Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-02-14

/; and loan associations by Sergeant, to
/ amend code relative to teachers certificates;
] by Sergeant, to provide for protection OF
public and employees of electric roads, for
vestibules and extra brakes, and to DO
under control OF railroad commission; by
| Waterman, to punish the crime Of unlaw-
fully breaking railroad or express cars; by
Blanchard, to prohibit use Of impure oil in
coal mines and provide penalties for
! violation. This bill was a substitute for
one which had passed, but had been found
inadequate. 1t passed. Ellis offered q
substitute for bill for protection of logs in
streams, which had passed, and the SUBJ
stitute passed. Adjourned.
HOUSE.
A communication from Eureka Springs
Ark, asking an appropriation for monu-
ment and memorial hall to tho blue and
j gray was referred to the military commit
tee Bills were introduced us follows By
Mayne, relative to building and loan asso-
Citations; also enc governing foreign build
ing and loan associations; by Van Houten,
1 to prevent manufacture and sale Of adul-
4 terated food and drugs. Chapman's bill to
prevent fee grabbing in justice courts
! passed Crows buckwheat -four and sugar
/ molasses bill was indefinitely postponed.
1 Morrison Of Keokuk offered joint resolu-
ton relative to pardon Of A. #. Hacket, who
killed the dispoiler of his sister at Oskaloosa.
Bill to appropriate money to purchase
| portraits of ex-Governors Gear, Sherman,
Larrabee, Boies and Jackson for the gov
ernor's rooms passed. Adjourned
SENATE.
Dies MONIES, February 1.-Bills were
introduced as follows: By Cheshire, max
ing appropriation for girls department
state Industrial school at Mitchellville; by
Junkin, providing for auditing and pay
ment Of certain expenses Of district judges;
also to amend code relative to powers Of
supervisors. Several house bills Of minor
Importance were received and referred A
! bill revising the code relative to military
passed Carpenter moved to take up con-
sideration of the bill relating to testimony
in prosecutions for keeping of gambling
| houses On vote the substitute recon-
| mended by the committee was adopted by
practically unanimous vote. At II AS the
senate was addressed by Ex-Governor Alvin
Saunders, of Nebraska, who was former
member VI tue StitIo Seilale lioIl lOuf w
/ 1861
Bills were introduced as follows: BY
! Allen. to amend code relative to assessment
of taxes; by Byington, to appropriate
money for State Historical Society; by
Davis, to authorize purchase and use of the
/ Gillespie voting machine; by Dowell, to
i appropriate for industrial school at Mitchell
| ville by Morrison of Keokuk, to amend
code relative to sale of petroleum and it's
1 products; by Voelkner, to compel street
railways to protect their employees from the
/ inclemency of the weather; by Whittier, to
amend code relative to attachments and
garnishments. Bill amending code SO that
no physician who is a member of the faculty
of any medical school or connected directly
or indirectly Herewith can-be eligible to
membership in the state board of health
/ passed. Bill relative to duties of assessors
was indefinitely postponed. Free text bill
was recommitted with instructionstor report
bill amendatory to the present law in
that books beloaned to pupils free of charge.
/ Ex-Governor Saunders, the war executive
of Nebraska addressed the house briefly.
Bills relative to disease by innoculation pay
of midwives and drainage of wet lands
were indefinitely postponed. Whelan's bill
amending code relative to redemption from
sheriff's sale passed, as also did Hangers
bill relative to teachers certificates. Adj
/ journed.
SENATE.
Dies MONIES, February 12.-The grist of
petitions grows larger each day. They
refer chiefly to age of consent, fish and
game, regulation of express companies,
soldiers monument, manufacture oflquors,
1 resubmission fraternal societies, etc. Bills
were introduced as follows: By Eaton,
making appropriation for hospital for the
| insane at Clarinda; by Garst, to authorize
executive council to purchase or condemn
real property for use of state and ornament
and beautify same; by Healy, to regulate
banks and protect persons or corporations
carrying real estate OF personal property
Committee reported favorably the resolu-
ton providing for woman's suffrage
amendment to the constitution lineage of
consent bill came up and the two committee
reports were laid before the house.
Mitchell moved to substitute the minority
report, raising the age to 16 to is, for the
majority report, making it IA to 16. Rowen
4 then addressed the senate in favor Of the
motion He was followed by Ellis in
opposition.
| HOUSE.
4 The bills were recommended for passage:
To prohibit pharmacists from handling malt
liquors to provide for libraries for towns
and villages; to allow cities to purchase
water works Bills were introduced as
follows: BY Baker, to exempt crematories
from taxation; by Cook, to provide uniform
text books for schools; by Early. to prevent
the issuance of policies by fire insurance
companies without first having complied
I with the law also to prevent the placing Of
insurance by agents outside of the state
by Frink, to appropriate for hospital fol
insane at Clarinda; by Mardi, to provide
for incinerating bodies of persons who die
of infectious diseases; by Merriman, tt
provide a substitute for the law governing
mutual building and loan associations; 10y
Parrott to establish a state board of EN-
balming; by Spaulding, to protect laborer
in their right to work during strikes by
Temple, to amend constitution relative tt
election of state officers; by Wells, to place
express companies under the control Of thu
railroad commission. Bill permitting cities
to issue bonds to purchase water works
passed These bills passed. Cornwalls bill
relating to Jail breakers; Hangers bill re
1ating to teachers certificates: Finchs bill
authorizing executive council to sell par
of state fair grounds and procure lant
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