St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-12
HAWKEYE LAWMAKERS.
Assembling OF the Iowa Legislature
at Des Moines.
in Expenditures--Ihe
Prevailing Sentiment.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe
DIES MONIES. Ia, Jan. 11.-At precisely
1904 o'clock this afternoon the house or the
twenty-tirst general assembly of Iowa was
called to order by Hon. Wesley Redhead,
representative from Polk county. Elder
Lucas of Des MOines invoked the divine
blessing on the assembly. On motion OF
Representative Brown, Sidney A. Foster
was chosen chief clerk pro tenn, and on 9
roll call Seventy-fOur answered to their
names and handed up their credentials The
house adjourned at 2:45 and the announce
ment was made that the Republican mem
bers would confer at once in the speakers
room on the question Of holding the caucus.
A similar announcement was made 10 the
Democrats TO meet at the Hawkeye club
rooms tonight The senate was called to
order at ? p. N. by Senator DOnnan.
Senator Whaley was chosen president
pro TEN and DR.. Hutchins secretary pro
ten. Theo Schreiner was chosen door
keeper pro tenn and JEFF Lyons janitOr.
After appointing a committee on creden-
tials the senate adjourned and the Republic
can caucus was called in the senate cham
Der. Secretary Whiting arrived this after
noon. but at o'clock Gov. Larrabee had
not got to Cedar Rapids yet. The state
ment last night that he had dug out was an
error. Interviews with several reelected
members of the house to-day indicate sim
cere intention toward
INFRINGEMENT.
They had all read Auditor Cotteps expo
sition of lOwa's financial status in the
GLOBE, and did not intend to be parties to
appropriations that would necessitate a
bonded debt. 1t was stated frankly that
he CT Vba "A
be hampered financially at this time. The
fact of being removed from the old build
ing into the spacious and comfortable cham
bers Of the new capitol had q tendency to
create desire to hasten the completion of
the new structure, and the appropriation
for this purpose was passed with little
thought The building has been completed
accordingly. There are two sides to this
matter. One is the question whether the
state ought to live strictly within its in
come, or whether its executive officers
should have quarters that would not de-
serve the criticism Of visitors from other
states. The floating indebtedness created
by pushing the state house to completion,
the appropriations for the
STATE FAIR GROUNDS,
the Clarinda insane asylum. and other
matters is in effect about $500, 900, which is
in the form of Endorsed warrants bearing 6
per cent. interest. The old members say
the best plan will be to make appTOpria-
tons this winter as sparingly as possible,
and make the state levy at least 2l4 mills.
In this way they think the state will at the
end of two years. be very nearly out of
debt again, and that capitalists will eagerly
hunt up the unpaid warrants for temporary
investments. Thus the deficiency would be
tided over and without the necessity of ad-
vertising formal funding of the debt. 1t
was very evident from the interviews that
all lobbyists for liberal appropriations. no
matter how legitimate their purpose, would
be very cOldly heard. 1t was apparent, too,
that the Republ lean members will advo-
cate strict economy from the start, the ma
jOrity fearing they would be submerged
deeper than a plummet can sound if they
should continue the liberalIty of two years
ago. But this will have reactionary effect
in all the localities where the apprOpropria-
tons have been wont to go. The Repabli-
cans of the Twenty-6rst general assembly
have some very fine work to do.