Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-12-07
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Des Mo,nes. Dec 4 tcar

iivorce law conference which will be
,eld in washington next February.
Governor Cummins has named the
delegates to represent this state in
he persons Of Congressman Walter
). Smith, B. p. Birdsan and e.. H. Hub
,ard. The conference Is called FOR
Feb. 10, which will be tooelate,ein an
probability to be valuable 10 the Iowa
legislature with respect TO it's Bugges
ions. The Iowa solons have been
paying more or less attention In re.
:ent years to the divorce law business
md in the last two sessions bitter
lights have been precipitated by the
Introduction of measures looking r.
he prohibition of the remarrfage OF
uvorcees within a certain tfme-uSu
lily fixed at one year. These prep
sitions have failed hitherto, bnt tbs
Washington anti-divorce conference
may bear fruit either In the lowe
legislature of 1906 or that of 1907.
A new organization, thes Outgrowtss
IF the Koch-paul fight for the Yeo
nan leadership, had its birth IN
meeting of the Paul forces just re
turned from Colorado Springs, anc
although no definite steps beyond tha
appointment of committee have ye'
oeen taken, it is assured that new
society on Yeoman lines but entireH
apart from the Yeomen, and com
posed of old Yeomen members, viii
De formed. The meeting was quietly
,alled at the home OF J.. e. Paul, aRt
he twenty-five or twenty-three mem
)ers present consisted OF the members
IF the Paul delegation who were re
used seats at the recen. saprems
,onclave.
Indications are cropping Hp tx
many parts of the state that the do
,ision of the supreme court In gus
aiming the soldiers preference Law
will have decided effect on mans
official positions. The queerest cass
comes from Appanoose county, There
the board of pervisors, of which
two members are veterans, employed
a man for overseer of the poor Isaac
Lane, a veteran, was an applicant
out the board turned him down. He
now has brought suit against the
county and the board of supervisors,
to mandamus the members tn elect
him to the office he seeks, Uverseea
Of the poor. He also has sued them.
and this is the unique thing about X,
for the wages of the position which
he would have earned had he been
hired in the first place.
In the biennial report flled with the
governor recently, Adjutant General
Thrift recommends an annual appro,
prlation of 100000 for the Iowa Ma
tional Guard, which is an increase OF
$4,000 He urges the expenditure
Of this money in building up the or
canization, and abandons the bieA
NAL recommendation of his ;.depart
ment during many successive periods
for the erection of an arsenal, site
for which was ACQUIRED many years
ago. General Thrift says that the
"dhtS VI Inc 5uuiu ehuIiu6 LuO ucX
year cannot be supplied for less thar
$167,323, and combining the, state ap
preparations, the government aid and
the balances on hand there will still
remain deficit of $4,000. Iowa ap
propriated $25 per capita of her
guardsmen in recent years, the lowest
record of any comparable state. Cali
fornia went $40. He, therefore, ryges
the increase of the annual oppropria-
ton by $4,000, for the exclusive pur
pose of adequately supporting the
guard. -
Secretary Kennedy OF the state
board of health has flied his biennial
report with the governor, urging re
codification OF the law relating TO
vital statistics. This law has many
serious defects. Though the figures
covering the year they have been