The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-04-07

time and catch all those travelling and
Cross roads shops who were doing bus
mess within the pharmacy law. but
not paying cent into the state treas
ury for the privilege. Keltz did that
work and it took necessarily all his
time. 1t is not expected of per
diem official that he works from a.
m. to 6 p. m. His days are days in
contemplation of law and like court
days an hour is as much day as ten
hours. When Byers gets down to
hard pan he will find that Mr.. Keltz
has done something every day in the
year and then some Sundays besides.
Carroll is bent on cleaning out the
Cummins men and that is all there is
to this tempest in teapot. So he is
giving Keltz a lot of notoriety in
hopes that he will get tired and re-
sign. Perhaps he will and perhaps
he won't.
Jewell Record: Bert Keltz of
Webster City has made answer to the
absurd charges brought against him
as member of the state pharmacy
commission by Governor Carroll who
asked his resignation for over-charges
for his services. Keltz's answer
is straight and clean and should be
enough to clear him positively. He
shows that the governor as state au-
ditor and member of the executive
council himself passed upon and al
lowed the bills for per diem that are
now protested. Moreover as to what
constitutes days work for a men,
Der of the commission, Keltz shows
that the present governor himself was
one of a committee Of two who fixed
the rules governing that matter and
according to which charges have been
made. Keltz further shows that
the pharmacy commission during the
past biennial period, operated at less
expense, turned in more fees to the
state treasury than did the state au-
ditor's Office. To one up a tree it
looks like Carroll is trying to play
some politics of the peanut variety.
B. F. Keltz ought not resign and here
is hoping that he will be accepted as
having fully and finally INDICATED
himself,
Palo Alto Reporter: Pharmacy
Commissioner Keltz still continues to
be in the lime light. During The past
week Governor Carroll has asked the
Attorney General to take action in his
case and bring the matter into court
or prosecution. This is the cover.
nor's answer to Keltz refusing to re-
sign when he was requested to do SC
by the governor. He was evidently
posted on the fact that there was nc
power lodged in the governor for his
removal and so concluded that Cover
nor Carroll had not sufficient backbone
to push his case. The governor wal
no sooner informed by the attorney
general that he had no power to re-.
move Keltz than he took the iniative
for his prosecution by the courts.
Keltz was q very foolish man. AS
his case now stands if the governor
proves his point and there is no doubt
but what he can. then Keltz is guilty
OF perjury and of obtaining money un-
der false pretepses. Each is serioue
charge, the maximum penalty being
the penitentiary. The charges set
forth by Governor Carroll in his state
ment is that Keltz was at the National
Republican Convention in Chicago.
June 16, II, l8 and ~ of last year and
that he charged the state full per diem
for those DAYS. He not only charged
full per diem but also r. iIroad fare
from Iowa City to Davenport to Des
Moines on his return trip. The state
ment by the governor says that he did
not return from Chicago by way of
Davenport but by way of the Illinois
Central to Webster City and that he
was in attendance on some convention
in Webster City on his return home
after the adjournment of the Chicago
convention. He even charged for this
day end for hotel bill in Des Moines
when he was at home in Webster City
| The governor concludes by sententious-
ly remarking that there are cases OF