Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-10-12
NOTES FROM The CAPITAL
Des Moines. Oct. Q. 1907.


Governor Cummins has appointed
;he following delegates to attend the
Interstate commerce law convention,
which will be held at Chicago octo-
per 26: s. W. Broolxhart of Wash
lngton, John Hughes, Jr., of Williams.
purg, w. w. Miller of Waterloo.
James A. Smith Of Usage, w. ID. Nor.
ris, Jr., of Marshalltown, Thomas j
Bray Of Grinnell, j. J. Hamilton OF
Des Moines, L.. w. Lewis of Clarinda
and NJ. Mcdonald of Bayard. The
governor will also attend, he having
participated in the organization Of
he convention last year.
Prof Charles N. Kinney completed
MS analysis OF the stomach taken
from the body of Frank Callahan
which was rescued from the Des
Moines river below Levy week
ago, and in his report submitted to
City Physician Miller states that he
was unable to find any traces OF
poison in any of the organs. A con
siderable quantity of water was found
In the lungs, which points to death
by drowning. Drowning is the most
plausible theory suggested, as the
post norton examination failed to
show any bruises or other marks
Of violence which might have been
responsible for the death.
Iowa will not exclude the great
New York insurance companies from
doing business in this state, pending
the completion of the Investigations
which are going forward in New
York by the legislative committee
and the western insurance commits
sioners. Dispatches stating that Ne
vada has excluded the New York
Life from doing business in that
state were shown Auditor Carroll
recently and he was asked If Iowa
was likely to follow suit. 1t also was
said in the dispatches that Colorado
will probably follow the example set
py Nevada. Auditor Carroll, in eff.
feet, stated that pending the examin.
alton and investigation Iowa will take
action. The Iowa law is specific as
to what the auditor of state, who is
also commissioner of insurance, may
do with respect to excluding compan-
les from doing business in this state.
The law does not contemplate the ex-
clusion of companies already doing
business here, on suspicion. But 1t is
certain that Iowa, among the other
western states, will demand quite
radical changes. 1t is understood
that the movement which has found
expression in Nevada and promises
early and like expression in Colorado
will be urged upon all the western
states The points which have
brought about action at this time
were developed in the recent testi-
mony of President Mccall.
Politicians in the close confidence
of Gov. A. B. Cummins assert that
there is no doubt but that state
wide primary election law will be
passed at the xt session of the leg
islature. The governor himself is
understood to be confident that the
law will be passed and says that in
his visits to various parts of the state
this summer to deliver addresses, in
which he talked to 175,000 people,
and talked personally with several
opposed to it. 1t is claimed, further,
that at the last session the vote in
the senate stood 10 to 25 against the
bill; that of those voting against it
four have now decided to vote in
favor of such a bill, and three or for
others who were absent at the IL
session were known to have been
favor of the measure. This would
give the bill majority in the senate
at the present time and the pressure
of public opinion between now and
the converting of the legislature is
counted on to make several others
formerly opposed to the bill in favor
of it. The house is said to be even
more unanimously in favor of it. The
claim is made that the anti-pass law
will pass with less difficulty than the
primary election law 1t is under
stood that the primary election law
which is being drawn now by SEN
ator Crossley will provide for the
primary election to be held in all
parts of the state little before the
middle of August; possibly the zee
ond Monday or first Tuesday after
the second Monday This is for the
reason that that date would best
suit the farmers as the weather and
farm work will be most in favor. The
bill it lis claimed will carry provfs-
ions for conventions of delegates but
with powers only to canvass the vote
Of the primaries and announce the
result and to draft platforms.
AS compared with the expense of
maintaining the offices at the capitol
and the state government, the ex-
pense for the biennial period ending
July !, 1905, increased $163,90O over
the expense for identical purposes for
the preceding period, amounting in
all to $1,103,657. The receipts of the
offices In fees and costs, however,
increased s121,S74 for the last period
as compared with the one preceding,
almost balancing the increased cost
of government. For the last eighteen
months of the period ending July i,
1901, the total expenses were $685.
500 for the period ending July 1, 1908.
they were s957.757, and for the period
which closed July 1. 1905, they were,
as stated, s1,103,657.
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