Vote Count Confirms McKinley Victory in Congress
The joint session at the capitol counted the electoral votes, confirming William McKinley for president and Garret Hobart for vice president. The ceremony lasted about 50 minutes with all official actions closing without incident.
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Legislative Progress in Des Moines House and Senate
A busy week in the Iowa legislature features resolutions to form committees for investigating state offices and state printing costs. Bills advance on county superintendents, education standards, and taxation, with debates over divorce provisions, school curricula, and the financing of state normal schools.
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Code Committee
Iowa News in Briefs From Across the State
Feb. reports from Des Moines to Mason City cover church consecration in Cheyenne, a $5,000 breach verdict, a life term for a murder convict, Iowa postmaster nominations, a bound over for using canceled stamps, a Walford store fire mystery, economy moves in Des Moines, a manual insurance convention, health concerns of a banker, beet sugar discussions, a Walford murder-linked fire, rising thefts near Mount Pleasant, orphan home legal battles, a planned Pacific short line survey, and legislative code work on lawyer limits.
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Novak
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Sioux City
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Hubbel Offers Settlement To End Water Service Dispute
Des Moines February 8 President Hubbel of the water company proposes a joint management plan with one city trustee and two company trustees to run the works. The firm would fund its $15,000 debt with a single 4 percent mortgage, accept the city tax remission, provide free fire protection, and create a sinking fund from profits to retire the debt. The company says it will not grant changes and the proposal may be rejected without amendments.
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Another Special Session Likely For Town Legislature
The article notes a second special session is expected this year to finish core revisions by spring. It explains laws from special sessions take effect after 90 days post adjournment, and proposes adjourning until December 31 with sine die to finalize the code and inform the public.
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Suit Over Bank Paper Sparks Protracted Dispute
A petition filed against C L Kabler seeks the return of 859000 in paper taken from a bank just before its failure. Kabler claims he acted as trustee with directors consent to secure bonds and deposits totaling 845000. The court ordered notice to city county and Odd Fellows attorneys, hinting at a long contest and possible return of collateral to the receiver. Meanwhile Iowa butter and egg men convened to press price relief and oppose carload rate reductions, with reports of trust actions and regional shipments expanding across multiple states.
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Febburn
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Kahler
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City
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Silverites Issue An Address Urging Union Of White Metal Forces
The Iowa free silverites issue an address to the state following a December conference of Democrats Populists and free silver Republicans. A committee of three from each party prepared the document signed by leaders Murphy Feist Weaver Bellanger Brewster Connor Wilson Romans. The address calls for continued union on a separate organization basis, synchronized state conventions and joint campaigns, and asserts that lasting prosperity requires a bimetallic currency.
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John 8. Murphy
A. Feist
J. B. Weaver
J. Bellanger
A. Brewster
William Connor
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