Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-03

the appropriation could be anticipated
Senators Porter and Mont, the latter
lieutenant colonel OF the Fiftieth, and
the Former a sergeant major in the
,Fiftieth, resented an attempt made by
some senator's to cheaper their patri- |
otto services by providing that soldiers
who served In the Spanish Americanl
war and were disabled should be ex-
sempt from taxation on their homes
steads the same as union soldiers. The
question came up on the bill to exempt
veterans OF the Mexican war the same
as those OF the civil war, and the.
Spanish proposition was
brought in as an amendment. 1t was
defeated by o vote Of "a to s. because
|it was not asked and was not wanted.
sss
DR.. j. F. Kennedy. secretary of thu
state board OF health at 81, 100 year,
has at last been granted an increase in
salary by being paid $500 a year for act
ling as secretary OF the state board of
medical examiners. This proposition
has been submitted to every Legislature
for eight or ten years, but salary rails
ing has always been very unpopular
until the present general assembly took
advantage of the good times and the
universal business prosperity to bring
certain salaries upto reasonable fig
ure, such as the servants of the public
| earn and the state can afford to pay.
DR.. Kennedy is a faithful and compe-
4 tent official. who has worked many
years at the small salary of $1,000 a
syear. He is now to receive another $780,.
1 80
/ Senator Lewis. of Poweshiek, pre-
pared the following substitute for the
\ Byers minority corporation bill. known:
as the three -fourths bill, which passed
4 the house some time ago and is now
lpending in the senate:
4 Section !. That when any corpora
4 ton, incorporated under the laws Of
4 this state, shall pay, or promise to pay,
A persons, officers or servants who fur
1 nish no property or render no actual
service, or more than a Just and rea-
sonable compensation for property fur
nished or service rendered, to such corr
4 poration, any person interested therein,
i either as owner, stakeholder or creditor,
A may bring an action in the district
Iscourt of the county in which Its princi-
4 pal place of business is situated, or in
(which its articles of Incorporation are
a recorded, making the corporation and
4 such person, officer or servant, defend
q ants therein, for judgment and decree
fixing the number of officers or servants
4 Ito be employed in and about the man
III agement and transaction of the busi-
ness of such corporation, and the COM
II pensation to be paid each, and for prop
6lserty furnished.
"Sec. .. Such action shall be and
shall be triable as an action in equity,
\ except that it shall be trable at the
Il first term after legal and timely SER
h Vice. and shall not be continued
against the objection of the adverse
party, for the taking of dispositions
j, lunles cause forcontinuance is shown as
Il in ordinary actions.
Sec g. The court shall by the judg-
ment and decree fix the number of Of
81 ficers and servants to be employed II
. and about the management and trans.
:. action of the business of the corpora
> lstion and the compensation to be spait
e leach. and for property actually fur
4 finished and the manner and times o
Il payments thereof. according TO the re
: Inducements of the business and the jus
vi and reasonable value of the serNic
v rendered and to be rendered and TIL
a property furnished and TO be furnished
s and shall enjDin all payments in ex
i lScess of those SO adjudged and decreed
: Sec. 4. If it shall be found in sucl
5 action that any person. officer or serv
2 ant of such corporation has within TIL
Hast three years Immediately precedini
the commencement of the action bee
e paid money or property in excess of tn
q compensation SO fixed by the court
! Judgment and decree shall be entere
:. forth Repayment of such excess, wit
ii interest, to such corporation, whic
Il shall be treated as assets of the corpo
{ ration; or IL after such judgment an
X decree fixing such compensation ha
4, been entered. excessive payments sha
:, be made to any defendant in the ac
8 ton. it shall be treated as pending an
,e after legal and timely notice and me
n ton therefor. judgment and deere
N. shall be entered in such action in lik
- manner for repayment Of such exces.
10 or If payments in violation of sue
ar Judgment and decree are afterwart
~ made to persons, officers or servants ],
q such corporation not parties they ma
a be made parties by notice and suppl
go mental pleadings in such action, or
90 separate action brought u law or
= equity for the recovery Of such exec
NJ sive payments which, when collecte
shall be disposed Of In like manner.
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