The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-01-10
Will Not Get Down to General Bust
ness Before the Second Week
of Its Session.
REPUBLICANS CONTROL BOTH BRANCHES
EIected-Heavy Fire Losses-Gov.
Shaw Goes to WashingtOn-De-
clines to Outline His Policy-Other
State News of General Interest.
Especial Correspondence

next Monday, it will not get down to
business before the second week of
its session. CaIcuses to choose party
nominees for officers of the houses of
the assembly will be held on Saturday
might of this week. The nominees of
the republican caucus will be formally
elected at the first meeting of the leg
fslature after it has organized, the re-
publicans having 80 of the SO senator's
and "a of the 100 members of the house,
and thus being able to organize both
branches. Both the senate and house,
on converting next Monday morning a t
ten O'clock, will select for temporary
officers such officers of the Twenty
eighth general assembly as may be
present, to act pending organiza ton.
Permanent organization will then be
effected. Joint committees on the in
auguration of the governor and lieu
senant governor-elect will then be Sc
lected and adjournment taken to Tues
day afternoon, at which time joint
session will be held to canvass the vote
on governor and lieutenant governor.
On Tuesday also the last biennial mes
cred to the house and senate and will
be printed, probably without reading.
Both Tuesday and Wednesday the
houses will transact routine business,
but the committees of neither will have
been announced, and the introduction
OF bills will not begin until after Thurs
day. On Thursday Gov.-elect A. E.
Cummins and Lieut.. Gov.-elect John
Herriott will be inaugurated before a
joint meeting of the houses of the leg
islature, which will then dissolve, re-
assemble separately and hear the list
of committees selected by the speaker
and lieutenant governor, after which
adjournment will probably be taken to
the next Tuesday.
VIII Elect Senator's.
On the next Tuesday the houses will
meet in joint session and will then elect
two United States senator's to succeed
William B. Allison and Jonathan p.
Dolliver. They themselves will have
been selected as the republican nomi-
nees by caucus of the legislators of
that party on Monday night, January
%, probably, and will be elected, Mr..
Allison bearing the unique distinction
6 tass-o.fJ man III ma lloIIaI MS
tory elected for the sixth consecutive
time to the United States senate.
Sole Contest.
The sole contest in connection with
the organization of the two houses of
the legislature this year, so far as the
really important places are concerned.
us in the competition for the chief
'clerkship of the house of representa-
flves. w. L. Eaton, of Mitchell county,
will have no opposition for speaker of
the house. George A. Newman, of Ce-
'dar Fails, will have no opposition for
secretary of the senate. In the con-
test for chief clerk of the house Rush
Benedict, of Harlan; j. c. Crockett, of
Eldora; S. M. Cart, of Indianola. and
John Seward, of Charlton, are the
principal candidates.
Governors Last Message,
Gov. Shaw completed his biennial
message to the legislature before he
left for Washington, D. c., last Wednes-
day night. 1t will not attain to the
length of his message of two years
ago, in all probability. In it he will
call attention to the existence of sur
plus of about 100000 in the state
treasury, to the severe losses by fire
which the educa tional institutions
nave suffered during the past two
years, to the action of the executive
council in favoring change in the time
of assessing railroads from March to
August of each year, to the need of an
additional normal school, to the de-
STABILITY of liberal showing by the
state of Iowa at the St. Louis exposi-
ton in 1903, and will probably renew
mis- recommendation for the inspection
of imported cattle for tuberculosis and
the prohibition of the sale of mich
COWS so afflicted. Gov. Shaw read his
message to Gov.-elect Cummins a day
or two before leaving for Washington,
and the men are said to be agreed in
general upon the contents of the docu-
ment.
Fire Losses.
Iowa insurance men estimate that
the losses from fire during 1901 in Iowa
exceeded the losses in 1900 some rs
per cent. The total losses are esti-
mated at about $4,00O,0OO. A million
and a. half of this occurred in two fires
an Des Moines and one in Davenport.
The loss on the Frankel department
store in Des Moines was about $780,
900; that on the starch works in Des
Moines was about 100000, and the
Davenport lumber fire resulted in
loss of practically the same amount.
The insurance concerns of the state
held heavy policies on all these losses.
They are urging the bad business of
the year just closed as a strong argu-
ment in favor of liberal treatment by
the legislature which convenes next
Monday.
Compulsory Education.
AS anticipated, the State teachers
association of Iowa a its annual mcet-
ing in Des Moines Endorsed two or three
impor tart measures which will be
pushed through the coming legislature