Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-25
MINING. BILL.
Compels Operators to Allow
Pay for Mining Slack.
REGARDING PIT FOREMEN
Another Bill Relates to Their Exam.
ination-AntaSonism 70 Measure
Providing for State Control
of County HospItals.

Des Moines, Jan. 25.-(Special)-
The committee on mines and mining
will meet Monday to consider the bill
presented by Kendall OF Monroe, COM
pelling operators to allow compensa-
tion for the mining of slack, where
the miners are being paid by the ton.
The present law provides that opera
tors shall not be compelled to pay for
stone, and other impurities eound in
the mining of coal. Mr.. Kendall takes
the position that slack is not IN i'm
purity. but a commodity. That it is
something that the operator pays
nothing for, but which sells at from
80 cents to $1.2O per ton. A meeting
of the mines and mining committee
was held yesterday afternoon, but ac-
tion on the bill was postponed to give
the committee an opportunity TO hear
from the operators and the miners on
the question of compensation for
slack. g. w. Traer, of the Whitehreast
Fuel company, is expected to appear
before the committee on behalf of the
operators, and it is probable that A.
L. Urick, chairman of the Legislative
committee of the State Federation of
Labor, will talk on behalf OF the
miners.
Representative Kendall, of Monroe,
has prepared bill relating to exam,
nations of pit foremen, which lie ex-
poets to introduce in day or two. AT
present pit foremen and other working
foremen having direct charge OF the
mine, are not subject to examination
Mr.. Kendall's bill provides that they
be examined by the state mine in
spector.
Indications are that strong efforts
will be put forth to prevent the pas
sage of a bill providing for state con
troll of county hospitals for insane
Such a measure has recently been dis
cussed quite generally, and there seems
TO be a; strong sentiment limits favor
but yesterday the other Side Gs tbs
question was heard from. Delegations
of lobbyists from Council Bluffs and
Dubuque arrived in the city in the
morning, and spent large portion
OF the day at the state house, trying
to convince the members that some
at least, OF the county institutions are
doing ver-' well, and do not crave ths
protecting arm of the state. No bill
providing for state control of county
hospitals for insane has been intro.
duced, but the board of con.rol is
known to be in favor of that system
ana the lobbyists purpose yesterday
was to get an early impression.
The first large normal school 1elega
tion appeared at the state house yes
terday about noon, and spent The af
ternoon and evening trying to convince
| members of the house and senate that
Wapello, Louisa county, is really the
only proper location for one of the
| normal schools to be established, pro
viding the normal school bill is passed
The delegation includes the county
SUPERINTENDENT and dozen other
prominent men from the city.
Probably the Understanding lot ol
men at the state house yesterday were
the members of the Shiloh battlefield
commission, appointed by Goyerno,
Jackson in 1896. This committee has
drafted bill asking for an appropria
tion of $4,000, TO be used for thS
erection of monuments on the battle
| field at Shiloh, the monuments to be
located in the positions occupied by
the Iowa regiments. All the members
of the commission, except w. L. Shaw
of Anamosa, and A. c. Blackmar oi
Burlington, are in the city. They
spent yesterday afternoon in present
ing their bill to the joint military com,
mittee and the house committee or
.,ott fNh,
very much encouraged at the recep
tion accorded the measure by she com
mittees, and is satisfied the bill will be
favorably reported when referred back
after being introduced. The bill pro
vides tina. eleven monuments shall be
erected on the battlefield at Shiloh, or
the spots occupied by the eleven Iowa
regiments, each monument to cost 81,
0O0 1t also provides that lnonumen,
to the state be erected at a cost oi
$4,000. The bill names the standing
commission as the commission TO Sc
| lect the places and erect the monu
lnents. 1t states that no compensa.
| ton for these services shall be allowed
but that the commission shall ce paiC
actual expenses.
| The committee on appropriations
now has under consideration Il bill OF
fered by Theophilus, OF Scott, authoriz
ing the appointment of a commission
to procure and erect monuments upor
the battlefelds of Shiloh, Chickamau
ga, Missionary Ridge and Lookout
Mountain, in honor and memory Of
the Iowa soldiers who fought m saio
battletields. The bill does not provids
who shall constitute the commission
1t calls for an appropriation of SlO5,
/ 900. This bill does not meet with the
approval of the Shiloh commission
| who states that the erection of monu
| ments on the various battletields
should not be embodied in one bill.
The library commission of the noust
has bill for the establishment of 4
Library commission. 1t provides that
| four persons, two of whom ssall be
women, shall, with the superint enden,
OF public instruction. the state l:brar
ian, and the president of the State uni
versitY. constitute the state library
commission. The. four members, out
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