Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-15
LEGISLATIVE siDELIGH1s.
Republican.

LEGISLATIVE siDELIGHTS.
| Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, March 15.-An interest
| ing visitor to the floor of the senate
| one day this week was James j. Cross
| ley United States district attorney for
| the Fourth Alaska district. MIR. Cross
ley has been attorney there five years
and was not long ago given re-
appointment SO he will hardly have to
step out for some time. He has head
quarters ct Fairbank. He says they
have great deal of business for the
court and that part of the time two
iudees are in the district at work. He
has prosecuted for sixteen murders in
the past few years, for he says they
, shoot without great provocation in that
country Immense business in placer
mining is conducted in the district and
they have so developed quartz mining
that there are now twenty-five small!
stamp mills in operation. There is
quartz mine there which is turning out
s 900 day to it's owners
Mr.. Crossley represented Madison
county in the state senate for two
terms and was a much respected SEN
ator He was the father of the pri-
mary system in Iowa and was writing
bills and introducing bills to have
nominations made by direct vote long
before he could get another single per-
son in the entire legislature, save and
except good Uncle John Hughes, inter
ested in the idea.
There is a member of the house from
one of the largest counties Of the state
who brides himself on being an orator.
In fact he makes more noise than is
his due and accomplishes not very
much. One day he was making a
flowery speech and swinging his arms
gallery. Speaker Cunningham sternly
rebuked the galleries and announced
there should not be permitted another
particule of applause or interference.
The orator paused moment, then:
In conclusion, Mr.. President, ne
started, and said a few words.
The members smiled as they con-
templated how quickly the flow of ora
tory had been stopped by cutting OIL
the right Of the galleries to applaud.
on his s5th birthday, L. F. Andrews.
the veteran newspaper man, pald Il
visit to the legislative halls and for
brief time greeted old friends. But as
he has not reported a session of the leg
islature for nearly ten years he 1ound
few who knew him. But for many
years he was one Of those whose faces
were most familiar around the lobbies
and in the reporters seats MI An
drews was reporting the TWenty-hrst
general assembly when the writer or
/ this note got into the game for the first
time 1t was when John A. I. HUI
was presiding over the senate and AL
bert Head was speaker OF the mouse,
when Don D. Donnan was secretary oil
=, the senate and the veteran j. *. Pow
ers was clerk Of the house. Mr.. An
drews was writing for the Chicago
Journal, the old Journal which was
dignified and highly Influential eve
ming paper, and when there was de-
nland from the Chicago papers for real
reporting of an Iowa legislature. He
has been representing the journal in
DEG Mones then for twenty or thirty
years. With the passing OF old style
| journalism Mr.. Andrews drlfted into
sile lines but in recent years has done
a great deal of special writing of his
| torical value.
| They are telling a good story around
| the Hobbies to illustrate how strangely
old matters sometimes bob up to cause
remarkable results. There may be no
, truth in the story but it was told by a
very prominent man. 1t is related that
years ago there was baseball club in
Algona of which the town was proud
and the editor of the leading paper was
q sort Of manager. There came to town
from some eastern Iowa city another
club to play match game. The Wis
itors had with them captain who was
mighty nasty with his mouth and who
knew just how to stand on the lines
and cause a pitcher to forget all about
his skill. The laxative coach made
use of his art. the Algona pitcher got
ratified and lost the game, and the boys
Of the town were in terrible distress.
None Of them ever forgave the man
with the gift Of talk that beat q knowl.
edge of how to pitch and some OF them
| vowed vengeance. The manager OF the
home team is now editor Of Des
Moines daily paper and the talkative
man is the warden Of the Fort Madison
prison. The game is not yet over,