Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-11
GENERAL AT ONE
TIME ENGAGED IN EXPRESS
BUSINESS.
VALUABLE AID
IN EXPRESS RATE HEARING
Colonel Temple Receptive Candidate
For Reappointment as District At
torncy - General Logan Approves
War Department. Plans For Rsor-
9anization Of Army.
Special to Tines-Republican.

leases the state has one advantage moi
anticipated. Attorney General Cossor
who with Messrs. Thorne, Robbins
Byers and others, will take leading
part in presenting the legal phases OF
The case to Judge Mcpherson when
| it comes up for trial little later In
the present term, was himself an ex-
press agent for three or four years and
! is familiar with the way of doing bust
| ness for express companies. To him
a way bill means something more than
; a piece of yellow paper. When MI.
Cosson dipped deep into the case with
some experts one Of them remarked on
the rea diness with which the attorney
! for the state caught on to the techni-
cal terms and peculiarities of the mat
ter, and 1t was then admitted that the
experience which he had as an express
agent was coming to the surface. The
Importance Of having someone con-
nected with the case who has had this
actual experience is recognized as very
important by all who are interested
Col. Marcellus L. Temple, United
Sttaes district attorney for southern
Iowa, is also sin the hands of his
friends" in the matter OF his holding
on to com Portable Job at $4,000
year from the federal treasury
IT'S allup TO Uncle William" he said
yesterday. If the president shall re-
appoint mel am willing to serve an
other term or to continue right along
In fact I would like very well to be
reappointed, but II am not guess TIL
get along somehow"
Colonel Temple indicated he was not
doing anything nor would he do so to
bring pressure upon the president to
have him continued in the office. He
was selected at the time when Colonel
Hepburn was congressman from his
district, and Major Lacey, Captain Hull
and Judge Smith represented other dis
tricts in his part Of the state.
Adjutant General Logan of the Iowa
national guard approves in general of
the plan credited to the war depart
nent officials for complete reorgani-
cation Of the regular army departments
The plan as worked out Ccntemplates
making three departments in the
United States, then one for the Philip
pines and one for Hawaii and the
Sdusil LOIle. ne CeIrlEdi DIVISION WOUiu
be at st. Louis which would embrace
the present departments of the Mis-
souri,, the Lako3, Colorado and L exas.
II do not know what has been DONE"
said General Logan, but there are too
many departments, too much division
OK authority and work. and need of
some important changes. would think
that the several departments in this
part OF the country could be consolt-
Gated with advantage"
The third annual report OF the de
partment OF finance and municipal ac-
counts" has just been sent out from
the office of the state auditor The re-
port is very much more complete than
either OF its predecessors rs the cities
and towns are generally adopting a
uniform system of keeping account.
and are prepared to make better re-
ports ntheir finances. The report this
time is printed in uniform style with
the other official reports Of the state,
as the printing Of a previous report of
this department with pages much
larger than the regular state reports
caused much trouble.
Assistant Attorney General Lee holds
that a man may not be a mayor and a
deputy sheriff in Iowa at the same
time, and also that one may not be beth
police judge and a justice o. the
peace. There are not enough offices to
go around, anyway. or to satisfy all
who think they are entitled to Offices.
The state board of education
examiners at its sitting this
week made some slight modif-
cation in the rules as to the
standards of college requirements for
the accredited colleges, at the sugges-
ton OF the college presidents who were
here, and it is now believed that all the
colleges will retain their accredited
sta nding and the matter will be salts
factory all round. The colleges rep
resented before the board were Drake,
Cornell, Central, Highland Park.
Charles City and Des Moines.
Representative Harding, of Sioux
City. while in the city this week de-
clned to make any denial Of his re-
ported selection as candidate for
lieutenant governor. Some surprise
was expr essed here over the fact that
w. N. Berry. Of the parole board, is
quoted in Waterloo as stating definite
ly he will be candidate for governor
next year against Clarke, Moore and
others. The parole board goes on full
pay very soon and Senator Berry will
have one Of the best jobs in the state,
and besides Judge Henderson, the spe-
cial counsel for the railroad commits
sion in state rate matters, 10 also q
resident OF IndIanola.
F. L. Ferris. Of Sioux City, closed
the oral presentation of cases for the
present. term before the state supreme
court yesterday and was accorded the
unusual privilege of presenting in full
rehearing matter which had been
passed over from the opening day Of
the term 1t related to proposal to
modify q previous. decree az to the
construction Of q conduit for getting
rid Of the pvernow water Of Perry
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