Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-22
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Moines. November 10. 1893.


NAL elections proposition. He says
ii the biennial elections amendment
carries and the constitutional con
vention fails, and latest returns in
dictate that is the way it will stand,
some sorry complications will result.
Biennial elections, the attorney gen.
eral says, demand that the term of
state officers should be made four
years. Under the Titus amendment
it will be possible for a complete
change of officers to be made at the
state house and chaos would result.
The attorney general also thinks the
constitution of Iowa needs fixing.
1t was made forty-three years ago
and the state has outgrown it. The
law on corporations, he says, is very.
bad, and in many respects change,
is desirable. He holds convention.
would not be dangerous, as delegates
are elected by the people and what
they do must be ratified by them.
An attempt would be made by the;
woman suffragists and prohibition
lists to have the constitution ameHtIed
to their liking, but it would be a,
straight fight made in the same way
it has always been made before The
legislature.
An action has been brought in the
district court, presumably in the in
terest of the Mutual Telephone com.
pany, to GUST the Iowa Telephone
company from the streets, alleys and
public places of the city of Des
Moines. 1t is charged that the iowa
Telephone company is now main tain
ing poles, wires. cables and conduits
through STREETS without color Of
right, that it has no franchise, and
that it is enjoying privileges to which
it has no right and is unlawfully ear
rying on its business. The title OF
the case is the state of Iowa, ex rel,
Z. f.. Campbell and +. M. HubbeH VS..
the Iowa Telephone company. Attor-i
ney McLennan, in whose name actions
OF this KIND are generally brought,
refused to bring the suit and This
placed the plaintiffs in position
they desired. They represented the
conditions to the court and an order
was made forthwith, authorizing The
commencement of the suit by Messrs.
Hubbell and Campbell, both of whom
are stockholders II the Mutual Tele-
phone company and vitality interested
in its success. The company will re-.
sist on the ground that the city coun-
Gil has repeatedly reco. .nized it's ex-
istence since the franchise expired.
and also on the ground of vested
rights, having more than $10AeO0
invested in it's plants.
Steps toward most impoi tant
changes in the National Guard or
CARNATIONS of the different states.
will be taken December 13. at a meet
ing of the Interstate National Guard
association at Washingt on. Adiatant
General Byers will attend this meet
ing from Iowa and the adiutants
general of nearly all the other states
will be present, these officers being
ex-otficio members of the Interstate
association. At this time the adult
ants general will confer with General
Miles, with Adiutant General Corbin.
with many leading officers of the
regular army and the navy and Wit
members of congress for the purpose
of promoting national legislation
that promises to work sweepipg
changes in the national guard of the
country and convert it into nothing
less than a reserve force for the reg
ular army.
After personal inspection of every
county and private institution in the
state in which insane are kept, the
board of control has adopted rules
by which hospitals shall be governed
in the future. While the new rules
cannot be called radical, the board.
having made an exhaustive study of
the situation. has attempted to make
some needed reforms. There are
1000 insane patients in county insti-
lions and several hundred more IN
private hospitals. In not more than
ten of the county institutions were
the insane found to be well cared
for. The rules will go into effect at
once. but managing Ulcers are given
until January l and boards of super
visors until February to make the
required changes. Under the new
rules paupers and insane patients
will not be permitted to mingle and
male and female patients will have
TO be cared for separately. Female
attendants will have to be employed
to care for patients of that sex and
only men shall care for male pa
tients. Night attendants will be re-
quired, and one attendant will be de-
manded for each twenty insane per-
sons. The new rules are very ex-
plicit regarding care of the pa
tients and sanitary conditions of the
buildings. The best physicians ONLY
can be employed, and physicians win
not be allowed to furnish their own
drugs. Not less than two fire es-
capes will be required on each build
ing. The board also demands that
records of the institutions be kept.
The supervision of county and pri-
waite insane hospitals was put in the
lands of the board of control by the
Twenty-eighth general assembly be-
cause of the deplorable conditions in
which many of them were known ~
be.
The monthly report of the state board
of control shows that there is credit
balance in the support fund of Sl07, I54,
which is but $1,000 less than in Noyem-
Der. 1899. This is regarded as a very cred
liable showing, in view of the notable
rise i'll prices in the year that has lust
passed. The report also shows that there
has been an increase of thirty-six in the
number of cohvicts at the state prisons,
due, of course, to cold weather and the
reconvening of courts. There are now
930 convicts. 46l at Anamosa and 64s at
Fort Madison.
mKINLEY LIKES HIS GARNET.
Tells Members He Hopes Whey win