Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-03-29
Soldier Appropriation.

De MADE until after the 1900 census
returns are received.
Soldier Appropriation.
The house committee on appropria-
lions yesterday reached an agreement
on the bills to provide for transporta-
ton of Iowa soldiers from places Of
mastering out to their homes. Four
new bills have been drafted. The first
bill is the one to reimburse the banks
and individuals who put up money for
the expense OF bringing the Fifty-first
regiment from San Francisco. This
measure will be reported for passage.
The remainder of the bills, providing
for the transportation OF members
of the other Iowa troops, will simply
be presented to the house without rec
concentration.
Must Furnish Bonds.
The Theophilus bill, providing pay
ment for persons furnishing material,
machinery, labor or fixtures in making
public improvement or repair or con-
struction of public buildings, was
passed by the house yesterday after
noon. The bill provides that any con-
tractor taking a contract for the i'm
proyement, repair, or construction of
public buildings shall give a bond TO
the state. not less than the total
amount of his contract, and to be APP
proved by the county auditor. The
bond must provide for the payment of
all labor, material, fixtures and ma
chinery, necessitated from the provis-
ions of the contract, and must be filed
with the county auditor. Action for
Indebtedness may be brought in six
months. The bill grew out of the situa-
ton at Iowa City, where the contrac-
tor improving buildings of the State
university tailed, leaving his creditors,
who had done the work for the state,
unable to collect.
County Auditors Reports.
The Payne county auditors pill pass
ed the house yesterday by vote of IS
to 81. 1t provides that county auditors
shall compile and cause to be printed
and distributed each January, a de-
tailed report Of all county funds. The
report is to be in pamphlet form, to
be distributes as the board of super
yisors directs.
Anti-Tpbacco Measure.
The house yesterday passed bill
which prohibits the use OF cigarettes,
Icigars or tobacco in any form by mi
nors under sixteen years of age. It
prohibits the use Of tobacco in any
form in public places. The penalty
for violation Of the law is fine of not
more than $40 or imprisonment not to
exceed five days. The bill also provides
the child arrested shall be released il
he gives evidence or information that
viii. lead to the arrest OF the person
furnishing tobacco to minors.
The house yesterday passed the sem
ate bill, surrendering jurisdiction over
real property in Iowa to be used by
the United States government for mil
itary purposes. 1t is to allow the state
to grant government jurisdiction over
the military post to be established
near Des Moines. 0. p. Newman.
Three Appropriations Made.
Des Moines, March 2s.-(Special.)-
The house passed bill to appropriate
$4,000 for monuments to Iowa soldiers
on the Shiloh battlefield and pay the
expense of a commission to locate the
monuments; also bill appropriating
81, 600 to pay the expense of advertis-
ing and printing. a report of the Far
mers' National Congress in Iowa in
1901 or 1902, also appropriating S2,275
for the home of the blind at Knox
vile. The institution will be aban-
doned and the inmates sent home. The
appropriation is to care for the
grounds and pay for the return of the
inmates to their counties. Lyman in
troduced in the house bill to tax ex-
press companies as telegraph and tele-
phone companies are taxed by the
Blanchard substitute Ito the Cheshire
bills. The senate passed a bill for the
dental commission insurance taxation
bill.
State Treasurer's Herriot's protest
against the railroad assessments fixed
by the executive council was given out
today. Newman.
Presidential vetoes.
tG. 4. Huntar in Ains1ee's Magazine.)