Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07
SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW TAX
CONTEST FROM WOODBURY.
COUNTY.
JUDGE mccoy TAKES WHAck
AT MEMBERS OF THE COURT
Charges Judges With ignoring All tho
Questions at Issue and Asks a Re-
hearns-Bell-B Brown Civil Rights
Case Up Again on Application for
Rehearins-Other Suits.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special TO Times Republican.
Des Moines. Feb. THE supreme
court meets again tomorrow for the
second period of the January term
Oral arguments are set for tomorrow
and every day up to and including the
10th. At this period there will be
brought TO the city attorneys from the
Seventh districJ-Scott, Muscatine,
Jackson and Clinton; from the Eighth
district-Jo hnson and Iowa: from the
Ten Ih-Blackhawk. Buchanan, Grundy
and Delaware: from the Eleventh
Boone, Webster Hamilton, Story
Wright and Hardin; from the Twelfth
Butler. Bremen, Floyd, Winnebago
and Cerro Gordo: and from the Ninth
Polk. The docket does not disclose
any cases Of much public interest. The
Mayor Henderson case was submitted
a the last period. also the Leroy Ware
case; also the DR.. Sells murder case
The John Junkin appeal TO save him
from a hanging does not appear to be
ready yet for argument. The applica
ton for a rehearing in the Bell Brown
civil rights suit may be heard by the
court, tho no new points are raised and
there is little room for argument.
A somewhat notable application for
rehearing has just been made TO the
supreme court by Judge Mccoy, OF
Oskaloosa, in the case from Woodbury.
county involving the refusal Of the
county treasurer TO assess property
disclosed by tax ferret The property
was the stock in the Stock Yards COM
pany. The assessor had decided that
as the yards were assessed the stock
was not assessable. The ferrets tried
70 get the county treasurer 20 assess
but he pleaded that the assessor had
decided everything and refused to act.
The supreme court also decided that
the treasurer having decided the mat
Ter il was already disposed Of. Now
comes Judge Mccoy. for the tax fer
rats and in q sharp whack at the court.
calls attention to the fact that the
county treasurer did not adjudicate
anything He asks a rehearing on the
ground that the supreme court did not
decide the matter on the points argued
but upon a lisapprehension of the
status of the case and ignored all the
questions al issue. II is contended
that the matter is OF vast importance
because exactly similar questions are
coming up IN almost every county and
as the court has never decided what
= the duty OF a county treasurer in the
matter Of making assessment of dis
closed property of this kind decision
ought 10 be had.
II seems certain that some action IS
due 10 compel the railroads 10 make
better reports on their issuance of free
passes 10 residents of Iowa. The In
ion Pacific. for instance. simply re-
Eases 70 make a report on the ground
ina. all passes are Of interstate char
acter, hence il is not necessary TO re-
port them 20 Iowa But the Iowa ia "
contemplates a report on pa sses issued
10 Iowans, regardless Of the character
OF the passes. Nearly all the roads re-
porting simply give few of the pass
holders and evidently omit the great
body of those who have permits.
Secretary Simpson has received
word Of quite number of county road
meetings called since he sent out the
first OF the year his memorandum 10
county officers in regard thereto.
These are the county meetings con-
templated in the law. the basis for
WINCH Is q conference between lle
county officials and the township trus-
tees I confer in regard to highways
and the weed law II seems that many
of the county officials did not know
Of this law.
The grain dealers who attended the
state convention last week attracted a
great deal OF attention, and the con-
vention was surprise 10 the Des
Moines residents both as 10 size and
personnel. IN fact, the organizations
that usually make a great deal of fuss
over the coming Of aLy body Of men,
did little advertising Of this conven-
ton Ben Parker, VIII sat around the
Slavery lobby and talked with the dele
gates, said of them: There was ore
thing / especially no-ed in this gan
ering-there were very few old nler.
the typical farmers of other days They
were nearly all men in the prime of
life They were farmers, but they were
also business men, and alive 10 the.c
own interests. And there was a g1odly
sprinkling of the college farmers
among them, too. This is bunch %
men that will have to be reckoned with
in the future. They are prosperous and
rhey know how to do business"