Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-04-08
CO., IOWA, THURSDAY, APRIL s, 1856.

The roll was called and the convention re-
fused TO lay the resolution and amendments
on the table.
Ayes 66, nays 6S. Mr. Culbertson withdrew
his amendment The ballots were continued
with various changes the 59th was taken with
out decision.
Mr. Finn offered resolution that this Joint
convention be Immediately dissolved after the
announcement of the 6lst ballot, unless con-
clusion is sooner reached. Adopted
Before announcing the result OF the 6lst
ballot Senator Young raised point OF order
that this convention was acting under plain
statute, aud could not dissolve this couyen-
tlon without clear violation OF the law.
President Hull said he had ruled that this
convention could dissolve aud had told the
members So but they had voted to dissolve af-
ter the announcement of the 6lst ballot and
there was nothing to be done but to announce
the ballot, read the minutes and dissolve the
convention. However, he did not want to be
| arbitrary, and would recognize resolution TO
proceed to balloting, The result of the ballot
was announced, aud the president declared the
joint convention dissolved.
SENATE.
chamber, President Hull in the chair. After
| finding that the governor had no message to
| communicate, as had been expected, the SEN
ate adjourned until Monday, 10 a. m.
HOUSE.
After the dissolution Of joint convention the
house met, speaker in the chair, aud ad-
| iourned until Monday at 10 q. IN.
SENATE.
| Dies MONIES, April 5.-The special order,
which consumed the entire day, was S. L, 493,
TO abolish the circuit court and to abolish the
powers Of the circuit court and jurisdiction
district court, and to reorganize the judicial
districts of the state The bill was discussed
at considerable length, and various amend
ments presented, some OF which were adopted
The bill as amended provides for the abolish
| ment of the circuit court after January ist,
1887, aud distrlctlng the state into judicial
| districts, as follows First, Lee and Des
Moines, two judges; second, Lucas, Monroe,
Wap,lo, jefferson, II ,nrv, Davis, Van Buren,
anl Appanoose, three judges third, W"yn e,
Decatur, Clarke, uuion, R,nsgold, Taylor ani
Adams, two judges; fourth, Cherokee, o Br.
en-, Osccola, Lyon, Sioux, Plymouth, Wood
bury, Harrison aud Monona, three judges;
ii, tn, :Dallas, Guthrie, A lair, Madison, War
rem and Marion, three judges; Sixtn, Jasper,
Poweshiek, Mahaska, Keokuk, Washington
and Louisa, three judges; seventh, Muscatine,
Scott, Clinton, jackson, three judges; eighth,
johnson and Iowa, one Judge; ninth, Polk.
two judges; t,nth, Dubuque, Delaware, =
C lanan, Biackuawk and Grumpy, three judges ;
leventh, Marshall, Story, Boone, Webster,
Ham lton, Hardin, franklin, Wight three
judges; twelfth, Bremen Butler, Floyd, Nit
chell, Worth, Cerro Gordo, Hancock and Win
nebago, two judges; thirteenth, Clayton, AL
lamaKee, Fayette, Winneshek, Howard and
Chickasaw, two judges; fourteenth, Buena
VISTA, Clay, Palo At, kossuth, En- nett,
Dickinson, Humboldt and Pocahontas, tive
| judges; fifteenth, Pottawattamie, Cass, Sheb
Audubon, Mon g)mery Page, Mills and Ere
mont four Judges; sixteenth, Ida Sac, Cal
houn, Crawford, Carroll and Greene, two
! judges; seventeenth, Tana and Benton, one
.udge; eighteenth, Linn, Jones and Cedar
two judges,
ATS O'Clock Senator Whiting, from the com
mttee on the Brown investigation, presented
his minority report, which was read by the
secretary and ordered printed. The senate a
| 0 O'Clock went into executive session to con
slider the appointments by othe governor of si'
commissioners, as provided in the Soldiers
| Home bill for the erection Of that institution