Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-03-04
cosson state Police Bill.

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by the senate judiciary committee.
with reference to the appointment of
special agents for the state depart
ment of justice for law enforcement.
an effort will be made to change the
measure SO that the agents shall be
under the direction of the attorney
general The action by the house in
placing the special agents under the
governor is charged by the temper
ance forces to be move by the liquor
forces to cripple the law enforcing
machine of the state SO that prohibit.
ton can not be enforced when the
mulct law dies Jan. /. 1916.
The drys of the legislature declare
that the change in the special agents
bill was another blunder by the vets
and that it makes all the more GER
tain that the temperance forces will
unite on Attorney General Cosson
for governor in 1916, as opposed to
Lieutenant Governor Harding, the
leader of the vets, who will be out
for governorship.
IL is known that Attorney General
Cosson considers the special agent
bill as passed by the house to be use.
less to the department of justice. For
this reason the senate will be asked
to remove the house amendment and
to send the bill back to the house.
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Governor Makes Appointments.
Governor Clarke sent these ap-
pointments to the senate for approx
al.
A. M. Deyoe, Garner, superintendent
OF public instruction, four year term.
William Dennis, Marion, state
board of parole. succeeding w. H.
Berry Of Indianola. six year term.
Paul Stillman, Jefferson, state board
of education, succeeding Roger Leav.
lit of Cedar Falls, six year term.
E. P. Schoentgen,. Council Bluffs,
reappointed state board OF education.
six year term.
Gardner Cowles, Des Moines, named
for full term state board of educa-
ton. six year term.
Ole o. Roe, reappointed state fire
marshal, term Of four years.
Governor Clarke explained that the
appointment Of Mr.. Stillman to sue
coed Mr.. Leayitt was only In line with
his policy that no member OF the
board should reside in a city where
one of the state schools is located
Mr.. Leavitt lives at Cedar Falls,
home OF the State Teachers college
Mr.. Stillman is an alumni of the Uni
yersity of Michigan, was speaker Of
the house in the Thirty-fourth gen.
eral assembly and is at present edi-
tor of the Jefferson Bee.
Mr.. Dennis is law graduate of the
University OF Iowa and former clerk
OF the district court of Linn county.
State Printer Denies Graft Charge.
General denial of the charge that
there is graft" in the Office OF state
printer has been made by Robert Hen
derson, state printer, Of Council
Bluffs. in preliminary statement be-
fore the retrenchment and reform
committee of the Iowa legislature.
The statement is in reply to the
| charge OF James NJ. Pierce, Des
Moines farm paper publisher, who
claims that the state can save $4,000
biennially by letting its printing on
J contract.
AS to the alleged excessive profits
Mr.. Henderson has the following to
say:
II do not deny that / make rea-
sonable profit on the work, and the
greater the volume of work the great
err the profit, of course But say to
you frankly that there is printed mat
ter that should not be printed and
that you should make provision for
stopping the waste"
Christian Scientists Aroused.
Christian Scientists will wage de-
termined fight on the bill by Repre-
sentative Freeman of Wapello TO IL
cense chiropractors in Iowa. A COM
mittee Of scientists appeared before a
meeting Of the house committee on
public health to protest against the
measure. J. L. Kendall, a well known
Des Moines practitioner, was spokes-
man. Through Attorney General Cos.
son provision has been added to the
bin that Injunction proceedings /can
be brought against all healers who
are not licensed by the state. This
is the part most strenuously object
ed to. While the Christian Scientists
claim that they are immune from
that sort of legislation by virtue OF
their form OF healing they do not
wish to be placed in the light OF per-
forming their ministrations unlawful
ly.
Change In Automobile Fees.
Representative c. l.. Anderson OF
Montgomery has prepared bill
which proposes change in the sys-
tenn of collecting fees for automobile
registration. At present the fees are
based on the horsepower OF the ma
chine. Anderson wants the fees to
be raised according to the wholesale
price of the car on the following ba-
sis: Cars costing $500 or less, Sc:
cars costing up to $500, 81; cars cost
ing up to $1,000, IS; cars costing up
to $500. So; cars costing up. to ST.
600, $40; cars costing up to $4,000.
$12; cars costing up to $4,000, SIS:
cars costing up to $4,000, $40; cars
costing more than $4,000. $40.
Favors sIIcinu Bounty.
The house committee on animal in
dustry reported for passage a bill
to cut down the bounty on wolves
from $40 for grown animals to $40
and 81 for cubs IN 80 The purpose