Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1895-02-22
STATE LEGIsLATuREs.
OKLAHOMA.

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GuTnRIH, o. H., Feb. 10. Represent
| tative Spencer caused sensation by
| Introducing in the house q resolution
| calling for an investigation of the
| Oaklaw insane asylum at Jacksonville,
H., where Oklahoma's insane are kept
| under contract. The resolution al
legged that the death rate at the Illinois
institution was nearly so per cent of
It's patients, that no person sent there
was ever discharged. and the informa-
ton had just reached him (Spencer)
that the Oklahoma patients were kept
in wooden building without fire pro-
| lection.
TENNESSEE.
| NASHVILLE, Feb. Ex-senator A. B.
Newson sent his resignation to Gov.
! Iurney ex-senator from the Fourteenth
district. Gov. Turney is not in the
city and has not acted on the resigna-
ton Senator Newson gives as his
reason for resigning the extravaganza
OF the legislature III forcing upon com
mittees appointed to visit state insti-
| tutions and coal mines, sergeants-at-
arms, reporters and other attaches at
81 per day and expenses who will do
nothing but draw salaries. The resig-
nation created somewhat of sensa-
| tion.
INDIANA.
| INDIANAPOLIS, Feb 20--While the
house of representatives was discuss
| inc the Ninholcnr fnp Hill .,
bonbshell was exploded by Jackson, of
| Carroll county. Speaking to the gal
| leries which were filed with friends
Of the bill from all over the state, he
he exclaimed, dramatically: sYou say
this house is not subsidized, and you
get angry when you are charged with
it. No wonder you raise your hypo-
critical eyes in horror. Here you are
talking buncombe temperance legisla-
ton to these good people in the gal
leries, and all the time there is a barrel
of whisky in the basement of this
state house which is free to the mem
bers on this floor. = Pandenonium
| relgned Immediately and personal en-
counters We're with difficulty avoided
There were cries of Prove it." and
Jackson continued: II repeat what /
said, and no wonder you want me to
hush up. There is barrel of whisky
down there, and it was furnished to
you by the whisky league. You are
shackled by it. jackson claimed he
had been invited to partake of the
whisky, and when the uproar had sub
sided a committee was appointed to
locate the barrel and make report.
MISSOURI.
JEFFERSON Cry, Feb. 21.-Resolu-
tions passed the house and senate re-
moving the capitol to Sedalia The
resolution does not need gubernatorial
approval.
NORTH DAKOTA.
BISMARCK, Feb. 21.-Woman suffrage
was beaten in the house, but by vote
of 81 to SIS the house refused to table
the usual motion to reconsider, leaving
the question open.
Consumptives Ordered to the Pest House.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Feb. 1s-Dr. w.
II. Amlck, the eminent consumption
specialist of this city, has created
national sensation by his decided OPP
position to the order of the hospital
authorities to send 100 consumptiyest
the smallpox pest house. His expert
ence in the institution convinces him
that it is unjustiiable and brutal. He
has. through his attorneys, entered
protest, and in the Cincinnati tribune
presents formidable array of scien-
tific facts against the contagion theory
of consumption which covers that the
DRY with ridicule. A hot newspaper
controversy is the result. The Amick
Chemical company, compounders of DR..
Amick's remedies, is mailing free to
physicians, consumptives and all appli-
cants extra copies of the Tribune con-
tanning explanatory charts of his the
Dry.