Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-12-30
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Des Moines, Ia, Jan. 3.-The Twenty
seventh general assembly will convene
on Monday next. Immediately on con-
vening the committee on credentials
will be appointed and adjournment
taken until Tuesday when it is expect
ed that both houses will be organized.
Gov. Shaw will be inaugurated on
Thursday, the 18th, for which affair the
assembly will adjourn. In former as
sembles it has been the custom for the
speaker to appoint every assemblyman
a member of joint committee to visit
the state institutions, an adjournment
for week being taken for this purpose.
1t is the prevailing impression that the
coming assembly will abandon this plan
and will not adjourn indefinitely until
the final separation.
In the house it is very evident that
there will be little friction in the eau
Gus. j. II. Funk, of Hardin county, will
probably be selected speaker Mr.. Funk
has one strong opponent. F. Laven-
der, of Calhoun county. w. e. Hanger,
of Biackhawk county, is also candi-
date. James ID. Rowen, of Des Moines,
has no opposition for reelection as chief
clerk of the house. In the senate the
lieutenant governor presides, and
George A. Newman, of Cedar Falls, and
w. 4. Billiard, of Belmond, are candi-
dates for secretary.
The Oldest members of the assembly
predict a session of the usual length
not less than ten weeks. The principal
work will relate to retrenchment and
reform. An attempt will be made to
cut down appropriations so that the
state debt of $780, 900 will be wiped out.
Toward this end, establishing board
of control for state institutions, abol-
ishing sinecure salaried positions and
curtailing all appropriations for state
buildings will be urged.
Gov.-elect Shaw has arrived with his
family and is occupying the DR.. Potter
place on Pleasant street. He will make
his official headquarters at the repub-
lican state central committee room in
the Equitable building, and his office
hours will be from 1880 to $50.
History Recalled.
Fifty-one years ago-Tuesday, De-
the union She had previously asked
for place in the sisterhood of states,
and--it reads strangely now-had met
, with refusal The territory at the time
}extended from the Missouri to the Mis-
sissippi river, and from the state of Mis-
( souri, to the British-American line.
There were men in congress who con-
sidered that too much land. 1t might,
indeed, have become an empire later.
So the people of the western land re-
vised their boundaries and tried again.
1t was on this second application, In
1916, that Iowa was admitted. 1t had
been Frencn territory, because of Mar
quotes discoveries in 1913; had been
transferred to Spain by treaty of 1903;
had been ceded back to France in 1900
neither king nor councillor knowing
the value of that estate which they
treated as a pawn in the chess game of
national politics; and in 1903 Thomas
Jefferson purchased it of Napoleon,
along with all the rest of Frances al
legged possessions in the country. Some
people called it Iowa even then, the
name being derived from the Indian
tongue, and signifying pretty truly,
for an Indian-"the beautiful land"
1t was a part of Missouri territory in
1912, a part of Michigan in 1884, part
of Wisconsin in 1886 and an independent
and vigorous territory by itself in 1888.
The capital had been located at Bur-
lington, where a settlement was made
in 1888. But when the new territory
was perfected Iowa City was made the
capital. In 1857, when the new cousti-
tuition was adopted, the capital was
finally fixed at Des Moines. The first
/ white settlement in the state was made
by Julian Dubuque, Canadian French
man, in 1888 The present city of Du-
buque marks the site of his establish
ment, his fort and his trading house.
Here he mined lead and grew rich. dy-
ing in 1910, territorial citizen of the
United States.
Iowa had $4,000 inhabitants in 1910,
! 200, 900 in 1850, 100000 in 1860, 100000
| in 1S70-rising from the twenty-eighth
to the eleventh state in the union in 30
years. It's growth has been as wonder
| full ever since. Largely agricultural,
/ the iutI VI IO"d w ClC Ivy al ~ OiC uhiOh
and gave generously to the army. Sam
4 uel ]. Krkwood was the war governor,
and was succeeded in 1864 by William
M. Stone. Mr.. Kirllwood filled the chair
| again in 1876, after brief term in the
United States senate, returning from
that chamber to the executive mansion
at Des Moines only to be chosen for the
| full term in the senate at Washington
. He was a member of President Gar
fields cabinet. The present population
| of Iowa is over 2,000000; its total real
and personal property is worth $3,o0o,-
! 600 900; it has 5000 miles of railway
and more than 100000 of children in the
| public schools.
Must Do business Here.
Companies incorporated under Iowa
laws must maintain offices in the state.