The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-02-28
THE GOVERNOR
V[RY WROTH
SENDS A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO
BOTH HOUSE AND SENATE.
THE coMMITTEE is CRITICISED
Representative Miller Takes a Hand
and Defends the Report, Also
"calIs Down" Register
and Leader.
(By Julian Richards.)

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expenses of the governor AMI party in
defeating the soldiers monuments,
was defeated in the House this
morning.
There was no discussion on the
floor of the House and on roll call
there were SO, votes in the affirmative
and 80 in the negative, Speaker Ken
dan ruled that it required two-tnirds
vote to pass the bill, ana declared it
lost.
Speaker N. E. Kendall, however, has
decided that a two-thirds majority is
not needed to pass the bill, that a
majority is sufficient to pass, and he
will therefore reverse his ruling and
declare the bill carried.
The House 2-cent fare bill passed
the senate just before the noon ad-
journment today. 1t received As
votes, all senators present voting Tor
the bill and Senators Stirton AID
Whiting being absent. The commit
tee amendment to the bill providing
that for distance of five miles or
less roads may charge a minimum
fare of ten cents, was adopted.
Senator Turner, the author of the
senate blu, made a speech in favor of
the measure and Senator Smith of
Mitchell, also spoke in its behalf.
There was no effort to substitute the
compromise offered by the roads.
the bill now goes back to the house
for concurrence in the senate amend
ment, after which it goes to the gov.
ernor for his signature. There is 40
publication clause, hence it does not
become a law until July 4.
Des Moines, Feb. 26.-There was a
lively session in the House yesterday
in connection with the so-called Mil
Ter report" in regard to the expenses
of the trip taken last summer to
| dedicate the battlefield monuments.
Governor Cummins took hand in
the contest, by sending a message to
| both houses of the legislature in
which he explains mis- connection
with the trip, and also shows how the
money was expended, and how there
came to be an excess of expenses
over the. appropriation. He then
took occasion to criticise very sharp
| ly the occurrences of the past few
! days" referring especially to the
Miller report and its publication
He praised the veterans who com
posed the monument commissions
and said they ought to be reimbursed
| for the money spent in excess of the
funds voted by the legislature. Hi;
bitterness eliminated when he re
ferred to the fact that the dedication
trip had been called a 'junket7 by
the MILLER report" and also by one
of the Des Moines evening papers
which, published the report.
The governors message was reat
in both houses just before noon.
In the House, as soon as the mes
sage was completed, Representative
Miller Oh bremen, who made the re
| port which has caused all this con
| troversy, arose to question or per
solal privilege. He said that the
statement had been made by the Des
Moines morning paper that he hac
made an"abject apology" to the House
last Saturday. IF l said anything
which anybody can construe as ar
| apology l wish to withdraw it," he
said. Continuing, he said that he maj
thought the matter over carefully
since last Saturday, and he was more
positive than ever that mis- report tc
the full committee, having been
adopted by that committee, by vote
of 10 to IL, should have been flej
with the House, as the committee re
port. He therefore demanded that il
be so filed.
He said that he was perfectly will
ing to unite in mis- suggestion by
Chairman Jones that there be an in
yestigation of the press gallery. He
wanted to know if the reporter for the
Des Moines mor1ing paper should De
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which he never used. He also said
that the editorial columns of the
morning paper had deliberately mis-.
represented the action of the commit.
tee in regard to mis- report.
At this point Chairman Jones of the
House committee on appropriations
took the floor and said that Mr.. Mil.
ler's report was the report of the sub.
committee made to the full commit
tee, and was not the committee re-
port. Mr.. Jones called upon Repre-
sentative McAllister to state the stu
alton. Mr.. McAllister said that the
report Of the subcommittee, made by
Mr.. Miller, was adopted by the COM
mittee. by a vote Of 10 to IL. This
closed the controversy, but it is
probable that it wild come up again
when the bill appropriating $1,000 for
reimbursing the monument commits
sions comes up for hearing.
In the House yesterday the follow.
ing bills were introduced:
H. F. 1893 by Teter. Relating to