Manchester Democrat., 1919-01-22
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ton was made unanimous on motion
of Douglas Rogers of Carroll county,
minority leader, and there was never
any opposition to Chief Clerk Ramsey,
who is recognized and trusted and ad-
mired by all factions in this House
as he has been in those of the past two
or three sessions. With Mr.. Ramsey
at the desk are two men in the Amer
ican army uniform, while over in the
Senate Capt Thos. Waters, now with
| the army in France, was elected sec
retary, with A. c. Gustafson acting for
him pro tenn pending Capt. Waters
return from the service. Also at the
desk in the Senate stand Will j. Price
in the navy uniform and Lieut.. Gerald
e. Miller in the army uniform.
Senator Wallace H. iArney retains
wonderful popularity in the. Senate
and has been again elected president
protein of that body. Senator Arney
is an able assistant for Lieut.. Gov.
Moore and both have the entire con-
fidence Of the members.
New Laws Suggested.
The insurance laws will get some
vital action, no doubt The repeal OF
the insurance regulation law two years
ago left the state without any rate law
whatever, and the result of free range
has been manifest in the past year.
A new automobile license law is
among the essential acts that should
be passed by this legislature. One
will be introduced to change this sys-
te1f of paying auto licenses and let
each county treasurer collect the same
as other taxes, issuing numbers from
his office.
TO revise the Code of Iowa will be
another problem
Some members say that Attorney
General Havner's state agents will get
bumped at this session by refusal to
appropriate the money used to keep
them going. BY the way, State Agent
Criss of Sac City has been relieved OF
his office and r. G. Saunders OF
Manila appointed as a regular state
agent in his place.
been feminist" the non-partisan judi
ciary law, and last session and the one
before that some attempts were made
to repeal it. This time 1t will go.
Senator Price of Monroe county will
get its hide if he can, and, he is some
getter. Others will go after the rest
of the primary laws with a view to
amending the same, and keeping
considerable part of the machinery IN
operation, but this non-partisan judi
ciary is to go entirely it is said, and
district and supreme court judges will,
if it accomplished, be nominated here
after by caucus, conventions and con-
ferences as under the system that
maintained before B. l. Salinger fixed
up this plan of taking the judges out
Of politics and getting elected under
it.
And another thing might be forecast
ed nOw-out of the war in Europe may
come female suffrage in Iowa. Even
Governor Harding champions the
cause for the same reasons and with
luc SdiIlS ulhChto uoSu w
Wilson, when he says that if we are to
teach democracy to the nations across
the fater we must first have it here
at home.
People who have been SO persist
emily solicited by statesmen to buy
stock in this, that and the other thing
in the past year or more, with sales
men offering them wonderful gilt-edge
securities in exchange for their Lib
erty Bonds (and sometimes parting
with them) will be glad to learn that
Senator Holdogel of Rockwell City
has started on bill that If passed will
stop a lot of that kind Of business. At
present if worthless stocks can be sold
to people the agent may get 80, 40, 80
or any other per cent commission for
selling 1t. The senator's proposed new
law will limit them to five per cent
or thereabouts, thus making It less OF
an object for any man to argue, lie or