Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-02-17

! the steward or other designated officer
OF each institution. Every bill or sal
! airy list must be sworn to before being
filed with the board of control. and
after being approved by such board
copies are to be filed with the state au-
ditor, state treasurer, and one to be
kept by the board.
The house does not take kindly to the
action OF the senate in refusing to have
4 anything to do with the Cook Temple
amendment bill. This bill origina-
ted in the house, was approved by Mr..
Temple, and passed the house practi-
cally unanimously, and went over to
the senate where it was allowed to
sleep in committee while the Hobart
senate bill was substituted in its place.
The Hobart bill was passed by the SEN
ate with only four negative votes was
sent back to the house and the house
railway committee has decided to sub
stltute the Cook bill for the senate bill,
pass it again and send it across the TO-
tunda for further action by the senate.
This may bring about a deadlock which
may possibly result in no legislation on
this question.
School Book Question.
The house committee on schools and
text books has had the Ray bill for state
uniformity and publication of text
books under discussion the past week.
Another meeting will be held tomor-
row for further discussion. The ideas
| embodied in the bill seem to have the
opposition Of many Of the educators of
the state, but the friends of the measure
claim that the influence of the school
book trust is being exerted to kill the
bill. On the other hand, some of the
leading educators who were in the city
Saturday at the meeting of the execu-
tive committee of the State Teachers
association, said that their reasons for
opposing this bill were that the present
law gave school boards an opportunity
to secure the best books that the bitter
competition between the companies has
enabled them to produce and they
doubted if any person in Iowa was
qualified to prepare a series of books
that will equal those now on the mar
ket. There promises to be an interest
ing contest over this school book cues.
ton before it is settled.
The house adopted resolution re-
questing the Iowa members of congress
to vote against the pooling bill The
vote in the house stood 7S for, 16
against.
|
Senator Alexander has a bill before
the senate committee on roads and
highways, which he is pushing, that
provides for radical change in the
method of working the roads. It pro-
vides that all road taxes must be paid
in money, ucluding poll tax. The
roads are to ne worked by contract, un-
der the supervision of the board of SUI
pervisors. The author of the bill says,
in his opinion, it will do much towards
the betterment of the roads to have his
bill enacted into law.
The house on Monday passed the
Ladd bill, authorizing councils of in
corporated towns to appropriate money
by resolution instead of by ordinance.
Also bill of Sauer, providing for clos
ing the polls of election at Z D. m. in
stead of +. The bill by Over6eld, re.
curing farmers to cut the weeds along
the roads bordering upon their farms
was defeated, as was the bill by Down
ing, to permit cities to order sidewalks
constructed along farm property con
tiguous to city limits.
In the senate the bill e1empting rail
road companies from the penalties for
not complying with the safety coupler
law before Jan. l, 1888, was passed.
The committees of the two houses
having in charge the board of control
bills are trying to reach an agreement
so that similar bills may be introduced
in each house.
Woman Suffrage Smothered.
The woman suffrage resolution was
beaten in the house today by the ex-
ceedlngly narrow margin of one vote.
The roll call showed so votes for the
resolution and AZ against, then Mr..
Ladd, the author of the resolution.
changed his vote in order to move re.
consideration, SO the official vote was
40 to 4e. AS it required 81 votes to
pass 1t, the resolution was declared lost.
Some of the friends of the measure
hope to secure votes enough on recon
not specially favorable.
Prior TO the roll call on the resolution
an amendment by Hinkson was adopted
providing that women shall not be elip-
able to police, military. Jury or road
duty. The vote on this amendment
stood, yeas 40, nays 40.
The roll call on the passage of the
resolution was as follows:
Yeas-Anderson Lyon), Anderson
(Palo Alto, Arnold, Baker. Barrett,
Beal, Bird, Blake, Christie, Clark
(Adams), CLARK (Hamiltonl, Classen,
Cook, DeWolf, Dickens, Downing,
Easton, Frink, Gibson Union), Han.
son, Hathaway, Hinkle, Hinkson,
Johnston, Jones, Ladd, Madden, Nc
Curdy, Merriam, Miller (Buena Vista},
Miller tWarreD, Parker, Penick, Per,
rote, Porter, Powers, Prentis, Raw,
Reynolds, Santee, Shambaugh, Smith
(Greene), Smith (Harrison), Towner,
Van Houton, Veneman, Wemple,
Whelan, Wilson, Mr.. speaker-5O.
Nays-Alberson, Bailey, Blume.
Bowen. Brighton, Bull, Carr, Davis,
Dempster, Bows, Edwards, Emmett,
Farley, Gibson Plymouth), Giesler,
Good, Hansmann, Harbert, Hanger.
Hazen, Hughes, Hunt, jackson, Jaeger,
Jay, Kelly, Kleunne, Krieger, Lambert,
Lavender, Let's. McGinn, Miller (Ce.
dar), Miller( Fayette) ,Nabstedt, Nietert,
Nolan, Movers, Overfeld, Potter Brew
err, Potter (Pottawattamie) Power.
Putnam, Sauer, Sheean, Stallcop, Stew
| art-47.
| Absent Boyd, Conley, McCully.
Thirteen Democrats and silver Repub.
licans voted in the affirmative. They
We're: Anderson of Lyon, Anderson Of
PalO A Ito Arnold NLr;st;o no.-s,:.