The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-01-15

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j THE SPEAKER
After Much Good Natured Rivalry op
ponents to Black Hawk County's
1 Candidate Withdraw
FRIENDS OF, BOXING GET. BUSY
Sporting Editors on Every Daily Pa
per Boosting for Law LeaaIizing
Boxing-BiII Already Drafted
DES MONIES, Jan. 13-(Special tc
the Review)-After several days Of
intense but good natured rivalry in
an effort to round up votes enough tc
secure the nomination for speaker
all opposition to Arch MacFarlane, OF
Black Hawk who had big lead over
his opponents, was withdrawn and he
was given a unanimous endorsement.
Early in the contest Harrington, OF
Kossuth, Wormley, of Plymouth, and
Neff, of Pottawattamie, withdrew
leaving the contest between McFar-
lane and Finley, of Henry county. The
withdrawal of the other candidates
greatly strengthened McFarlane and
the withdrawal of Finley resulted FRI
day night preceding the caucus. In
releasing his friends from further sup
port Mr.. Finley issued the following
statement:
81 have withdrawn from the speak
erships race. The contest was a friend
lily one There frequently is injected
into such contests issues which tend
to dissension rather than harmony.
Fortunately that point had not been
reached and it has seemed best to
avoid such result
| "The public good should be para
mount to individual interests. Look
ing at the situation in broad way, it
has seemed to me, even though my
friends and supporters have been
hopeful of the result, that an unan-
imous election would inure to the use
fulness and efficiency of the legislat-
ure."
Some interesting side lights devel
oped in the contest for speaker. The
Iowa Homestead influence was bitterly
Opposed to Mr.. McFarlane. A meeting
of Representatives of half dozen farm
organizations passed vigorous resolu-
tions in opposition to him. A repre-
sentative of the Nonpartisan League
distributed circular throughout the
hotel lobby making all manner Of
threats if McFarlane was successful.
These attacks greatly strengthened
1.-THE Black Hawk man among the farm
Ter Legislators, many OF whom had
/ been with him from the start.
The caucus was held in the club
room at the Chamberlain. Walter C.
ed the assemblage to order.
Griffin of Woodbury. was chosen
chairman and Wormley of Plymouth
secretary Harrington of kossuth
placed McFarlane in nomination for
speaker and the motion was seconded
by, Finley of Henry. Mr.. McFarlane
was called in the presence of the
caucus and made an appropriate and
appreciated address,. H. J. Mantz of
Audubon was unanimously chosen as
speaker pro tenn. He also made a
brief response.
Walter C. Ramsey, of Wright coun-
Ity, for the past three terms chief
clerk, was chosen for another term
without opposition. %a>
| A committee was chosen, one men,
to name the other officials for the ses-
ber from each congressional district,
sion.
The democrats were permitted to
name officers in proportion to their
representation in the house.
Friends Of Boxing Get Busy
Sporting editors on every daily pa
per in Iowa are boosting for a law le-
galizing boxing. Hon. Frank G.. Lake,
one of the representatives from Wood
bury county and an attache Of Sioux
City daily, announces that he has
bill already drafted providing for a
boxing commission. this commission
to be clothed with power to permit
a boxing match when certain condi-
tions are complied with.
Matrimonial Laws to be Revised
. It now looks like there will be some
restrictions thrown around the grant
ing of marriage licenses. A number
of observing people have asked for a
law making it obligatory upon parties
contemplating marriage to make pub.
lie announcement of this fact five days
before application is made for license.
The object is to guard against elope-
ments and to give conscientious OBJ
jectors" a chance to be heard. Anoth-
er enactment that has large number
Of supporters is the passage of a law
that will require both parties to
wedding contract to pass a medical
examination and upon such a certifi-
cate from a duly accredited physician
a marriage license may be issued.
Wants State to Regulate Prices
A state commission to regulate food
prices in Iowa will be proposed at the
coming session of the legislature by
Rep. w. w. Epps of Ottumwa. The
commission, he declared, would oper-
ate similarly to, the national food ad-
ministration's price fixing department
and would attempt to secure the sale
against inflated prices, both wholesale
and retail. Mr.. Epps said he has not
worked out the details of his pro-
pOsal -. .tlt -
Blue Sky Law to be More Stringent
Iowa bankers through the legiSlat-