Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-03-06


examination OF priv,stS banks was recon
mended for indefinite postponement. Allen
introduced bill to provide for the destruc
ton of the Canada thistle and obnoxious
weeds and Dowell one relative to mechanics
liens. Bill defining the liability of fire
insurance companies and providing q
standard form Of policy was reported
favorably. Bill relative to trimming hedges
used for division fences passed, as did also
the bill changing the rate from 10 to 8 per
cent in bonds for stay of execution and the
bill providing for transfer of corporation
stock when used as collateral security The
bsl raising the age at which q girl may
consent to her own ruin from 13 to l6 years
was put on passage just seven minutes after
it was called up and was passed. ~ to 8.
Bill aiming to abate the practice of taking
leins on household goods that are in actual
use by families passed. Bill authorizing
state or any county or municipal corpora
ton to receive, hold or manage gifts and
requests passed. Bill to establish board
of park commissioners in cities having
population OF $4,000 passed. Bill fixing
compensation of members of soldiers relief
commission at s25 per annum passed. .Ad.
journed D
SENATE. g51ySS-2
Dies MONIES March 3.-These bills were
introduced: BY Eaton, relative to annex
alton Of contiguous territory by cities and
towns; by Garst, in relation to certain
persons convicted of crime and providing
for system Of parole; also relative to
stopping Of trains at railway crossings; by
Junkin, fixing the place in which action in
certain contracts relating to lsurance
shall be brought. Elections committee
reported substitute for the primary
elections bill. Senator Ellis filed the report
Of the judiciary committee, giving as
reason for indefinitely postponing Senator
Lothrop's appellate court bill that there
was not time to perfect such measure,
although the crowded condition of the
supreme court docket demanded some
relief. House age of consent bill was placed
on the calendar. House kindergarten bill
came upand was passed. House joint res
olution asking congress to refund per cent
interest to the state on lands sold on mill
tary script, passed Adjourned.
HOUSE
Bill to encourage the manufacture of
sugar was reported adversely. Bill to
reimburse ex-Auditor Brown was reported
favorably The committee recommends
that Mr.. Brown be allowed $4,000 Funk
and Allen, in speaking to question of
personal privilege, denounced the cores
pondent of the Muscatine Journal for what
they termed false statements in connection
with the vote on reslbmission. A resolu
ton by Griswold, thanking the senators
and representatives in congress s'for their
patriotic action in recognizing the bellig-
erent rights Of the Cubans,n was adopted
amid great applause. These bills were
introduced: By Brighton, to change the
penalties for drunkenness; by Mcdowell,
pertaining to the militia; by Potter, to
establish recorders Office at Avoca; by
Ray, to amend code relative to taxing
traffic in intoxicating liquors; also relating
to adoption of children in the soldiers
orphans home !. also relating to high
schools; by Temple, relating to electric
street railways and the payment of license
fees by same; by Williams, relating to
annexation of contiguous territory by cities
and towns. Bill establishing and regulating
mutual building and loan associations
passed. Provision is made that the affairs
of such associations shall be examined at
least once year by the auditor of state,
and oftener if he thinks the association is
being conducted Illegally. Adjourned.
SENATE
Dies MONIES, March Hobart presented
a bill to increase the number of judges in
r ha. ,rtl Ind 1io1 lictr of mt
resolution thanking congress for its action
relative to Cuba passed. Spirit and Okoboji
lake navigation bill was reported fayorably
as was also the bill to prohibit agents out
side of Iowa from placing fire insurance.
The committee bill regulating building and
loan associations came up. Waterman
offered an amendment providing for
of all or any number of shares
and it was adopted, Ellis moved to strike
out provision that all foreign building and
loan associations shall deposit with the
state auditor 500, 600 Adjourned
HOUSE.
The auditor Of state submitted an item
lied statement of the cost of the soldiers
monument The bill for the care of hos
pitfalls for the insane was reported adversely,
for the reason that the condition of the
state treasury would not warrant the out
lay The committee on insurance recon-
mended the passage of the following bills:
In relation to the jurisdiction Of insurance
companies; to prevent the placing of
insurance by agents outside of the state to
prevent the issuance of fire insurance
policies by companies without the state
until seid.companies have complied with
the law; for the better protection of mem
bers of beneficiary associations. Bill
granting power to trustees of state institu-
tons to lay out roads through lands owned
by the state was reported favorably. The
on public health made majority
and minority reports on the anti-cigarette
bill The majority report favored the
passage of the Morrison substitute with
or rather with Examinations.
The minority report recommended the pas
sage of senate file7 with the Potter amend
ments, which provide that wholesalers may
make sales to dealers outside the state.
Byington's bill for tax of one-tenth of one
mill for five years for the state university
for building purposes passed. Anti-cigarette
bill came UP and motion to substitute the
report for the majority report
carried, IS to "a. Lauder arose to point
of order, saying the bill had once been
before the house and had been disposed of
and that it could not now be taken up. The
speaker asked for time to examine the
records before making a ruling, and amid
confusion and excitement the house
Alleged Murderer Released.
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