Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-01-18
Last FormaIity Is Gone Through
With and Certificate Is
sued to Gear.
HOUSE COMMITTEES ANNOUNCER
Speaker Bowen Gives Out His As
sisnmcntsE Eaton Men Get Few
Chairmanships-- Democrats
Get -Four Committees.

ton Of house and senate mt noon to-
day The real election took place yes
terday afternoon. when the houses bal
lotrd separately, and Mr.. Gear received
Il constitutional majority of the VOTES
of each branch. The republicans all
voted for him. tile democrats for Fred
+. White. The vote In each branch
was:
Senate
For Geal. Observation-Disclosures. So
For White Observation-Disclosures. ..... n
House
For Gear ................... Is
FOR White ................... Is
The ballot today was practically the
same. and the certificate was mt once
issued TO Senator Gear for the term
beginning March 1. 1901.
Insane Hospital Scandal.
Some sensational developments have
come 10 light in connection With the
management of the Mt. Pleasant in
sane hospital under the superintend-
ency of the late DIR. III. A. Gilman. DIR.
Gilman died about a year ago, i'm the
harness. He had been superintendent
for many Years. When the lIealy in
vcstlgating committee, appointed by
the Legislatures. made lis investigation
about three years ago DR.. Gilman
accounts were found TO be in bad con-
dition. He had for many wears been
a. In .,r
from relatives and friends of inmates
OF the institution. In these funds it
developed there is IL shortage of about
$4,000, and it may turn ont to he still
larger. The story is that DR.. Glman's
death was greatly FASTENED by the
worry incident To the investigation i'm
to these conditions. The Iealv com
mittce made the first discoveries. but
did not develop the full extent oil the
shortage. When The board OF control
took charge of the institutions its
members and accountants demanded Il
complete showing. DR.. Gilman was
unable to make it. He put off a final
settlement from time to time as long
as he could; anti he was constantly
pressed harder and harder. At length
his health began TO break. and at last
he died suddenly. 1t is believed by
many people in Mt. Pleasant familiar
With the facts that DIR. Gilman really
committed suicide rather than face the
exposure TO which affairs were surely
leading. He was at dinner one even>
ing. while his troubles We're at their
height, and on leaving the table
walked with one or two others to am
p1ny.,tn1. .,nI no a. ;,,f, 1,
suddenly collapsed. fell and in a short
many that his, death was caused by
some drug or poison he had taken.
Whether this is trGe will probably
never be known.
The matter will come before the
legislature, because il is referred to
in the board of control report. The
board puts it mildly. indicating hat
the shortage is smaller than it is now
known to be. ii is probable that the
exact amount VIII never be known.
The money brought by inmates on ar
irving ut the institution. together with
money sent for their benefit after they
We're committed. by relatives and
friends, was all cared for by the SUI
rerintendent. 1t is also found that
he had borrowed Il large amount from
employees and from other friends.
Where it went is not certainly known,
though speculation is said by those
best informed TO have been response
BILE for the losses. At any rate, the
bondsmen have repaid part of 1t to the
state. and the Legislature will prob
ably lie asked to make restitution OF
amounts held in trust for inmates.
House commi ttccs Announced.
Speaker Bowen today. announced
the house committees for the session.
rs was expected, the Cummins- Ea ton
men get decidedly the smaller end of
the chairmanships. The Eaton sup
porters who get chairmanships are:
Ways and means, Eaton: banks and
banking, Carr; private corporations,
Overtield; building and loan. Stewart
lalsor. Blake; public lands and build
ings, McCurdy; engrossed bills. lhnc
nam: congressional districts, Hughes; ;
judicial districts. Stallcop; total, nine
committees. The Eaton men NUM-
bered thirty-eight i'm caucus, while
there were forty-three Bowen men.
The democrats get four committees,
headed as follows: Rules, Theophilus;
federal relations. McGinn: fish ant!
game. Anderson, of Lyon: police regu-
lations, Davis. Thus ii appears that
forty-three Bowen men get forty
committees, thirty-eight Eaton men
get Nine, and nineteen democrats get
-four. The list of committees is as fol
lows: : Y! i
Ways and ADMINISTRATION, Prentis.
Hughes, BOWS, Byers, McCurdy sham
baush, Stewart, Santce, Towner Nene-
man, Stallcop, Wilson of Keokuk, Miller
of Cedar Barringer Clarke, Cold. Graf.
Cowles. Sokol, Wright, Jaeger Conley.
Davis and Bengston.
Judiciary-Temple, Byers, Carr Eaton.
Blake, Hurn. Carter. Durham, Lyman,
Kendall, Edwards, Payne, Jones, Wilson
Of Washington, Furry, Thuenen, Kerr,
Warren. liilsinger. Sweet, Marshall, Nc
CHM and Theophilus.
Baker Baker, Harbert, shambamgh,, Towncr.
Payne, 1Iurn,, Wilson of Washington,
Railroads and ommerce-Gibson. Ba-
Wilson of l<eokul<, Kendall, Clarke
Hurn, Barringer, Boysen, Cold. Durham.
Hassequist, Edwards, Jones, Kec<,
Ayers, Myers. Payne. Sokol, Strattoii'
Thnenen, Wilson of Buena Vista, Davis
and Sauer.
Municipal Coroporations-Ca Glib
son, Temple, Miller Of Cedar, Byers,