Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-03
JUDGE PRoUTY BELIEVES POLL.
TicAL CAPITAL HAS BEEN
MADE FOR HIS RACE.
HuLL's VOTE FOR FREE HIDES
CLAIMED TO BE SUICIDAL
Prouty Has Entered Primary Cam
paisn in Seventh District in Earnest
and Will Devote Whole Time to Cam
paisn - Misapprehension Regarding
Pensionins of Policemen.


Des Moines, Aug. 3.-Politicians in
Des Moines of the shrewdest type are
asking whether or not Captain Hull is
not working to get a good appointment
thru the influence of Cannon. They
can explain in no other way his "suiced-
ar' vote, as they term it, for free hides.
of working to get an appointment
rather than for reelection but has al
ways thus far been reelected.
1t is quite sure, however, that Hull
never did anything in his official career
that so pleased Judge Prouty who Is a
candidate against him for the nomina-
ton. than when he voted for the Payne
Aldrich bill. Prouty expects to make
the tariff his main campaign issue
against Hull. He will tell every farmer
in the Seventh district that Hull voted
for free hides.
Judge Prouty, While retaining his
financial interests in the lumber COM
pany with which he has been connected,
has arranged for the business to be
managed by others and he will devote
all his time till the primaries are held
to a school house campaign of the
Seventh district
A dispatch from Iowa Falls to the
effect that City Marshall Frank Clifford,
If Iowa Falls. is 10 be placed on the
~2lice pension rolls of the state has
evidently heen written under the mis-
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se paid by the state
The Saunders law enacted by the last
'esisla ture provides that cities with or
ganizcd police Departments can PEN
sion policemen under certain condi-
tons. They are allowed to levy money
by taNation for the purpose. The po
liceman must have served at least
twenty TWO Years, of which the last five
must have been continuous, and must
be So years old or over. Exceptions to
this are policemen disabled in the ser
vice, when they can be pensioned at
once. Such officers receive one-half
regular pay and are subject to light
duties such as they are capable of per-
forming in emergencies.
No pensions can be paid before Jan.
i 1910, and can not be paid then unless
the cities levy the tax for that purpose
this year so as to have the money on
hand with which to pay them. Ger
tain city officers are made trustees Of
/ the fund ex-officio and are charged
/ With the execution of the law.
The Corn Belt Meat Producers will
! not accept the decision of the state
/ railroad commission to get on basis
of a ,thirty-siX foot car as the minimum
size. The railroads asked the COM
mission to change its rules so they
would not have to furnish big cars al
the price of small cars. The rules pro-
vide that when a shipper orders a small
car and the railroad company has nc
small cars and furnishes a large cal
instead it can charge only for the small
car
The contention so far as the stock
! men is concerned is limited to stock
/ cars. The minimum size car under the
old rules is thirty-one feet long. The
4 companies claim they have none o
these in service any more. They claim.
ed to the commission that farmers or.
der the small cars knowing that the!
can not be furnished and when they
l. get 'lile DlS CdI, lUdu IL Iuil I"llG LOU III
ers answered this by saying that whe1
the car is loaded to more than thu
minimum the farmer must pay on thu
actual weight, so the farmer could no
get advantage of the minimum weigh
if he didn't have 1T and further insisted
that the farmers business is adjusted
to the the small size car and he buys (
car load of cattle to feed, getting
enough animals for a car of that size
and it would be a hardship ITO have
change.
The railroad commission decided tina
no change will be made till June
1910, when the change will be made an,
the rule giving the farmer a chanc
to order small car will be abrogateG
The farmers are not inclined to tax
kindly to the ruling and it is under
stood expect to appear before the com
, mission again year later when TIL
matter Is brought up to see If the
can not get the small car retained
, Many farmers on small farms can no
feed enough cattle and hogs to fill tn
, big cars and they are afraid further
, more that if this limit is removed i
a short time the railroads will want tn
thirty-six foot limit removed. The
. don't know where the railroads ar
likely to stop and are fraid they won
stop at all.
cHAUTAUQUA A SUCCESS.