The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-02-04
HANDLE TON -REAM
CONTEST ENDED
DEMOCRATIC INCUMBENT WILL
RETAIN THE SEAT.
COMMITTEE wITHpRAws CASE
Field That the 500 Ballots Thrown Out
Were Properly Rejected
Other News Of the @
Legislature.
(By Julian Richards.)

(By Julian Richards)
State House, Des Moines, Ia, Feb.
2.-The senate contest committee in
the case OF Hambleton VS., Ream for
the office of senator from Mahaska
county, reported this morning that, in
their opinion, the five hundred ballots
thrown OUT because of marks in front
o. names of candidates for president
and vice president were properly re-
jectcd, and as by agreement the case
depended upon the findings OF the
committee in regard to these ballots,
the committee recommended the aDan-
donmeLt OF the contest, and the seat
ing OF John f Ream The report was
adopted by the senate. ~
Against Two Telephones. ' e 30
To do away with the nuisance { I
two telephone companies in every
town, a nuisance that requires bust
ness and professional men to pay for
two telephones and cuts off other sub
scribers from communication with
half the telephone users in their
towns, Senators Adams and Moon and
Representative Davidson are preplr.
ing bills to require competing tele.
phone companies to make connections
with each others lines for a nominal
Zee. Both would require competing
companies to connect their exchanges
50 that subscribers for one telephone
could talk to those for the othcr, and
vice versa. The senate bill will pro
vide a fee for making such cOnnec
tons of not to exceed 10 cents. while
Representative Davidson believes that
cents would be fair charge.
Split Over Farm Fence
A split in the house commit'e e on
agriculture is threatened over the i'm
poT.ant question as to what should
constaute lawful fence for Iowa
farms.
The committee yesterday discussed
bill by Representative Berry Of Hen
~ county that defines lawful fence
as one fifty-two inches high and hog
proof The bill does not use. this term,
but it specifies a fence with at least
the. first twenty,six inches made of
woven wire OF sucn mesh that hogs
could not possibly, wiggle through pr
under .....,. ., ~,
Chairman Arney of the appropria-
tons committee is one of those who
believes that Iowa farms are good
enough to Justify the, best kind of a
fence. He believes the law should re.
quire hog proof fences, but on the
question of Just what kind OF hog
proof fence should be required he is
not in entire sympathy with the Beery
bill
Have Preachers Register.
Governor Carroll was called upon to
consider a rather unusual question
yesterday, when he received a letter
asking him to recommend to the leg
islature that all ministers of the Cos
laws of the stale in order to secure
a license to perform marriage ceremo-
MES. Under the code any minister
ordained by his church cav perform
marriage ceremonies, but the anxiety
seems to have arisen that with the
founding or SO many new faiths some
strict lawis needed in the state to
prevent men not representing sect
organized in good faith from usurping
the authority that devolves upon a
recognized ministerho of the gospel.
%2%i-'@ ~ Feet OFF The Desk.
Ia
Alfred, Of Wayne, introduced a reso
luton providing that no committee
clerk be required ., to take dictalior
from. a member who has his feet OF
the q SIX or is smoking. Also proyid
ing that members desiring to smoke
withdraw to smoking rooms or some
place where they will not be offensive
TO others who do not smoke.
Resolution went over.