Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-04-15
i'm DEEP SILENCE
JANIToRs WITH BRooMs HOLD
SWAY.
HIGH links MARKS CLOSE
Eight on Liquor Bills Waxed Hot at
Close and "Drys" Win Few
Points.

bird general assembly.
Only a scattering of senators and
representatives remain at their ho-
els and lodging houses. The others
nave said long farewell to Des
Moines and hurried home to their
farms and stores and offices, glad to
become once more private citizens.
While dignified senators gathered
about a piano in the senate chamber
ind sang Home Sweet Home" wild
est disorder reigned across the hall in
he house chamber at the close of
he session. Happy to have finished
what had become tedious confinement
md boredom, members hurled waste
baskets, pamphlets and books through
the air until the chamber was filed
with flying missiles and the floor
looked as though the tail end of a
Kansas cyclone had come in through
the windows.
In the senate Lieutenant Governor
Clarke was presented with the chair
and gavel which he had used as pre-
siding officer, Senator Larrabee pay
ing a tribute of affection and respect
that never was more sincerely felt
by any legislative body toward its
chief.
Governor Carroll went to the house
chamber at the request of the mem
bers to present Speaker Feeley with
the mahogany gavel with which the
house showed its appreciation and
good will.
The sensation Of the closing day in
the house was the stubborn refusal
of Representatives Harding and Sulli-
van to vote with the three other re-
publican members of the sitting COM
mittee and permit the Moon and Ham
mill temperance bills to come to a
vote.
Several important measures in addi-
ton to the law and order bills never
saw the light of day after they were
referred to the sitting committee.
These include the Seeley bill to ex-
| empt stock of corporations in other
states held by residents of Iowa from
taxation in this state; the Hunter bill,
fixing the number of committee
clerks; the Seeley-Newberry bill for
courses in the teaching Of agricul-
ture in the state schools and accredit-
| ed colleges, and the bill introduced
by the state hospital investigating
committee, raising the per capita
monthly allowance for these hospitals
from $12 to $14.
In the senate two important house
bills were defeated during the closing
hours. These are the Harding bill,
historical department bill and the
Crozier bill prohibiting discrimination
! or free service by telephone compan-
les. The senate passed the house
substitute for the Peterson primary
law amendment bill, which provides
for rotating names of candidates on
the ballot in state wide primaries and
adopted the Lee resolution calling
upon congress TO take steps to amend
the constitution to provide for cleo
ton of senators by direct vote of the
reople'
After a day full of stress and ex-
element, marked by the surrender
of the sitting committee and the pas
sage of the Moon and Hammill tenn
perance bills, the house threw dignity
TO the winds and the closing hour
of the session was given over to high
jinks that would have done justice
to the last night of a street carnival.
Waste baskets, printed documents,
and books whirled through the air
and lit on the heads of members until
the room was filed with flying OBJ
jects, while roars of laughter rose
from every corner and drowned the
voice of the speaker. After one or
two vain attempts to restore order
Sergeant at Arms Van Houten retired
with waste basket over his head
and the fun continued until there was
nothing left to throw.
Scarcely dozen members were in
the chamber when the hour for final
adjournment arrived. After the last
bill had been passed there was a
wait of two hours while the enrolling
clerks completed their work and after
the tunmaking was over members put
papers and books under their arms,
shook hands and left the state house
for their hotels and lodgings, where
trunks and grips were already packed
and waiting for the expressman. At
least two-thirds of the members left
on evening trains.
The appropriations made by the
Thirty second General Assembly for
Cheokee have been taken care of in
the hospitals at Independence
Lighting to be Improved.
A move is on foot to have the light
Ing facilities of the senate chamber
improved before the converting of the
Thirty-fourth general assembly. The
night session held last week brought
out the fact that the lights provided
in the big room are entirely made
quate
Iowa has a strong antitrust law
The house took the senate at it's word
and passed the Sammis substitute to
tie Kuil bill, prohibiting combinations
in the sale of any article.
Representative Grier sought to
have passed his bill recognizing the
pharmacy commission by putting one
commissioner on a salary of $1,000
and his associates on the pay roll for
system.
not TO exceed 5000 per year. thus do
ing away with the pernicious per diem
Amendments were placed by the
senate upon the Hanson bill relating