Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-04-02
FATE OF NEW LAWS
FOUR IMPORTANT CASES TO BE
HEARD DURING APRIL BY
THE SUPREME COURT.
ATTACK TEACHERS WAGE ACT
High Tribunal Will Pass Upon the
Several New Statutes Enacted by
Last Assembly That Have Been
Questioned In lower Courts.

Des Moines.--In the docket prepar.
&c for the full bench period of the SUI
preme court scheduled for April z and
s, there are four cases to test the con-
stitutionality of laws passed by the
Thirty-fifth general assembly.
In the rehearing of the case of the
State vs.. DR.. Kelley of Council Bluffs,
who shot and killed two men in Des
Moines in 1912, the state wishes TO
have the court make more clear its
decision in which it reversed the de-
cision of the lower court and sent the
case back for retrial. Attorney Gen.
eral Cosson declares that a man may
be crazy from drink, but that If he
Is and does murder while in that con-
dition, he does not escape the re-
sponsibility of his acts. He wants
the court to decide whether jury may
find a man to be crazy under certain
conditions and be guilty of murder.
The first of the cases to be heard
on April s in which the constitutional
ity of law is questioned is that Of
F. r. Thurber VS.. w. A. Duckworth.
The soldiers preference law is attack
ed. Thurber is a veteran who was
discharged, he claims, without hear
ing while serving as janitor at the
capitol. The custodian asserts Thurb-
er resigned.
The law establishing a standard for
Ice cream is involved in the cases Of
the State VS.. Sanders Ice Cream
company and the State VS.. Hutchin-
son Ice Cream company. Probably the
two will be combined. The lower
court held that the state had no au-
thority to require certain per cent
of butter fat in ice cream.
In the case of Bopp vs.. Clark, an
appeal from Fayette county, The con-
stitutionality of the teachers mini
mum wage law is doubted. A school
director Of Fayette county made a
contract for teacher at less than the
law required to be paid. Court action
was begun Immediately to test the
law.
The blue sky law, declared uncon-
stitutional in the district court. is to
be tried out in the case of Harper VS..
Allen. The attorney general expects
to have the validity of the measure
established by the high court
The unusual situation of four cases
involving constitutional questions
coming up in one period and in one
day has been brought about by At
torney General Cosson When the
cases were appealed from the district
court, he Immediately applied for an
advancement, and the court granted
the request BY this method he will
have the matters finally adjusted
within few months after they made
their appearance in the lower court
Iowa Dealers Favored.
The policy of the state board OF con-
troll in letting contracts for supplies
for the state institutions is to favor
Iowa manufacturers and Iowa deal
ers. In return, the board feels that
the dealers should favor the state by
quoting lower prices than are usually
granted in dealing with institutions
organized for profit.
In letter sent out, T. II. McCon-
logue, chairman, outlined the plan of
the board as follows:
1.-THE board is anxious to award
the contract for the different things
that 1t has to purchase for the vari-
Gus institutions to the local dealer.
When we consider the manufacturers,
we consider the Iowa manufacturers
as the local dealers. II does seem to
me that the manufacturers of products
that are necessary to run these inst.-
buttons might consider the humanitar-
ian part and not expect to make the
profit off of institutions Of the state
which are caring for the citizens Of
the state that they would from the
general public and tradesmen who are
in the business for making money.
The more we have to pay for the sup
port of these institutions, the more
the people are taxed.
"All members Of the board will be
very glad to receive bids from all the
industries of Iowa and will give them
tile same as all others-nothing but a
square deal"
Mccarley Out for Representative.
John McCarley, president Of the
First National bank of Williams and
prominent Hamilton county capitalist,
has announced his candidacy for rep
resentative from Hamilton county on
the republican ticket. Frank ]. Lund,
who represented Hamilton county In
the Thirty-ffth general assembly, is
contemplating entering the Tenth dis
trict congressional campaign to sue
coed Congressman Frank P. Woods. A.
N. Boeye OF Webster City is also a
possible candidate for representative
from Hamilton county.
Quarantine for Hog Cholera.
Strict quarantine of all farm prem
ises where hog cholera exists and the
most thorough disinfection of the
premises after the disease has abated
was decided upon at meeting OF
farmers and veterinary surgeons Of
Scott, Muscatine and Clinton counties.
The meeting, at which DR.. James J..
Gibson, state veterinary surgeon, pre-
dded, was held for the purpose OF or
ganizing a campaign against swine
plague similar to that perfected In
Dallas county last year.
State Archives Gets curlo.
An ancient bill of lading, the receipt
for a consignment OF books, desks
and furniture, on the steamboat City
Of Des Moines, April "a, 1852, shipped
to Nathaniel B. Baker at Clinton has
been added to the archives OF the
state historical department. The ship
ment was made via the Des Moines
river from Ottumwa, which is evidence
that the Des Moines river was navig-
able at that time Nathaniel B. Baker.
to whom the goods were consigned,
was adjutant general Of Iowa during
the civil wac.