Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-20
R[DSIRCnNG BILL
WILL HAVE SUPPORT
Possibility That Present Legis-
lattre Will Change Con-
gressional Lines
MERCER BILL SAID TO BE FAIR
Little Disposition in Legislature to
Save Any of the Present Congress.
men-TaIk of New Candidates in the
Fifth, Sixth and Observation-Disclosures
tive Growth.
peciai to i'in1es-l2epublican.

Special to Iimes-lSepublcan.
Des Moines, March 90 a. A
meeting of the committee of the
house on congressional districts is to
be called by Chairman White either
for this afternoon or within day or
two, and at that meeting the bill in
troduced by Mercer of Pocahontas, who
is a member of the committee, will be
taken UP and considered There are
thirteen members of the committee,
and while no attempt has been made
tor ascertain accurately the opinions OF
the members there is understood to be
strong likelihood that some sort of q
bill will be reported out for passage.
Since it is so late in the session, now
ever. a bill will stand but poor show
unless 1t is hurried.
The bill by Mercer. admittedly, Is
fair measure as tar as dividing the
state evenly as to population and max
ing the districts more compact tnan
they are at this time. Admittedly, too.
the, bill does not give very much REGARD
to the political future of the present
congressman. for it puts BirdsaH into;
the Tenth, Conner into the Ninth and
puts Cousins and Dawson together IN
to the Fifth. AZ
In connection with the discussion of
the redistricting bill, there is SOME po-
litical gossip and quite generally 1t IS
being talked by stsandpatters as we'll as,
progressives that the congressional
delegation in washington will be con-
siderably changed by the next con-.
gressional election. Up In the Tenth.
district it is said there are score or
more. of likely candidates for the con-
gressonal honor. In the Fifth 1t is said
that NJ. j. Tobin, who failed to get the
appointment of northern district attor-
ney. and was given the position of COLI,
lector Of Internal revenues on n COM
promise, is not averse to having his
name talked of as a possible candidate
against Cousins. In the Eighth district
Speaker Kendall is talked of as a pos
sibility and some would not be sur:
prised if Kennedy's representation of
the First district was short lived In
the Eleventh 1t is anticipated that some
other will warm Hubbard's seat in
COIlSTeSS. 1t Is lCSOSlhiASu SASs - 49,
in the Seventh cannot be reelected
forever, appearances to the contrary
notwithstanding. Ns
There is a fly in the ointment OF the
Des Moines Union Terminal bill that is
seen to come back to plague the house.
When Meredith Of Cass called up the
bill to give the majority stockholders
of the Des Moines; Union legal author
ity to run the road many members get
the impression that it was merely a
scrap between the Hubbells and the
Rockefellers and after listening to the
debate for time the house got dis
gusted and when Moore Of Linn moved
to indefinitely postpone the bill the
members snapped at 1t. That is just
what the Milwaukee wanted done with
the bill tho they had offered amend
ments to IT.
There was q companion bill which
provided that any railroad could use
the terminal by paying proper price
for the privilege the price to be fixed
by arbitration If not fixed amicably.
Mr.. Meredith read an extract from a
pamphlet printed and distributed by
Judge Cook, chief consul for the Mil
waukee in which ne favored this meas
IRE but asked that the fixing Of the
price for the use of the terminal be
left to the railroad commission
This bill was referred BACK to the
railroad COMMITTEES for amendment and
that committee gave it tosa subcom-
mittee examined the amendment Of
fered it found that terminals are to be
open to the use of all railroads PRO
vided the capacity Of the railroad is
sufficient to handle the business"
This is the fly in the ointment, the
Little Joker in the bill. The Hubbells
have five-eighths OF the stock of the
Des Moines Union and the Milwaukee
and some others own the other three
eighths. The articles of Incorporation
provide that more than fve-eighths is
necessary to control the road The
Hubbells want their terminal road to
be used by every road that wants to
enter Des Moines for the more roads
that use it the more dividends they will
get. The Milwaukee wants to shut as
many railroads out as possible and
with the clause in providing that more
than fve-eigflths Of the stock is nee
SoSety ~ SSAiIAOA Lie AOdO LIlGy GILL
prevent any enlargement Of the facili-
ties of the terminal to handl.s other
business Of other roads. Consequently
if the amendment offered Is incorporat-
ed in the bill, even II it does require
that the terminal shall be open to the
use Of all railroads, the Milwaukee by
controlling three-eighths Of the stock
can prevent Improvements such as Law
ing additional tracks and purchase of
additional switching engines can still
shut other railroads out. 1t was for
that reason THAT Meredith asked the
passage of the other bill which was
killed.
Charles AltIrich, curator of the state
historical department, has been In bet
ter health recently than for a long
time previously, and he bids fair to be
spared for many years more of useful
ness to the state In the great work
which he has started. A bill is pend
ing in the legislature to give him an
assistant, at east for the present. at a
IA Drink Pabst Blue Ribbon
/AYR Beer for its food-value and
wax fur its healthful qualities, at
mails or hetween meals