Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-14
REPRESENTATIVE Il HAM NIL Z /,
WANTS STATE 70 30 WITHOUT
PRINTER AND BINDER AND GET
CONTRACT WORK. .
BERRY IS OUT FOR
THE GOVERNORSHIP
INDIANoLA. MAN, FORMER SEM
AToR AND PRESENT CHAIRMAN
OF PAROLE BOARD, ANNOUNCES
HIS CANDIDACY.
fBY w. H. POWELL i,

TBY w. H. POWELL.1 1
Des Moines, Jan. 13.- Especial. -
Senator Hammill Of Hancock county
yesterday threw a bomb into the
camp in which the hostile candidates
for state printer and state binder are
biyouacked when he introduced his bill
providing for the abolishment ofthese
two offices. He has fortified himself
behind mountainous pile OF literature
which includes statements from q
dozel states where the printing and
binding Is done by contract. He says
| that plan is much cheaper and for
that very reason he has proposed the
enactment of q law doing away with
the state Offices and allowing the state
to make contracts with the lowest bid
ders for the work.
There are 80 many candidates for
the Offices Of state printer and binder
that the members of the Legislature
have been unable to get close to a set
ltlement Of the question. The passage
iof Hammilps bill will relieve the sit,
uation materially Also It will decrease
the number OF political plums In Iowa
and 1t will take away two objects at
which many an ambitions politician
I is now looking with hungry eyes. It
may not carry, just because OF that
ambition, for too much pressure may
be brought to bear against It. II will
pass, though, II Senator Hammill has
anything to say about 1t.
Abolish School Treasurer.
Hammill also has bill to abolish
the ONCE OF school treasurer and COM
pei the county treasurer to attend to
the school funds. This young man Is
becoming rampant abolitionist.
The school treasurer bill is an echo
of the big school bill which former
State Superintendent John r. Riggs
tried to push through the Legislature
1 two years ago. He failed, not because
OF this feature, but because the bill
was so long that no one took enour
interest in 1t to read it, says NJ
Riggs, and he couldn't vote No
that he has been succeeded by Mi
Deyoe. Senator Hammill's forme
school teacher, the Hancock county
legislator Is sort Of spokesman for
the new superintendent.
The legislature has adorned now
until next Tuesday and many OF the
day When they return to the capital
the real work Of the session Will be.
gin Next week will see the organiza-
ton Of some of the committees and
the introduction of many new bills.
Among them will be q new corpora
tions commission bill by Senator l.. A. j
says it will be fair to both sides, but !,
Io$ se ,1n,o IN, f~vr !,
regard to q corporation control
measure
Berry Out For Governor.
Former Senator w. H. Berry Of
Indianola, chairman of the state board
OF parole and a leading progressive.
! last night announced his candidacy
for the governorship Of Iowa, just two
years to day in advance Of the time
when, II elected, he will be inaugur-
lated. His announcement places two
men In the field, the first being o. B.
Courtwright OF Waterloo, standpat-
| ter and former senator. It also as
|sures the presence OF at least three
candidates for the republican nomina.
| ton, AS Lieutenant Governor Clarke II
looked upol as certain to enter the
lists to succeed Governor Carroll.
Senator Berry barely missed rum
ming against Congressman Hull for the
seventh district seat in the national
horse, but the progressives united on
Judge Prouty and he became the nom
inee last spring, defeating the present
congressman at the polls last Novem-
! Der. Senator Berry is we'll known all
over the state rs a lawyer and his
work as chairman of the parole board
] has given him much prominence. He
/ is regarded as conservative pro-
gressiye." If such term may be used,
| and will doubtless command not
/ little support However, 1t is more
probable that. the progressive votes
will go to Clarke rather than to Berry.
| if present indications hold good.