Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-02-04

llIlOnS were presented, asking tnaC age OIL
consent be raised; against manufacture and
In favor of resubmission; for protection of
| fish and game; for separation of adult and
| Juvenile prisoners, etc. Among bills intro
| Auced were these: To provide for systematic
| Investigation by skilled veterinary prac-
| tictioners of all dairy herds; creating and
establishing appellate courts and defining
the power and jurisdiction thereof. Adj
| Iourned.
| HOUSE.
| A resolution asking congress to pass bill
now before it granting special pensions to
| soldiers who suffered in confederate prisons,
| passed. Numerous petitions were presented.
| Doubleday of Polk presented the joint
resolution providing for resubmission of
the prohibitory amendment. 1t was
advanced to the second reading and re-
| ferred to the committee on constitutional
amendments. Resolution urging members
of congress to appropriate funds for
reconstruction and repair of Muscatine
Island levees, was referred to committee on
| federal relations Senate resolution rel
alive to Armenia was adopted
SENATE.
| Dies MONIES, January 29.-These bills,
among others, were introduced: To
appropriate money for site for hospital for
the insane at Cherokee; to appropriate for
| construction of same to promote efficiency
of free public Libraries; relating to peddlers'
license. A resolution by the house relative
to officers, sailors and marines special
pension on account of confinement in
southern prisons, was read and the senate
[ taI
report of committee to visit soldiers home.
| Adjourned
| HOUSE.
After presentation of petitions introduce
| ton of bills was preceded with and these
among others were presented: Providing
| for manufacturing and regulating sale and
transportation of intoxicating liquors; de-
| fining beneficiary associations; to prevent
adulteration of candy providing for remov-
al of dam at Bonaparte; providing for reg
ulation of primaries and punishment of
| fraud at elections; to establish building
and loan associations and regulate same;
| to authorize school districts to establish
| Industrial training departments; to make
February % a legal holiday to protect song
and game birds; providing tor erection of
hospital for insane at Cherokee and provid-
! ing for purchase of site for same; an anti
| cigarette bill; to suppress intemperance and
! lying; punishment of persons inficting
disease upon other persons by incubation;
to authorize manufacture of liquor. Adj
| journed.
| SENATE.
| Dies MONIES, January 30-Among bills
| introduced were the following: BY Byers,
| a. I'll 4 ,Nf
state, for money expended by him in
defending his office in lSS5-1SS6; by Carney,
appropriating money for Soldiers Home at
| Marshalltown; by Ellis, to require United
| States flag TO be erected on all public
school buildings in Iowa; by Hurst, for
relief of honorably discharged soldiers and
| sailors. Carpenter offered q joint resolution
| to provide for construction of a levee on
| the Mississippi river TO improve navigation.
| Waterman offered a concurrent resolution
| prohibiting the placing of medalions or
| likenesses of any living or dead persons on
| monument Kilburn offered joint
| resolution relating to an amendment re-
| garding suffrage. Adjourned.
| HOUSE.
| Among bills introduced were the follow
ing: BY CIassen. to provide second judge
| for the Seventeenth district; by Davis, to
| punish persons guilty of furnishing hbelous
matter to newspapers and periodicals.; by
| Evans, for the creation of liens upon ex-
empt personal property; by Griswold, to
appropriate for the hospital of the insane
at Independence; by Huntley, to reimburse
| ex-Auditor Brown; by Klemme, for the
| suppression of wild mustard; by Lambert,
| for punishment of crime on prima facie
| evidence; McAchran, for the protection of
| sheep and horse raising; by McNulty, to al
| low manufacture, sale and shipment of
| spirituous liquors; by Morrison of Keokuk,
to amend code relative to printing and dis
| tributing of ballots at public expense; also
| to compel all railroads to carry passengers;
| by Tibbitts, to amend code relative to as
sessment of property; also the tax license
by peddlers; by Wheeler, to amend code
relative to redemption from sheriff's sale;
| by Finch, to amend code relative to exter-
| mination of Russian thistles Adjourned.
JOINT CAUCUS.
A joint caucus of republicans was held
| Immediately following the adjournment
| and February IL agreed upon for the hold
| ing of the republican caucus TO nominate
| trustees of the state institutions, agents of
the state university and to ratify the