The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-22

Dies MONIES, March 10 1909,

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Dies MONIES. March 10; 1900.
Governor Shaw has sent to the hopsas
OF representatives his answer to Che
inquiry regarding his relations With
building and loan business and insur-
states that he has no connection
whatever with the building and loan.
interests of the state nor with ariv
other institution over which the gov
ernor or executive council has juris-
diction. He states that he is a stock
holder and director in the National
Life and Trust company, but that his
position as a member of the executive
council in no way affects this associ.
alton, rs the council has nothing to do
with the insurance business Of the
state. j.
The house judiciary committee has
killed the senate bill by Bishop, pro-
sviding that when, to avoid prosecu-
ton for seduction. man marries =
woman and then deserts her in ave.
years, he shall be imprisoned not more
than five years or fined 81, 900 and im-
prisoned not more than year in the:
county jail.
Representative Temple, Of Clarke
county, in an address before the Grant
club at its regular monthly meeting,
declared that imperialism is here and
is here to stay. He advised. his repub-
llcan friends to frankly make this
avowal in the coming campaign.
Secretary Ward, OF the Commercial
Exchange, is in receipt of q letter from
Congressman Hull, in which the latter
assures the secretary the Des Moines
army post bill will pass the senate.
without any material objection. Mr..
Hull will look after the Washington
end of the matter, and the committee
on location, of which ID. b. Lyons is
chairman, are diligently looking after
suitable locality. A numberof places
are in view. but no definite announce
ment is made. The chairman OF the
committee has in mind three very de-
sirable tracts of land accessible to the
city. any of which can be secured at
reasonable figures. It is thought q
contract will be closed within the next
few months with one of the owners, so
that the matter of location will be ses-
tied.
Temples appellate court bill, which
has passed the house, provides for an
appellate court of three members to
have exclusive jurisdiction in all civil
cases where the amount in controversy;
does not exceed So 700, except in causes
where real estate title is involved or
tire constitutionaity of statute, the.
validity of an act of municipal COR,
Eporation, the construction or validity
OF q law, divorce, suits or proceedings
where no money Judgment is demand
ed. No appeal is to be allowed to the
supreme court. The judges are to be-
appointed by the governor as soon as
the bill goes into effect and elected as.
the general election.
A pardon has been issued by Gov
ernor Shaw for Ollie Blair, who Is at
present serving an eightryear sem
tence for breaking and entering d rail-
road car. He was sentenced In 1925
by Judge Holmes, OF Polk county, and
flgas given the lmit On account 81 pre-
|stiot bad Skor. The pAfds1 given
him is good only during good behavior
and the pursnance Of 8 proper path IN
his failure 1ife.f
The Cheshire bill for the taxation OF
express companies npon the mileage
unit plan, now in force in Ohio and
Indiana, passed the senate with but q
single opposing vote, although a num-
Der of senators filed explanation OF
their votes, saying they did not APP
prove of the principle of the bill or the
method of taxation proposed, but they
voted for it because it was absolutely
necessary to devise some system of tax
ing express companies, inasmuch as
the present law is imperative and in
adequate. All amendments proposed
on the floor were voted down. Sena-
tor Lewis sought to amend the bill SO
that mortgages or bonds of express
companies should not be considered in
estimating their value for taxation.
His position was that the bill proposed
to tax not only the stocks and bonds
but the property which the stocks and
bonds represented, and was theref fore
double taxation. Senators Cheshire
and .Junkin opposed this amendment
on the: ground that the companies
would escape taxation by covering
their property with mortgages, thus
depreciating the value OF the stock.
Senator Ball moved an amendment to
/ require that the intangible part Of the
companies valuation in the state
should be considered the same propor-
ton of the entire Intangible value
that the tangible value in the state
4 was to the tangible value outside. the
state. Both these amendments were
4 rejected almost unanimously.
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