Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-04-12
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THE LEGISLATURES.

SENATE
Des Moines, April 2.-Among bills passed
were these: Prohibiting tho charging of of
balances of unexpended appropriations by the
state treasurer; providing that the secretary OF
school corporations may employ assistants In
taking tho school census; subjecting loan and
trust companies doing % banking business to
the same limitations In the amount of deposits
received as state banks; bringing the penalty
of Violate of the laws 90 verning steam thresh-
ers on public highways within the jurisdiction
of justices of the peace establishing o state
board of veterinary examiners; extending to
veterans Of the Mexican war exemption of tax.
alton OF soldiers homeSteads The senate
voted to adjourn sine die on April 9.
! HOUSE.
Among bills passed were the following: The
senate committee bill to require graduates of
the state normal departments to submit TO an
examination for state teachers certificate; 10
give city councils power to levy library tax;
TO allow insurance companies TO insure against
disease: to appropriate 5000 for the compile
tion OF the classification of the state library;
raising salaries Of assistants OF the state
librarian: raising salaries of mine in
spectors; prohibiting agents OF liquor con-
Germs from selling liquor except to
those engaged in the liquor business under the
mulct law. Thuencn $ bill to prohibit the let
ting by contract OF convict labor of state penl-
tentaries was defeated i5 to ~. The BIN to
prohibit the sale of liquor within five miles Of
the state university was taken up. An amend
ment making the distance ten miles was de-
feated, 40 TO 40.
SENATE.
Des Moines April s.-The bulk of the appro-
priatlons TO be allowed this session were intro
duced in two bills, one providing for the sum of
S753. lS4 for the board of control to use in de-
fraying the expenses OF the institutions under
it, and another lump of SliiSOO for the state ed
ucational institutions. The appointment OF
Joseph ID. Mciarraugh to be custodian of tho
capitol building was confirmed. Among bills
passed were these: Increasing the per capita
for the girls industrial school at Mitchellville
from $40 to ST. per month; apprOpTiating SO. 900
a Reno Home Il 4 M1iupS. n y
a capitol Improvement commission and app o.
priating $500 for its expenses; apprOpridting
$1,000 TO continue education OF Linnie Hague
wood; appropriating 81 600 for classifying state
library; appropriating s. 0l0 for q monument to
Sergeant Charles Floyd giving the board Of
control complete supervision Of all county and
private aSylumS, with authority to inspect them
and provide rules for their conduct; appropri-
ating SIS 900 for protection Of fish and game;
apprOpriatng $4,000 to complete and furnish
historical building; to prevent insurance com
panieS deducting from their gross receipts the
amount of natural endownentS; appropriating
$4,000 to paw transportation Of. Eifty-tirSt reg
iment from San Francisco.
HOUSE.
After an all morning fight the louise defeated
the bill to prohibit the sale Of liquor within five
miles of the state educational institutions by u
vote of Is for to fl against, not constitutional
majority. Furry of Hardin changed his vote in
order to move reconsideration ii it seemed to
be desirable. Among bills passed were the
following: The senate building and loan bill:
creating state department of building and
loan; reimburSing these who furnished money
for the return Of the tifty-tirSt Iowa; to pre-
vent and punish de, ecratiOn of the flag; direct
ing the board II control to close the Industrial
Home for the Blind at Knoxville and return
the inmates TO their homes; creating capitol
Improvement commission; providing for re-
formatory for females at Anamosa.
SENATE
DeS MoineS, April These bills among
others we've passed: Authorizing boards of
supervisors to contracts with persons III dis
cover property not listed and ,SCSSed as
duired by law, and pay thereto - per cent of
amount collected; reenaCtnG present lcgiS!a-
tive appOrtiOnment: providing that voters may
mark 10th circle at head Of ticket and square
in front of the name on another ticket and have
both council; apDrOpriGting $1,000 for support
of historical department; requiring teachers to
be examined in music.
HOUSE
Among bills passed were the following: Re
curing state officers. comm SSioners and boards
TO make an itemzed financial report every
year on or before September I, for the fiscal
year ending June |, of all moneys received and
expended; authorizing executive council to re-
levy and assess any tax adjudged invalid or
Illegal; increasing support fund Of Mi ,chcllville
reform school from $40 TO Sl2 per month: appro-
priating $4,000 to Benedict home, Des MoneS.
and IL 90 each to homes at Sioux City and Du-
buque: eluiring authorities at state school 10
formulate rules for suspension or expulsion Of
students guilty of using intoxicating liquors;
prohibiting the selling or giving of Intoxicating
liquors to students of any state educational in
StitutiOn, under penalty of 800 fine or imprison-
historical building; apprOpriatlnG $1,000 for
monument to Charles Floyd; appropriating
$1,000 for fish and game commissions; appro-
priating S4il $40 for state educational inStitu-
tons approp: iating S153 i.4.93 for iuStit atoms
under board OF control: reenaCting present SyS-
tenn of distributing the representative districts:
providing for distribution of unclaimed dead
bodies among medical schools; proyiding that
county agricultural societies receive no aid
from state society unless report Is niei on or
district another Judge; prohibiting .prize
fighting.
SENATE
Des Moines, April 5.-The educational and
board OF control appropriation bills passed the
senate in the same form rs they passed the
house The following bills were also passed:
Abolishing the home for the blind at knoXville
eXempting sugar plants from taxation for ten
years; dividing state into health districts from
which members of the board of health are to
be chosen hereafter; reorgantzinS the national
guard and liking salary Of adiutant general at
- 900; Furnishing persons for giving liquors to
minors and drunkardS. providing that students
of State University who frequent saloons shall
be suspended: authorizing the use of voting
machines; legaliZing the marking of ballots
heretofore he'd to be identified; revising laws
relating to Mitchellville reform school
HOUSE.
Among the bills passed were the following:
Authorizing the bolrd of control TO use uncx-
pended balances as they may desire; providing
that county superintendents shall hold exami-
nations twice elch year instead of monthly;
providing that special assessments for public
Improvements must be In proportion to the
benefits to the property against which the
assessment is made; extending the law course
to three years and requiring an examination in
all cases; placing insurance companies doing
business on the stipulated plan in a class by
themselves; increasing salary of physicians mt
Fort Madison: the Blanchard telegraph and
telephone tax bills; the Cheshire express tax
bill placing all insane asylums under board of
control: appropriating $4,000 for additional sup
port OF historical department: authorizing
boards Of supervisors to employ tax ferretS;"
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contributions to campaign funds from employe s,
of board of control; Bri2htOn's valued Tolcy
bill; prohibiting the serving Of lunches in
looms; providing present printing and binding
laws shall not apply 10 journals, ledgerS and
day books: relating to collection OF collateral
inheritance tax.