The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-03-09
LEGISLATIVE.

In the Senate, on the Goth ult., the
House bill in relation to tho Warden of the Ana
mosa Pcnitentiary passed, as were also the
bills to restrain vagrancy and common beggary
and the bill requiring students in the law school
TO attend two years before receiving diplomas .
In the House there was some excitement over res
olution 10 appoint an investigating committee 10
examine Into the AnamOsa peuitentiary. After sew
eral speeches the whole matter was tabled The
entire afternoon was devoted to discussion of the
bill to restore capital punishment The friends OF
the bill had majority, and voted down all amend
mentS progressed by the minority, who resorted TO
much tlibustering, and the House ad journed. The
only amendment made to the bill was that when a
majority of the jury so recommend, the Judge
may. at his discretion, commute to imprisonment
for life.
In the Senate, on the 1st, the session
was mainly occupied over bill to create the new
Fourteenth Judicial District which finally passed
"A large number Of Senate bills were read in
the House and appropriately referred. The bill to
restore capital punirhmcnt was ordered engrossed
81 to 81. The Senate bill to punish three card
monte players was slightly amended and passed
In the Senate, on the I'd, Senator
Rothert was elected President pro tenn Several
private bills were passed. In the House. the
Railroad Committees to 6-resolved to recon-
mend to the House the bill known as Bushs bill
repeating the present tariff rates. Sundry bills
passed to 4 second reading The State Auditor re-
ported that there had been appropriated, from 1858
to 1876 Ss.O6,6s1 to the State University and S2l9-
1883 to the State Agricultural College. The bill
npprOpriating $1,000 to the State Agricultural
Society, was taken up, pending which the House
adjourned.
In the Senate, on the Sd, bills passed
authorizing cities and towns to vote to aid rail-
roads; providing for the establishment OF County
High Schools; providing for publishing proposed
amendments to the Constitution; authorizing a
jury fee of So. The bill for the appointment OF
considered
referred back to the committee. The
Capital Punishment bill was taken up
mp and postponed-25 to 20 In the House tho
bill providing for levy of one and one-haf mill
tax, for the support OF the poor, in counties not
exceeding GOO inhabitants. was passed. The bill
to resume the land grant to the McGregor & Sioux
CITY Railroad was taken up, pending which the
House adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 4th, but single
session was held. A number of bills were intro.
duced Bills passed-relative to life insurance of
persons addicted to habits of intoxication,
to prevent injustice to the assured; to au-
,horize cities and towns to adjust and settle
bonded Indebtedness; relating to the Four
teenth judicial District. In the House
bills passed-providing for the election Of
officers of cities having 10000 Inhabitants for the
selection OF swamp lands; appropriating 5000 to
the State Agricultural Society FOR the publication
of proposed constitutional amendments; regulat-
ing the right of railroad companies to change their
routes. resolution demanding a rigid investi-
CATION into the Belknap matter was referred TO
the Committee on Federal Relations.
THE Senate was not in session on the
9th . In the Assembly bills were passed-mak-
ing the legal weight OF n bushcl of coke thirty
eight pounds; requiring judges or clerks Of cleo
ti0ns to make returns to County Auditors; requir
ing Road Supervisor" to qualify in fifteen days
The Revenue bill and the bill establishing the rate
tionaI majority This leaves it optional with the
Executive Council TO fix the rute for State pur-