Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-08

practice, with rank OF major, and an
inspector of small arms practice, with
rank of captain; an engineer officer,
with rank of first lieutenant; a signal
officer, with rank of first lieutenant,
and such non-commissioned officers
and enlisted men as the commander-in-
chief may prescribe. All staff officers,
except heads of departments, aides to
the commander-in-chief and regimental
staff, shall be appointed and commits
stoned by the commander-in-chief for
five years on the recommendations of
the chiefs of their respective depart
ments, selected by examination under
such rules as the chief may prescribe.
The adjutant genera. shall receive an
annual salary OF $4,000.
Des Moines, Feb. 7.-(Special.)-
Governor Shaw returned to Des Moines
this morning and said that the board
of control position had been offered
to Major Stanton and that Major Stan
ton had declined.
In the senate this morning Perrin
offered woman's suffrage resolution.
Other bills were presented by Perrin,
providing for the erection of bronze
statues to Harlan and Grimes in the
state and national capitols and calling
for an appropriation Of $4,000; bill
by Wallace providing an appropriation
of $37,950 for the Eldora Industrial
school. Bills passed were the Nolan
bill reducing from 4 to per cent the
minimum rate at which the funds OF
water works owned by municipalities
may be deposited and bill allowing
cities of 10000 and over to levy park
tax and elect park commissioners. The
minimum of population was formerly
$4,000. The house passed the Stratton
bill providing that teachers of SUBJ
districts be elected by the sub-district
board instead of the township board.
In both houses the rules of the twen-
ty-seventh assembly were adopted.
Newman.
Des Moines, Feb. 7.-(Special Core
spondence.) "A large sized persuasion
in the form Of the lobbyist has thrown
itself against the legislature, and re-
fuses to break away. Delegations OF all
oOA SiASo, loVlOidIlUy anu Sex HdNC
flooded the state house and hotels for
the past thirty hours, and there are no
indications OF cessation. At least
halt a dozen bills or proposed legal
changes or amendments are Of such a
nature as to attract the attention of
some of the largest organizations in
the state.
The bill that has attracted abxut as
much attention as any, and which is re-
ceiving applause or disapproval from
several different quarters, is the Eiker
bill, providing that So week of any
persons salary or wages shall be ex-
empt from punishment. Another long
list of petitions against this bill was
received by members from their con-
stituents yesterday, and in the ways
and means committee meeting the rep
resentatives Of the labor and mercantile
associations were given hearing.
President Buttles, of the Retail Gro
GERS association OF Iowa, and W.. H.
Bremen, of Des Moines, spoke in favor
of the measure, and A. L. Urich, of the
Trades and Labor Assembly of Des
Moines, talked against it. A large
number of the Representatives Of the
railway employees organizations were
also present, and asked that the bill not
pass. A member OF the ways ana
means committee, who heard the
speeches pro and con yesterday, said:
II do not think it has much show Of
going thru. The members will not OPP
pose the desire Of organized labor
when they can consistently support
it,"
The house judiciary committee this
morning reported favorably on
the Prentis bill, which provides that
not all the superintendent of hospi-
tails for the insane shall be practition-
ers of the same school or system of
medicine. Altho the Judiciary commit
tee voted unanimously for the bills
passage, it is now certain that a pretty
fight will take place when it comes up
for the consideration of the lower
branch. It was discovered yesterday
that the old school doctors of the
state had started systematic and or
ganized campaign against the bill.
The bill does not necessitate the change
OF any OF the present incumbents. It
effects directly, however the institu-
ton at Cherokee, where no superin-
tendent has yet been appointed. The
board would either have to select a
homeopath for this position, or, in case
it did not, make change at one Of
the other institutions. The Prentis bill
is also receiving the attention Of a
goodly sized body of lobbyists, COM
posed in the main of doctors of the old
school.
Another measure whose opponents
are xhronging the state house and ho-
tells just at present is the Myers land
lord and tenant bill. The bill is intend
ed to protect innocent purchasers of
property subject to lien under farm
leases. The present law provides that
owners of rented farms shall have a
lien upon crops grown on the farm,
but does not require that such lien or
instrument shall be filed with the
county recorder. The Myers bill re-
quires that liens Of this kind be filed.
The bill is receiving the grateful en-
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