Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-01-12
lNAUCURATED in
HOUSE CHAMBER
q GOVERNOR cUMMINs OBJECTS TO
PUBLIC CEREMONY IN OPERA
HOUSE THIS YEAR
senate viii be Conservative Body Of
the Shorter Session is
Expected This Year-lnsurance
Closes Labors.

Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 1.-THE leg
1siatiye Inaugural committee will not
90 any business until Monday when
the house will authorize committee
on Its behalf to help the committee al
ready named by the senate to make
the arrangements necessary for the
ceremony incident to inducing Cover
nor Cummins into the Office he has
twlce before been inaugurated into.
But 1T Is believed that the governors
suggestion that the ceremony be held
IN the house chamber instead of char
tering an opera house will be followed;
however If 1T is not his suggestion that
the parade be omitted will be followed.
This will cut down the expense of the
inauguration very materially.
Governor Cummins has been twice
inaugurated governor and the people
OF Des Moines would not feel specially
sighted if they were not to witness
the event at the opera house for the
third time, for several hundred can
find accommodations at the house
chamber OF the state house. Many in
augural ceremonies have been carried
out in the rotunda of the capitol and
worse place could not be imagined.
1t is the idea of the governor that
ne should go quietly and without osten-
tat1on to the place selected by the
legislature for the ceremonies and
there deliver his address. He will not
participate In another parade. This
sort of demonstration always looked
excessively useless il not silly. 1t was
the order to have one carriage with
four men in 1T that one horse could
very draw, tied to four big horses;
and then in open carriages in the dead
OF winter all of the members of the
legislature pass from the capitol to one
or the opera houses and back again.
This will be abandoned this time, all
right.
Senate Conservative.
The senate, it is quite plain, will be
the great conservative body of this
heard in the lobby that the house
would quickly pass any Of the bills
that have been pledged to the people
such as two cent fare etc. while the
senate may take longer to deliberate
over it.
1t is also plain that the standpatters
will organize the senate at the caucus
which will be called for tomorrow, in
all probability. There are thirty-six
republican senator's and it takes nine
teen 10 control the caucus.
Secretary George A. Newman. AS
: eistant Secretaries Wilson and Myers,
Sergeant at Arms Huff and most of the
other employees of the bodT who are
slated Tor reelection are standpatters.
VIII Go Home Early.
One of the most prominent members
q noic lot ~
never saw the members of the body
SO active and SO eager to get to work
and the work out of the way, as those
that have been gathered in the city
for the session next week.
He believed that it meant that the
legislature would complete it's work
and 80 home early.
There ere others who look with
some uneasiness on the situation. They
think that the excessive energy and
enthusiasm of the members will mean
Just that many more bills passed. It
is probable that on account of the
adjustment Of the railroad pass the
members will remain in the city dur
Ing The whole of the session and not
20 to their homes more than once or
i twice at the most. This means that
/ they will have to meet Saturdays and
Mondays, and no Saturday and Monday
sessions ever were held during the
first half Of the session.
II they meet religiously six days in
the week they are bound to pass more
bills. That is all.
Insurance Commission.
The insurance commission created
by the recent legislature closed I'D it's
business today and adjourned. sine die
The book will be on the desks of the
members when they meet Monday. 1t
will be ahead Of the educational board
OF control report in this respect. That
was delayed by the printer for six
weeks. Messrs. Kendall and Jones Of
the insurance commission made a brief
minority report on the question of de-
ferred dividends holding that they are
bad and recommending thai they be
abolished. Leon Brown.
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