Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-15
GEN. jim" WEAVER
HDNOR[D By IOWA
Legislature Quits Business to
Permit of Exercises Unveil-
ing Picture
w. J. BRYAN is THE ORATOR
Program Arranged by Legislature and
Library Board-compromise on Sol
diers' Roster BiII-underhand Meth
DDS Attacking School 7ill-MilIer
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| Des Moines. Feb. 15.-The legislature
gave over the day to do honor to Gen.
James b. Weaver. The program vas
arranged by a joint committee of the
legislature and the state library board.
The great portrait of General Weaver
was given to the state and into the
custody of the historical department on
behalf of the committee which raised
the funds for the same General Weat-
er was present and also William j.
Bryan. The portrait is a beautiful one,
showing General Weaver standing and
about two-thrds of his body. 1t shows
him just as he is now and not as In
his. earlier and more active days. Fhe
portrait is the work of Prof Charles
a. Cumming. of this city. who already
has number of oil portraits in the
Iowa gallery and whose work racks
well with more famous painters. rms
evening there will be banquet IN
honor of General Weaver, at which MI.
Bryan and others will speak. 1t will
be strictly dry banquet in tribute
to the fact that all his life General
Weaver has been conspicuous advo-
cate of abstinence from all liquors
The portrait is the gift of admirlng
friends to the state historical depart
ment The occasion is the anniversary
of the attack of the Second regiment
upon Fort Donnelson, of which Weaver
was a member
Bryan arrived from Lincoln at $50
this morning. to be the speaker at
the. unveiling of the picture Of Gen.
James B. Weaver. at hesitate histor-
Iical building. He and Mrs. Bryan were
given a breakfast at the Savery fol-
lowing which Bryan addressed the
ministerial association and the stu
dents at Drake University. He de-
clines to discuss politics.
The legislative committees have pro-
posed compromise on the soldier ros-
ter and it will be accepted by those
Interested The original plan was to
print 10000 copies, and the cost was
to be $500. Only by getting it started
in this small way it possible to
get it taken up at all, and largely be-
cause of the insistence of Governor
Cummins it was begun. Now the num-
Der of copies to be printed will be cut
to 5000 and only half of these will be
bound at the present time. There has
been but very little call for the early
volumes and most of them will go to
libraries. This will reduce the total
cost very materially.
illustrating the fact that the school
codification bill is beginning to hurt the
politicians, the members on Saturday
received by mail an unsigned screed
printed on plain slip of paper ana
headed: "Read this, take it home with
you, have it printed in your home pa
pers." 1t is remarkable for its crudity
and bad grammar and punctuation. 1t
is as follows:
Speaking of the School Bill now be-
fore the Legislature. j. Peasley, who
has been City Superintendent of
Schools for twenty-five years, re-
marked that, after reading the Bill
several times, he regarded it as an alb
solute invasion upon the school rights
of eyery citizen in the State. II brand
it," said he, 'as a bill most drastic in It's
manipulations; as Bill most insldlous
in it's aim to establish Star Chamber
Rule through State and County Com
missions: a Bill bold in its attempt
to place our schools under college con-
troll: a. Bill most liberal in it's pro-
visions for Gar Rule by State Super
intendent; Bill most inviting to vul-
lures of graft through Teachers agen-
cies, Book Companies and Colleges In
deed, the time has come when our
common schools should be divorced
from colleged control and freed from
deep scheming political school mana
gers"
This is in line with other sundry at
tacks upon the bill all of which betraN
ignorance of the nature of the proposal.
A member of the house who handed
this to the reporters said: That just
shows. that we really need some kind
of a school system that will educate
the people. Here is some one pretend
ing to be a leader in education who
talks of the bill before the house in q
manner which shows he is stupldly
ignorant and sadly in need of some
elementary education. If we had good
rural schools such ignoramuses would
not be writing notes to the legislators
DR.. E. B. F,ulliam, representative in
the Iowa legislature, is after the al
legged book trust. An investigation by
house committee Of six Will be asked
in a resolution to be presented by him
in the house Tuesday. Charges that the
Supposed combina ton of eastern book
men are using undue influence on the
schoolmen of Iowa in opposition TO The
reforms proposed III the new school
bin. Will be probed if The committee is
appointed and an effort will be made
to eliminate them from the discussion
of the bill. The resolution will clotae
the corsmittee with power to admin
lister the oath and to summon wit
nesses.
The most sweeping antitrust law