Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-02-17
LEGISLATORS S1lS
UP SOME SCANDhss
STATE DEPARTMENTS NOW UN,
DER INSPECTION. SEVERAL
CITED TO APPEAR

pie have been much agitated the
past week because of investigations
being made by the departmental af-
fairs committees of both houses, and
charges of malfeasance in office or
graft, or plain Incompetence in some
cases.
The departmental affairs commit
tee was appointed first in the Senate
two years ago when Senator Holdoe-
gel of Rockwell City was made chair
man. Senator Holdoegel is digger.
He also smells a rat where there is
one around He keeps more steno-
graphers and clerks busy than any
man in the General Assembly. 1t was
his work that created senation two
and four years ago when he dug up
the records of one supreme court
justice and showed alleged lack of
attention to duty. He started inves-
LEGATIONS on Secretary of State AL
len and some other officials. This
session he is not head of the depart
mental affairs committee but his
work heretofore has been guide to
the present committee with Senator
Anderson of Greene county as the
head.
The result has been a calling on
the carpet the past week of Superin-
tendent of Public instruction Nc
Clenahan, and of w. p. Barney, food
and dairy commissioner. Charges
intimated against the banking and
insurance departments have also
caused comment. Nothing official
has been reported against either de-
partment, 1t is said, but the heads,
Insurance Commissioner A. G. Saw
age and Banking Commissioner Hen
derson, have demanded prompt and
full investigation of their depart
ments. They say they have nothing
to conceal and they do not propose
70 stand under shady newspaper ac-
cusation any length of time, which
all will agree to.
Witnesses before the committee
have simply been grilled on points
brought out in the rumor. Saper-
intendent McClenahan admits taking
$50 fees for addressing teachers in
stitutes, but claims 1t is precedent
established in that office and that
Ae has a right to such fee. Ex-Supt.
Deyoe is understood to deny that he
ever took or accepted pay for ad-
dressing Institutes. Some question
is raised regarding his travelling ex-
penses and fees, also.
AS to Commissioner Barney's dairy
and food department there have been
always rumors and charges that GER
tain officials therein were not full
filling their duties, and the recent
milk Investigation at Cedar Rapids,
and the fight made on Barney by the
Cedar Rapids Gazette, make the pres
emf matter serious. 1t is big de-
partment and the investigation can
and should occupy some time and be
complete, so some of the solons say
All this is in line with the wish of
the voters last year when they de-
manded a cleaning OF the state house
They trusted Kendall to do 1t, and
according to all reports, he is will
ing.
Chiropractic Bill Passed.
One of the biggest fights of the
session was in the Senate last Thurs
day over the chiropractic bill, and
after three hours of steady battling
the bill was passed in the Senate
by three majority. 1t has stin to be
taken up in the House, and the Chi
ropractors of the state are very
much interested in having 1t get
across this year. For six years this
bill has been before the legislatures.
1t is an act to provide a special board
of examiners to have charge of the
examination and licensing of chiro-
practors in this state, that is all. The
medical doctors and others have OPP
posed it on the ground that the
chiros are not sufficiently educated
and trained to treat dieases of the
human body, and also that the perm
anent state board of medical exam
liners should pass upon the applica-
lions for chiropractors. The point at
issue is really between the needles
and the chiros, the latter claiming
they have demonstrated sufficient
success to entitle them to legal
standing in the state as practition--
ers.
The Balky Bronchos
"You may lead a horse to the
trough yet you cannot make him
drink" applies to a legislative as
sembly with equal effect. Instead of
but one horse standing by the bub-
bling cool water refusing 20 take
nourishment, sticking his nose down
into the water and then snortfng oc-
casionally, We have here over 15C
who have been nthe habit of having
their own way, who refue to drink
so long as there appears TO be hal
ter and a trap between them and lib
erty. These bronchos come from SO
different counties. In their own To-
calities they have fought their fights
and have become the leaders of their
own particular herds. They come to
dntn In
alton of fighting every other broncno
to the finish, either individually or
collectively, until they have estab-
lished their own leaderships. Nat
urally at the beginning OF every ses-
sion and continuing for weeks there
is battle royal among the determin-
ed bronchos for individual posses
sion of the green paseures and the
choice positions at the crib and
trough AS time goes on the individ-
ual member learns THAI while he may
have achieved applause back home
as a high-school performer or as
single-footer, at the state house he
finds $50 others who have also made
records of equal brilliancy and who
insist on occupying the stall reg prved
for the star performer. 1t takes
days, sometimes. for him to learn
that he must place his shafts and
saddle in the discard and work in
double harness IL he expects to get
any place with the load. Gradually
he learns that team work is the only
system and the team with the great
est number pulls into market with
the largest cargo of borax. There
are always a few at the end OF ses-
sion who remain untamed broncos
and make strenuous efforts to kick
the vehicles to pieces because OF the
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