Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-03-31
IOWA LEGISLATURE.
The ACCOMPLISHMENTS General ASSEM-
bly, Convepes In Dcs Motnes,

workers; restoring the old law providing
for the payment Of a two-dollar fee for
renewal OF insurance certificates other
than life: providing that directors OF school
townships may authorize subdirectors to
employ teachers not related to them; re-
ducing from SO is to 25 per cent. the petit
ton for vote upon the proposition for free
text books in the public schools: providing
that plaintiff or intervenor may be re-
CURED to give security for costs II he be-
comes nonresident Of the state: providing
that burial expenses of deceased INDECENT
soldiers. sailors and marines shall be paid
by the county In which such soldiers claim
residence. providing that a corporation
may dissolve itself by q vote of the stock
holders holding three-fourths of the capi-
tai, instead OF requiring unanimous vote;
providing penalty for the draining OF any
natural lakes In the state, and giving to the
executive council control OF all the lake
beds which may become dry from any nat
ural cause and authorizing them to plat
and sell such land: increasing the number
OF Judges from two TO three in the Eight
zenith judicial district. This bill is now
law.
Des Moines. Ia, March 23-Bills were
passed In the senate yesterday requiring
all applicants for state teachers certifl-
Gates to pass the examination OF the state
board of educational examiners: increa sing
the support fund OF the Glenwood institu-
ton for feeble-minded from ten to twelve
abolishing the $4,000 annual support fund
the institution has been receiving: giving to
boards OF supervisors all OF the money
raised In the county for road purposes, to
be expended at their discretion; the
Cheshire bill providing for the taxation of
fast freight companies. Gov. Shaw an
nounced the appointment OF David ].
Palmer, OF Washington. to be railway COM
missioner, to succeed the late c. l.. David
SON. "A
Des Moines. Ia, March 24.-The senate
concurred In the house amendments to the
board OF control bill yesterday by vote of
2S to 5. The bill is finally disposed OF. and
as soon as Ii Is enrolled will be signed by
Gov. Shaw. The house resolution to app
point committee to confer with the rail-
roads relative to granting stop-over priv
lleges on Omaha exposition tickets for the
purpose of assisting the Iowa state fair
was adopted. Bills were passed amending
the collateral inheritance law to conform
with a recent decision of the supreme court
so that this tax can be collected: preventing
the revocation OF n pharmacists permit for
violation OF the law more than two years
prior to the time of beginning action; APP
propriatng $500 for Private John Daily,
OF Algona, wounded at Fort Dodge while
firing a cannon salute to the governor In
1893; appropriating $1,000 for the employ
ment of teacher for Lima Haguewood.
Iowa's blind girl; permitting the retention
of girls in the reform school until they are
q instead of IS.
Des Moines, Ia, March 25.-The senate
yesterday reduced the house appropria ton
for the Trans Mississippi exposition from
100000 to $4,000, the same being In addition
to an appropriation of $4,000 made two
years ago.
Des Mones, Ia, March 26.--The senate
yesterday passed the Whalen resolution
to submit a constitutional amendment to
increase the number of house members
N will fharafora tn, 81 ,
people for vote the coming fall The bill
provides that every county shall have at
least one representative In the lower house,
but provides that the number of the rep
representatives. from the larger counties shall
be determined upon basis of population
of 207S8. The trans-Mississippi exposition
bill, giving $4,000 instead of $4,000 which
the house allowed. was also passed.
Des Moines, Ia, March 2S-In the sem
ate on Saturday the appropriation Of $780,
600 to complete the new hospital for the
insane in Cherokee was passed. Other APP
preparation bills were passed as follows:
Hospital for the insane Mount Pleas
ant $10, 500
Industrial school, Mitchellville ::..... $500
State veterinary surgeon, annually. 1000
State university Observation-Disclosures. 81 600
Agricultural college ..................... 5000
Orphans home, Davenport. ........... $500
Travelling library, additional. ........ 1000
The monthly per capita support allow
ance Of several state institutions was re-
duced as follows:
Hospitals for the insane, Mount
Pleasant and Independence.....$l 4 to $12
Hospital for insane, Clarinda. 80. "A to IL
Industrial school, girls, Mitchell II to 10
VIE .:,.............. II 70 ~
Industrial school, boys. Eldora.. 10 to 8
The House.
Des Moines, Ia, March 22.-The house
took up the board OF control bill yester-
day and the committee which reported 1t
/ nlacinp pliI-
| cational Institutions of the state under the
management of the board. Bills were
passed for an Industrial reformatory for
women and girls In the new female build
ing at the Anamosa penitentary, to be di-
vided into two classes, known as the re-
formatory and penal divisions, TO be kept
separate; to require boards Of school DE-
rectors to fence schoolhouse Sites to pro-
vide for the sale and distribution OF the
school laws of Iowa; to exempt the home
steads Of the wives of soldiers and sailors.
A bill was introduced which provides that
official newspapers of counties must DO
printed in the English language
Des Moines, Ia, March 23.-The house
passed the board of control bill yesterday
by vote of II to 20. One amendment was
added, placing the financial management
of the state educational institutions under
the supervisory powers Of the board OF
control The Eaton primary law, fixing
penalties for Illegal voting at primaries,
and a bill to deduct the value of mortgages
in assessing real estate was also passed.
Des Moines. Ia, March M-The house
passed the bill yesterday granting a par
don to Bernard Kennedy, sentenced six
years ago from Dubuque for wife murder
on doubtful circumstantial evidence.
Des Moines, Ia, March 25.-In the house
yesterday several bills of minor impor-
lance were passed.
Des Moines, Ia, March 26-The house
yesterday passed a resolution for the APP
pointment of a sitting committee. and no
bill can be considered except by it's con-
sent. A resolution was introduced In both
houses asking the secretary of the navy
to name one of the new cruisers Des
Moines. for the capital city of Iowa.
Des Moines, Ia, March 28.--The house on
Saturday refused to concur in the senate
amendment cutting down the appropria-
ton for an Iowa exhibition at the Omaha
rans-Mississippi exposition from $50, to
$4,000, and a conference committee was APP
pointed. A bill was passed which allows
graduates of the state university pharmacy
department and other schools maintaining
an equally high standard to receive GER
tificates of registration as pharmacists
without examination and without the usual
apprenticeship in drug store. The sem
ate bill defining the jurisdiction of courts