Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-15
WILL NOT AccEDE TO REQUEST
TO REMOVE ENTIRE PAAR-
MACY BOARD.
INVESTIGATION OF kELTz
MUST PROCEED REGULARLY
Attorney General Byers at Present En-.
gagged in Compiling Evidence-Minor
Errors Found in Several Bills Passed
by Legislature Parole Board at
Fort Madison.
'ecial to Times.Republican.

Des Moines. April 15.-The state ex-
ecutive council meets today and it is
known that an effort is to be made to
induce the council to summarily re-
move from office the state pharmacy
board and thus open the way for
general change in the working forces
of the state. 1t may be stated, however,
that the state executive council will
not today create any vacancies in Of
fetal positions, and so long as men in
the public service conduct themselves
properly and live up to the letter of
the law there will be no revoking of
commissions
1t is probable that the regular course
will be followed in regard to the state
pharmacy board and that the proceed
ure will be in that case in accordance
with the precedents of the past that
if there are disputed bills or accounts
the council will take them up in reg
ular order, find out the facts, call in
the persons responsible for the bill and
secure a proper adjustment of all mat
tiers in accordance with law and
equity. This has been done very many
times in the past, for the work of
auditing the bills has been carefully
attended to since the council took
charge of that work five years ago. and
in every case the bills have been dis
posed of to the satisfaction of every
body.
all
placed in the hands of the attorney
general the matter of the controversy
between him and Commissioner keltz
involving the correctness of the per
diem account of last June. and sug-
sested that the attorney general pro-
| coed against Keltz for perjury or for
obtaining money under false pretenses
If there is any evidence tending to
support any such charges it is certain
the attorney general will not hesitate
to act. The governor Immediately sup
Piled General Byers with all the data
on which the charges We're founded.
and the work of securing additional
evidence is said to be under way. So
| long as the case is in the hands of
/ the attorney general it is unlikely the
matter will be officially laid before the
| council.
1 Another error has been found in the
bllls which passed the legislature but
the error can do no harm. 1t is in the
4 bill relating to the expense accounts
Of the attorney general which are to
4 be allowed by the court The words "or
4 judge" were left in the bill after they
/ had been with others stricken out. The
situation in regard to the error in the
Moon bill also relates to an incidental
| matter in the record. In brief a house
committee reported two amendments.
but by mistake a third amendment
got printed in the bill as a part of the
amendments recommended When the
bill was finally passed the record
shows that the bill with report of
committee recommending passage as
amended, was taken up, considered,
and the amendments adopted" AS the
bill reached the governor only two of
the house committee amendments were
there The senate had adopted the
committee amendments" AS a matter
of fact the third amendment was
wrongly printed in the journal, and
aside from this no error was made.
But the third amendment is the one
which undertook to change the one to
1000 to one to 500 population. The
Importance of this in some towns will
probably make it necessary for the
courts to decide.
The board Of parole is at Fort Mad
ison this week where seventy-five of
the inmates have asked for hearings in
\ regard to parole matters A larger
number We're heard at Anamosa. But a
very small proportion of these appli-
cations will be received with favor