Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-04-15
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group, of the highly intellectual heads o
rs members, for the benefit Of pos,erity
The next business Of importance was the
passage of the following acts: An act tt
create State Department Of Insurance
to 60 into operation Jan. lst, 1871, having
Superintendent with salary Of $4,000
and deputy at $1,000 to be appointed by
the Governor; an act for the government
of Insane Asylums; an act approprlalint
$3.50 for the Agricultural College ant
Farm; and an act appropriating $4,000
to pay the expenses Of the grand reunion
Of Iowa soldiers at Des Moines, June LIST.
The House passed the bill granting the
Tetes DIES Morris lands 10 the Dubuque, Bel!
levue & Mississippi r. K. Co.; bill t"
punish and prohibit quackery in medicine
al act creating board of railroad com.
missioners bill regulating the leasing
and consolidation Of railroads; also res
olu,on appointing Jas. M'Queen, Joseph
Dysar', c. II. Conklin, W. G. Donnan and
! S. IL. Watson Trustees of the Blind Asy-
| lum. The House also submitted its col
lectivcly august pbysiognomy to the photo
grapher's manipulations whether at the
exper Sc Of the State or not, is not stated.
ArRlL THE following bills passed the
Senate; to compel railroad companies to
pos, rates Of tariff in all their deposs by
LIST Of July; to constitute township trus.
tees boards of equalization; to require
! counties instead Of cities to keep bridges
| in repair in certain cases 10 define duties
and fix compensation Of Co. Superintend-
ent; to authorize counties by vote to es-
.ablish high schools.
In the House the act to tax railroads
| was passed as finally agreed upon by the
gross earnings for the first $4,000 per mile,
yer cent; over $4,000 and under $4,000:
p per cent; over $4,000, 81 per cent.
Bills were also passed 10 tax the real and
personal property Of express aud telegraph
companies, and to enable townships, incor-
poraled towns and cities to aid in the con-
s,ructon of railroads.
APRIL ST. he Senate refused to concur
in the report Of the conference committee
respecting the taxation of railroads. Bills
were pissed authorizing the erection OF
| school districts onp ising territory in two
counties, aud increasing the compensation
of District Attorneys to $500. In the at-
ternoou the Senate concurred in the House
amendments to Capitol Appropriation bill
and the Supervisors bill.
The House refused to reccde from its
amendments to the bill making appropriation
for Insane Hospital at Independence, and
a committee o: conference consisting OF
Messrs. Dudley, Crawford and Miles was
appointed.
The Capitol Appropriation bill came up
and after amendments making G. NJ.
Dodge and J. F.. Wilson additional com
missioners, and requiring the census board
TO certify that no add tional tax will be re-
quired, it was passed By the following
vote:
Ayes-Applegatc, Bundy, Beresheim, Butler,
| Campbell Crawford, Day, DeGroat, Dunn,
Dunham Faville, Gibbons, IIartenbower, Hir-
schcr, Hood Hopkins, Hunter, Irish, Jones,
kasson, Realizes, hetchum, Lee, Marks, Nc
| Cam, McGayern, Merritt, Willard, Miller,
| Mills, Mirac e. Murdoch, Noel. O'Donnell Par
sons, Rogers, Rohlfs, Rowell, Satterthwait,
| Spencer, Stewart, Stone. Swan, TAFT, Taylor,
Teale, Tollivcr. TUFTS, Wood, Wright, Wright
| of Sac, Mr. Speaker-51
Nays-Arnoid, Ball, Beatty, Bell, Bigger,
Bonewtz, Brown of Fayette, Brown of Van
Buren,, Bu,tcrield, Carpenter, Carver, Chris
toph, Cults, Dickerson, Dudley, Dumont Ell
bert Evans, Green, Harper, Harrington, Har-
risop. Hartshorn, Haycock, Hobson, Hopkirk,
Huff, Lacey. Lommcn, Mahin, Miles Of Wash
inston, Miles of Wayne, Morrison, Newbold,
Norris, Pratt. K,sser, Russell, sanborn, Salter,
Snow, Stanchfeld, Stutsman Traer Warren,
WATSON, Williams and Wilson-l6.
The most intense interest was manifest.
ed by tie people who crowded the hall, and
the announcement Of the result was loudly
appauded. For the first time in three
months Des MONIES slept peacefully.
The Senate bill reducing the number OF
Supervisors to three, after amendment per
hitting counties to increase the number to
five or seven By vote of the people, was
passed. The House also after some debate,
accedcd to the Senate amendments to the
bill taxing railroads upon their gross re-
ceipts The bill as it finally passed both
Houses imposes per cent. upon the first
$4,000 per mile; 2 per cent. between s3,-
600 and $4,000, and three per cent. over
$4,000. Four-ittbs of the tax goes to the
counties in proportion to the miles of track
in each, and one-ffh to the State. Bridges
across the Mississippi to be taxed as other
property in their localities.
APRIL 9.--Senate not in session.
In the House quorum WAS with difficult
tv retained, and not much business was
done. The vote by which the University
bill was lost, was reconsiJcred and the bill
passed. The Senate bill aPpsopriat'ng
$4,000 for expenses Of soldiers reunion
at Des Moines, June lst, was passed, also
the Senate bill providing for the government
| of hospitals for insane.
A resolution to purchase 1900 copies OF
the legislative Bulletin was adopted. The
bill detaching Grundy county from the oh.
and attaching it to the llth Judicial Dis
trict was passed.
ArRIL 1.-The Senate was mainly oc.
cupied with the consideration of local bills.
Among others passed were bills legalizing
acts of the School District of Fa:rbank in
this county; bills tor the relief of Louisa
Marion and Harrison counties, for money
stolen from their respective safes. Bills
were also passed for the government of In
sane hospitals, for the government of State
University ard to allow counties to supply
Justices with Conklin's treatise.
In the House the resolution to subscribe
for 1900 copies of the Legislative Bulletin
was after some debate, passed by one ma
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