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and October of each year, and in case of failure a 

 penalty of 20 per cent, shall be added, together 

 with 1'per cent, per month. Tax sales shall be 

 held by the county treasurer the first Monday in 

 June and December, at which time all property 

 on which taxes for the sale of liquor have be- 

 come a lien shall be offered for sale. Revenue 

 from this tax shall be paid into the county treas- 

 ury, and one half shall go to the general county 

 funds and one half to the municipality. It is 

 made the duty of the county attorney to see that 

 this act is enforced. In cities of 5,000 or more 

 the tax may be paid quarterly, and such pay- 

 ment shall be a bar to proceedings under the 

 prohibitory law. It is required that a resolution 

 consenting to such sales must be adopted by the 

 city councils, and it, together with a written 

 statement of consent of resident freeholders 

 owning property within 50 feet of the premises 

 where the business is carried on, must be filed 

 with the county auditor. No saloon shall be 

 located within 800 feet of a church or a school- 

 house. The sale of liquors must be in a single 

 room with but one entrance, and that opening 

 on a public business street. No games are to be 

 allowed in this or adjoining rooms, and no woman 

 or girl is to be employed in the place. No sale 

 of intoxicating liquors shall be made to any per- 

 son whose wife, husband, parent, child, brother, 

 sister, guardian, ward over fourteen years of age, 

 or employer shall, by written notice, forbid such 

 sales. 



Nothing in this act contained shall be in any 

 way construed to mean that the business of the 

 sale of intoxicating liquors is in any way legal- 

 ized. In any city of 5,000 or more inhabitants 

 the act may become operative by the consent of 

 65 per cent, of the voters, expressed in a written 

 statement. Such consent will be a bar to pro- 

 ceedings under the prohibitory statute. 



A stringent law was made to regulate the use 

 of imitations of butter and cheese. 



Other measures of the session were : 



Providing penalty of line or imprisonment for 

 making contracts for keeping people from voting, or 

 paying for services on election day. 



To prevent and punish prize fighting. 



Prohibiting sale of cigars, cigarettes, or tobacco to 

 minors under sixteen vears of age, imposing penalty 

 of $5 to $100. 



Providing for funding floating debts of counties. 



Establishing a school of mines in connection with 

 the Agricultural College. 



Providing penalties for trespass of hunters on in- 

 closed or cultivated lands. 



Making $3,000 maximum compensation of sheriifs 

 in counties of over 45,000, and $2,300 in others of over 

 28,000. 



Appropriating $5,000 for the geological survey. 



Increasing the number of judges of the Supreme 

 Court to 6. 



Appropriating $10,000 for the office of dairy com- 

 missioner. 



To declare void the 80-per-cent. clause in fire in- 

 surance policy, and to deny to companies employing 

 that clause the right to do business in the State. 



To provide for the payment of wages of workmen 

 in mines, and to protect them in the control of their 

 own earnings. 



Conferring on women the right to vote on issuance 

 of bonds or increase of tax levy in cities, towns, and 

 school districts. 



Creating a commission to revise and codify the 

 laws. 



Joint resolutions were adopted on the follow- 

 ing subjects among others: 



To amend the Constitution relative to manufacture 

 and sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage. 



Appointing commissioners for promoting uniform- 

 ity in legislation in the United States. 



In relation to the improvement of the Missouri 

 river at Council Blutfs. 



For constructing a canal in the Mississippi river to 

 Illinois river at Hennepin. 



Political. The Republican State Convention 

 met July 25 at Des Moines. The resolutions 

 condemned the tariff policy of the national Ad- 

 ministration, favored the more stringent enforce- 

 ment of the immigration laws and liberality in 

 the granting of pensions, and said on the silver 

 question : 



We reaffirm our belief that "the interests of the 

 country, its farmers and workingmen, demand that 

 every dollar, paper or coin, issued by the Govern- 

 ment, shall be as good as any other dollar. We fa- 

 vor the largest possible use of silver as money that 

 is consistent with the permanent maintenance of 

 equal values of all dollars in circulation. We do not 

 want monometallism, either of gold or of silver, and we 

 pledge ourselves to continue to work for bimetallism, 

 to be brought about by all fit means within the power 

 of the Government. 



The ticket put in nomination follows: For 

 Secretary of State, William M. McFarland : Au- 

 ditor, C. G. McCarthy ; Treasurer, John Herri- 

 ott; Judge of the Supreme Court, H. E. Dee- 

 mer ; Judge of the Supreme Court, to fill vacancy, 

 Charles T". Granger; Attorney-General, Milton 

 Remley; Railroad Commissioner, C. L. David- 

 son; Clerk of the Supreme Court, Christopher 

 T. Jones; Supreme Court Reporter, Benjamin 

 I. Sallinger. 



The State Convention of Democrats met 

 Aug. 2. The platform declared allegiance to 

 that of the National Democratic Convention of 

 1892, and called for the carrying out of its prin- 

 ciples ; approved the national Administration, 

 and attributed the financial depression to the 

 preceding Administration ; favored election of 

 United States Senators by direct vote of the peo- 

 ple : and declared for the use of gold and silver 

 as the standard money of the country without 

 discrimination against either or charge for mint- 

 age; "but the dollar unit for coinage of both 

 metals must be of equal intrinsic and exchange- 

 able value, and we demand that all paper cur- 

 rency shall be kept at par with and redeemable 

 in such coin." 



It denounced the A. P. A., and in reference to 

 State issues condemned the Mulct Law, favored 

 repeal of the prohibitory law and the establish- 

 ment of local option by majority vote, demanded 

 that State institutions be placed under the man- 

 agement of a nonpartisan board of control, and 

 condemned the increase of the tax levy of the 

 State. The nominations were : For Secretary of 

 State. H. F. Dale ; Auditor, B. C. Benham ; Treas- 

 urer, L. W. White ; Supreme Court Judges, John 

 Claggitt and Edward W. Mitchell; Attorney- 

 General, J. D. F. Smith ; Railroad Commission- 

 er, John C. Cole ; Clerk of the Supreme Court, 

 T. F. Ward ; Reporter, J. J. Shea. 



The People's party held its State convention 

 at Des Moines, Sept. 4. The resolutions declared 

 in favor of free and unlimited coinage of silver 



