Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-07

NO FEEDING IN TRANSIT
Since Withdrawal of Privilege Freight
Charges Are Almost Prohbitive =
Work of Filing Documents in Arch
ives Department Begins at State
House-capitaI Gossip.
Special to T,mes-republican.

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Special to Times-Republican.
Des Moines, Sept. freight rates
sight" as compared with other live
stock rates. are to be called to the
attention of the Iowa railroad COM
mission and the railroads. While the
sheep rates have always been very
high, they were lately made especi-
ally hard on the farmers by the fact
that the railroads have withdrawn
their feeding in transit" privilege.
The importance of the matter Is evil
denced by the fact that three quarters
of million of sheep are annually
shipped into Iowa, fed here and then
shipped to market. Most of these
sheep come from Omaha, so that
practically all the rate is inside the
state of Iowa.
The rates as compared with cattle
TdIGS unuct tilc olQ vi ioSA oSASA -
Iowa railroad commission made re-
duction of % per cent the first OF the
year were as follows:
Miles, Cattle. Sheep.
100 .................. IL .S1 ~
800 20. 26 rs. 81
These rates are cents per hundred
pounds The minimum weight OF
car of fat cattle is $4,000 pounds and
Of sheep 10000 pounds. 1t Is recog-
nized that the rate on sheep should be
higher than on cattle, because less
weight can be had in a car.
When the Corn Belt Meat Producers
Association presented its case to the
Iowa railroad commission it discov-
cred that the rate on sheep was away
out of proportion to the Interstate
rates. The commission asked the sec
Eretary of the association. Harry Wal-
lace. to make recommendation OF
what he thought the sheep rate should
be. He took the proportion sbetween
the Interstate rates on cattle and
sheep and recommended that the sheep
rate in Iowa should be in the same;
proportion to the new rates on cattle.
This made the rate on sheep for loo
miles 1871 cents and for 300 miles 1873
cents. The comparison with the old
rates is shown as follows.
New
Proposed
Miles. Old rate, rate,
100 .................... 10 lo.l
am 25.9 1873
The commission did not adopt the.
suggestion because the Corn Belt
Meat Producers Association had not
during the hearing pressed the matter
of sheen rates, because the railroads,
by allowing to feed in transit, mace
the matter of rates even up and gave
the shipper the benefit in reality OF
the interstate thru rates. Now they
have withdrawn this privilege and the
Corn Belt Meat Producers Associa-
t,on will ask the commission to look
into the rates.
Secretary Wallace, Of the Corn Belt
Meat Producers Association, has been
notified that the case appealed to the
interstate commerce commission on
live stock rates will be heard by Com
missioner Prouty, of the commission.
The date, however, has not yet been
fixed.
Tho first day Of work on sorting
over the material to be placed IN the
archives department disclosed the ao-
stract of. title for the land occupied
bv the State School for the Blind at
Vinton filed with lot OF vouchers.
They were all tied up in bundle TO-
sether and had the abstract been
wanted the original record would have
been necessary.
The work of fling away the ma
terial In the achives department was
started "wednesday. The first work in
the process is to sponge off all the
must and microbes. This is done by
Cash STILES. formerly a clerk in the
secretary Of states office. Then the
document is turned over to another
clerk who moistens the document and
straighteps it out fiat and then presses
the wrinkles out between two blot
ters by which process the document IS
also dried. 1t is then ready to be
filed and indexed and placed In its
proper steel case.
Charles Aldrich, curator Of the his
toricad building whose mind has long
been trained to the historical value
OF documents resents the thoughtless-
ness of reporter in calling the arch
ives department the state cemetery.
Far from being a cemetery 1t is a
resurrection place. Documents are dug
out of heap in the vaults of the var
ious offices and are being classified
and properly indexed where they can
be found The department is an abb
solute necessity for the preservation of
important papers and before the work
is far advanced many of great value
will be discovered.
Basement occupants Of the state
house are advocating the proposition
that the glass floor in the center Of the
rotunda of the fist floor be removed
and a railing be placed around the
opening They are going to present
the matter to the executive council.
They claim that the basement will
then be as light and as we'll ventilated
as the first floor and will be guile as