Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-04-05

yate and county institutions for the
care OF the insane under the supervis-
ors OF the state board of control. An
attempt was made to strike out the
provision that the board shall make
rules and regulations for these insti-
latlons, but a compromise was finally
! agreed upon by which such rules shall
not interfere with the medical treat
ment OF patients by competent physi-
clans. provision was inserted in the
measure providing that differences
arising under the requirements of the
bill may be settled in the lower courts.
The bill has publication clause. 1t
is considered the solution of the ques-
ton of the county care of the insane
for this session at least. The final vote
on the measure stood SO yeas and no
nays. The entire session was consum-
ed in the consideration of this meas
ure.
The house at its evening session
passed the senate bill providing a pen
atty for Dissertation of the American
flag, and also passed committee bill
authorizing the board of control to
close the industrial home for the blind
at Knoxville. The latter appropriates
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mates home and giving each one $25
same body passed the bill appropriate
ing $4,000 for the return of the Fifty
first Iowa regiment to Iowa which
passed the senate in the afternoon, and
passed the senate capitol commission
| bill, amended to provide that no more
than two of the three members of the
commission shall be of the same polit-
ical party.
Mr.. Arthur's bill for the relief of
shares of certain transfers of capital
stock of railroads and Boysen's bill Civ
| ing the board of control authority
to transfer refractory patients at the
girls industrial school to the Anamosa
| reformatory, We're also passed by the
house.
The ways and means committee of
the house yesterday afternoon report
| ed the telegraph, telephone and eN-
press taxation bills as they passed the
senate. the first two containing the
principle of the Blanchard substitute,
| the express bill that of the Cheshire
amendments. They will probably pass
in this form tho a fight will probably
be made for the Cheshire telegraph
bill. Jessie Lee Wilcox.
/
| Des Moines, April Especial. 1.-The
house passed a number of appropria-
ton bills today: $4,000 for the sup
port of the Benedict home at Des
Moines, (passed the senate yesterday;)
$1,000 each for the Rescue home at Du-
| buque, and the Womans' and Babies
home at Sioux City; $500 to Judge
John Il. Oliver, of Monona county, for
| legal services in case involving a. be-
quest to the Soldiers and Orphans
home at Davenport, and increasing the
per capita Support at the girls indus
trial school from $40 to SIP which
passed the senate yesterday.
| The bill by Buchanan requiring reg
istration boards to meet the second
Thursday prior to city elections in the
| future, was passed by the house also.
The bills to reimburse the three Iowa
regiments, besides the Fifty-tirst, were
4 defeated. The first bill has passed
| both houses.
A resolution by Bennett requesting
the trustees of, state educational insti-
tutions to adopt rules prohibiting
drinking among the Students and to
report to the next assembly, was adj
opted by the house.
1 The senate spent the entire morning
discussing the bill limiting the com
mission to be paid to tax ferrets.
substitute committee bill provided for
as low commission as 10 per cent.
Amendments We're offered to raise this
| to Is and rs, the former prevailing.
The bill had not reached vote at
noon. Jessie Lee Wilcox.
Des Moines, April Especial Core
spondence. 1.-The conference commit
tees on appropriations have practically
4 ended their work. A compromise has
been reached upon the amounts to he
allowed on request of the state board
/ OF CONTROL The exact figures agreed
upon are $753, 174.93. AS nearly as can
be determined the amount of all extra
/ ordinary appropriations will aggregate
$1,417,021.41. This will not all be avail
able during the present biennial period
or it would unquestionably end in a
deficit. The hardestiitem to determine
upon was the 100000 appropriation
for Cherokee hospital. 1t has been de-
cided to allow all of this, however, so
100000 is made available during each
of the ensuing years, 1900 and 1901,
and the remaining 100000 the follow
ing year, which is as soon as the new
hospital can be completed anyway,
None of the institution land appropria-
lions have been allowed, except the
one at Davenport. 1t is believed that
the appropriations as fixed by the com
nittees can be met by a levy of ID
mills, exclusive of the levies of one
tenth of a mill for the State univer-
lsity and college of agriculture respec-
lively. This is below what it was eN-
pected to amount to, the reduction be-
ing effected by the Cherokee provision
The sum of 100000, an uneXpended
balance, is already on hand for Chero.
kee, SO that 100000 will be available
to prosecute the work this year.
i Antt-Convict Labor Bill.