Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-03-23

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Dies MONIES. March %, 1900.
Representative Temple, of Clarke
county, in an address before the Grant.
club at it's 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 letter from
Congressman Hull, in which the latter
assures the secretary the Des Moiness
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 IL
chairman, are diligently looking after
a 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 accessi BILE to the
city. any of which can be secured at I
reasonable figures. tt is thought
contract will be closed within the next
few months with one Of the owners, SO
that the matter of location will be set
tied. f3
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 apountin controversy
does not exceed So, 900, except in causes,
where real estate title is involved Or
the constitutionality of a statute, the
validity of an act of a municipal cor
poration, the construction or validity
of a law. divorce suits or proceedings
where no money Judgment is demand
ed No appeal is to be allowedSto the
supreme court. The judges are to be
appointed by the governor as soon as
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 a rail-
road car. He was sentenced in 1896
by Judge Holmes, of Polk county, aud
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 proper path in
his future life.
The Cheshire bill for the taxation Of
express companies upon the mileage
unit plan, now in force in Ohio and
Indiana, passed the senate with but a
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 I'M
estimating their value for taxation
His position was that the bill proposed
to tax not only the stocks and sbond.
but the property which the stocks and
bonds represented, and was therefore,
double taxation. Senators Cheshire.
and .Iunkin opposed this amendment
on the ground that the companies
would escape taxation by coveringf
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 tangible value in the state
was to the tangible value outside the
state. Both these amendments were
rejected almost unanimously. "
The ways and means committee of
the senate has introduced bill maxi
ing it unlawful to, solicit political
campaign funds from employees of the.
state board of control. the same rs tits
now contrary to law for such en-
ployes to pay anything in this way
The bill is in line with recommended
tons of the state board of control.
State Supt. r. C. Barrett has SUBJ
mitted a brief report to the senate per-
tanning to free libraries in the schools
of the state and the question Of dissem-
mating good literature among the
school children of Iowa. His report is
in answer to a request for such made
by the last legislature. He states
GNiit HIS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Oh UillS 7SuD..
ject was made in his recent biennial
report, and that already bill has
passed the senate sembodying the
larger portion of such recommends
tons. Ti-ay z53; sss.
The Ingram failure is rapidly being
settled in court, the Mt. Ayr stock
having been disposed Of, the proceeds
of the stock sale being ordered paid
over to the stockholders, and the re-
ceiver, Geo. d. McClain, of Des Moines.
ordered discharged, his{report being
approved. The net proceeds Of the
Mt. Ayr sale, amounting ST. O58 II /
will be distributed among the numer-
Gus creditors, after deducting $1.519
allowed for receivers and attorneys
fees. Judge Shras has approved Re-
ceiver McClain's report, and this set
ties the matter, it is said, so far as
the ingram store and stock at Mt. Ayr
are concerned. The litigation over
tile Shannon City and AIlendale stores
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