Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-27

and he thinks that the state should Mt
once take the necessary steps towards
arranging for the erection of reforma-
tory in which the younger and less hard
ened class of criminals could be con-
fined
State University Building Fund.
The prospects are that the present ses-
sion will arrange for the better care Of
the state university. The house COM
mittee on ways and means has voted to
recommend the adoption Of measure
providing for the levy Of tax Of one
tenth of mill to create q building fund
for this institution. The bill is de-
signed to be operative for five years and
it is estimated that it will yield $50, 900
per year. This will give the university
$275, 900 with which to construct new
buildings. The need of q new collegiate
building and medical hospital is great
and with them and the other buildings
that can be erected with the proceeds of
the proposed tax the university will be
enabled to make the progress that it
should.
The Phelps anti-cigarette bill, which
went through the senate with such
rapidity is finding the road through the
house an exceedingly rocky one. Some
body discovered that the original bill
interfered with interstate commerce in
forbidding the sale of goods in original
packages. Thereupon Representative
Morrison (Grundy proposed substitute
which instead of prohibiting the sale of
cigarettes would just as effectually bar
them out of the state by the imposition
of a prohibitive tax upon the dealers.
The substitute was accepted by the
house in lieu of the PHELPS bill and then
came q host of amendments which made
it necessary for the bill to be recon-
mitted to the committee. They were
instructed to report on 1t again inside
of five days.
New Bills Introduced.
Among the important bills introduced
shooting prairie chickens.until Septem-
Der, 1898, and making the open season
for such game thereafter ONLY during
the month of September in each year.
The shooting of pheasants and quails is
also forbidden by the bill until October,
1888, and the open season fixed for the
months of October and November there.
after.
Representative Klemme has intro
duced an unique service pension bill to
apply to Iowa soldiers. 1t provides that
the state shall pay to each Iowa soldier
living in the state pension which shall
be an amount each month that shall
equal one cent per day for each day the
recipient was in the service. The pen
sion shall cease if the pensioner moves
out Of the state or in case he is awarded
pension by the government.
The bill by Senator Blanchard pro-
hibiting combines between insurance
companies doing business in the state in
the matter Of rates Or commissions to be
paid to agents has passed the senate and
is now before the house for its considera-
ton. Some Of the Iowa insurance COM
panies complain that this bill will work
them hardship, but they say that if it
is amended in the house so that the pay
ing of commissions to exceed % per cent
is barred they will be able to cope with
the outside companies. They claim that
foreign companies can come in under
the bill and by paying agents commits
sions of 40 or 80 per cent, will be able to
make it difficult for the home companies
to compete with them without raising
the rates.
Condition OF State Finances.
At the request of Senator Waterman
Auditor Mccarthy Saturday made the
following statement of the condition of
the states finances at the close of bust
ness Feb. 10, 1896: