Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
IOWA LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.

q dull and listless session this morning.
But two bills were passed. One. was by
Bolter fixing the western boundary line
of the state in the center of the main chan
mel of the Missouri river and the other
was the bill changing the name OF the
Home for Destitute Children at Davenport
to the Iowa Soldiers Orphans Home.
Aside from this change the bill places the
cost of maintaining the children of soldiers
who are cared for in the home on the state
instead of on the counties as at present.
The substitute for CheShire'S bill taxing
telegraph, telephone and sleeping car COM
panies was made special order for March %.
The senate passed other bills as follows:
To encourage the production of beet sugar;
to create a new Judge in the Twelfth judic-
ial district; reducing the interest on state
warrants from to per cent; and to per-
NIT the executive council TO negotlate
state warrants in anticipation OF the
states revenues for one year so that the
premium will go into the state treasury.
HOUSE.
By a vote of 60 to ) the house voted $3O.-
600 as an additional appropriation for the
erection of an historical building. The
senate bill permitting counties to levy "a
mills for the support of the county's in
sane was passed The present law limits
the levy to x of mill. The board Of con-
troll bill was ordered taken up at 10 O'Clock
Monday. The biennial election bill pass
ed, 76 to 5. The bill to become effective
must be passed by the next general assem-
bly, and then be approved by the people.
The bill placing private banks under state
control was indefinitely postponed.
SENATE.
Des Moines, March 19.--The bill reQuir-
ing an inspection Of nursery stock for the
San Jose scale was defeated. A large
number of bills We're passed, among them
one by Perrin in regard to the inspection
of petroleum products; house bill making
the governor and state superintendent
members of the board Of trustees of the
agricultural college; one by Cheshire per-
uniting cities to purchase and construct
telephone exchanges one by Pussy to pre-
vent the adulteration Of candy and house
bill relating to the taking and certifying OF
acknowledgements.
HOUSE.
Among the more important bills passed
was the one by Jones to exempt the home
steads of the wives of soldiers and sailors;
by Bird for the sale and distribution
through county auditors of the state OF the
school laws of Iowa; bv Lothrop in rela-
ton to the purchase and erection OF water
works, and the committee bill to give state
aid to district agricultural societies.
Smith, of Green, introduced resolution
providing for the transcrlbing OF the short
hand notes taken by the committee which
investigated the state institutions.
SENATE.
Des Moines, March 21.-Amoug the bills
passed were the following: By\Kilburn,
providing that petition for submitting
the free text book proposition to the peo-
pie need be signed by but one-fourth in
stead of one-third of the voters adding an
additional Judge to the Eighteenth judi
cial district; prohibiting the draining or
ditching Of meandering lakes; and appro-
Bonaparte dam. A bill to reduce the
number of judges in the Sixth district was
defeated. as was also the house bill to
| license stationary engineers
HOUSE.
A bill by Nietert amending the law re-
lating to the distribution of the fund plac-
ed Vt the disposal of the county superin-
boid;no CON ntc,Sich to defray the cost of
Mau,.;pn = oI T;I ,aormals, was passed
for women at the IRsm s9r departmGens
| was also passed.
Des Moines, March 22.-The senate pass
ed number of important bills. One in
PRODUCED by the committee ON educational
institutions makes ii necessary for appli-
cants for state certificates to teach to pass
an examination. The present law permits
the issuance OF these certificates to gradu-
ates OF the state normal school aud the
university Bill passed increasing the per
capita allowance of the feeble minded IN
stitute from $40 to S12 per month and re-
peallng the 81, 600 annual appropriation
The secretary of the board of health is
secretary of the board of medical exami.
ners. to draw an additional salary of 5000
making his total compensation 81 500
Gilbertson secured the passage Of a bill
raising the maximum fee to be charged for
tiling articles OF incorporation from $3.50 to
$1,000. A bill by Cheshire providing for
the taxation Of fast freight companies was
passed They are required to give in to
the executive council annually a statement
OF all their property In the United States.
together with their gross receipts in Iowa
in order that the council may be able to
assess them. The bill is the remnant of
the Cheshire amendment. Young's bill
relating to levy and disbursement of coun-
ty road fund passed 1t gives to supervis-
ors the charge of all the county road fund
TO be expended in or outside of cities
Bill providing for licensing and regu-
lating stationary engineers was reconsider
ed and passed.
HOUSE.
The house passed the board of control
bill as amended by the special house com
mittee after probably the stormiest and
most exciting quarter of an hour ever
witnessed in an Iowa legislature. When
the committee amendments, the only i'm
portant one of which was to give the board
of control supervisory powers over the
state educational institutions. had been
read and adopted, Nietert, chairman of
the special committee, moved that the bill
be passed to its third reading A ruling of
the chair that this action could be taken
by majority vote caused an uproar which
the speaker was unable to queli for several
minutes. The bill passed to third reading.
AZ to 80, and upon final passage received III
votes to 20 against it. Other bills passed
by the house were Penicks bill providing
for the listing and taxation of mortgages:
Smiths bill TO facilitate the drainage of
wet lands; Eaton's bill to prohibit illegal
voting at primaries, and a senate bill reiat-
ing to care and Propagation of fish and the
protection Of birds and game.