The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-04-09
final SESSION
ON APRIL II
Iowa. State Legislature, Votes to Hold
Final Session, Thursday April II
MAY Change Plan, However
RATHBUN INVESTIGATION OVER
Small Schools to Close, When There
is An Attendance Of Less Than
Seven Scholars at Same

DIES MONIES, April 7-(Special to
1.-THE Review)-The 38th general as
, lsembly is getting ready to adjourn. 1t
has been voted that the final session
will be on Thursday, April 18th. There
lmay be some important developments
Z Halter that will change this plan, but
this is not thought possible.
The Rathbun investigation has been
completed after the examination of 80
ior 40 witnesses whose knowledge OF
matters involved was both near and
, remote. Night sessions helped to con-
' serve time and thus made 1t possible
for members Of the Judiciary commit
tee to participate in legislative bust
ness during the forenoons. There
were no sensational developments in
the case unless the activity of the en-
tire bar in Ida county is rated as
surprise. Every lawyer in that coun-
ty seems to have been involved either
lin procuring the pardon or In help
ing to adjust matters afterwards so as
to keep any of the profession from be-
ing indicted 1t is generally believed
: that the summing of the case will
result in a rebuke to the governor for
not giving careful investigation of
claims for the pardon and his failure
to consult the board of parole; and
that 'Havner will be classified because
of the indictments held over the heads
OF, the Rathbuns to get them to con-
sent to revocation of the pardon.
, Not particle of evidence has been
adduced that shows that any money
went to the governor nor any one else
connected with the case except the
Ida Grove lawyer.
Sitting committees have been ap-
pointed in both house and senate and
, to these committees all bills will be
submitted from this time until the
close of the session. s.. &.
a Seven members of the senate sitting
committee were named by Lieutenant
lGovernor Moore as follows: Senators
Proudfoot of Warren, Frailey of Lee,
!, Newberry OF Clayton, Smith Of Mad
Iison, LeCompte of Wayne, Coburn of
lCherokee and Greenelf OF Clinton.
The eight members named by
!, Speaker McFarlane of the house are:7
Repres sentatives3 Griffin Of Woodbury.,
Langftt Of Adair, q Gilmore of Clay,
''1Klaus Of Delaware, W0rmley Of Plyl
. mouth, Davidson Of Page, Powers of
Crawford and Messer of Johnson
r. The resignation 81 w. ts!sAllen sec
iretary of state, brought to q focus
,[lect of duty and various and sundry'
|, shortcomings on the part of that Of
fetal. The resignation Is effective
July 1st. The document was given to
} the committee of the senate on de-
partmental affairs and by this COM
mittee presented to the governor who
} promptly accepted the resignation and
thereupon appointed Walter G. Ram
sey of Wright county to fill the un-
|expired term. Mr.. Ramsey has been
chief clerk Of the house for three ses-
sions Of the general assembly and is
a very efficient and capable official.
! He was a candidate for secretary of
state before the last primary but was
defeated by Allen. His appointment is
universally commended. j.! ,.Lj
" The one big measure to get through
the house was the road bill. A num-
ber Of amendments were added during
1.-THE discussion of the Committees re-
} lport and after the acceptance OF these
amendments the bill passed by a vote
Of. "a TO Al. The negative votes were
by Allyn, Anderson, Bradley, Coakley
Edginton, Epps, Finch, Findlay. Fin
ley, Francis, CARRIER of Decatur, Gilt
liner, Gunderson, Hook; Justice! kel.
D rlogg, Kern, Krohse,, 5Langfitt, Larson
of, Montgomery, Long, Miller Of Lucas,
Mills, Morrow, Neff, Newton. 1Oertel,
Parson. Rogers, Sayers, Scott OF Ap-
panoose, Springer, Sterling, Suther-
D land, Ulstad, Vance, Wander Ploeg
Wallace, Wilson, Windett and Young
1t is believed the bill will pass the
D senate by a safe majority. r a
One of the measures that attracted
much interest in the house is the SEN
D ate bill by the committee on banking
giving authority to the superintendent
Of banks to refuse charters for new
banks if in his judgment the commun-
D ity is already we'll served. A lengthy
discussion followed the presentation
of the bill for passage and the final
0 vote was 5S for and 46 against 1t was