Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-03
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
DIES MONIES, April 30, 1900.

DIES MONIES, April 80, 1900.
Dairy Commissioner Norton says
there is but very small amount OF
bogus butter sold in Iowa and that I'M
der the present revenue laws there is
little difficulty in absolutely knowing
where 1t is sold. Last year, according
TO official revenue department statis-
tics, there was imported to Iowa 70, 600
pounds of oleomargarine; the same
year there was made in this state APP
proximately 1000, 900 pounds of rcgu-
iation butter. Illinois leads in con-
sumption of oleomargarine; no less
than Is, 200, 900 pounds were used in
that state, or about one-fifth of the
entire product of the country.
The secretary of the executive coun-
Gil has completed computing the rail-
road assessments for the year 1900.
Forty-five systems are included in the
assessment, and it makes an aggregate
of S45, 500, 325. The assessments are of
special interest this year because OF
the publicity given them by State
Treasurer Herriott, who says they are
unequally adjusted and not in con-
formity with the laws of the state.
The largest assessments are as follows:
Chicago & Northwestern, S7,937, 500;
c., X. i. & p, 81, 100, 1863; c., NJ. & st.
Paul, Ss,17o, GAG; c., Il. & O., S4,9l3,794;
b., c. Il. & N, Si,264, 62s: Iowa Cen
trail, 81, 72O, ls6; Dubuque & Sioux City,
S3,3l4, 32s; Chicago Great Western, ST.
200, s99; Keoliuk &c Western, S456,12
Wabash, S4l1 ago.
Attorney General Remley has hand
ed down an opinion to the state board
of control constituting the pension law
passed by the last general assembly
and relating to the pension of men,
bers of the Soldiers Home The board
of control always declined to use any
part of the pension funds and they ac-
simulated under the rules of the trus-
tees requiring all above Sc to be sent
to relatives or given to the state. The
new law, the attorney general says,
requires the pensioners to give one
half of their pension money to then
dependant relatives if they have any,
The opinion was called out for the
reason that pensioner who had been
sending his extra So to his children in
the Davenport home to keep from Civ
ing it to the state, wanted to retain
all of his pension, whereas the law, as
the board read it and as the attorney
general CONSTITUTES it, forces him to give
half of it, or SO additional, to his child
zen, although they do not need it.
The question of paying the Iowa
troops, at national guard rates, during
the period of their service in the
United States army, has been brought
before the state auditor, and is now in
position which demands a ruling
For a long time some of the discharged
troops have been claiming that they
were entitled to national guard pay in
addition to the United States army pay
received from the government. A
batch of claims have been filed with
the auditor setting forth these claims
on behalf of several members of Com
pany NJ, lof the Forty-ninth Iowa
The claims are filed by Eliza C. John
son, of Maquoketa, as attorney for the
claimants. The names of the claim
ants are Arthur Larkey, John Minis,
William l.. Foster, Frank VanEmburg,
James ID. VanEmburg, George Hopius
and Eliza G. johnson. Mr.. johnson
was captain of Company NJ, Mr.. Foster
was quarter master sergeant, Mr..
Iarkey was private and Mr.. Minis q
private and artiticer.
Information of a definite character
has been received in Des Moines to the
effect that Smith Mcpherson, APP
pointed to succeed Judge Woolson on
the federal bench, has announced that
he will appoint Senator w. c. Near
thur of Burlington to be clerk of the
district and circuit courts for the
tsourthern district to succeed +. X
Mason of Des Moines, clerk of the cir.
cult court, and J. J. Steadman of Coun'
.cil Bluffs, clerk of the district court.
Mr.. Macarthur has been advised of the
fact that he has been appointed and is
making his arrangements to remove to
Des Moines. lie has advertised his
Burlington property for sale and has
already disposed of some of his prop
erty there Mr. Macarthur will follow
the precedent set by Judge Woolson
of centralizing the business of the jul
dietary department of the district in
Des MONIES and will remove to this
city. He will appoint deputies in Keo-
l<uk and Council Bluffs and will make
the offices of Clerk Mason his princi-
pal office. 1t is understood that Judge
Mcpherson will also remove to Des
Moines as soon as he takes up his new
duties.
The city council, sitting as a board
of review, refused to grant reduction
in the assessment against the personal
property of II. Hutsonpiller, a capital.
list and retired banker of East Des
Moines. Mr.. Hutsonpiller, by his at.
torney, A. X. Stewart, filed protest
with the board on the ground that he
had been assessed for $50, 900 worth OF
United States government bonds.
which is against the federal and state
laws. The members of the board
backing up the action of Deputy
Assessor Jacob Beck, acknowledged
that the assessment of bonds as per.
sonal property is illegal, but announc.
ed their intention of compelling Mr..
Hutsonpiller to prove that the bonds
were actually his own, and that the
transaction by which he came into
possession of them was business one
purely, and not simply an attempt ia
evade the payment of taxes that justly
belong to the city and county.
FAR CRY TO PRETORIA NOW.