Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16

| Code Revision.
The goth General Assembly, which
adjourned last Saturday at high noon,
convened on Monday, January IL.
Without counting Sundays or the re-
cesses taken during the term, there
were II days that the legislature was
in session. The expense of the session
as taken from the vouchers in the Office
of the state auditor WINS $3.50, 532. 35.
During the session there were 454 bills
introduced in the senate and SIG in the
house. Of this number about one fifth
passed both houses and will become
laws. AS usual large portion of the
bills were legalizing acts to correct mis-
takes of city councils, boards of trus-
tees and other persons.
One of the most important matters
| settled by the session was that it was
| impossible to run the state ON levy for
state purposes of less than ~ mills on
the dollar.
Bills That Failed to Pass.
The resolution for the resubmission
of the prohibition amendment to the
| people which passed the 25th General
| Assembly and was referred to tho Goth
General Assembly for passage and sub
mission to the people was defeated. The
bills to permit the manufacture of in
| toxicating liquors i'll the state came up
in both houses and were beaten. An
other house bill provided that regis
tered pharmacists who sell liquors as q
beverage shall be required TO pay the
mulct tax. This measure was knocked
out with little ceremony. About the
only bills on the subject which were
passed were the bills prohibiting licensed
pharmacists from handling malt liquors,
and to provide for the division of the
tax i'll townships where saloons are out
side of cities or incorporated towns,
30 that one-half shall go to the town.
ship for use of the road fund of the
township.
Among the important bills Of gen.
eral character that failed to pass were
the following: The code revision, the
revenue bill which provided that the
basis of assessment of all property
should be changed, and requiring the
assessors to return the actual cash valu-
alton of all property assessed by them,
and providing that the assessment for
purposes of taxation should be 80 per
resolution for al amendment to the con.
Stitution comforting upon women the
right to vote was lost, as was also the
bill to permit women to become men,
beers OF the legislature. Several bills
upon matters connected with the schools
were defeated, among them the bill
making the township the unit for school
districts and doing away with rural indie.
pendent school districts. A bill was in.
troduced in the house providing for tho
state publication and state uniformity
of school text books, but it was recon-
mended for indefinite postponement by
the committee. A curfew bill intended
to keep youngsters Off the streets after
night was defeated for the reason that
the present law was believed to confer
upon the city councils the right to adopt
curfew ordinances if they desire. The
appellate court bill to create a judicial
tribunal to divide the labors of the SUI
preme court failed to get favorable re-
commentator from the committee. A
bill that was understood to be endorsed
by the state bankers association requir-
ing express companies and other cor
porations doing business as carriers of
merchandise, and at the same time doing
a money transfer business to put up
1uuu WIFI tilS SGdu6 WAS Ill
the committee. The bill which was
passed by the house requiring the COM
mission in charge of the erection of the
soldiers monument to change their plan
and put no portraits of any soldier iv-
ing or dead ON the monument, and to
change the battle pieces to the ATTACK
Upon Fort Sumter" and Surrender at
Appomattox, - failed to get to the surface
in the senate at the close, and in lieu of
it the house passed the senate resolution,
directing that the commission place no
medallions of any soldier on the monu-
1nent, but to put in place of the pro-
| posed medallions memorial tablets, Civ
ing the name and date of enlistment
and muster out of each regiment of
Iowa soldiers i'll the war of the rebel
lion. The public warehouse bill that
passed the house failed to get hearing
in the senate. The poultry bill'' to
| class poultry as domestic animals lost its
| head in the house The bill to appro-
pirate $4,000 for the purchase and de-
struction of the dam across the Des
Moines river at Bonaparte, bill which
| caused more fun than any other meas
ure that was introduced, failed to get the
requisite number of votes to pass the
| house. The bill in the interest of the
travelling men to require railroads in
| the state to issue interchangeable 5000
mile mileage books was withdrawn be-
cause of the unconstitutionality of its
| provisions and after it was fixed up it
was too late in the session for 1T to re-
ceive consideration The bill prohibit
ing the sale or importation into the
state of any impure or adulterated food
or drugs passed the house, but did not
come up in the senate. The bill to raise
the age of consent in females from IS to
IS years failed, but bill on that SUBJ
ject was passed in both houses raising
the age to 10 years. The Democratic
local option and manufacturing bills
I were brought out in each house and the
Democratic members were allowed to
go record as supporting them, but they
did receive enough Republican support
to pass either body.
The above summary gives few of
the many bills that failed to become
laws. A list of all the bills that were
passed is give N hereafter