Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-12
ANALYSIS OF VOTE IN SENATE
ON cARRoLL's APPOINTMENTS
DISPUTES FIRST CLAIMS.
sTANDpATTERs JOINED WITH
PRoeREssivEs AND DEMOCRATS
States Extensive Farming Interests
Moved Legislature to Turn Down
Governors Effort to Pay Political
Debts at Expense of Publie's Busi :
ness lnterests-vote Was for cownie.
,ecial to Times Republican.

Des Moines, April 12.-The state of
each year, the farm divided into a
number of parts, but all under one
head, and because of this great farm
it has been possible to avoid great
increase in the cost to the counties of
support of persons at the hospitals and
homes. The legislature appropriated
$4,000 to be used, if deemed wise, in
buying more land. During the past two
weeks there has been on exhibition in
the basement of the state capitol the
showing of seed corn tested for the use
of the various farms, and this exhibit
showed that in the matter of provid-
ing good seed corn the state of Iowa
is not behind anybody. The exhibit
has attracted much attention. This eX-
hlbit, with the report of the state board
in which is shown just how much pro-
duce was raised on the state farm, had
a great deal to do with the action of
the legislature in making it certain
that Chairman Cownie shall remain on
the state board at least two years
more.
1t leaked out, before the legislators
separated, that in no sense was it
either political or factional lineup in
the secret sessions, on confirmation of
the two men selected to take Cownie's
place. In fact, for confirmation of both
these men there We're votes cast by
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ters-if such terms are now under
stood-and by democrats. and equally
all three classes were represented in
both roll calls against confirmation.
Three or four of those who might be
classed as standpatters, and leaders of
that faction, made no concealment of
the fact that they voted against con-
firnation of the appointees.
AS for the democrats they did not
take a partisan view of it. One who is
fairly entitled to be regarded as the
leader of the democrats came to the
writer and asked him to make it pub
lie that the democrats did not take any
narrow or political view of the mat
ters.
"The democratic vote was not solid"
he said, "but the majority of the dem
ocrats voted against confirmation of
either appointee solely on the ground
that what was proposed was a plain
violation of the spirit of the law, if
not its letter. We know, and everyone
knows, that a farmer and practical
business man should be on the board
The state expects that. We stood for
that principle and are willing to abide
by the record made. The suggestion
that some republican office holder had
something to do with the action of the
senate is absurd
Some one of the aggrieved persons
started the story that State Pharmacy
Commissioner Keltz caused the defeat
of the governors appointees. AS a mat
ter of fact, and this was we'll known to
everyone, Keltz was not in the city
and had not been for ten days, and so
far as any senator knew he has never
heard of the case.
The fact that the state is a great
farm owner and manager and that, IT
was proposed to give the state insti-
affected the case.
Representative Paul Stillman, of
Greene county, will be candidate Tor
state printer to succeed Emory II. Eng
lish. so he said before departing
for his home at Jefferson. where he is
publisher of the Jefferson Bee. Mr..
Stillman is leading member of the
legislature, and was a candidate For
speaker at the session just closed. He
is said to have assurances that he will
be given the support for state printer
of all the Legislators who expect to re-
turn at the coming session.
Representative Harding, of Sioux
City, will be a candidate for speaker
at the next session, he said. Sc
will Gerret Klay. of Sioux county, who
has completed his first term.