Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-03-05
iENDOF RESUBMTSSION
MANUFACTURING LAW THE NEXT
J MATTER OF INTEREST.
Woman Suffrage Resolution Defeated HI
the House-New Age of Consent Bill I'd
Be Introduced In the Senate-Julieu
Richards Legislative Chances.

!
Richards Legislative Chances
DIES MONIES, March 3.-The prediction
early expressed in these letters that re-
submission would fail was verified hy
the action of the house on last Thurs.
day. The resubmission resolution was
introduced in the house several week.
ago by Representative Doubleday POLK
and was reported from the COMMITTEE
with favorable report, though some OF
| thee members of the committee state,
that they would vote to allow the reese
luton to be reported, but should vote
against it on the floor. 1t was finally
agreed that any action of the committc
| should not be held to bind the membc:J
| after the matter Of passage of the res V
luton came up. This agreement PIE
vented the introduction of minority
! report. On roll call for the passage Q.
the resolution, it was defeated by vCt
OF Al yeas, 80 nays. 1t is probable thar
at least four of the members who vote
for the resolution would not have done
so had it not been that they were op.
posed to taking it up at that time. Tho
fact is that some of the members were
anxious that the questions of resubmis.
sion and manufacture should both die
OH the calendar. They did not want re.
submission called up as long as they be.
lieved the friends of manufacturing
were ready to press bill ON that sub.
jects and were only waiting for resub.
mission to be gotten out of the way be.
fore bringing their measure to the front.
And so when the resolution, which was
reported by the committee on Wednes-
day, came up for consideration on the
next day they thought they detected a
scheme, and in order, if possible, ia
block it, voted for the resolution. There
were not enough of these votes however,
and the question of resubmission was
settled for at least four years longer.
To be sure there is a similar resolu.
ton in the senate, but no one hopes
that it could be got through the house
after the vote of Thursday even if the
senate voted in favor of it.
As to Manufacturing Bills.
AS indicated above, the question OF
the enactment of manufacturing law
will be the next matter of interest. AL.
ready the subcommittee of the commit.
tees of the house and senate on suppress
sion of intemperance have prepared
manufacturing bills, which it is ex-
pected will be reported to both houses
in day or two. These bills have been
carefully considered by some of the best
lawyers, both in the assembly and out.
side, and they are pronounced to be con.
stitutional. They are drafted with the
design Of applying the principles of the
mulct law to manufacturing and permit.
the manufacture of liquors only in those
places where petitions of consent have
been or may be filed.
1t is exceedingly difficult to predict
what will be the fate of these bills. A
gentleman who has been studying tho
situation in the house said to me that he
thought a manufacturing bill Of some
sort would pass that body. He said that
he believed two or three of the members
who voted against resubmission would
also vote against manufacturing, bat he
voted for the resubmission resolution
would vote for manufacture, now that
resubmission was killed. Representative
Martin, who was the author Of the bill,
which, in an amended form, is the pres
ent mulct law, said to me that the de-
feat of resubmissiOn at this time would,
in his opinion, assist materially i'll Sc
curing the passage Of q manufacturing
law so far as the house is concerned. Mr..
Martin is not favorable to manufacture
ing, and is one of the members who
voted Tor tho resubmission resolution
because the friends of manufac turing
were, in his opinion, forcing vote Oh
that question for a purpose.
1t seems possible that a manufacture
ing law may pass the house, but be-
lieve that it will be a difficult job to get
such bill through the senate
Waterman Treasury Watchdog.
The senate committee on appropria-
lions is hearing the representatives of
the various state institutions and figur-
ing on how much of an appropriation
each of them should have. Senator
Waterman, chairman of the committee,
is also stirring up the various state de-
partments to see if there are not some
of the expenses of their offices that
could be retrenched. In regard to the
expenditure Of the various offices and
the amounts asked by them for the next
two years. Senator Waterman has COM
piled the following statement:
Amount of the expenditures in the
funds named during the biennial period
ending July I, 1895, and the amounts
asked for these funds for the next bien-
NAL period:
| Amount Amount
| Usel. Asked.
Clerks fund. .............S 1878 20 49, 5000
Office janitors. ............ 26,38oO0 2S,0OO.OO
| Custodian's expenses. 4,08585 $4,000. 90
Total. 1924 8slO5 $129,84o. W
Increase over last period -. 49,. 4,9789j
Senator Waterman also secured COPY
of the bill for janitors' services FOR the
month of January, 1896, which has
been audited and allowed by the execu-
tive council. 1t shows the employment
Of II janitors in the various depart