Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-30
Much Business to Come Be-
fore Legislature this Week.
ROOD HOLDS THE STAGE.
Interest Centers Upon the Colonel and
Board of Control-Normals school
Bill aud Printing and Bind.
Sns Question VIII be On.

Des Moines, Jan. 29.-(Special. .)-In-
dications are that this will be the busi-
est week in point of accomplishments
the legislature has experienced during
the present session. Several matters
of Importance will come before the
house and senate within the next few
days, and besides the special features
to be considered, notably the board of
control appointment, the normal school
question, the bills calling for large APP
preparations, and the compulsory edu-
cation hearing. there is large grist
of routine business to be transacted.
Nearly 300 bills have been presented to
the legislature and of these only about
half dozen, most of which are of
minor Importance, have been passed.
Just at present Col. III. II. Rood and the
state board of control appointment, oc-
cupies the center of the political stage.
With the an1i-Rood men and the Rood
and Shaw supporters, both in and out
of the assembly, as the scene shutters;
and with the individual members of
the house and senate as the puppets,
a lively show is being enacted. The
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The Normal school Measure.
Considering the likelihood of sniff
|cient fight over tbe location question
TO even Kin OUTRIGHT uhe normal school
bin. it is generally believed the SUBJ
committee from the normal school
|committee. to which the normal school
bills have been referred. will this week
offer a bill providing for the erection
of but one additional normal institu-
tuition. There will be lively contest
over anything the committee may offer
las the fight is very close. The oppo-
|nents of the three-school bill claim
lsuch measure cannot pass the house
and it is expected the members from
towns which stand the least likelihood
of receiving school in the event Of
the location question being left to a
joint convention will offer strong ops
position. No caucus, legislature or
joint convention could settle the nor
NAL school questions to the satisfac-
ton of all concerned, but this truth
does not seem to have been fully real
lied by the members from towns which
are candidates. The strife for location
has become SO intense that there is
danger of the entise movement being
ilost. In their zeal to please consti-
fluent the members seem to have for
gotten the end in view, the result to be
ATTAINED, and the best interests of the
state in general. Whether this feeling
will go far enough to prove disastrous
to any bill that may be introduced is a
iquestion which is of considerable state
and one that will probably
be decided this week.
Printing and Binding Question.
Amonp other matters liable ro re-
Eceiya marked attention from the leuis-
ilature this week is the state PRINTING
and binding question. In the house ?
him to abolish the offices is in she hands
of the nrintinu and bindino committees
and viii nrobably he fnyora hlv ranort-
led this weel, The friends of 'the State
Iprinter and binder candidates in the
house claim that the bill will nor mass
lhut those opnosed to tba measnre saw
|the republican members who ara
AGAINST 4 together with the demo,
icrats win make a force sufficient 10
nus thru tbe hill abolishine rhe Offices
Another bill that will come m for
discussion this week is the bill of Rep
resentafiye Wilson. of Busna yis>n
which brouoht forth so heated a dis,
cussion Friday. The bill prov;des tbn,
savings banks NAV receive deposits to
tche extent of twenty times their capI-
ital. The friends of the bill say ii