Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-20

mt moved to lay on the table. IhlS
motion. of course, was calculated to
carry the entire bill to the table, and
Lieutenant Governor Milliman care
fully explained the effect it would have,
but the senate was willing to take the
responsibility and the motion carried,
26 to 20. The bill was effectually kill
ed for this session. Two years ago it
caused the same kind of a fight, and
at that time died in committee.
Was Not a Serious Affair.
The trouble about the alleged over
measurement of type set by the state
printer, turns out not to have been a
very serious affair, so far as can now
be determined. The two sides to the
controversy agreed on Norris Talbot,
Des Moines printing house manager
of many years experience, as referee
to measure the disputed documents.
He went thru one of the largest books,
the report of the state board of health,
and found that the state printer should
have been paid $766; as a matter of
fact he was allowed only $746. The
secretary's clerks say they will show
by measurements of other documents
that this is about the average of all
the documents.
Board Of Control.
Governor ShawSsays he has several
good men in sight for the board of
control appointment, but does not in
dictate who they are. He has thus far
been unable to induce anybody to take
the position. but is by no means dis
couraged, and promises to fill the place
will rrool ,,,o,,
Des Moines, Feb. 16.-The Hilsing-
er bill providing hunters license for
Iowa, which has passed the house, has
been favorably reported by the senate
fish and game committee. The senate
bills on the same subject have been
indefinitely postponed. The senate
ways and means committee has agreed
upon a substitute for section 1906 of
the code, limiting the Indebtedness of
cities. The substitute provides that
cities shall not 60 in debt more than
~ per cent of their actual value in
stead of per cent of their assessed
value as now. The senate Judiciary
committee has decided to recommend
for passage the bill making it a felony
for a man to marry the woman he has
seduced to escape prosecution and then
desert her before five years. The sem
ate committee on public health has re
ported for passage Young's bill requir-
ing dead bodies of paupers and Grimm
ais having no relatives or friends to be
turned over to medical schools and APP
portioned among the schools according
to the number of students. McIntire's
11s1l 10 f,.nr 10 1ttororr
scientific and benevolent requests was
indefinitely postponed by the senate
on recommendation of the committee
In the House.
The bill to define the rights of the
board of control in relation to the pen
sion money for inmates of the soldiers
home came in by Kimball yesterday
morning. 1t was framed at the re:
quest of a committee Of the, G. A. r..
and was recommended in the recennsre-
port on the soldiers home. The proyi-
sion is that the board can adopt nc
rude depriving any member of pen
sion money, but that member twice
found guilty by court martial must
deposit pension money with the com.
mander.
A bill by Bennett provides that fra
ternal orders or associations may de.
post bond for reserve fund with the
state auditor 81 n.
Three bills were introduced by Nc
CHM, regarding the erection of .monu
ments on the battlefield of Lookout
Mountain and Missionary Ridge; in re
lation TO the employment of jurors and
a building and loan bill to provide that
such associations must give verified
statements as do other corporations.
A, bill to give compensation of $50
per month to the secretary of state
board of medical examiners was intro
duced by Roome; to appropriate $1,000
for fitting store rooms in the boiler
house of the capitol by Keck; this was
made at the; request of the horticul
| tural society because of the. crowded
condition of their rooms; for money
for advertising and printing of report.
of the national farmers congress to bt
held here in 1901 or 1902: for $50 fol
the relief of Hiram Redden. by Ayers
and for compensation for the enforce
ment of the collateral inheritance tax
| by McCurdy. s.9 ..ss
Miller, of Cedar, introducedia bill IL
provide that full list of. Stockholders
/ of banks must be published and Stew
art presented a measure providing tina
4 electors can in certain cases chang
the boundary lines of school corpora
tons.