Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-19
PROU1Y Would like 1'
SAYS HE WOULD ENJOY REPRE-
SENTING SEVENTH DISTRICT
IN CONGRESS.
WOULD NOT SUPPORT
PRESENT TARIFF BILL
Prouty Says House Bill is Much Bet
ter Than Adrich Measure No
Doubt That Both Hull and Smith
Will Have Serious Opposition to
Reelection.
special to Times-Republican.

1>So AASiAiSSs june ~ HOW would
You like to be representing the Sew
enth congressional district of Iowa in
congress when the tariff bill gets over
to the house?" was asked today of
Judge S. F. Prouty, who has three
times been candidate against Con-
gresham j. A. T. Hull and who his
friends claim would now be serving his
third term if everyone had their just
dues.
I'D like it mighty Well" declared
the judge, as he looked up from a
game of pool in the Grant Club rooms
and from that on he seemed so much
Interested in the tariff and so little
interested in pool that he allowed him.
self to be beaten.
And I want to say" continued
Judge Prouty without losing any time,
that I would never vote for that bill
as II is now in the senate, Cannon OF
no Cannon"
There is not another man in Iowa,
including Senator Cummins himself.
who has made more careful study of
the tariff than has Judge Prouty. nor
no more thorough advocate of revision
downward and every time he has been
a candidate for congress he has talked
revision as one of the main issues. Now
what time he has TO spare from BUSH
ness he is spending in playing pool
and watching the tariff debates from
distance and straining his ears in
vain to hear the voice of the represen-
tative of the Seventh district.
The Payne bill as it went from the
house was much better than the AID
rich bill now in the senate" said
Judge Prouty. and unless very sub
stantial improvement can be made in
the bill I believe it should be defeated
and sent back to the people. Yes, I
know there is not another election for
year and a half and it would be
quite two years before tariff legislation
would be considered again in congress
but if bad bill with no substantial
gains for revision is allowed to go thru
now it will be many a long day before
the subject can be fought out again.
For that reason I am for making the
fight now. Unless substantial revision
can be secured send it back to the
pepole in the congressional election
that will be held in 1910"
The talk in political circles here is
that Judge Prouty will again be a can
didate agaist Hull. On this the judge
would not submit to be interviewed
In the primaries last year Hull won
out after a protracted fight following
| an almost tie vote, the count giving
I 80 I,,jJ hap N
Prouty, the final vote giving Hull the
nomination tho it was generally con-
coded if a complete recount of all the
ballots could have been made Prouty
| would have had the nomination. Legal
technicalities, however, stood in the
! way of this.
Twice before Prouty was beaten by
Hull tho on both occasions the vote
was close and the battle nearly a
drawn one.
/ A little inquiry easily discloses thai
/ there is no question but that there viii
/ be fights made against both Hill of this
! Seventh and Smith of the Ninth dis.
| trict. Just who the candidates will be
/ it is NOT possible to say now but the
! opponents of the present incumbent:
are saying that there Is going to BIZ
/ opposition and they promise that there
/ Will be strong candidates in the field
/ Against Congressman Smith his enc
mics will make the most of Presiden
Roosevelts detective work agains
congressman and Smiths fight agains
Roosevelt. Now comes the tariff iegis
lation In which both Hill and Smitl
4 seem to be close under the wing o
4 Speaker Cannon, for whose re-electio,
i as speaker they voted and the tariff re
vsionists will make the most of tina
situation when they come to the cam
paign of 1910.
The conservation commission pro
vided by the last legislature and ap
pointed By Gov B F. Carroll will NEE
in this city the first of July for tn
purpose of organizing. This will be tn
first meeting of the commission sine
it's appointment and it is expected tina
little will be done beyond organizing
The commission may discuss in a gen
eral way some of the lines of wor
and then adjourn till a latter day t
take up and decide along what lines
work.
According to the reports of the ex
aminers of the bureau of municipal &C
counts of the state auditors offic
there has been considerable improve
ment in the condition of the cities
. Iowa and the manner in which the
keep their accounts This is the sec
ond examination made under tt
municipal accounts law. On the fir
examination about two years ago
was found that very many cities wei
careless as to the legal restriction
concerning appropriating money ar
used money from funds for purpos
: for which it was clearly illegal tt
work too now is being done in mud
less time than when the first exarnin;
. ton was made. due to the better col