Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-28
FRACTIONAL LINES IN FlCBI
Stand Pat aud Cummins Followiugs Fire
Mutual Accusations Back aud Forth.
MANIFEST IN INSURANCE soUABBLE
Proposition IL Advanced 20 Dedicate
All the Iowa battle-ground Monu-
ment- at One Trip some
Time in October.
tFrom a stan Correspondent

ttrom stan correspondent
DIES MONIES. Jan. 27.-(specisl)-It de-
velops today that though there likely will
be stifr fight in the committee on in
surance there is likely to be reported from
the committee a bill for a commission to
investigate the insurance business. 1t is
more than likely. though that the commits
sion will make its Investigations along the
line of the Warren bill rather than the
Molsberry resolution This would cut out
| all publicity, as there would be no open
hearings or examination of witnesses. The
commission would merely report recon-
mendations based on information to be
gained from the auditors ONCE. The
| standpatters are accusing the Cummins
| people of being in favor of reform except
this particular reform. The Cummins peo-
| pie are accusing the standpatters OF in
Producing the resolution at this time pri-
marily to attract attention away from the
! primary election law and anti-pass law
| and that 1t is not a bona fide movement
for reform. They allese further that It
| is one OF the standpat schemes to keep
the legislature so busy that It cannot reach
the primary law.
| Dedicate All at Once.
The chairman of the four monument
commissions which have had the supervi-
1
ments on southern battlehelds to the
memory of the Iowa soldiers who died
there are planning to ask the legislature
! for appropriation sufficient to dedicate
all the monuments at one time next Octo-
| Der. The proposition is to have the leRis-
| lature appropriate $1,000 and with this
sum take a special train Of Iowa people,
| including Governor Cummins. and make
the trip to all four places, defeating each
in turn. It is not fully determined upon
as yet.
First Bill to Governor.
The first bill to reach the governor will
be the Gilliland bill to increase the maxi
| mum penalty for incest to twenty-five
years. The bill passed the house late
Friday afternoon, having thus passed both
houses without opposition
| The house also passed the Greeley anti
hazing bill, and the bill to permit OF new
trials in criminal cases on the discovery
of new evidence where the first verdict
was one Of guilty. The senate committee
has agreed to the bill making the time
Of the regular meetings of the State Board
of Health and Board OF Medical Examiners
the same. the membership OF the two
boards being the same.
Oppose Galveston BIZ.
| The Polk County Republican club has
adopted strong resolutions against the Gal
weston commission bill which has been
introduced in the Legislature here. The
club maintains that It is scheme to
undermine the republican party and is
move favored by democrats
Split In Library Board.
Claiming that ]. A. Carver and G. ID.
! EllSson do not attend the meetings OF
the Des Moines Library board and that
by their absence frequently a quorum can
not be had, the other seven members have
| decided TO bring the matter to the at
tention of the mayor and ask that the
two members be removed from the board
Ellyson and Carver claim that a ring has
been formed In the board and that the!-
votes do not count when they do attend
the meetings.
Interurban Incorporates.
The Indianola Interurban Railway COM
pany filed articles of Incorporate ton with the
secretary OF state today. The company is
organized for the purpose of constructing
an interurban road from Des Moines 20
1ndianola. r. V. Gray the promoter. has
been in the field the past week going over
the ground on foot with the surveyor, and
the first surveying will be done Monday.
A special election will be held Tuesday
at Indianola to vote on the franchise.
Another Extension.
Surveyors are in the field for the New
ton & Northwestern, between Boone and
Ames. 1t is asserted 1t is for the purpose
OF an extension for an electric line be-
tween Boone and Fort Dodge.
Have Bill Ready soOs.
Senator Saunders and Representative
Temple and Senator Jones are working on
the bill for an indeterminate sentence for
; criminals. and IL is understood the bill will
be ready for introduction the first of next
: month, perhaps by Friday of next week
Barred from Primaries.
1t was discovered during the course OF
the registration Of voters for the republi
can city primaries today that a number OF
saloon keepers in a moment OF thought
lessness at the last general election regis
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