Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-02-10
IOWA LEGISLATURE.
The Twenty-Seventh General Assem-.
bly, COnvenes In Des Moines.

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bly, Convenes In Des Moines.
Des Moines. Ia. Feb. 1.-The senate passed
bill yesterday reducing from 40, 900 to 25.-
| 900 population the size of cities which may
levy taxes for city parks and appoint park
| commissioners. The Perrin bill requiring
grass and weeds in the public highways to
be cut engaged the senate for two hours,
when adjournment was taken without ac-
| ton.
Des Moines, Ia, Feb. "A. p. Doe, chair
man, and Mrs. M. J. Ketcham member Of
| the board Of trustees of the Davenport
| orphans home for destitute children, APP
| pea-ed before the senate appropriation
| committee yesterday In behalf of their bill
| asking $50.050.
Des Moines, Ia, Feb Ex-senator H obart, of
/ Cherokee, introduced bill in the senate
| yesterday to allow 65 per cent. of the voters
| in cities of 1000 population to consent to the
| operation Of mulct saloons therein, instead
| of so per cent, as provided for by the last
| legislature in extra session. bill was also
| introduced which makes participation in
| the primary of political party by q MEM
| Der of another party misdemeanor pun
| ishable by fine of 500 or 30 days in Jail.
Des Moines, Ia, Feb. 4-The senate rail-
| way committee yesterday changed the
| Temple amendment as passed by the house.
1t has adopted the substitute by Mr.. Ho-
| bart, which is more sweeping but which al
| lows a settlement between an injured en-
ploye and the company without going into
court.
Des Moines Ia, Feb. 5-A bill embodying
the principles of the Temple amendment in
troduced by Mr.. Cook has passed the house.
The senate committee on railroads re-
fused to accept the Cook BILL and yester-
day recommended for passage a bill by
Senator Hobart, worded differently but
seeking the same end. An effort to push It
through failed, and 1t was made a special
order for next Wednesday A bill asking
an appropriation of 47,40O for the Omaha
exposition was introduced; also one per-
hitting the wife and husband to testify
against each other in suits for fraud. The
judiciary committee by vote of seven to
six agreed to report for passage substi-
tute for the Bolter bill. providing that the
western boundary of the state shall extend
to the middle of the channel of the Missouri
river, wherever the river is. The printing
committee decided in favor of the bill to
put the cut rates on printing into immediate
effect.
Des Moines, Ia, Feb. THE senate on
Saturday passed the bill providing that
the printing and binding reduced rates
go into immediate effect. 1t has passed
both houses, and will go into effect within
q week.
The House.
Des Moines, Ia, Feb 1.-The house passed
bill yesterday providing that the seven
members OF the state board of health shall
be selected from seven prescribed districts,
instead of at large; also bill that girls
shall be detained in the Eldora reform
school until they are q instead of IS years
of age. The bill to require the secretary
of the pharmacy commission to be phar-
macist was indefinitely postponed.
Des Moines Ia, Feb. 1.-THE house yes
terday passed the bill putting into immedi-
ate effect the 20 per cent. cut in the prices
of state printing and binding made b" the
last legislature. The Ladd bill extending
the expiration of the certificates of insur-
ance companies from January 81 to March
1, and the Brighton bill preventing the
adulteration of linseed and flaxseed oil
were also passed. The appropriation COM
mittee recommended for passage bill al
lowing the state university $4,000 for Ii
brary.
Des Moines, Ia, Feb. 3.-The house yes
te-day defeated the bill passed by the sem
ate permitting counties to receive interest
on public money deposited in banks. A bill
was introduced which makes participation
in the primary of a political party by a
member Of another party misdemeanor
punishable by fine of $100 or 80 days in Jail.
Des Moines, Ia, Feb. 4.-Senator Nc
Arthur's bill allowing cities of $4,000 popu-
laton to have park commissioners and
parks and to levy one-mill tax for the
same was passed in the house yesterday.
Other bills have been passed providing
that in incorporated town districts MEM
berships of school boards now numbering
three shall be increased to five; providing
that the state shall be districted into seven
public health districts, one memDer OF the
board of health to be chosen from each
district extending the time for notification
of delinquents on poll tax in cities from
September to November; providing that
girls in reform schools may be retained un-
til 81 years of age, instead of majority age,
Is years.
Woman suffra gists and anti-womcn suf-
fragists appeared before the joint commit
tee of the general assembly to make ar
guments for and against the submission Of
an amendment to popular vote.
Des Moines, Ia, Feb. ga bill was intro
duced in the house yesterday asking for
an appropriation of $47, 400 for the Iowa ex-
hibit at the trans-Mississippi exposition in
Omaha The ways and means committees
discussed the bill to reduce the rate OF in
terest on state warrants and seemed to
favor reducing the rate of interest from
six to four per cent.
Des Moines, Ia, Feb. 1.-The house on
Saturday passed a resolution instructing
and requesting the Iowa members of con-
gress to vote against the pooling and the
anti-scalping bills pending in congress.
The senate bill assigning permanently the
rooms to the Agricultural society in the
capital which they now occupy was passed,
forever settling the dispute about their
occupancy of rooms in the statehouse;
also the senate bill giving 5000 relief to
each of 81 county agricultural societies.
A bill was introduced to appropriate $780,
900 to purchase the Bonaparte dam, and
remove it from the Des Moines river. 1t
was accompanied by a petition containing
1900 names, asking for it's passage.
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