Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-04-12
DIES N[o1Nrs. April 0. lal

The senate passed bill for ne es-
tablishment of woman's refolsnatory
at Anamosa. The new ms tuition
will be under the board of control, and
a considerable number of the inmates
of the girls reform school at Mitchell
vile will he transferred to it. The
new law fixes instead of 7 wears as
the minimum age ut which girls may
be committed TO either Anamosa or
Mitchellville.
The conference of the appropriations
committees OF the house and the senate
agreed on practically all the appro-
priations for the session. The total
number of extraordinary appropria-
tions is $l,2S7,625. or this amount
S3sS.4S3 goes to the support of char
liable and educational institutions and
100000 is for the completion and fur
nishing of the new hospital for the in
sane at Cherokee. The other tprinci-
pal appropriations are state university,
$4,000: state agricultural college at
Ames, 100000, and the state. normal
school at Cedar Falls, S170, 200.
Secretary Wesley Greene, Of the
Iowa state horticultural department,
has issued report concerning the
general status and prospects for crops
in this state at the present time.
Using 100 per cent as "A basis of perfec-
ton, the following specific estimates
are given: Apples 90, pears SIS, plums
(American) %, plums European 20,
plums (Japanese) 66, cherries IS,
peaches Is, grapes &c. red raspberries
GO, black raspberries 20, blackberries
60, strawberries Gj.
Governor Shaw has appointed the
following list of delegates from Iowa
to the Trans Mississippi Commercial
Congress to be held at Houston, Tex,
April II to 2l: Lon Bryson, Daven-
port; John f. Cheek, Davenport; VIM.
Il. Roach, Muscatine; Bert L. Linehan,
Dubuque; Charles f. Alden, Clinton;
VIM. ii. iarwood, Des Moines; Abel S.
Roberts, TT. Madison Edward Stew
art, TT. Madison; John Schoentgen,
Council Bluffs; Leonard L. Kellogg.
of Sioux City.
The womans suffrage bill was de-
feated when it came up in the senate.
The vote was "a yeas TO 81 nays. two
less than constitutional majority.
The two big appropriation bills
passed by the house on the 18th carried
81, l94,074. OF this 100000 goes to
Cherokee, 1898, 600 to the other thir-
teen state institutions, $l1O, 900 goes to
the State University, Sl64, 800 goes to
the State Normal School, and $1,000
goes to the State Agricultural College.
An effort to defeat part of the Acri-
cultural College appropriation met
with oynrw almino n efaat
One of the results of the work of the
Legislature which has just adjourned
is to be at least an effort to pass, in
the next session, n code of scientific
municipal laws. In it's last hours the
assembly passed bill to provide for a
commission of three senators and three
representatives to undertake this task
and to report to the next session bill
embodying the views of the commits
sioners. Under this act the following
commission was named, the presiding
officer of each house naming the mem
bers of his own body: Senators Ire
win, liealy, McIntire and Representa-
Durham, TheophiluS, Wilson of Wash
ington. OF the six, only two represent
cities of the first class. These are Nc
Intire of Ottumwa and Theophilus of
Davenport, both of whom arc demo-
Gratis. r--'
One of the tasks imposed upon the
board of control by the general assem-
bly, is the closing down of the Indus
trial Home for the Blind at Knoxville.
The bill passed by the legislature for
the abandonment of this institution
provides it shall be done as soon, as
practicable. The board will take hold
of the matter without delay, and by
May / expects to close the school and
send the inmates to their homes. The
effect of the measure will be to put the.
blind back upon the counties from
which they were sent, but in view of
the fact the institution has not been-a
financial success, the only feasible
course seemed to be TO abandon it.,
The board so recommended, and the
assembly followed the recommends
ton. The property will not be allow
ed to run down, as the board is en-
powered to appoint a custodian of the
buildings and grounds.
Considera BILE delay was also exper-
fenced over the passage of the stipu-
lated premium insurance bill which
went 10 conference committee ana
was finally agreed to by both houses.
1t allows assessment life insurance
associations to reorganize on the old
line plan on a per cent basis, grant
ing them seven years to establish re-
serve as required by law. 1t affects
eight Iowa companies and $50, 200, 600
of insurance.
Adjournment of the legislature was
delayed Friday by a fight in the SEN
ate over joint resolution fixing the
salaries of public employees. 1t was
brought in late in the morning. The
resolution increases many salaries
that were severely cut two years ago,
and allows quite number of extra
clerks to state officers. The aggre-
gate increase is about $4,000. 1t was
the work of the statutory committee.
including Senators Junkin, Cheshire
and Garst, and Representatives Eaton,
Temple and Bows.
Listers anti-prize fight bill, which
passed both the senate and the house,
provides severe penalties for all who
have anything to do with a boxing
match or any form Of prize fight, in
Guiding spectators. 1t goes into effect
July 4.
AUDITORIUM BURNED.
Kansas City's Convention Hall Destroyed
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