Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-02-22
THE DEADLOCK STILL ON.
Continues TO Battle With
Senatorial Problem.
NOW BUSY WITH LAW-MAKING.
Hard at Work and Meas
ures Now Coming Before the
House and Senate for
Consideration.

1t is the same old story at Des
Moines as We write, the senatorial
deadlock still continues, with as lit
tie prospect as ever for settlement.
During the past week sincere at
tempt to break the deadlock has
been make upon the part of the reg
ulars, but the progressives support
ing Kenyon have steadfastly refused
to place the party and the interests
of the people above factionalism,
and have succeeded in continuing
the deadlock. 1t came about this
way. Senator Young sent tele-
gram from Washington to the effect
that he was ready and willing to
place the interests of the party
above his personal ambitions, and
requested those who had been sup
porting him to give their support to
some other good man, in the hope
that the legislature might be able to
agree upon some one. AIJer care
full consideration the supporters of
Senator Young decided to vote for
Judge Deemer of the Supreme Court,
a man of senatorial calibre and high
in the estimation of everyone who
knows him. He has not been allied
with politics for many years, and is
not considered standpatter or a
progressive, in fact, both sides claim
him. He has every qualification for
this place, and the regulars, drop
ping Young, have voted solidly for
him for several days, being Joined
by some of the supporters of Funk,
who is out of the race. But it was
of no avail. The Kenyon men have
stood firm and the deadlock contin-
ues. We expect that the Young sup
porters will, after exhausting every
possibility of settling the question,
swing back to Young and vote for
him until the end of the session, and
that the legislature will adjourn
without an election. That is the
general opinion as we write. A Sec
ond attempt is being made to secure
enough signatures to a caucus petit
tion, but it is almost certain to fail.
The week has been busy one in
committees. Many important meas
ures are being disposed Of, and the
session may be said to be earnestly
at work. Among the measures which
have passed either one or both
houses are the bills placing power
of parole of life prisoners with
board of parole, passed both houses:
the Oregon primary bill, passed botn
houses; bill by Jewell of this county
relative to proof of titles of real es-
tate, killed by senate; bulk sales bill,
killed by house; house passed bill
for organization of con-
soliGated independent school dis
tricts; house passed bill providing
for payment of tuition of pupils re-
siding in school corporations which
do not offer instruction equivalent
to the accredited high schools of
Iowa; senate passed bill increasing
pay of shorthand reporters from Sc
to sS per day; bill abolishing tax
ferrets passed both houses; initia-
tive and referendum bill killed in
house; house passed bill providing
that money received from peddlers'
taxes be devoted to road work;
house passed bill by Kull of Howard
requiring two-thirds vote to remove
county seats; senate passed bill pro-
hibiting any person from having in
his possession or circulating or CIV
ing information concerning any in
decent, obscene or lascivious postal
card of literature of any kind; sem
ate passed bill providing for regis
tering names of farms and exclusive
use thereof in county.
Among the new bills introduced
which are of local interest is one
applying the injunction features of
the federal antitrust laws to the
state; appropriating $4,000 to es-
tablish state normal school in con-
nection with Tabor College at Ia
bor; providing that boys and girls
in state industrial schools may be
placed out with families, to be raised
and educated; appropriating ST.
033,600 for Iowa Soldiers Home,
Iowa Soldiers Orphans Home, col
lege for the blind, school for the
deaf, institution for feeble minded
children, tuberculosis sanitorium, in
dustrial schools, state hospital, PEN
itentiary and reformatory; provid-
ing compensation of SO per day for
commissioners of insanity; compell-