Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-02-08
Hepburn's Name Stricken Out.

Hepburns Name Stricken Out.
The Saunders amendment to strike
out the Hepburn bill as specially
named was carried and then Senator
Harper's resolution was adopted, SO
to- 8. Bruce, Crawford and Durham
explained they were for pure food leg
islation but against instructing the
congressman; Senators Gilliland, Mols-
berry, Spaulding, Stookey and Stuck
slayer voted against the resolution, but
did not explain their votes.
The Harper resolution follows:
n Whereas. We deem the enactment
of a pure food law by congress to be-
of great Importance and of vital inter
est to the people of Iowa and to the
interest of the wholesalers and retail
ers of this state, therefore, be it
Resolved, BY the senate OF the
thirty-first general assembly, the house
concurring,
Section /. That our senators and
representatives in congress be re-
quested to take early and persistent
action and to use their best efforts to
further the enactment of such law.
Section 2. That copies of this reso-
luton, properly authenticated, be sent
to the secretary Of state, to each OF
our senators and representatives now
in congress and to the senators and
representatives of the states Of Mis-
souri,. Minnesota and Nebraska, and to
the secretary of agriculture at Wash
ington, D. c."
Lawson Appreciates Honor.
II was an unique honor which the
" 10 "a
son, of Boston, when it invited him to
speak before it yesterday. He fully
appreciated the compliment. He said
that he knew of nothing in the family
records of the Lawson branch which
furnished a precedent as to how a
Ran shoale act TAXED Z s'e of in
snrnnffice which he said waasss " nosa9
the big thing. He was told that they
would like to hear him talk about the
other iniquities Of the system, but he
thought that the Importance OF the
insurance investigation warranted at
tention being given to that rather
than. to the actual speculative evils
of Wall street, which he has been ex.
plotting in his magazine.
Mr.. Lawson declared that his sole
purpose in coming out to see Gov
ernor Cummins was to induce the
Iowa chief executive to take charge
of the proxies he has gathered from
policy holders Of the United States in
the New York Life and New York Mu-
tual companies and to vote them for
the good of the companies; he be-
lieves that he can save the policy
holders thirty or forty per cent of the
cost Of their insurance. He will re-
turn here Tuesday. He goes to st.
Paul, thence to Chicago then to Wash
ington and back to see Governor
Cummins to see if he can induce the
governor of Iowa to take up the proxy
business that he has proposed
Senators Refuse Invitation.
Effort was made in the senate yes.
terday to get that prosaic body to in.
vite Lawson before it, but no. The
senators who were approached did
not want to touch it. The house
members were not SO conservative
Representative Head offered the reso-
luton. Representative Temple is
writing a resolution but thought bet
ter of it and voted against the invi-
tation. The resolution carried by 68
to 10. The senate did vote to take a
recess to hear him.
1t was the first time that the legis-
lature has invited a private citizen to
address it on matters not affecting the
legislation in the hands of the assem-
bly,. Governor Cameron, of Virginia,
was invited to speak because there is
pending a proposition to appropriate
funds for the jamestown exposition
and Mrs. Howe talked on child labor,
a bill pending before the assembly
But aside from the Larrabee celebra-
ton and the Tom Lawson affair the
legislature has stiftiy refused to con.
slider the reception of visitors and in.
wiling them to deliver addresses.
Leon RrnIun