Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-11
Candidate For Congress in Fifth
District Worked Hard to De-
feat Measure
TREwlN SUPPORTED SUBSTITUTE
Labored to Secure Enactment of Law
Supported by Railroads - Finally
Forced, With Others, to Vote for
Temple Proposition Because of Pub
lie Sentiment.

Special to Times Republican
Des MONIES, May 11-Senator James
II. TreWin. of Cedar Rapids while
a member of the legislature, voted
for the Temple amendment after
having led the fight for the railroads
against 1t in previous session.
and after the action of the railroad
lobby during the first session the
amendment was introduced had Gre
ated such scandal and raised such a
storm over the state of Iowa that both
political parties were forced to incor-
porate the Temple amendment in their
platforms. He voted for it just as
many voted for the primary election
law the last session, when everyone
knew it was going to pass and to vote
with the railroads further was useless.
But to claim for Senator Trewin that
he favored the Temple amendment
thruout the agitation on that subject
and voted for it from principle is utter
tommyrot.
The Record.
The facts as established by the rec
ords are that when the house passed
it, the senate committee sought to kill
it, Garst and one other presented a
report from this committee
for it, Trewin led the debate against
it, and voted for the committees ma
jority report, which killed it, in April,
1897. Ed. Hunter and the railroads
helped Trewin kill it. Railroad en-
ployes worked for 1t. The scandal be-
came terrific, and the democratic
state convention endorsed it in June,
1897 Then the republican state con-
vention endorsed it in August,
1897, and Trewin voted for it with ev-
erybody else in the session OF 1898. He
is now Dragging in his campaign that
he voted for the Temple amendment
in 1895
The history of the Temple amend
ment is too easy of access from Off
cial records for anyone who fought it
to claim any credit for their votes for
it on it's final passage. The senate and
house journals and the reports of the
hearings before the senate committee
tell the entire story.
The first Temple amendment was Of
fered in 1897, when the legislature met
in extra session to revise the code. The
railroad men wanted some relief, and
they presented their cause then. The
matter, after the fight was all over,
was considered so important, and
there were so many requests for in
formation on it, that the official rec
ord was printed in the labor COM
report which can be found
in the Iowa documents for 1898. The
Temple amendment was introduced by
Representative Temple on Feb. 20,
1897 The railroads, headed by Ed. H.
Hunter, then as now their chief lob
biest, started fight against this
and offered a substitute
which, instead Of correcting the abuses
of the railroads, in fact legalized their
actions.
Senator James H. Trewin voted for
that substitute.
The amendment Lad passed the house
and went over to the senate, and it
was in the senate committee that the
matter was threshed out. 1t was in
the committee in the senate that the
railroad substitute was offered, and
only two members of that committee.
Warren Garst and A. C. Hobart, voted
against the railroad substitute and in
favor of the Temple amendment. The
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road substitute was adopted by the
senate The house refused to accept
the substitute. The report of the sem
ate committee in opposition to the
Temple amendment and in favor Of
the railroad substitute can be found in
the proceedings of the senate in the
senate journal for March 26, 1897. The
matter came up In the senate for ac-
ton on the report of the committee on
April z, and the senate, by vote of
II to 26, refused to allow Hobart more
than ten minutes to talk for the Tenn
pie amendment and in opposition to
the railroad substitute, and during
that ten minutes he was interrupted
by questions from James Fl. Trewin,
who led the railroad opposition to the
real Tempe amendment.
When the vote was taken in the
senate, Trewin, David J. Palmer, B. F..
Carroll and others voted for the rail-
road proposition. Warren Garst.
Thomas Cheshire, A. c. Hobart, Gill
bert N. Gilbertson, A. B. Funk. Thorn
as Healy and others voted against the
report. being in favor of
the Temple amendment.
The house refused to adopt the SEN
ate railroad substitute and conference
failed to get together and
the legislation was not enacted that
session Eut Ed. II. Hunter and the
railroad lobby We're so active that ses-
sion, and were SO conspicuous in the
use of railroad passes and other lob
best inducements for defeating the
measure that the entire state of Iowa
vas aroused. The railroads had been
forcing their employees to join relief
to which the railroads
annually a small amount.
and in consideration of this small con.