Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-20
GOVERNOR FEARS TO ATTACK
coWNIE OPENLY FOR FEAR
OF REACTION. .
CANON BELL FINDS MUCH TO
CONDEMN AT MlTcHELLvlLLE
Abandonment Of cownie's Methods of
Management Has Resulted in De-
ploraple conditions-Two Important
Rulings by Railway Commission -
Oil Shipments Separate.
Special 10 rimes-Republican.

Special to mes-Republican.
Des Moines, April 2o.-An interesting
fact has been disclosed in connection
with the somewhat informal report OF
Canon r. H P. Bell, on behalf OF the
humane society committee, on present
conditions at the school for girls. The
committee visited Governor Carroll
and became convinced from what he
said that there was no occasion for
criticism OF what his administration
has been doing to the institutions and
board of control. An investiga ton was
made which was Only partial, and last
week Canon Bell let il be known that
his report would completely eNonera1e
the state admlnistra ton. But at the
last moment he received word OF the
continuance of troubles last Week and
the necessity for drastic measures and
he went back for further Investigations,
when tor the first time he got down
TO bottom facts. Then he changed the
whole plan OF the report and exposed
{ the fact that the Whole system has been
changed at Mitchellville from what it
was in the years Of its greatest success.
| The reference OF Canon Bell TO the
misunderstanding between Miss Garri-
! son and Chairman Cownie OF the board
refers TO the fact that as soon as Miss
/ Garrison took charge and the admin
! isiration decided upon change all the
mail OF the girls was Intercepted, and
from that tune on they were not al
lowed TO communicate in any way with
the chairman OF the board as con-
| :. mia cd in, law
ME. not desiring 10 interfere with the
new order, abscained from attempting
10 aid in the work of control and left
1 il all to the superintendent, governor
and other mem bers of the board
| Canon Bell also admits that when the
committee called upon the governor
| 10 make preliminary inquiry they
were notified that he, the governor. had
4 in his possession material which he
! would use TO the great discredit Of
| Chairman Cownie under certain cir
4 cum stances. Il is anticipated that now
/ there is a campaign under way an at
/ tempt will be made 10 attack Mr.. Cow
! ME and lay all the blame for the trou-
+ biss al the institutions upon him. Some
! OF the advisers of the governor are
/ saying, however, that retaliation along
/ this line viii react among the farmers
I I.
was man having the interests of the
state AZ heart, sad i may he that the
original plans Of attacking Cownie
VIII be abandoned
The. two Mason City cases decided
this week of the railroad commission
are of general interest from the fact
that they state some general principles
which have been followed by the COM
mission. In the case in which an order
was issued for a connection between
two roads il was shown that last year
about 10000 carloads of brick and tile
were handled out of Mason City and
that the making of the connection
would materially aid in shipments and
lcut out some of the switching charges.
In the oil shipment case wherein the
petition of complainant was refused.
it was stated that the Milwaukee and
Northwestern lines have rule that no
oil is shipped with other freight and
the commission thinks this a good
rule Further it was said:
The board can not say under the
evidence that the rule established by
defendant railways in handling oils
IS an unreasonable rule. 1t is not the
province of the commissioners 70 in
( leTISTS Win tDS mSlNCC, management
and operation of railway unless such
Interference is necessary 10 compel Z
railway TO reasonably serve the inter
ests Of the public. Il is within the
knowledge of the commission that 20
some extent at least the handling OF
oils in cars with all classes Of nlerch-
andise Will contaminate and injure GER
tain kinds of same. 1t does not clearly
appear to the commissioners that the
complainants will necessarily be seri-
ously burdened by the enforcement Of
| the above named carriers. It is not a
serious burden 10 complainant to re-
quire IL to anticipate the reasonable
demands of this business and prepa re
for it; and certainly the handling of it's
commodity every other day in cars de-
voted solely to the handling of oil per-
mits it to reasonably prepare for all
anticipated demands
State Auditor Bleakley is in a
/ quandary as to how to head off GER
. tain questionable methods in use in the
i state for carrying on the war between
4 old line and mutual insurance bust
ness. One such came to his attention
| this week in the form of small pam
I phlet published by F. l.. woodward
j at Prairie City under the title of only
Woman" being an alleged story
thinly yelled, a mean and unfair at
tack on the mutual insurance business.
! 1t is stated that the names of compan-
les are used so slightly changed tha:
they are recognizable, but so as tc