Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-02-21
NONEW NORM IL SCHOOLS
HOUSE PRACTICALLY DEFEATS TEf
MEASURE.
The Normal School, Mining, Five Miif
Saloon Limit. Vicksburg Park aud
Good Roads Bills Before the
Legislature. other Ca
pitol News.

ECU. 10, Ast0
Special to PUBLIC OPINION:
After hard fight the House killed
the amended Normal bill, for the
erection of one Normal school by q vote
of 46 to AZ. Byers, Of Shelby, moved
for reconsideration, to erect one in
stead of three. The committee recon-
mended the Byers bill, which killed
the Warrea substitute to locate one
school at Knoxville. 1t locks as though
the bill was practically dead. QuiteA
split bas broken out in the Cummink
and Eaton faction OH account Of the
Byers amendment, and 1t is very likely
that it will take a long time to smoothe
matters over.
A bill in the House to re move the
right of operators and miners to con
tract that coal shall be screened before
weighing at the mine, to ascertain the
miners pay, created quite a fight in
the House. Carr, of Polk, and Ken
dali, of Monroe, locked horns on this
bill. Those gentlemen got side-tracked
into personalities SO often, that Speaker
Bowen had to call them to order.
The Wallace bill for the Suppression
of Intemperance, was reported by the
Senate committee for passage. c'his
bill provides that Intoxicating liquors
shall not be sold within five miles of a
state educational institution. There
WILDE strong fight before it is passed
The military committee reports in
favor of sending commissioners to locate
the positions of Iowa troops Oh the
Vicksburg battle field.
] he Senate committee on roads and
highways have had the bill known AZ
the Good Roads bill under consideration
and by the time they are ready to re
port ON it think the original will look
as though Kansas cvclone had struck
it. To say the least those who had
charge of the Good Roads bill were very
deficient in their knowledge of pre-
pairing and presenting that bill; it viii
be indefinitely postponed
There is not at present single
measure in either House that might be
termed one Of vital interest outside az
appropriations.
There have been ga bills introduces
in the House and 252 in the Senate
The work in both houses seems to beip
advance of the 1898 session, and five
joint bills and sixteen resolutions passed
both houses and have been signed by
the presiding officers. "a have been
indefinitely postponed, twenty in the
House and fourteen i'm the Senate.
While this would look as though but
little was being done, it is claimed thxt
the committees are very busy, and are
about ready to report on a large number
of bills.
No one has yet been appointed aud
accepted the position as member Of the
Board of Control, but 1 predict that
Hon. John Herriott will receive the
appointment, and if so +. l. Herriot,
will be appointed state treasurer to fill
out the balance of his term.
The directors of the State Agricultural
Society are busy preparing their pre-
MUM list and purses for 1900. To-day
they announced twelve trotting and
pacing races to be given during the
fair, giving 5000 for each class or total
of 81 200.
Hoping the city roller will not tip uf
again, l will say, goodby.
THOMAS GRAHAM.