Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-26
BIG F[E FORTHCOMING
WESTERN UNION AGREES TO PAY
s125,ooo INTO STATE
TREASURY.
SECRETARY HAYWARD BRINGS
CORPORATION TO TIME
State Pharmacy Commission Getting
Ready to Enforce Pure Food and
Drug Laws With VisorrNext State
Tax Levy Will Be a.4 Mills-TotaI
of s2,soo,ooo to Be Raised.
Special to Times-Republican.

of the state of Iowa will probably soon
be enriched by s125.oOO from the West
ern Union Telegraph Company thru the
work of Secretary of State Hayward,
and the litigation between the state
and the company to determine whether
it has a. right to do business in Iowa
without complying with the state law
is far advanced thru the same means.
Either this or the corporation will have
to crawfish
When H. w. Byers became attorney
general OF Iowa he discovered that
hardly any of the more important cor
poration laws of the state had been
enforced and he announced that he
would make it a point during his oc-
cupancy of the office to discover
whether the laws could or could not
be enforced. One of these is the law
requiring corporations to file certified
copies of their articles of Incorporation,
pay a fee and pass a resolution by the
board of directors agreeing to abide by
the laws of the state.
The Western Union is one of the cor
y
the last legislative session an old law
requiring corporations was rejuvenated
by providing means for its enforcement
Blanks We're sent out to the corpora
tons on which TO make their reports.
None was sent to the Western Union
on the ground that it had no legal right
to do business in the state a suit hav-
ing been started by the attorney gen.
eral in the courts to Gust them from
the state. But the secretary of the
Western Union got one of the blanks
and mailed in the report
Secretary Hayward refused to file
this and wrote the secretary that 1t
could not be filed till the corporation
had compiled with the state law. An
answer was received from the COM
pany's attorney saying they would file
the certified copy of the articles of in
corporation and pay the fee but would
not pass the resolution thru the board
of directors on the ground that they
claimed a right to do business in Iowa
under the federal statute and to file
such a resolution would be waiver of
that right.
Secretary Hayward has written back
that if they will file the certified copy
Of the articles of incorporation and pay
the fee he will waive the other matter
OF the resolution till it is determined
by the courts by the litigation proceed
ing. The fee in question is a percent
age of the capital stock and in the case
of the Western Union it will mean
little over $4,000. If the company
pays the fee all right and good, the liti-
CATION will be far advanced. If it re-
fuses it will be an admission that other
things than the resolution are control-
ing the action of the corporation.
The state pharmacy commission is
going to make every effort to enforce
the laws under its department and the
pure drug law as we'll as that regard
ing the selling of liquor. The fact is
the time for enforcing the pure drug
bill has just arrived. That is it arrived
April /, 1909, just about the time when
the personel of the board was changed.
The new board has been in now four
months and tho it has done nothing to
enforce the law thus far it is under
stood that it will.
The pure drug law was passed in
1907 but it was argued that many
druggists had on their shelves goods
that did not comply with the law and
that they ought to be given a reason
able time to dispose of these without
loss. They We're given till April 1.
1909. The law provided that 1T would
go into effect July /. 1907, but gave till
April /, 1909, to dispose of the old
stocks so in effect the law didn't take
effect till April L. of this year. The old
board We're getting ready to give the
law its enforcement when the change
was made and the new members
came on and they will now carry out
the program previously made
1t is claimed that the enforcement of
the law will bring some hardships on
the druggists Of the state since MANY
of them and in fact hardly any of
them, have gotten rid of all their old
stocks. The worst of it is many of the
druggists do not know what goods
We're purchased before the law was
passed and what after. The law is
chiefly in the labelling and 1t is prac-
tically impossible to relabel the stuff
so that in many cases the druggists
are in bad way. They would be
glad to get a little further respite in
the matter.
Considerable interest has been
aroused in the discovery that druggists
not disposed to obey the laws of the
land are getting liquor permits printed
on their own account. The new law re-
quires that the county auditor furnish
the blanks which purchasers of liquor
are required to sign in drug stores be-
fore they are sold liquor of any kind.