Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-03-01

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Is one that is favored by the treas
| ury department and the postohice
department. 1t has already been car
| rled out with various places and is
nKely TO be quite generally followed
Ia the future. The subcommittee
| headed by Representative Conner
having In charge the investigation
OF Iowa jublic building demands, has
made a report to the main committee
in favor Of the following allowances
for Iowa:
| Des Moines, building. $500, 0@
| Muscat1ne, building ........ 75,00c
davenport, addition ........ 1000
Mason City. building ...... &c, 600
Council Bluffs, addition ...... $4,000
webster City, building $500. 10000
The senate committee on appro
prfations voted to recommend fof
passage the Lewis bill authorizing
the governor to caIf a conference OF
delegates from different states of the
union to devise means to secure a
convention to amend the federal con
stitution so as to make the United
states senator's elective by the people
instead of legislatures. The PROPOSE
tlon by Senator Lewis was in the
form OF joint resolution and it has
been disclosed in former proceedings
that money cannot be appropriated
by joint resolution. The proposition
carried an expenditure of $500 III
issuing the invitations and the CORES
pondence necessitated on the part oil
the executive office.
After long debate the senate adopt
ed resolution indorsing President
Roosevelt's recommendations with
respect to railroad rate regulation
and commencing the Iowa delega
ton so far as it has stood by the
president. The resolution was offer
ed by Senator COPYRIGHT as a solution
OF the complications in which the
senate found itself with respect tc
the Weeks resolution requesting the
del cation to work for the presidents
policy, in congress. AS adopted the
resolution follows:
THAT the house, the senate CON
curing, in behalf of themselves and
all of the people of the great state
of Iowa, hereby extend to Hon. VIII
liam B. Allison and Hon. iona
than P. Dolliver, United States sena
tors, and to each of the several men,
bers of the house of representatives
in congress from the state of Iowa
our sincere and hearty thanks, and
assure them of our great apprecia.
ton for their earnest and united ef-
forts to secure an effective measure
giving to the interstate commerce
commission power to fix, establish
and enforce reasonable interstate
freight races and charges as demand
ed by the president"
Governor Cummins has announced
the appointment of H. B. Wright and
E. d. Brigham to succeed themselves
AS state dairy commissioner and state
labor commissioner, respectively.
The appointment of the latter goes
to the executive council for confir-
nation, but that it will be confirmed
there is no doubt The office of the
present dairy commissioner is ex-
banded by the state pure food law,
passed by this general assembly, in
to the dairy and pure food commits
sioner and when the law is signed
by the governor and published, it
will take on that form by reason of
the status.
Hereafter when the state senate
meets in executive session it will be
secret in fact as we'll as name. After
the nomination of Judge G.. S. Robin
son to succeed himself as member
of the senate board of control had
been unanimously confirmed by the
senate, Senator Saunders proposed
that change be made in the form
Of the record OF the executive ses-
Sions. He called attention to the
fact that the object of the board of
control law is to furnish the senate
che secrecy in celebrating upon
confirmation of nominees by the
governor for positions on that
board, which would preserve to
each senator the greatest indepen-
dence. Heretofore, the record of
the executive session has been
printed in the journal in full, togeth-
or with the roll calls on the PROPOSE
tons there considered and voted up
on. This, to all intents and purposes,
made the secrecy of the sessions a
fiction and the senate would as well
not go through the grave formality
of excluding the public from the
chamber during the executive sitting,
if the record were to disclose in de-
tail the manner in which everything
was done as we'll as the results.
Since Judge Robinson's appointment
had been confirmed by unanimous
vote, with forty-four senators pres.
ent, he thought it an oprortune time
to change the method of preserving
the record of the executive sessions.
He proposed that the rule of the Unit
ed States senate be adopted Under
this the executive session record dis.
closes merely the result of motions
and as to propositions under consid
Grafton, without the roll call. After
some discussion, which did not deyel
op into opposition to the idea, the
proposal OF Senator Saunders was
adopted
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