Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-01
.LAN WITH RAILROAD
N Discrimination
IOWA COMMISSION HAS DIFF.
CULT PROBLEM AWAITING
= DECISION.
BRIckYARDs FREIGHT RATES
PROVE VERY RoTHERsoME
Location of Plants at Varying Dis.
tanees From Main Lines Causes Dis.
elimination Permitted Under the
law-Mayor Henderson and the Re-
movaI Law.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. July 1.-The railroad
commission has a difficult case on its
hands; case of discrimination on its
face but one In which the railroads
seem to have the law at their back
The case is that of l.. j Haskins, OF
Sergeants Bluff, against the North
western and G. NJ. & st. p. railroads
Haskins has a $4,000 brick plant at
Sergeants Bluff which is seven miles
from the depot of the Northwestern in
Sioux City, six miles from the North
western yards in Sioux City and four
miles from the general yards of the
Northwestern. This brick plant Is on
the Northwestern while there are three
brick plants on the c. NJ g. s p at
Riverside situated four miles from the
depot In Sioux City. 1t costs the Has
kins plant 1890 to get a carload OF
brick over the Northwestern to Sioux
City. 1t costs the three brick yards at
Riverside but SO car to get a car into
Sioux City. The So charge is a switch
ing charge while the 1880 charge is
the Iowa distance tariff for distances
under ten miles and over five miles
Worse than this the Northwestern
absorbs the SO switching fee of the
three yards at Riverside when they
ship over 1t to Council Bluffs and
Omaha and other points south giving
them rebate to that amount and let
ting them into Council Bluffs on even
terms with Haskins' plant On the 9TH
, er hand the C. NJ. & st. p. will not re
bate the 1880 to the Haskins plan,
when 1t ships over the C. NJ g. St p
to the north nor will any of the othe.
roads entering Sioux City rebate the
charge. AS a result Haskins is pro.
hibtted from getting into the territor,
of hts competitors by a. prohibitlve ratt
while they get into 'tfs territory OF
even terms with himself and tho he |,
but three miles farther from Sioux Cit,
than they are he cannot get any OF tn.
Sioux City business.
Haskins in his petition to the rail.
road commission has asked them te
force the G. M. & ST p to charge the
distance tariff from Riverside to Sioux
City. The Northwestern can not ther
rebate the amount legally tho they can
legally rebate a switching charge The
commission has not yet set the date
for the hearing.
Those who have been following the
law enforcement campaign inaugurated
by Attorney General Byers soon after
ne entered the attorney generals Of
flee and the efforts to get public Off
cials to enforce the laws see In the an
swer of Mavor Henderson. of Marengo
the same claim that was made by the
city of Davenport to the effect that IL
could do as 1t pleased This gave rise
to the expression THE State of Dav
cnport." and in a similar way there Is
now "The State of Marengo" Hender-
son claims that the people elected him
mayor when his drinking proclivities
were an issue in the campaign anf
| therefore the law passed by the state
| to remove an official for drunkenness
is of no effect and void.
| Six charges Were made agains!
Mayor Henderson naming six diffcren Mt
dates on which 1t was claimed that he
was drunk and furthermore too drunk
to transact the city business as mayor.
Henderson admits drinking but claims
he was not incapacitated for business
and that the people Of Marengo have n
right to have drunken mayor If they
want to and further that the law is
unconstitutional because 1t denies
him a jury trial.
! On this latter point 1t is claimed by
lawyers that In all cases of removal
from office there Is never jury trial
The trial is to a court The people OF
| Marengo who are prosecuting the re-
| moval thru the attorney generals Of
flee claim they will have ample evil
dence to show that he was too drunk
to do business.
On the other point 1t will be argued
that Marengo is not the state of Iowa
nor state by itself and that If the
people of he state say drunken may
or can be removed from office and the
trial results in the removal of their
mayor. the people there have no re-
course and will have to worry along
somehow with a mayor who doesn't
get drunk but attends to business.
Iowa's life insurance bill annually is
$10.645. .453.41, which Is a little more
than "a a year for every man, woman
and child in the state. Auditor OF
State John l.. Bleakley Is Issuing the
insurance reports this year In three
volumes instead of two. The first vol
ume which is the fire insurance report
IS already out. The second volume will
contain all HE insurance reports ex-
cept fraternal beneficiary and 1t will
be out In short time. The third VOL
ume will contain the fraternal bene-
ficiary report only.
The report shows that the ten old
line Iowa life insurance companies had
in force at the close Of 1903, $112,s51,-
757, while Dec. 81. 1907, they had In
force but $1oo.4ss,s23. The amounts
paid beneficiaries and policyholders
increased from s1.207.s63 to s1,2ss.57l
The Insurance in force by companies
outside Of Iowa doing a business here
increased on the business done in Iowa
from s174.667,7s5 to s1Ss,43e,254. The
insurance In force by the Iowa and
fnon- Iowa assessment companies in
craasad from 47aos7.O00 to xs5542.R2O