Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13
DEPARTMENT. OF AGRICULTURE
HAS pEeoslT o. ,1s.a4s WITH
WHICH 70 START NEW YEAR.
LAsr SHOW MADE MORE
THAN ANY EXCEPT ONE
ssats Publicity Bureau Again Recon-.
n,sndsd-Msat Preduesrs' Assoeia.
tien 70 Demand Repeal Of Commerce
Court Law and Will Aid in Having
Railroad Measure Wiped Out.
Special to rimes-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
Dies Moines, Dec, 13.-The state de-
partment Of agriculture made profit
Of $41.Ss2.16 on the state fair Of 1911, q
little less than that Of three years ago.
but larger than any other year of its
history. The department had in bank
Dec. $1s.246.s4 to commence the new
year. a large part Of the profits Of the
1911 fair went into the permanent inn
provements which cost this year $780,
776.O4. The state fair cost 1885 .33
more than the year before, represented
largely by the increase Of $6,546.s5 in
cash premiums paid.
hTe fair Of 1911 cost $137,ss7.51 of
which $56.2e4.35 was in cash premiums
paid. The receipts were $17s,549.67. or
$22,2S9.90 more than the year before.
These statistics were made public in
the report Of Secretary Arthur c. Corey
made to the board today
Mr.. Vorey said that there seems to
be universal opinion among those d.
rectly connected with the management
Of the fair, the exhibitors, the people
who attended, and the press. that the
1911 show was. from many points of
view, the most successful fair held in
the fifty years Of its existence.
The report Of the secretary Endorsed
again the suggestions made by Secre-
tary Simpson in the past for a state
publicity bureau and pointed out several
ways in which such q bureau would
have been Of advantage. He would
have the legislature create a depart
ment or authorize some department to
collect and disseminate information
regarding the opportunities afforded
and the productiveness Of the soil of
the state.
Mr.. Corey would also have the state
authorize the department to print and
send out bulletins of information from
time to time, containing matter in
tended ultimately for the year book
There were ninety county and dis
trict fairs reporting for Iowa this year
ers' institutes were held in seventy six
counties.
Condemnation Of Commerce Court.
The Iowa stock shippers banded to-
gether In the Corn Belt Meat Producers
Association will pass resolutions con-
demning the actions Of the commerce
court and demanding repeal Of the
law. The sentiment Of members upon
that subject Is pronounced and positive.
President Sykes "called the turn" on
the meaning OF the plot to impose
new court between the interstate COM
merce commission and the shippers and
took pronounced ground two years ago.
Today he said:
Tn my annual address two years ago,
at the time President Taft was advo-
eating and insisting on congress pass
ing bill that would create commerce
a court and gave my reasons, and the
the commissions orders has proven
that my fears we're we'll founded.
1T will be remembered that for years
this association fought for and de-
manded that the interstate commerce
be given power to make
just and equitable rates and after such
rates were presented. that the commits
sion should have the power to enforce
its orders. Then after we finally had
the pleasure Of seeing the necessary
which we had contended
for enacted into law. which really gave
the commission some teeth with which
to do business. we see the law emascu-
lated by the creation Of a commerce
court which practically nulltfied the
power Of the commission. The ques-
ton Of regulating the railroads thru
the commission seemed entirely too
radical for some and especially for the
50 we see President Taft
coming out and declaring for COM
merce court created for the purpose of
reviewing the acts Of the commission,
with full power to reverse the decisions
Of the commission or enjoin 1t by law
from enforcing it's orders.
$50 you see we have the ridiculous
spectacle Of congress creating by law
the interstate commerce commission
and giving It power to prescribe rates
for interstate carriers with full power
to enforce its orders after such rates
have been fxed, and then turning
and creating q commerce court
which should hold an. ak over the COM
and chop of every decision
that was not according to its liking. So
az the matter stands we have the COM
reduced to the same level 1t
was years ago when 1T had no power
to enforce its orders and was merely
a figure head in regulating rates. This
Is just what your interstate commerce
is today with the COM
merce court welding the az Of dis
approval on its decisions. as It has been
Aoinx Il has always been nv impres-
sion that this law was suggested and
passed at the instance Of the railroads
to escape government regulation ana
The corn belt meat producers will
organize to aid In having the law for
the commerce court repealed.
The amendments to the interstate
commerce commission referred to were,
those written into the law by Senator
Cummins, who also opposed the COM
merce court idea.
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