Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-04-10

ton to attend the centennial celebration al
Nashville IN 1897 was adopted Morrison
presented bill providing for state repre-
sentation at same Senate bill reducing
interest on judgments to per cent after
execution passed. Bill granting II. H. Jelly
$4,000 for injuries received while at work
on the institution for feeble minded chill
dren passed. Adjourned.
SENATE
Dies MONIES, April 6-Senate concurred
i'll resolution to accept the invitation to the
state to make an exhibit at the Nashville
! exhibition. Bill to amend the code so that
1 the burden of proving claim unpaid shall
not be placed upon the party filing a claim
| against estate of decedents, passed. Carnoy's
jury bill came up as a special order and it
Was passed to its engrossment. Bill pro
yiding for doing away with registration in
towns Of less than $500 passed. House
amendments to Gorrell's bill providing for
the trimming of hedge fences were con
CURED in
Bill regulating redemption under con.
tracts for sales of real estate passed. House
amendments to road fund bill was COM
cnrred iii. Bill approprating S275 to Mrs.
McClelland passed The revenue bill was
made special order for tomorrow, Bill
to allow aliens to inherit property in the
state passed Hotchkss' bill providing
punishment for insurance agents who ac-
cept money for Insurance. after thecompany
has become insolveDt was under consdera-
ton when the senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
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tative McClelland the salary which would
have been due her husband had he survived
the session passed. Bill defining express
companies and providing for taxation of
same was reported favorably Bill to
declare opium joints nuisances passed Bill
to change the name of the Industrial Home
fon the Blind at Knoxville to the Home for
the Blind passed Motion was made to
reconsider the vote by which the bill to
compel record of landlords liens to be-
kept by the county recorder to make them
valid against innocent purchasers, and the
motion prevailed The bill was again
defeated when put upon its passage. Bill
to punish crime of unlawfuliy breaking and
entering railroad or express cars was
defeated. The joint resolution that con
gress be memorialized to reimburse the
settlers on railroad lands in northwestern
Iowa between the Big Sioux river and the |
west fork of the Des Moines river and from
McGregor to point of intersection with the |
McGregor g. Western railway in O'Brien |
county, was passed. Bill providing for
adoption of children into the soldiers I
orphans home was discussed, but no action !
was taken.
Bill appropriating $4,000 for purpose of
iefraylng the expenses of holding semi
centennial celebration of the admission of
Iowa into the union, 10 e held at Burling-
ton next September passed. Bill changing
term of office of suh-directors from three to
one year passed. Bill relating to the juris-
LECTION of suits against insurance companies
LONG business in Iowa, and limiting the
sime in which suits may be brought against
insurance companies doing business in the
tate passed
SENATE.
DIES MONIES, April 7.-Hauger's bill to
.mend code in relation to teachers certifi-
ates passed Civics and economics are
made requisite studies in securing a certif-
ate. Bill authorizing railroad commits
toner's to direct changes in the names OF
ailway stations when it is the wish of the
'eople passed. Vote by which jury bill
vas passed to engrossment was reconsid-
red. Hotchkiss' insurance bill came up
nd was slightly amended and then passed
several minor amendments were made to
he jury bill and it was passed by a unan-
nous vote. The special order, being a
ubstitute for the bill to revise and amend
he statutes in relation to revenue, came
p and the committee report was adopted
IN amendment by Cheshire to do away
18th the county poll tax of so cents was
ost. The bill proposed to raise state
evenue at such rate as should be fixed by
he executive council. 1rewin moved to
mend this by returning to the old law,
'hich provided that this tax should not
xceed two mills on the dollar Lost !
lotion to exempt estates of aged or infIr
eople was defeated. The bill provides for
of homesteads of union soldiers I
r sailors and their widows not exceeding
500. a motion to tax homesteads of less |
ian $500 and for which the owner may be I
debt, on the basis of the value of the !
wner's equity therein, was under consid- ,
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In the afternoon the amendment was {
st. Waterman moved to strike out the q
revision for assessment at so per cent of /
,sh value. Lost. An amendment by 4
heshire providing for assessment at 1874 /
ar cent was also lost. Waterman called 7
. the appropriation bills and had bills
,ssed allowing sums as follows: For pur-
lase of site for Cherokee Hospital for
sane, So, 140; for buildings for Hospital !,
L Insane at Cherokee, $4,000 during 1896 I,
Id 1897 $4,000 during 1898 and 1899, E
10000; for Hospital for Insane at hide !,
,ndence, 500, 300 State University, sci ,00O =
stitntion for Feeble Minded at Glenwood g
1900; Fish Commission, $4,000; College .
+ Blind at Vinton, $10,500 Waterman e
ated the entire appropriations would II
mount to 1857 600 which would require an "A
sessment for state purposes, including the II
diversity tax of g. mills. Adjourned. K
HOUSE. II
Baker introduced bill to levy a tax for
TX purposes. Rowen bin was made a
ecial order for the afternoon session Bill
make attorney general a member of the Ct
ecutive council was reconsidered and il
ssed. Bill to appropriate 81 900 to REIN m
rise ex-Auditor Brown passed, 6S TO II. 81
II to regulate fees for the incorporation u
ID increase in capital stock of companies :,
d corporations came up. A motion bv
luger to exclude creamery companies :.
d mutual insurance companies from the "a
DIVISIONS of the act carried. Foreign in yt
rance companies were included, on motion ST
Finch and the bill then passed Tho bl