Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-03

Company The commission directed
that the Milwaukee Company had no
right to refuse to accept cars Of coal
shipped from Illinois in cars of other
companies and rendered to the Mifwau-
kee for shipment to Iowa points. The
company had claimed that this was in
terstate business and also that it could
insist upon reloading in its own cars.
The Iowa commission took ground
more advanced than ever before by any
state commission. in holding that the
interstate character OF the shipment
ended when the cars were delivered to
the consignee in Iowa, and that the
railroad business is now SO interviewer
that the cars of all companies must
be treated by all companies exactly
alike. If this decision stands, and Mr..
Eaton, the attorney of the board be-
lieves that it is impregnable, long
step will have been taken by Iowa in
the breaking down of the unnatural
barriers OF trade and commerce which
the courts have erected. But the COM
mission now receives word that the
Milwaukee company refuses to observe
the order. The next step will be to
go into court and enforce the same,
which will give the courts whack at
the principle. No more important case
has ever been before the state board.
Senator w. H. Berry, chairman Of
the parole board. will not participate
in the pardon case Of "BilP' Richards.
Berry was called in as an attorney in
the case to assist in selecting the jury
which tried Richards. hence he is dis
qualified to act, and he is not sorry
r1n ~ 49,
late Senator Emmert, If he had lived.
would also have considered himself
disqualified, as he had personal knowl
edge of some matters which. would
have prevented judicial deter7l nation
of the application. Richards applica-
ton is backed by great array of
names Of prominent persons, but the
people Of the county where he was
convicted employed ex-Congressman
Hays to oppose the parole. The par
ole board will at its meeting next week
consider and pass upon las cases now
pending. Many of these cases are,
however, only preliminary in nature, or
are cases where the prisoner asks that
the limit be now fixed for the sentence.
IL only few cases will there be direct
and immediate parole. Altho the bus
mess Of the board has been much
larger than was anticipated it has
been admirably kept up.
State Auditor Bleakley is finding it
difficult to shut of some practices on
the part of banks Of the state which
hinder the proper administration of
the law. For instance it is known that
there is tendency to organize state
or savings banks and national banks
under one management and to mix
their affairs Where this is done a
state or savings bank frequently places
practically all its reserve in the ma
tional bank with which it is affiliated.
Now the state auditor is required to
pass on the sufficiency Of the security
for the reserve, but of course he can
not look into the affairs OF national
bank. The attorney general. to whom
the matter was referred, finds no way
of handling a case like this other than
by a conference OF state and national
examiners; and in fact, that was the
purpose OF a recent conference of
these bank examiners in the office of
the state auditor. Another practice of
some OF the banks is that of arrang-
ing with it's correspondent to have a
nominal transfer of government bonds
MADE 10 the Oank ana De OF record
Jan. 1, under which arrangement an
exemption IS Claimed from, taxation
There seems to be no way to stop this
save to make case OF palpable fraud
and evasion of the law by jugglery.
You may state for me and make
il as emphatic as possible. that there
was not word of truth in the story
which last week was published about
conference Of Judge Prouty with
Governor Carroll, and the story was
not given out by me-" said Secretary
Nye Of the governors office. ut is
not true that I gave out the story or
that it was authorized. It was sheer
pipe dream and without foundation"
The story was printed in the evening
paper which has assumed to be the
organ of the governor and which is
bitterly opposed to Senator Cummins.
The effect of the story was to cause
both Prouty and Carroll much en-
barrassment without any other effect
than to lead a few unthinking persons
20 believe that Senator Cummins is
undertaking to dispose of state pol
tiles