Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-03-22
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DIES NOISES. March 10. 1000,

Governor Shaw has sent to the house
Of representatives his answer to the
inquiry regarding his relations with
building and loan business and insur-
ance companies of the state. He
states that he has no connection
whatever with the building and loan
| interests of the state nor with any
other institution over which the gov
ernor or executive council has juris-
diction. He states that he Is stock
holder and director in the National
Life and Trust company, but that his
position as member of the executive
council In no way affects this associ-
alton, as the council has nothing TO do
with the insurance business Of the
state. :
The house Judiciary committee has
killed the senate bill by Bishop, pro-
viding that when, to avoid prosecu.
tion for seduction. man marries 4
woman and then deserts her in Eve
years, he shall be imprisoned not more
| than FIVE years or fined 81 900 and i'm
| 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-
lican friends to frankly make this
avowal in the coming campaign.
Secretary Ward, Of the Commercial
Exchange, is in receipt of a 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. Is. Lyons is
chairman, are diligently looking after
a suitable locality. A number of places
are in view. but no definite announce
ment is made. The chairman Of the
committee has in mind three very de-
! sirabie tracts OF land accessible to the
| city, any of which can be secured at
reasonable figures. 1t is thought a
contract will be closed within the next
/ few months with one of the owners, SO
that the matter of location will be set
| 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 $1,000, except in causes
where real estate title Is involved or
the constitutionality of n statute, the
validity of an act of municipal cor
| poration, the construction or validity
Of 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 az
the bill goes into effect and elected at
the general election.
A pardon has been issued by Gov
ernor Shaw for Ollie Blair, who is at
| present serving an eight-year SEN
tence for breaking and entering q rail
road car. He was sentenced i'm 1896
| by Judge Holmes, of Polk county, and
was given the limit on account OF pre-
vious bad behavior. The pardon given
him is good only during good behavior
and the pursuance of a proper path in
The Cheshire bill for the taxation OF
CNpiCoc companies upon tlc ultlcdko
unit plan, now in force in Ohio and
| Indiana, passed the senate with but a
single opposing. vote, although num-
Der of senator's fled 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, inasnuch as
the present law is imperative and i'm
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 therefore
| 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 proper
ton of the entire intangible value
that the tangi lie value in the state
was to the tangible value outside the
state. Both these amendments were
rejected almost unanimously.
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