

IOWA. 



First, that some of the clerks were carried on two 

 pay rolls at the same time, receiving $3 or $4 a day 

 from the census fund, while .ir.iwmg pay as < 

 in the office of the Secretary of State in sums rang- 

 ing from $35 to $65 a month ; and. second, that M a 

 mimlMT ^-d on the census, on 



one pretext or another, through fear of dimissal, 

 were compelled to contribute of thoir earnings sums 

 m $10 to $:> a month to the then Secre- 

 tary of State. 



atagatton was also made of charges against 

 the State printer and bind, r. The report of the 

 majority ..f (ho committee said, in part: "The 

 prices charged for both mp.-ition and press 

 <>n various k mils of blanks has been exorbitant 

 in the cxt: ing from two to twenty times 



as much as exnert 'printers have testified that the 

 work could be done for n >n. and in 



the o| >mmittee then- arc more than 



a hundred Instances where these charges have been 

 unwarranted under the law and the bills .should not 

 paid." The minority report expressed 

 belief that the investigation had been " limited in 

 scope, partial and unfair in its manner of conduct," 

 and asked for another more complete and thorough. 



A bill was prepared by the committee and passed 

 which fixes the prices the State printer and Slat. 

 T shall receive for their work, after the terms 

 of the present officers shall have expired. 



ll.-n. Rudolph Lehfeldt, a State Senator for the 

 past four years, returned his salary for the extra 

 session of the legislature to the State. The sum 

 returned was f' .unt paid to the members 



for their labors in revising the 



Puhlie.itio,, of the < ode.-The Legislature 

 elected Chancellor Kmlin McClain annotaior of t la- 

 revised code. He had made annotations to the 

 fonner code which had been published under the 

 title "Mc( 'Iain's Annotated Code and Statutes of 

 Iowa." by a firm in Chicago. This firm now ap- 

 plied to the Federal court for injunctions against 

 him and against the State printer to restrain them 

 from publishing the new rode with hs annotations, 

 on the ground that the notes had been dipped from 

 rk published by them and formed the greater 

 part of those used in the new, and that in a clause 

 in the contract made with them in 1886 the editor 

 had agreed not to " prepare, edit, or cause to be 

 published in his name or otherwise, anything which 

 mav injure or interfere with the sale of the afore- 

 said )>ook." the last two words referring to M<-< 'Iain's 

 annotated code. The injunction was refused on 

 the ground, apparently, that the damage to the 

 Chicago publication was done by the revision of the 



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I'olitical.-An election was held Nov. 2 to fill 

 the oAoes of Governor, Lieutenant Gforentor, Judge 



of the Supreme Court, SujK-rintendent of I'ubiic 

 Instruction, Railroad Commi->ion..r. and memlx r^ 

 of the State Legislature. There were six tick 

 the field, a fusion ticket on which the fn, 

 forces were united, and Republican, National I 1 

 cratic. People's, Prohibition, and Socialist -I^abor 



eta. 



A free-silver conference was held in May. and, 

 according to an agreement made there, the Demo- 

 crats, Republicans, and Populists who were in favor 

 of free coinage held conventions at the same time. 

 28, in Des Moines. All nominated the same 

 ticket, on which each party was represented, i 

 convention adopted its own platform, all agreeing 

 in demanding free- < . i , , r : also in arraign- 



ing the Rei for extravagance and mis- 



management in State affairs, and for legislation fa- 

 voring corporal ions. The "antifuHon law" passed 

 by the last Legislature was denounced in the Popu- 

 list platform. The Democratic and Populist resolu- 



ained the following on the so-called 

 pie amendment " : 



"We demand that the statute in operation in 

 Iowa for more than a generation, holding 

 railroad corporation to strict liability f. : 

 injury to employees through the acts o: 

 other employees, shall be restored accord n- t.> its 

 n-inal benelirent spirit." 



White was nominated for <i. \,n 

 A. Plummer for Lieutenant <.o\n: kinne 



for.l'. 'if Sujin-me t'ourt.li. K. Rhineharl 



for Slate Superintendent, ami Kail- 



road :. 'legation of " Mid-: 



.lists withdrew from theconv. : 

 nal Democrats held a Slate convent ion 

 at Des Moines, .Inly 7. The resolutions called for 

 economy in public expenditures, and a board of 

 control for the State institutions, and condemned 

 the prohibitory and mulct laws. Following was 

 also among the declarations of the plat form : 



-The doctrines of paternalism, class legislation, 

 and debased coinage, to which each of the three 

 contractile v.aking up the free-silver. 



ulistic triple alliance in this State have recently 

 pledged themselves in their several platform 

 as abhorrent to every true l> dien advo- 



cated by I'opulist- under the name ,.f I > mocracy 

 as When taught by Republican-. Democracy is a 

 necessary foe of each, and we repudiate them as un- 



W. I. Mabb; Railroad Commission. < 

 State Superintendent. .1. I',. Knoellcr. 



The Prohibitionists met in convention at Des 

 Moines, July 27, with about 300 delegates. The fol- 

 lowing were among the resolutions : 



"We declare that the so-called regulation by 

 licence, mulct, or taxation whereby a revenu. 

 rived from this trallic i- contrary to good govern- 

 ment, is complicity with the liquor crime, and cor- 

 rupting the public conxei. 



l-erience teaches us that any political i 

 not openly opposing this traffic will court tin- : 

 of the liquor intere-K and will .shape legislation to 

 secure or retain this support. 



"We demand that every citi/cn of the 1'nited 

 States shall be alloweil to east a free and unrestrict- 

 ed ballot at all public elect ions, and that such bal- 

 lots shall be returned as cast, and that this sov. 

 right, shall be denied to no citixen on account of 

 sex." 



The ticket nominated was: For <Joven 

 L. Katon : Lieutenant Governor. M. \\ 



Superintendent. Mr-. M. II. Dunham : Sui 

 Judge, N. T. Hellyer; Railroad Comm. 

 U. Coates. 



It was d thai I)r. Kaion hal not been a 



resident of the State luni: enough to l>e eligible 



under the law. and the r... I'. Leland was 



substituted. 



The Republican convention met at Cedar lia- 



n -olution*. reaffirmed the priu- 

 <f the party, and praised the national and 

 administrations. < MI the railroad que-ti.,n. the 

 Temple amendment, the following declaration was 

 adopted : 



We believe in the justice of tho*e laws hereto- 

 fore enacted by Republican legislature^ serurinir to 

 employees of railwa fhl to indemnity for 



personal injuries resulting from negligence, and we 

 favor such legislation as it 



_'ht and prevent its impairment or 

 nullification in i ; irit." 



The ticket was as follows: For Governor, I 

 M. Shaw; Lieutenant Governor, J. ('. Milliman : Su- 

 preme Judge, Charles M. Waterman ; Railroad Com- 



