Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-16
IOWA WILL FILL TWO PLACES IN
GALLERY AT NATIONAL CAP.
IToL THIS YEAR.
HARLAN STATUE is READY,
klRkWooD's NEARLY DONE
Senators viii Fix Date for Ceremonies
Of instailation-Many Outside In
auiries Concerning Iowa's Parole
Law-supreme Court convenes to
Finish Up September Work.
Special to Ttlnes-Republican.

Special to Tines-R Republican.
Des Moines, Nov. 16.-Early the COM
ing year Iowa will fill the two inches
reserved for this state for many years
in the gallery of fame at the national
capital. One of the great statues is now
ready and awaiting favorable oppor-
tunity for the ceremony of placing in
the niche; the other is modelled and will
soon be cast by the founders.
The Harlan statue is safely slowed
away in storage house in Chicago
and is insured in the name of the state,
for Iowa has $4,000 invested in the
same, and has $4,000 more that will g,
to the designer.
The hirkwood statue is not quite fin
ished. Winnie Ream Hoxie, who was
here a few days ago consulting in re-
gard 10 the statue. has it practically
completed and is al work on it in Iowa
City.
The Harlan statue has been accepted
and the responsibility of Miss Nellie
Walker is at an end. Secretary of State
Hayward took view at the statute af-
ter it was cast in Chicago and declared
it all right While not posing as a
judge of art. the work fully satisfied
Mr.. Hayward. All the mem bers of the
state executive council, however, saw
the model in clay before the casting
The bronze work was done by the same
specialist who casts all the bronzes for
dorado Taft.
The fixing of the time for the plac-
ing of the statue in the niche in Wash
ington will probably be left to Senator's
Cummins and Dolliver, and this is likely
to not occur until after the holiday re-
cess of congress. Whether there will
be any formal ceremony participated in
by Iowa people remains TO be decided
1t is found that most of the states have
placed the statues of their political
heroes without much ceremony.
The statue of Harlan is eight feet
high and that of Kirkwood will be
seven feet high. 1t is not pretended
there was a foot difference in the height
of these two men; but Mrs. Hoxie
modelled the Kirkwood statue of the
seven-foot size on the theory that prac-
tically all the statues in the national,
capitol would be restricted to that size.
Information regarding the workings
of a. parole law is in great demand
and it appears that in more states than
one the question of undermining the
criminal code is a live issue Sec-e-
tary B. w. Garrett, of the Iowa board
OF Parole, is engaged in preparing
statistics regarding the working of the
I ISvr low
terminate sentence. this on request
from the secretary of the Indiana state
board of charities. This information
is desired for a paper on the subject
20 be published in the International
prison congress souvenir volume The
letter came 10 the state board Of con-
troll, as there is an impression abroa 4
that the Iowa parole system is admin
/ istered by that board but Mr. Garrett,
who is already recognized far and WIDE
as an expert in matters of admins
tration OF the prison laws, volunteered
to prepare the statistics.
The state supreme court convened in
regular session today to finish up the
docket which was begun in September
j The number of cases noted for oral ar
gument is not large, nor are there any
of great Importance unless it is the
| Schultz case from Sac City involving
the validity of the Iowa anti-pass law
| This case has been prepared by B. L
Salinger and his brief in the case COW
ers the whole range of legislation az
fecting corporations and their right, and
apparently was prepared with a view
| on the main question of the right of a
state to forbid use of passes for other
than railroad purposes. Attorney Cen
eral Byers has personally had charge OF
4 the case for the state, and as he is en-
gagged in a case in Council Bluffs ii
/ may be necessary to postpone the
Schultz case.
L Oral arguments commence tomorrow
Fl before the court. The Ware habeas cor
pus case, it is expected, will be hear
by the court at once.
Friends in Des Moines have learned
with pleasure of the promotion of DR.
P. L. Prentis in the department of in
spection of immigrants to the vacan
post in Chicago, one of the most inn
portant In the country DIR. Prentis
was for a long time stationed at Van
Huron. He resides at Leon, Decatul
county, and was three terms elected
to the Iowa house In the Iowa legis
fature he was an aggressive membe
and was known as a progressive, 20
which he was finally defeated. He Sc
cured his place In the treasury depart
ment thru favor of Hepburn and Cum
minis and resigned as a member Of III
Iowa commission to the st. Louis OK
position to accept.
Congressman Frank P. Woods spen
two days in the city, and Of course
was rumored that there was polite
. doing. 1t turned out however that tn
Tenth district congressman was merel
visiting friends before going on t
Washington to again go up against n