Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-10-07
70 Be No EXTRA SESSION
Gov. Shaw Will Not Call the Iowa
Legislature Together, There
Being No Demand for 1t.
EXPENSE WOULD HAVE BEEN TOO GREAT
The Big Carnival in Des Moines-Af-
fairs at Camp observation-disclosures to
See the President-The Corn Crop
Farmers Visit the State AErtcul-
tural College Mt Ames.
[sp ecial Correspondence.

Especial Correspondence
Des Moines, Ia, Oct. 3.-No extra SEES
sion of the legislature will be called by
Gov. Shaw for the purpose of passing
law to allow the soldiers in Iowa regi-
ments to vote in camp. There has been
no demand for it, and the governor,
after consultation, concluded that the
expense of the extra session and the
nine special elections that would have
been necessary to fill legislative va
cancies before special session could
convene would be too great for the
purpose. The governor has received
no requests from soldiers OF members
of the legislature for special session.
If one had been called he would have
recommended that the state pay the
soldiers the difference between the regu-
lar army pay of $3.50 a month and the
national guard pay of $1.50 day for the
time they were in camp in Camp McKin-
ley prior to being mustered in. This
would give each soldier under the first
call nearly $50, and would cost the
state about $75, 900. This recommends
tion will probably be made to the leg
islature when it meets in regular SEES
sion in January, 1900. Another measure
of relief for the soldiers which the gov
ernor desired to recommend was to ex-
empt them from the obligation to ac-
count for clothing belonging to the
state which they wore when they start
ed for the front.
At Camp MCKINLEY.
The discipline at Camp McKn-
ley has been greatly improved,
most Of those who went away
without leave have returned and more
have been detailed by Col. Lambert to
perform necessary duties there. The
sick are rapidly recovering and are
being sent home. Two deaths have oc.
Cured the past week, and one or two
more may occur. The hospital ex.
penses at the Red Cross hospital, the
Hyde Park sanitarium near the camp
are borne by the government and the
state, while the Indies of the Red Cross
society in Des, Moines have furnished
many delicacies, comforts and neces
sary supplies and have done good
share of the nursing. This and the
sanitary commission hospital are in
the best of condition and doing al!
that could be done for the sick sol.
diers anywhere.
Visiting the Sick.
Adjt. Gen. NJ. II. Byers has gone te
San Francisco to inspect the Fifty
first regiment, visit his friends and
former associates and bring home
some of the sick before the regiment
is sent either to Manila or Honolulu
No complaints of bad quarters or fooc
are heard from either the Forty-ninth
still at Jacksonville, OF the Fifty-frst
Col. Loper has reported the sick rec
ord of the Fifty-frst on September II
to be, Sick In camp, $50; In the city
hospitals, 8; on furlough, 46; conva
lescents in hospital, Oakland, 2e; in
Acid hospital, SO, In regimental hos
pital, 12; in quarters, 90.
Semi Om sed.
The Semi ON Sed carnival opened to-
day and will continue all the week. The
city, especially the business men, have
made greater preparations for thii
carnival than they ever made for 6
similar occasion before. This IS the
first year since about 1880 that the
state fair has not been held in De!
Moines the last week In August OIL
the first week in September, and thai
has been the usual time for the fal
carnival in this city. This year the
state fair managers decided not t.
hold any fair on account of the Omaha
exposition, so the business men of the
city determined to offer some hing il
Its place.
The name "seni ON sed," Des Moine.
spelled backwards, was originated IL
1898, when the first street illumination
and parades were given, at the time O
the state fair. Elaborate and cost,
floats were prepared, and the business
streets for several miles were lighted
with gas.
The most distinctive feature of tn,
carnival, however, is the street fair
for this is entirely new to Iowa. Min,
blocks of Walnut street, the princlpa
business street of the city, have beer
set off for the fair, and no horses will
be allowed on that street this week
Booths, all of uniform size, covered
with canvas and having a gable roof
have been erected in the street, mex
the sidewalk, and in these booths al
endless variety of wares are being Of
fered to the public, and various ad
yertising exhibits are made. With it
gay decorations and neat, attractiy,
booths, this street prese1.4c mos
beautiful appearance.
Among other attractions are state
shooting tournament lasting three
days, horse races on the kite-shapet
track; and a double open-air publ,
wedding, the business men of the cit,
having given both couples complet,
housekeeping outfits and many othe
valuable gifts.
VIII Pass Through Iowa.
President Mckinley and his part,
| will pass through Iowa October II
making daylight run over the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy railway
and probably making brief stops a
| the stations in Ottumwa, Abba, Chart
! ton, Osceola, Alton and Creston, ar
irving in Omaha late in the afternoon
to spend the day of October 10 at TIL
Omaha exposition. The return will b.
made by way of st. Louis, SO the presi
Dental party will not visit Des Nome.
or Iowa again. 1t is expected tina
great crowds will assemble a t the sta
tions named when it becomes know
that the president and his party viii