Omaha daily bee., 1896-04-11
IOWA WILL Be REPRESENTED
Legislature Makes an Appropriation for
the Transmississippi Exposition.
BUSY CLOSING HOURS OF The SESSION
Members of BothsBrnnchcs Find Work
CrowdinE Thco, from All sides,
but VIII he Through
ON milne.

DIES MONIES, April 10.-(Special Tele-
~gram)-The senate today passed the house
bill appropriating $4,000 for the Transmits
sissippi exposition in Omaha in 1898.
The amended jury bill passed both houses.
Carpenters resolution relative to an extra
session to finish up the code passed the
senate. The resolution declared the code
cannot be completed at any regular session,
and requests the governor to call the legis-
lature together to complete the work.
Friends of the governor resent the effort
to dictate his action, and the resolution may
be defeated in the house.
The house, in the forenoon session, passed
the bill relating to the tax levy for the en-
suing biennial period. Chairman Wood pre-
cipitated the fight by calling up the senate
bill directing the executive council to fix
the state levy high enough TO cover all of the
appropriations that have been made. Porter
(pop) moved an amendment, limiting the
rate to 21s mills. Mr.. Wood said that this
amendment, IL adopted, simply meant that a
state debt should be incurred, rather than
an Increase in taxation. Powers (dem.) re-
minded the house that the house had in
structed it's committee to limit the total APP
propriations to the estimated receipts, based
on a 21s mill levy, and II this committee
uiTlt tHNsC llStsaCNlOlls, Il
game had been played on the house which
ought not to pass unrebuked. Mr.. Ladd said
he had protested against the passage of
those appropriations in the manner in which
they were rushed through, but was now
forced to vote for an increase in taxation to
save the credit Of the state. Without walt
ing for further discussion. Gurley and Funk
demanded the previous question, and the
amendment was lost. Ayes, II; nays, 20.
The bill was then passed Ayes, 70; nays,
10, mainly democrats. The levy will be
nearly 3 mills.
The house rejected the Garst bill, which
has already passed the senate, making all
fire insurance policies null and void if writ
ten outside the state. Smith and Early
stated that the purpose Of the bill was to
sAut out the so-called underground insurance,
and was aimed especially at the New York
Lloyds.
The senate bill providing for Withholding
all of the pension exceeding Sc per month
from the inmates of the soldiers home at
Marshalltown was passed
The senate having refused to take up and
pass the housa bill absolutely forbidding the
placing of any medallions oil the monument
and directing the substitution of scenes rep
resenting the firing on Fort Sumter and
surrender at AppomattoX for the storming
of Fort Donelson, the house passed the
senate joint resolution, which is couched in
the same language. d The resolution has not
hHN iib' iSiNN W Jaw many llSlli-
hers feel that the commission will hardly
taxa the responsibility Of ignoring or disre-
garding this eXpress action Of the legisla-
ture.
The usual resolutions were passed in both
branches of the generallassembl commend
ing the presiding officers for the faithful
and impartial manner In which they had
presided over the RESPECTIVE bodies. and
presenting each with the gavel and the chair
used by them during the session.
President PARROT and Speaker Byers made
brief but fitting acknowledgment of the COM
pliments. l4H r.
The resolution was presented in the houee
by Baker, and in the senate by Rauck, both
democrats. In the senate an unusual scene
was enacted just before, The close of the fore
neon session. Senator Rowen of Wright
was called TO- the chair and agreeably sur
prised by the presentation of a mammoth
bouquet of flowers as a compliment from
the seven democratic senator's. A card was
attached to the basket, on which the hope
was expressed that the prohibition senator
would live long enough to be called to the
highest Office within the gift of the state.
The scene was affecting in the extreme.