Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13
BRICK AND TILE Men MEET
Iowa Association Urges Help for
Ames Department.
COUNCIL BLUFFS COMMISSION GOOD
Supreme Court in Divided Decision
Makes An Important Ruling for
that City-COal Operators
Are ArraiRned.
cFrom a staff corrsspondent.l

DIES MONIES. Ia, Jan. n-(Special Tel
e~gramD-The Iowa Brick and Tile associa-
tlOn commenced its twenty-eighth annual
session here yesterday with about 100 mem
bers present. Judge Stevens OF Boone In his
address as president outlined some Of the
things which the association has been do
Ing and is engaged In.
Just now IL Is most interested in having
developed the department OF ceramic arts
at the Iowa Agricultural college at Ames.
A new building has been completed and
the next legislature will be asked to equip
this. II is planned also to head off labor
unions by providing for a school in prec-
tical brick laying TO teach boys who can
not become apprentices. The association
is also doing work for good roads and en-
-couragement Of tile draining.
il is expected that at the convention
steps will be taken looking to a reduction
in freight on clay products.
Coal operators were today charged with
unfalrness, Injustice and greed by a spe-
cial committee of Des Moines socialists.
Charges we're directed against the own-
ers OF tthe sayior mines, who 1t is said
held slxty-nine cars OF coal while prices
were highest.
At another time it was charged that the
miners agreed to work for nothing last
Sunday providing the operators gave a
percentage Of coal TO the poor of the city.
This offer the socialists claim was re-
fused.
The funeral of the late Mrs. John Will
SON, step-mother Of Secretary of Agricul-
ture James Wilson, was held at Traer to-
day. Mrs. Wilson was 80 years of age and
had been tniee times married.
COurt UphOlds Commission.
The supreme court today upheld the Iowa
law in regard to appointment OF q fire
and police commission for Council Bluffs
affirming the case of the state ex. rel
Jones against b. Nj. Sargent, from Pot
tawattamie county, and permitting the
new commission to exercise authority. TIL
opinion was by Justice Deemer. Dissent.
ing opinions were filed by Weaver and
Evans.
The court upholds the acts of Mayor
Macrae in appointing two democrats on thu
board Instead Of two republicans, saying
lie exercised a discretion plainly giver
him. The provision for a nonpartisar
board selected from the two leading polii
cal parties Is also upheld. The constitu
tionality of the act was questioned, but II
every respect upheld.
Justice Weaver filed a somewhat sensa
tional dissenting opinion, declaring the re
. suit announced as little less than revolu
tlonary." lie holds that under this doc
trlne:
II there be a partisan majority In tn,
legislature then under this doctrine 1t ma!
make membership in Its party an e~ssentia
condition OF the right to hold all count
township and city offices. 1t may max
the citizens partisan qualification a quail
tication or a bar to his right to serve a
"a school director, or notary public, or mayo
or justice of the peace. 1t may even pre-
scribe the shade OF political opinion whlcI
shall be represented upon the bench. 1t
power of ostracism need not be confines
To the domain of politics. 1t may inven
some grandfather clause by which the ma
VINO honoraOly aspires to public office mus
snow his eligibility to membership in IN
sons OF the Revolution or his right TO wea
lac heraldlc emblem Of a peer or England.
Justice Evans concurs in the Weave
opinion that the case ought to be reversed
but holds that the act as a whole shout
be upheld except as to the provision tina
the commissioners should be selected ''fror
the two leading political parties"
Henderson Removal Case.
Judge M. j. Wade of Iowa City, opene
the argument today before the suprem
court for the appeal in the case of Mayo
Henderson Of Marengo, who was remove