UNITED STATES 'OF AMERICA. 



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sent, or to hunt or shoot game or song birds on 

 Sunday. 



There is also a new and stringent fish law. 



To encourage the study of agriculture, horti- 

 culture, economic entomology, and agricultural 

 chemistry, provision was made for county insti- 

 tutes, prescribing the duties of trustees and facuU 

 ty of Purdue University in connection therewith, 

 and making an appropriation of $10,000. 



Hereafter town officers are to be elected for 

 terms of two years, in May of the odd-numbered 

 years, one-half of those chosen at each election 

 to take office immediately, and the other half 

 the following year. 



For the expenses of the session $115,000 was 

 appropriated. The total of appropriations was 

 $350,000 less than that in 1899. 



Among other enactments were these: 



Providing for the sanitation of all food-produ- 

 cing establishments and the health Of the opera- 

 tives and the purity of the food-products thereof. 



Amending the tax law by providing for taxa- 

 tion of pipe-lines, fast freight lines, lines of oil- 

 cars, refrigerator-cars, and for the shipment of 

 horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, and other kinds of 

 freight. 



Providing for the establishment, maintenance, 

 and increase of public libraries in cities or incor- 

 porated towns, and for the levying of a tax for 

 such purposes. 



Providing for the taxation of steamship and 

 navigation companies. 



Amending the act for the settlement and dis- 

 tribution of decedents' estates. 



Providing that illegitimate children who have 

 been acknowledged by the parent shall inherit as 

 others. 



For the relief of the poor. 



Making the United States flag the flag of the 

 State. 



Providing a minimum wage-rate of 15 cents 

 an hour for unskilled labor employed on any pub- 

 lic work of the State, counties, cities, and towns. 



Defining kidnaping and prescribing punish- 

 ment therefor. 



Granting permission for the erection of a statue 

 in University Square, in Indianapolis, to the mem- 

 ory of Abraham Lincoln, in accordance with a 

 request in the will of the late Henry C. Long. 



Appropriating $250 to make a record of home 

 guards that served in the civil war. 



For protecting the liberty, safety, and health 

 of labor relating to factory inspection. 



To prevent improper use of the United States 

 flag. 



Authorizing cities of 3,500 and not more than 

 4,000 to accept custody and control of established 

 libraries. 



The Supreme Court affirmed the constitution- 

 ality of the law giving the wages of working men, 

 to the extent of $50, a preference over other forms 

 of indebtedness in the case of an employer whose 

 business has been suspended by the action of 

 creditors. 



IOWA, a Western State, admitted to the Union 

 Dec. 28, 1846; area, 56,025 square miles. The 

 population, according to each decennial census 

 since admission, was 192,214 in 1850; 674,193 in 

 1860; 1,194,020 in 1870; 1,624,615 in 1880; 1,911,- 

 896 in 1890; and 2,251,829 in 1900. Capital, Des 

 Moines. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1901: Governor, Leslie M. Shaw; Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, J. C. Milliman; Secretary of 

 State, W. B. Martin; Treasurer, G. S. Gilbertson; 

 Auditor, Frank F. Merriam ; Attorney-General, 

 C. W. Mullan; Superintendent of Public Instruc- 



t General, M. If. By- 

 WHfoiiu; Alowry, E. 



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tion, R. C. Harre1t ; A-ljiMai 

 crs; Railroad Comiiii. i';ii< i 

 A. Dawson, David .1. |',.|) 

 sioncr, C. F. Wenricrst run 

 Calvin; Fish and Game (', (l 

 Delevan, succeeded April I i 

 Secretary of the State !',,; 

 Kennedy; Secretary of the Si; 

 culture, George 11. Van lloute 

 sioncr, B. P. Norton; Custodian, .1 

 raugh; Librarian, Johnson Brigh; 

 Commissioners, D. F. Johnston, Mrs. I). \v 

 ris, Mrs. H. M. Towner, Miss Jessie B. Wait, 

 retary of the Executive Council, A. H. D.I. 

 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Josiah Give;. 

 Associate Justices, Scott M. Ladd, Emlin Me- 

 Clain, C. M. Waterman, H. E. Deemer, J. C. Sher- 

 win; Clerk, Christopher T. Jones. All are Repub- 

 licans. 



A State election is held every November, but 

 the term of State officers is two years, the Gov- 

 ernor, Lieutenant- 

 Go vernor, Super- 

 intendent of In- 

 struction, 1 judge 

 of the Supreme 

 Court, and 1 rail- 

 road commissioner 

 being chosen in 

 the odd-numbered 

 years, and the Sec- . 

 retary, Auditor, ; 

 Treasurer, Attor- , 

 ney - General, a 

 judge, and a rail- 

 road commission- 

 er in the alternate 

 years. 



The Legislature 

 meets in January 

 of the even-num- 

 bered years. If 

 the amendment 

 noted below had 

 been valid, the 

 members would 



have been chosen at biennial elections in the 

 even-numbered years, and the sessions would 

 have been held in the following years. 



Constitutional Amendment Invalid. An 

 amendment providing for biennial elections was 

 carried at the polls in November, 1900, by a ma- 

 jority of 25,591. It was discovered after the elec- 

 tion that the amendment had not been recorded 

 in the Legislature according to the forms required 

 by the Constitution, which says that amendments 

 proposed shall be agreed to by a majority of the 

 members of the two houses and shall be entered on 

 their journals. The amendment in question was 

 not recorded on the House journal of the twenty- 

 seventh General Assembly. A suit was brought 

 in Washington County to test its validity. The 

 decision was against it, and this was affirmed by 

 the Supreme Court Feb. 3. If the amendment 

 had been declared valid, the further question 

 would have come up for settlement whether the 

 new provision should be held to extend the terms 

 of officials holding office in 1900, In order to 

 avoid any question as to the legality of the offi- 

 cial acts of the new officials, the Secretary of 

 State and the Treasurer resigned at the begin- 

 ning of the year and their successors-elect were 

 appointed. 



Census Figures. A late census bulletin show 

 that the foreign-born population is 305.920. There 

 are 12.693 negroes, 104 Chinese, 7 Japanese, anil 

 382 Indians. Of the men of militia age, 31.4 per 



ALBERT B. CUMMINS, 

 GOVERNOR OF IOWA. 



