The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-23
30, 900 INDEPENDENT VOTERS
Send Representatives to the State
Assembly.
X. of l.. Mt Des MOines, who Corral
the Railroad Lobby.
An Epitome Of the Work Done.
The Iowa Knights.

The Knights of Labor have held 1
most important convention in thi,
city and adjourned Friday afternoon
They did not hesitate to expires,
themselves freely upon important pc
litical subjects. and usurers and
stock waterers got little comfort out
OF their Incorporating resolutions,
some Of which are the following:
WHEREAS, The noble order 81
knights OF Labor believe in recogniz
ing and endorsing every effort fol
the betterment Of the laboring classe.
let the same come from whatever
source it may.
Be ii resolved, That this State AS
seinbly Of Iowa do most heartily en-
dorse the manly and outspoken
course which Governor Larrabee oil
Iowa has taken with reference to re
form in railway management.
The following passed with entire
unanimity.
Resolved, That We commend the
course of our Congressman, J. Il.
Weaver and Major Anderson, for
their noble defense OF the peoples
demands relating to money, trans
portation and telegraphs.
The Assembly favored woman suff-
rage to the following extent.
WHEREAS, The House Committee
on suffrage in the Iowa Legislature
has reported bill granting the right
OF suffrage to women in municipal
and school elections.
Rcsolred. That this State Assembly
commend their action and urge the
Iowa legislature to enact a law to Sc
cure to the women Of the State that
right.
The following preamble and reso-
lutions will meet hearty approval
by all who have studied the facts re-
cited.
WHEREAS, There is bill now
pending in the lower House Of the
Iowa Legislature asking that body to
reconvey to the federal government
certain lands in O'Brien county.
known rs the st. Paul & Sioux City
railway lands, and,
WHEREAS, Said lands have never
been earned by said company and
have been regularly and legally set
tied upon in good faith by the peo.
pie, and
WHEREAS, Through q prostitution
of the functions of the local courts OF
said county. those settlers are to be
evicted and cast out upon the public
highway on March next, notwith.
standing the fact that the honorable
Secretary of the Interior has decided
these lands to belong to the general
government, and
WHEREAS, Said general govern
ment is compelled to bring suit
against the State Of Iowa for II recon.
veyance of this land thereby contin-
uing the costly legislation which this
corporate hydra has invented te
crush the rights OF the people; there
fore, be 1t
Resolved, BY the State Assembly Of
the Knights Of Labor OF Iowa that
we emphatically condemn the actor
of said railroad company, the court,
Of said county, and demand in tn.
most emphatic language the imme
date action OF the honorable mem
bers Of our State Legislature in THU
matter of reconveyance, or in some
legal manner to protect the rights o
these settlers until the matter is final
~ adjudicated in the Z. s. courts
and be it further
Resolved, That committee be ap
pointed to wait upon the members o
the Legislature and present the de
mands Of this Assembly for the i'm
mediate aid Of these settlers.
These were the lands which Gov
ernor Larrabee corruptly certified t,
the railroads well knowing they ha'
not earned them.-[ED. p. d.
usuRY.
One resolution was passed asking
that bill to punish usury alread
introduced in the Legislature b
amended, by providing punishment
| by q fine Of $50 to 81 900, or imprison
ment one year in the penitentiary.
/ POPULAR LOANS.
/ Resolutions were passed memora
izing Congress to pass laws for LOAF
! ing money direct to the people; &C
vocating law for free text book
and uniform system; demandin
that the miners he paid in lawfr
money for all coal mined as often a
every two weeks, and that the
choose the mine inspector.
The following on the transport.
, ton problem:
i WHEREAS, The Senators and Req
resentatives of this state in the pla
, form of their political parties, and b
/ the knights OF Labor at the Boon
Assembly, are pledged to certai in III
| portant and special reforms on til
t question of transportation, namely:
Il Fixing schedule Of freight rate
OH all railways in the State, and r
duction of passenger rates to tw
cents a mile on first class roads, an
e a proportionate reduction of rates G
e lower classes, therefore be II