Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-04-29
BOOZE CIRCULARS
ATTORNEY GENERAL WILL MAKE
RULING AS TO ADVERTISING
THROUGH MAILS.
DEALERS ASK INFORMATION
All Shippers OF intoxicating Bever-
ages Must Know II The Shipments
Are Not For Sale. Ruling Will Be
Printed For Distribution.

lorhey general OF nrms sending ad-
yertising matter for liquor through the
mails. An official ruling has been
asked for with reference to the rights
OF liquor firms located in other states,
sending intoxicating beverages into
Iowa.
The assistant attorney general is
preparing statement with regard to
the liquor laws passed by the Thirty
sixth general assembly. Owing to
the widespread interest in temper
ance legislation and the effect of the
measures, the ruling will be printed
for distribution.
The anxiety of Wholesale firms
dealing in liquors is over the ques.
ton whether they wifi be permitted
to send their travelling men into Iowa
after Jan. /, 1916. One Of the laws
enacted by the general assembly
makes travelling salesman for a
liquor house a bootlegger. All per-
sons are prohibited taking orders or
attempting to sell liquor. Whether
this applies to soliciting orders by
mail is worrying many firms. Several
California wine manufacturers have
written to the department of justice
to know whether they are shut out
Of the Iowa market, and II not, how
they can continue to do business in
this state.
Not only will the Iowa prohibition
and law enforcement measures enter
inf hn Of colA of off
Jan /, but the Webb-Kenyon law is
also to be observed. The Iowa su-
preme court recently determined that
1t is illegal to ship beer or liquor into
the state for Illegal purposes. How
ever, the question of liquor for per-
sonal use was not passed upon. After
Jan. /, 1916, no person in Iowa win
be authorized to purchase liquor for
sale to others. 1t is presumed that
firms making sales by mail to indi-
viduals will be required to know
whether the people who make the
purchases are getting the booze for
their own use or to conduct bootleg
ging operations. The size of the or
der will determine this to large ex-
tent.
Railroads objeeting.
The railroads insist there Is great
misapprehension as to the 100000
appropriation, which was adopted and
later denied by the state senate, to
make physical valuation Of railroads.
There was no chance for a hearing
on the bill and the railroad men OBJ
ject~to duplication of the work now
being done by the interstate COM
merce commission along this time.
They see no reason for Iowa making
valuation of it's own when the ma
ton is doing the same thing and they
declare that the failure of the appro-
priation does not affect the valuation
of the Iowa roads in any particular.
To make the valuation would cost
Iowa s1,O00,O00, not the 100000 pro-
vided in the bill. The interstate COM,
mission estimates $50 a mile as the
expense. The $40 provided by this
bill was absurdly low. 1t is the judy
ment of experienced men that the
physical valuation will not bring about
the results contemplated.
Planning an investigation.
There is good grounds for belief
that the state retrenchment and re-
form committee is planning to have
an expert examination made of the
state educational institutions with
view toward cutting out Of the cur
riculum such courses as belong prop
erly in another institution. Indica-
ton that this action is being planned
was furnished recently when a mem
Der of the committee persuaded Rep
resentative Bauman of Van Buren,
county not to introduce a resolution
he had prepared directing the state
college at Ames to cut out certain
courses. The committee member
told Bauman that an examination Of
the institutions was to be made and
a report on the subject made to the
next general assembly.
Iowa Law Counter.
A treaty between the United States
and Great Britain was invoked by
the British heirs of the late Rev.
Father Peter ODowd to override the
Iowa statute providing for a 10 per
cent collateral inheritance tax to be
paid by foreign heirs. The treaty
provides that subjects of Great Brit
ain shall I've subject to no greater
tax than subjects of the United
States in the settlement OF Ameri-
can estates. The Iowa law discrim-
mates against foreigners, doubling
the collateral inheritance tax
AN Bills Signed.
Governor Clarke has practically fin
ished signing bills passed by the gen.
eral assembly. Only one measure re-
mains unsianed. The Hilsinger stock
sanitation bill Is still in doubt. The
governor has signed two measures
which are being held at the request
Of the state board of health. They
refer to the appropriation for the
meteorological laboratory at Iowa
City and hotel inspection. Or. G. H,
Sumner, secretary of the board of
health, states that the board does not
object to the two laws.
SIS, 5000 for Sheep Barn.
The senate approved and passed the
two bills already passed by the house
appropriating $4,000 for sheep barn
and $4,000 for a sewer system at
the state fair grounds. Other appro-
nriatinns nassed were 81 20n for a