The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-02-01
DIES MONIES, Jan. 80. 1900.

The caucus committee to prepare
normal school measure has completed
its work, drafting a bill to provide for
three additional schools. The meas 3
ure will be introduced, probably in
both houses, as soon as possible. It
provides that one school shall DO es-
tablished in 1901, one in 1902land ono
1908. The schools shall be in charge
of boards of trustees. The locations
shall be determined by joint ballot In
the legislature one week after the pas
sage of the act. A majority OF all
votes cast will be necessary to fix lo-
cations, the first town receiving tho
necessary majority being the location
for the institution founded in 1901; the
next town receiving majority shall
be the seat of the school established in
1902, and the third town to receive .
majority shall be the seat of the school
established in 1908. After the tenth
ballot the places having the smallest
number of votes may be dropped from
acres, not less than th1ee-fourths Of D
the business portion of the town must
pe protfered free, with $25, 900 bond for
the performance of the contract.
The result of a poll of the house by
Stallcop, of Sac, makes the future look
black for the normal schools bill. Mr..
Stallcop has been quietly looking the
matter up for days, and he declares
positively the three normal schools bill
is beaten in the house.
A bill for woman reformatory at
Anamosa has been introduced in the
house by Representative Stewart Of
Polk. It has the sanction of the board
of control and OF the organizations
such as the w. c. T. U. which have
been opposing the methods Of the
girls reform school at Mitchellville.
Tho bill is a long one, specifying in
detail points regarding the organize
ton and management of the proposed
institution. The reformatory shall be
in two divisions, reforlnatory and q
penal section. Both shall be under
the management of a woman superin-
tendent to be appointed by the board
of control with salary fixed Mt 81 900
per year. The departments are to be-
kept in separate buildings, the reform.
atory to occupy the entire building
now used as the female department OF
the penitentiary and the penal depart
sane building now used by female
convicts. The reformatory division is
| for the care of such women over 16
years of age as may hereafter be con-
victed of crimes other than murder or
of such girls over IA years of age as the
board of control NAV see fit to transfer
from the girls industrial school at
Mitchellville. The penal department.
| is for the safe keeping IF girls and
women over. 16 who have been convict
ed of the crime of murder Spr are for
other reasons not eligible to thll
reformatory division. &c.
The secretary of state says the. Or
he received during the month of
uary from the fling of articles o.
corporation exceed those of any
vious month in the history of the of
S., 900 mark. This fund has ID
swelled by large fee of ST, OF paid
the c. d. 4 Q. road in fling articles
Incorporation covering the doub
tracking it is soon to do. The articl]
| include those of the company whi.
will build the double track from Mu
ray, Clarke county, to Creston, and TIL
other from Fairfield to Ottunwa. The
first has stock of $4,000, 900 and the
second ST, OOO,O 900.
The state board of control appeared
before a joint meeting of the ways
and means committee of the senate and
house on the evening of the 9th and
told its story. The members discussed
every problem presented with ease,
| showing a remarkable fund of inform
alton, an intimate knowledge of what
is being done along similar lines in
tail of conduct of institutions, and exc
hibited record, in answer, of having
bought rs per cent of the supplies IN
Iowa, and vet never buying from an
Iowan if another bid was lower. The
session was held in the senate chamber.
Members of the Shiloh battlefield
commission, appointed by Governor
jackson in 1896 to mark the ground at
the battlefield occupied by Iowa
troops, appeared before the senate
committee on appropriations and asked
for an appropriation of SCI, 200 to erect
a monument to Iowa soldiers and to
pay the expenses of demarkation of the
ground. Commissioners Godfrey, Hus-
ton, Hays, Rood and Munroe made
speeches fayoring the plan proposed.
A great deal of interest is develop
ing over the election of trustees for
the three state educational institu-
tions. 1t is probable that the joint
convention for the election of these
officers will be held during the next
two weeks. The list of trustees whose
terms expire includes four regents Of
the State University, four trustees Of
the State Agricultural College and
two trustees of the State Normal
School to be chosen. The regents Of
the Agricultural College are chosen
from congressional districts. The nor
NAL school trustees are chosen from
the state at large. All hold sffice for