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 that is generous enough to invite to her borders every class of respectable persons, that is just enough to protect the person and property of every one of her citizens and wise enough to exercise a practical control over a traffic that to-day is unrestrained in most of her centers of population.”

All attempts to enact a local option license law in accord with the recommendation of Governor Boies, were defeated.

Acts were passed to prevent the formation of trusts; to regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors for lawful purposes; to reduce the legal rate of interest from ten to eight per cent.; to provide for State bank examiners; to establish a State Historical Department; to provide for an exhibit at the Columbian Exposition to be held at Chicago in 1893; to provide for the erection of a soldiers’ monument. Additional powers were conferred upon the Railway Commissioners. A United States Senator was to be elected at this session and there was a strong element which desired the election of Governor Larrabee to that important position. The great service he had rendered the people in bringing the railroads under the control of law rendered him the most popular public official in Iowa and a large majority of the citizens strongly desired to have him retained in the public service. He declined, however, to enter the contest for United States Senator against Mr. Allison who was nominated by the Republican caucus for reëlection; notwithstanding which many of the members of the General Assembly cast their votes for Larrabee for Senator. Allison was reëlected for another term of six years; most of the Democrats voting for S. L. Bestow.

The Republican State Convention met at Sioux City on the 25th of June, 1890, and nominated the following candidates for the various offices: Secretary of State, W. M. McFarland; Auditor, J. A, Lyon; Treasurer, B. A. Beeson; Judge of Supreme Court, J. H. Rothrock; Attorney-General, J. Y. Stone; Clerk of Supreme Court, G. B. Pray; Reporter Supreme Court, N. B. Raymond;