Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-03-13

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college shall turn them over at any time.
The amendment at once carried. The bill
was then ordered engrossed. Bill to declare
Spirit and O6oboji lakes navigable public
waters and to fix a high water mark on
them by means of dams, came up and was
passed unanimously. The house bill to
abolish the Office of city marshal in cities
of the first class and make the marshal ex-
oificio chief of police and appointive, was
taken up under the order Of house messages,
and the house amendment adopted.
| Adjourned.
HOUSE.
| The committee on pharmacy recon-
mended for passage the bill in relation to
the practice of dentistry. The bill to regu-
| late the employment Of children in manu-
| featuring and mercantile establishments
| was reported favorably. The committee
! on code revision reported substitute for
/ the bill relating to the adoption of children
| in the soldiers orphans home at Davenport.
1 Bill providing that in cities working under
| special charters, the mayor shall appoint
| the marshal, the same to be confirmed by
| he council. The senate age of consent bill,
| making the age Is flat, came up and was
4 passed, 6S to 7. Bill providing for the erec-
! tion of monuments on Lookout Mountain
and Missionary Ridge was indefinitely post
poned Bill releasing and granting to the
! city of Dubuque the title to certain lands,
the same being river and slough beds,
passed. Bill to prohibit telephone compan-
les from charging extra fees for sending
messages crossing county lines passed
| Crows bill to aid assessors to reach tax.
| able property, its purpose being to get at
bonds and notes kept in bank vaults, came
| up and was defeated, AZ to 25. Adjourned.
| SENATE.
Dies MONIES, March 9--These bills were
! introduced: BY Carpenter, to revise laws
relative to justices of the peace and their
courts; also to revise statutes in regard to
crimes and punishments; also to revise
| laws relative to evidence; by Junkin, to
amend code relating to exemptions of es-
tates for the benefit of heirs. Bill relating
to funding Indebtedness of cities and towns
passed Cheshire's bill relating to disco
ton of bodies passed. 1t provides that any
coroner, undertaken or manager of any
public institution when having possession
of any dead body, shall give public notice,
and if the body be not claimed within
twenty-four hours thereafter, it shall be
handed over to demonstration of anatomy
providing the deceased has not expressed a
wish to the contrary; and the medical
school shall pay all expenses of Transports
ton Bill revising statutes in relation to
certain police regulations passed. Bill CIV
ing library trustees the power to make their
own tax levies for libraries passed. Bill
authorizing counties, cities and townships
to take and hold property by gift and be-
quest passed A night session was held at
which large number of legalizing acts
were passed.
HOUSE.
Bailey presented bill to appoint a COM
mission to makes lines of battle Of seige of
Vicksburg; by Cornwall, in relation to
surveys Of land and the establishing of lost
corners; by Monohan, in relation to
elections; also one to punish for highway
robbery; by Thompson, relating to
nuisances and the abatement thereof. Mr..
Spaulding introduced a resolution that the
committee on appropriations base all its
expenditures on basis Of az mill tax,
and the same wns laid oyer ......iider the rules.
4,lancnard's bill to prohibit the sale and use
of impure oilsin coal mines was substituted
for the house bill covering the same ground,
and the same was passed. Bill by Miller of
Cherokee to enable the trustees of state
institutions to establish or vacate public
highways through high land owned by the
state was passed under a suspension of
rules CORVALLIS bill authorizing cities
and towns to change their form of indebt-
edness was passed Gurley's bill to
prevent poultry from running at large in
cities and towns was defeated. Adjourned
till p M.
At the night session the calendar was
cleared of large number of bills recon-
mended for indefinite postponement. Bill
for removal of Bonaparte dam was made
special order for Friday next. Bill author
izing certain cities to establish a department
of public health and defining it's organized
powers and duties, and providing for a
general health commissioner at 81 200 per
annum, passed Code bill relative to drain
age of surface water from the highway,
passed. Adjourned.
SENATE
Dies MONIES, March 10-Carney intro
duced bill to provide for collecting and
drawing jurors Bill to prescribe a stand
ard form OF fire insurance policy was
recommended favorably. Committee on
pardons reported adversely on the applica-
ton of L. Krout Bill fixing compensation
Of soldiers relief commission failed to pass.
Rowen's bill requiring that prisoners under
IS years of age be kept apart from older
offenders was passed by a unanimous vote.
Bill authorizing county auditors to collect
and receive moneys due their respective
counties whose collection is not by present
law made 8; specific duty of any other
officer, passed Berry's bill to define
fraternal beneficiary societies, orders or
associations and regulate same came up
and was passed by unanimous vote. Bill to
amend code in relation to the rates of
interest on judgments when stay of
execution is taken from 10 per cent to the
legal rates. passed Adjourned to Thursday
morning.
David EBrandt the new member from
Linn, was sworn in Macarthur called up
the joint resolution for the pardon Of POLK
Wells and moved its adoption in q forcible
address. Tibbetts, Van Houten, st. John,
Smith, Martin and McAchran followed
with addresses in opposition while Brighton
favored the pardon. Upon vote the par
don was denied 2S to 81. hangers bill to
regulate the assessment of negotiable paper
by compelling the placing of the assessors
stamp on its face, was lost. Martin moved
a reconsideration of the vote by which the
cigarette bill passed the house. Prentis
moved the indefinite postponement Of the
question. Morrison moved the motion be