Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-10
ROADS WILL RESIST
WILL FIGHT ORDER OF coMMIs.
SION REDUCING RATES ON
coAL.~
ALICE PRESENT RATES
ARE NOT REMuNERArlvE
Acceptance of Order Would BE .Admis.
sion That There 10 No Defense to
Case Now Pending in Washington
Certain That cumnins Was Offered
Place on Supreme Bench.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Dec. 1O.-It is probable
that the decision of the railroad COM
dering a substantial reduction in the
freight rates on soft coal, will be re-
sisted by the companies. They took
the position before the 5oaT.a ,hat in
terstate and intrastate rates are so
closely bound together that reduction
Of the latter will force reduction of the
former, and they claim that any re-
duction is unwarranted because the
rates at present are too low to bring
proper returns to the investment 1t
is the same question that is before the
interstate commerce commission. The
Iowa railroad commission. in very
able decision prepared by Commission
err Eaton, declares the old Iowa rates
existing for over twenty years to be
excessive. For the railroads to accept
this decision'in Iowa would be virtual
confession that there is no defense for
the case pending at Washington. An
appeal to the courts is therefore ex-
pected.
Judge S. F. Frouty has returned from
Arkansas. where he has been attending
TO business since the election. He ex-
poets to pay visit to Washington and
take a few lessons in craftsmanship
from the present Iowa delegation, soon
after the holidays.
The ease with which errors creep in
10 election returns was indicated when
the secretary of states office discov-
cred the other day that in the semi
official returns sent from Appanoose
county the prohibition candidate for
secsectary Of state was credited with
over 1000 more votes than he actually
received Similar errors are discovered
nearly every year in some part of the
election tables sent to the state house
for publication.
That Senator Cummins was in fact
given a tentative offer OF place on
the supreme bench came direct from
Washington this week. 81 happen to
know" said an official of the Taft adj
ministration who knows whereof he
speaks. that the offer was made to
Cummins, not fully and unreservedly.
Of course, but in a form which showed
that it was intended to be feeler to
be followed by something more formal
Senator Cummins very promptly and
emphatically disposed Of the matter at
once
The, following want ad" which APP
peared last Sunday in the Daily News
of this city, appears to have been over
looked by the paragraphers and the
dispensers Of political jobs alike:
Observation-Disclosures as United
States senator. Anyone having such
an article laying around loose. please
communicate al once. Henry Waltz,
Valley Junction. Iowa"
The lad" came in the regular way
and was paid for in advance by the
advertiser who has not as yet made re-
port on the success of his quest.
Ex-senator Hotchkiss. Of Dallas
county. in his newspaper. the Abel
News, in referring to the decision Of
Lieutenant Governor Clarke not to be
a candidate for the senate. says:
His announcement as candidate
was wholly the result Of the urgency Of
his friends and against his own inclina-
ton. and as it is evident that sharp
contest IS 10 De mace -Mr. SldrNe mas
decided to follow his inclinations and
stay out of it. He has no personal am
bition in that direction"
All of which confirms the suspicion
at the outset that those who were re-
sponsible for the so-called announce
ment" of the Clarke candidacy were en-
gagged in grinding an axe that didn't
belong to Clarke at all. The work of
having this or that candidate put In
the race" has been going on steadily.
The campaign for election by the leg
islature of Senator Young for the
| short term and preparations for the
full term, has been placed in the hands
of committee of five politicians in
Guiding Joseph Byrnes. Frank D. Jack
son, LATE Young. Jr., and two others.
The work will be prosecuted vigorously.