Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-04-15

the session is nearly ended and the first
quarter Of the year has passed and the
showing which the treasury department
makes certainly does not bear out the
predictions of disaster. At the close Of
business April there were the follow
ing amounts of cash items on hand in
the treasurer's office:
Agricultural college endowment
fnnd bonds. ...:.............sal6.osS Is
| Agricultural college. cash .... 5,;5a o.
Agricultural college, interest .,, $50 80
! State university tax. 1907 OF
| General revenue fund on hand. l34,sl %
| Warrant Account.
Redeemed since Jan. I. 1897. S5lI. $3.50 20
Interest paid on same. 2.ll0 81
Total warrants and interest paid. s5ls.sss %
OF the warrants paid Is above stated.
Sl00.00 were Of the issue that was
stamped mot paid for want of funds"
At the beginning Of tho year there were
$576, 900 Of warrants outstanding which
were thus endorsed, and they repre-
sented the state debt which was made
such bugaboo of. A further call has
been issued for $500, 900 more of these
warrants which are to be paid Off May
! and which will leave only $4,000 Of
these outstanding warrants still unpaid.
Treasurer Herriott has paid all warrants
issued since Jan. on presentation, to.
gether with 500, 900 Of these stamped"
warrants. and when the $500. 900 now
called for are redeemed, the state debt
will have been whitfield down to SIG, 600.
And it will not be necessary for the
members of the legislature to hawk their
warrants about the streets either, for
they will be paid their salaries in cash
at the end of the session.
Newspaper Sensation.
1t has become custom that each week
should see it's sensation and the past
week has not been an exception. In
this instance it was not the lobby, but
the newspapers of Des Moines which
received the attention Of the senate. 1t
all grew out of the consideration by that
body Of the Temple amendment to the
railroad laws. This amendment, which
sought to invalidate the contract made
by the Burlington Railroad Relief asso.
citation with its employees for the reason
that they are required to waive right of
suit against the company for damages
In case they elect to receive the benefit
Of this department.. has created more
comment and developed greater interest
than any other matter thus far consid.
cred during the session. s., The relief de-
partment sent it's officers from Chicago,
together with the Iowa officials of the
road and a number of employees, to work
against the adoption of the Temple
amendment by the senate. On the
other hand the legislative committee of
the brotherhoods Of railroad men in
Iowa favored the amendment and did
ton. However, the amendment was
defeated on Thursday last by the sub.
stitution in the senate of the Berry sub.
stitute, which gives the Burlington Re-
lief association quasi.iegal existence
by providing that if such contract is on.
forced the member injured shall have 80
days time in which to elect whether to
bring suit against the company for dam
ages or accept the benefits of the depart
ment. The contest over the substitu-
ton in the senate was . bitter one and
on final vote the Berry substitute re-
ceived 20 votes, which, although q ma.
| jority of those present, was not a con.
stitutional majority of all the members
of the senate. A vote which followed
it was intended to- include only the
other committee amendments, to which
there were no particular objections, but
by misunderstanding Of the lieutenant
governor it was stated 70 include all the
amendments. This vote received con-
stitutional majority and the amend.
ments were declared adopted. The
next day there was lively setto over
motion to reconsider this action ON the
ground that some of the senator's had
not understood that the Berry substi.
tute was included in the motion. The
motion to reconsider carried by q vote
of yeas, "a; nays, 90; and the fnal dis.
position of the Berry substitute was con.
tinued until tomorrow.
Criticise Parrott's Action.
In the meantime, on Friday morning,
the Des Moines Leader criticised very
severely the action Of tho senate in de.
feating the Temple amendment and
stated that this action was brought
about by "vicious influences" That
paper also criticised Lieutenant Gov.
ernor Parrott's action In regard to the
way the motion adopting amendments
appeared in the Journal The supreme
court was criticised editorially for hand.
ing down an opinion in case against
relief department favorable to she de.
partment on the day the vote was to be
taken in the senate. The BsRistor also
had brief paragraph. In which il was
stated that 1t was understood the journal
of the senate had been changed at the
suggestion of Lieutenant Governor Par.
rott. During the forenoon session Fri.
day the lieutenant governor, speaking
from the presidents desk, took occasion
to say that the statement in the Register
was made by one who was either misin-
formed or overzealous. This was all
the roasting the Register received, but
an hour or more of the afternoon ses.
sion was devoted to a scoring of the
Leader for the statement which APP
pearcd in THAT mornings issue in re.
gard to the consideration of the Temple
/ amendment. Senators Blanchard,
RancE, EOtclkiss, Lothrop and Juulzin
spoke, and some of them were especially
bitter III regard to the article III ques.
ton, declaring it to be an outrage on
public decency. The Leader, on Satur-
| dav MORNING uoua Tia,,tanont Gnuarpor