Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-01-20
pure stuff dumped into Iowa from
some other state.

pure stuff dumped into Iowa from
some other state.
! Governor Inaugurated Thursday
! Nate e. Kendall of Abba became
governor of Iowa on Thursday, Jan.
18th. 1t was a brilliant. assemblage
of interest to state officials, and citi-
gems gathered in the House cham
Der Thursday afternoon when Mr..
Kendall took the oath of office and
| John Hamill of Britt, in Hancock
, county, was sworn in as lieutenant
! governor. II was interesting to all
and to the state at large to learn
what the new governor would say in
! his first address as governor. This
has all been published heretofore,
and the hundreds of thousands Of
men and women, who voted for Ken
dali and Hammill, are pleased We
l.. Harding steps down and out of
the states service for the first time
in fourteen years. Regardless of all
other criticisms and charges that
have embarrassed him, he was
Iowa's war governor in most siren
uous time, and nobody intimates
| that he shirked his duty in that ca
pacity Some bad influences that
predominated in Iowa politics when
1 he took the governorship have also
| been eliminated in the wisdom of
the voters. and Iowa has not been
delivered to the Non-partisan league
nor TO the bolsheviki tendencies.
Legislation Coming Fast
Old members of the House and
Senate who have realized what is
most needed in legislation at this
session had the way prepared for
some emergency measures and rec
ord was made in getting a bill
through and signed by the governor.
On the printing bill presented at
/ Mondays session, action in che Sem
{, ate was secured by suspension of the
rules, and the same in the House.
Under this bill provision Of the old
state printing law setting a price
I fixed six years ago as the maximum
that may be paid for certain kinds Of
state printing, is set aside and the
state printing beard, which is the ex-
ecutive council, may authorize tenn
porary contracts for such printing
so that the legislative business may
go ahead. The agitation and malls
cious charges made against state
| printers in the past by one who Is
now passed on 20 less harm, had
almost stagnation in the states bus
mess for the past year, because no
printers could be found willing to
accept some of the states work at
| the figures allowed by the law. Over
hundred thousand dollars worth
of state printing remained undone
because of the obsolete prices fixed.
Then came a joint resolution to
speed up Code revision. II was pre-
sented by Senator Whitmore and It
provides that all bids presented at
this session which deal with Code
revision shall be numbered above
/ 270, and all bills OF a general na7
/ ture shall be numbered below that,
and that no bills other than appro-
priation or committee bills shall be
presented after February 18th. The
House amended this to make che lat
! ter date February 22d, and 1t went
| through. 1t Is stated that instead of
providing for Code revision at the
/ regular session now being held, this
| paves the way for a special session,
! which most of the members OF both
houses regard as necessary in order
TO carefully and judiciously revise
the Code. It is believed that regard
less of the recommendations OF the
governor the members will insist on
a special session to do this work aft
er, the present Code commission has
had time to go over and coordinate
the work OF this session with what
they have already done. That means
that along about the time the green
grass commences to peep through
the plazas of the capitol grounds