Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-20
LEGISLATIVE GOSSIP
NEWSY LETTER FROM JULIEN RICH
ARDS, OUR CORRESPONDENT.
Finances In Better Shape-Soldiers' Monu'
ment Muddle-D Death of DIR. McClelland
Age of Consent Bill Referred Back to
Committee-working on the Code.

port made by Treasurer Herriott to the
house, money has been coming into the
state treasury since the first of the
month in fairly satisfactory manner
and when legislative pay day came on
Wednesday last there was something
like $780, on hand to meet the de-
mands. 1t took about $41 900 OF this
amount to pay the members of the gen.
eral assembly the first installment OF
half of their salary which by law be-
comes due them at the end of the first
month of the session. After the war
rants for the pay of the members had
been issued, Auditor Mccarthy said
that he could begin to see daylight.
II am not going to crow before we
get out of the woods" he remarked,
"but think now that we will be able
to meet all the acquisitions of the state
institutions which we have had to scale
down in order to be certain to have
enough funds on hand to pay the ex-
penses of the legislature.
Monument MIDDLE.
The trouble over the ornamentation
way for settlement. The matter was
referred to the committees of the two
bodies on military and they have been
considering what was the best course to
pursue The demand for the representa-
ton of all the Iowa regiments OH the
monument having become 80 strong
it has been determined that the COM
mission should place medallions thereon
in addition to those already provided
for to represent the ~ Iowa regiments
which were left out in the cold by the
original arrangement of the commission.
1t is also proposed that the names of
each of the regiments and the date of en-
hstment and muster out shall be carved
on the base of the monument. In this
connection it is interesting to note the
opinion of the various posts of the G.
A. r. of Iowa in regard to the appro-
priateness of the proposed ornamental
ton. By resolution of the house re-
quests were sent to the different posts in
the state asking that they report the
feeling of their members in regard to
the placing of the medallions on the
monument, and also whether in their
opinion the statue of Victory should be
taken down. Replies have been
received within the past few days
from large number of the posts
and have been filed with the COM
mittee of the house on military. The
sentiment seems to be largely in opposi-
ton to the proposed medallions, but in
regard to the removal of the statue
Victory, the replies are rather in favor
of allowing it to remain, on the ground
that it would cost large sum to have
the statue taken down and another put
in its place. Many replies, however.
state that if there is any change made
they favor the substitution of soldier.
One post favors a statue of the old war
governor, Kirkwood. Another favors q
plain shaft like the monument CD Bunker
Hill.
How the Posts Voted.
The following posts have voted in OPP
position to the portraits on the medal
lions: Greenfield, Muscatine, Lyons,
Miles, Eagle Grove, Belmond, Agency,
Cedar Falls, Indianola, Atalissa, Ran
dolph, Prairie City, Marshalltown,
Allerton, Washington, Toledo, Glad
brook, Wyoming, Barlham, Sheldon,
Brooklyn, Waukon, Mt. Ayr, Maquo-
keta, Walker, Wilton, Corydon, Leon,
Bellevue, Emelire, Sabula, Monmouth,
Andrew, Perry, Iowa City, Oskaloosa,
Fairfield, Bassett, Marengo, Charlton,
Guttenburg, Richland, Seymour, Keo-
sauqua, Carson, Maxwell, Baskerville,
Rockwell, Parkersburg, Sanborn, De-
corah, Humboldt, Clarinda, Anita, New
Hartford, Coggan, Cedar Rapids, Mar
ion, What Cheer
The following posts voted to have the
medallions put ON the monument as de-
signed by the commission: Boonsboro,
Burlington, Wellman, Winfield, Center
vile, Independence, Farragut, Gold
field, Lake City, Grundy Center
The following posts favor the removal
Of the statue Of Victory and the substi-
tuition Of some other figure, preferably
that Of a soldier: Lyons, Belmond,
Marshalltown, Washington, Wellman,
Macksburg, Earlham, Brooklyn, Ma
quoketa, Walker, Wilton, Marengo,
Charlton, Guttenburg, Seymour, Farra-
gut Humboldt, New Hartford, Coggan,
Cedar Rapids.
The following posts favor allowing
the statue to remain: Greenfield, Mus
catine, Miles, Eagle Grove, Boonsboro,
Burlington, Atalissa, Randolph, Prairie
City, Allerton, Toledo, Gladbrook,
Wyoming, Sheldon, Mt. Ayr, Bassett,
Richland, Winfield, Centerville, hide
pendence, Winthrop, Goldfeld, Lake
City, Rockwell, Parkersburg, Sanborn,
DEBORAH, Clarinda, Anita, Marion,
Grundy Center, What Cheer.
This ballot, it seems, is a pretty fair
expression Of the feelings of the old
soldiers of the state in regardto what
should appear on the monument.
DIR. McClelIands Death.
The death of DR.. McClelland of Cedar
Rapids, one of the members of the house
from Linn county, which occurred at
his home on Thursday morning, was
learned with sorrow by all the men,
bers. When he came here at the open
ing Of the session he was in poor health,
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