Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1902 — Plan Proving Popular. [ARTICLE]

Plan Proving Popular.

Attorney Gen. Taylor saye hia piffnlohave proscuting attorneys paid salaries, instead of fees for convictions, is proving very popular, and that letters are pouring in from all oyer the state, commending the proposition. "The plan seems to baye met with favor,” said Mr. Taylor. "The fee system is all wrohg. In the first place, the change would not permit the pernicious ftfeugrabbing system now in vogue, but a Still more important feature of such a | law would be the removal »cf that j which plaoes the blood of a man 1 on the hands of the prosector. He can but feel that a oonviction will mean more money to him j than a failure to convict, and this mercenary feature should be elim J inated. The beet example of the working of euoh a law is the method used by the United States attorney. He ie paid a straight salary for doing his duty. The fee system has been abolished in several other states, and wherever the salary plan is used the greatest satisfaction has resulted. As to the salary that they should draw, I would fix a minimum of SI,OOO, and grade others according I to the work that devolves upon them. Where a county is very I sparsely settled, another could be I grouped with it, so that there' would be no doubt about the prosecutor having something to do. I hope the next legislature will remedy the evil”