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IOWA LEGISLATURES.
pEcrAL CORRESPONDENCE or COURIER
Dies MONIES. March 8. 1878

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In the Senate to-day, petitions were
presented by Senators Hartman, Lew
ellen, Russell and Kimball, agains,
the repeal Of the railroad tariff law.
The bill requiring boards Of super.
visors to cancel the unpaid taxes vot'
cd In aid Of railroads between the
first day Of January 1868 and the hrsi
day Of January 1876 was passed. II
seems that that there 10 quite On
amount Of taxes due on such railroads
In different portions Of the State
which only serve ~ liens upon lands
and It has, therefore, been thought
best to provide for their cancellation,
hence the passage of this bill.
The bill 70 regulate the per diem
and mileage of trustees Of State in
situations, members of the visiting
committees to hospitals for the insane
and regents Of the State University
was passed, fixing the per diem uni
formly at $4.0O per day, and the mile
age at 5 cents per mile for the dis
lance necessarily travelled back and
forth.
Tho bill fixing the fees of justices
Of the peace in criminal cases was
passed, making quite q reduction
from those now allowed.
Considerable debate was caused
over the the bill to appropriate $1,000
per annum for tho establishment of .
central station Of the Iowa Weather
Service but the bill passed by . de-
cisive vote.
The bill reducing the allowance for
the inmates of the Deaf and Dumb
Asylum from $40 per quarter to $25
and making an appropriation of
$1,000 instead of ST. 600 ~ heretofore
was taken up and passed.
On Thursday, ct 8 P. M. the House
passed the bill creating . board Of
railroad commissioners and repeal
ing the present tariff law. The
prominent speakers for the bill were
1essrs. Manning, of Carroll, Stone,
Rickel, Parker, Ure and King, and
those sgainst it Messrs. O'Donnell,
Alford, Brooke, Hotchkiss and Yoran.
The following is the vote by which it
was passed:
Yeus--Allen, Baker, Barrett, Boil
ton, Bowdish, Bradley, Carson, Clay
ton, Coomes, Duncan, Elliott, Fast,
Gleason, Gordon, Hadley, Hallock,
Hamilton, Higgins, Hoag, Israel.
Jamison, johnson, King, Kopp, Les
senger, Lyman, McAllister, Mozart
ney, Macy, Mallory, Manning of Car
roll, Manning of Winneshiek, Miles,
Nichol, Parker, Paul, Peake, Rhode,
Rickel Russell, Scott, Seeley, Sey-
mour, Sherrard, Stone, Taylor, Up
degraff, Ure, Warnock, Wells, Will
SON Of Kossuth, Wilson Of Polk,
Mr.. Speaker-55.
Nays-Alford, Ashby, Bleidung,
Bloom, Brown, Calvin, Crooks, Cur
tiss, Deweese, Doty, Flick, Gammons,
Gay, Gray, Heron, Hiatt, Holbrook,
Hotchkiss, Jaqua, Kaufman, Knoll,
Lyon, Morse Mueller, O'Brien, o.
Donnell, Parkinson, Perrin, Ratcliff,
Seaman, Stephenson, Terry, Tiffin,
Tremain, Tyson, Walker, Waterman,
Whaley, Williams, Wood, Yoran,
Young-43.
Absent-Messrs.G Gardner and May.
nard.
The House occupied the forenoon
Of Friday in fillibustering over the
capital punishment bill. It was ia
ken up and read by sections. Sever
al amendments were proposed but
were each voted down, and when the
House adjourned at noon lively
discussion was going on as to the
matter Of making the execution Sc
cret. The general Impression on all
side is that the bill will pass and cap
ital punishment be restored.