
the number of Illicit dealers In liquor in
the state. Some time ago, Dr.. McCash,
secretary of the league, addressed
letter to all county attorneys in the
state with a copy Of the new federal
law, which requires the collectors Of in
ternal revenue to furnish county off,
cials with certified copies of all lists
of holders Of government liquor H.
censes called for, upon payment OF 9
small fee. The secretary has already
heard from q good many Of the county
attorneys thanking him for this in
formation, as but few Of them knew
of it and others had not availed them
selves Of the opportunity to secure lists
of license holders. AS q result Of this
activity, there is quite shaking up
among the bootleggers in the strong
prohibition counties. as the officials are
securing their names and assessing
taxes to the property or Furnishing with
fines. The federal LAWS one of a few
years ago. .34
| The stock food and pure seed bill will
be taken up in the senate again next
Wednesday. There is no doubt Of its
passage, but the friends Of the measure
fear some adverse amendments that
will do it great injury. Senator New.
berry started the bill, but found that
1t would hardly do to press it to a
vote at this time.
It Is the intention Of Senator Whip
pie, in charge of the bill Ito consolidate
the managerial boards for the state in
situations of learning, to call 1t up
soon after the recess. It was very
gratifying to him that 1t was acted up
-bn favbrably while he was i'll and un-
able to give It personal attention. but
he stated he would not be well enough
to call 1t up until after the short re-
cess. Inasmuch as the opposition Of
the state university has been with
drawn the bill stands better show
than ever of becoming law.
The bill to punish grain companies
for combining to 1nonopolize business
or to fly prices for grain has come out
of the senate committee on agriculture
with a favorable Recommendation. Mr..
Stillman, author of the bill, had feared
1t was going to be buried in the sem
ate committee, but there was no dis
position 10 do this and the bill now
comes directly before the senator's for
their final judgment. It is bill which
will, as a law, cause a good many of the
grain dealers, to go slow in handling
the price cards which are said to be
the badge of the trusts.
"A bill to increase the pay Of the
leading deputies in the state offices of
the state is receiving favorable con-
sheraton. It is intended to bring
Iowa up to something near the STAN
dard Of other states near by. It pro-
vides that the deputies in the four lead
ing offices receive $4,000 "a year, and
in the office Of the superintendent
$1,000. 1t was Governor Shaw who
first called attention to the grossly In
adequate salaries the state pays, and
but little has as yet been done to rem
edy this. Statistics show that in Hill
1lois and Wisconsin these deputies get
much more than is asked in the bill
while in Missouri and Minnesota about
the same as asked, while South Dakota
is the only state that Is on par with
Iowa now. 1t is also a fact that in
nearly every Office there are clerks,
with no responsibility whatever, re-,
.ceiving as much or more pay than the
deputies, and this arises from the fact
that the compensation for clerks is
fixed in different way from that of
deputies.
The train speed bill came up before
the senate railroad committee yester-
day. and q new element entered into
it in the shape Of the objections of thu
Sioux City stock yards to the passage
of the bill It wss pointed out by Mr.
Eaton, manager, ind George Scott at
torney for the stock yards company,
that the provisions of the bill were
such that 1t would be impossible to
comply with them as to those yards,