Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-12-18
WORK FOR LEGISLATURE
MANY BILLS ALREADY PROPOSED.
A Resume Of the Measures to Be Acted
Upon BY the Twenty Ninth Gen.
eral Assembly.


prepared for introduction shows that
there will be the usual amount of work
to be done.
Appropriations for the different state
institutions in charge of the board OF
control.
Appropriations for the three educa.
tional institutions of Iowa, the State
university, Iowa state college and the
State Normal school.
A bill to provide an additional norm
al school for the state, presumably to
be located at Knoxville, using the
buildings formerly occupied by the
state asylum for the blind.
An appropriation of $4,000 for the
during the biennial period.
An appropriation of $50, 900 asked by
the adjutant general for the construc-
ton of a state arsenal.
An appropriation of $50, 900 for the
biennial period for the erection OF the
main building of the Iowa Hall of His
tory. 1t is estimated that $500, 600 will
be required to complete the building,
which sum is asked for in four yearly
appropriations. The twenty-ninth
general assembly will be required to
consider the appropriation for the BIZ
ennial period.
A bill for the control by the state of
interurban and electric street railways
requiring annual reports, jurisdiction
as to freight rates, ETC., amending the
present laws by making them applica-
BILE, beyond question, to electric as well
as steam railways.
Railway legislation looking towards
more equitable taxation of the rail-
way systems in Iowa. One plan pro-
posed is to tax according to net earn
ings rather than per mile.
An appropriation for the proper re-
presentation of the state of Iowa at the
Louisiana purchase exhibition at st.
Louis in 1903 The sum suggested is
S250,OO0. The commissioner has not
yet decided what sum will be asked of
the assembly.
A bill towards the promotion of
farmers' institutes in the different
counties of the slate.
A bill converting the horticultural
society into department of hQrticul.
ture, and requiring the payment by the
state of thesalaIies of the secretary and
one stenographer.
A bill for an act governing the elec-
tion of city superintendeIts of schools
and defining their duties, in cities of
five thousand inhabitants or more.
A bill looking towards giving state
aid to those high schools who evidence
a certain proficiency or educational
standard.
A bill to provide for the payment of
deputy hire for sheriffs by counties,
leaving the fees of the Office, up to u
certain limit, to go as salary to the Of
ficers themselves.
A bill to provide fee for the margin
al cancellation of mortgages, or abolish
ing such cancellation entirely, and also
to require state uniformity in blanks
used in the office ofthe county recorder.
A bill providing for the establish
ment of home for inebriates, to which
habitually intoxicated persons shall be
sentenced the same as are insane per-
SONS to state asylums.
A bill for a home for epileptic insane
patients separate from the present in
sane asylums, and also bill providing
for the purchase of more land for hos
pital aud institutional purposes.
A Joint resolution for constitution
al amendment providing for biennial
elections.
A constitional amendment providing
for equal suffrage.
A valued policy insurance bill.
A bill to provide the office of fratern-
al insurance commissioner.
An attempt will be made to secure
the repeal Of the anti-compact insur-
ance laws now in force.
q hA v>rnonnt suatnra Of
telephone, telegraph and express taxa
tiOn.
A dill to enact habitual criminal
law, which does not require particu-
lar conviction as one OF the essentials
nor previous convictions In the state.
A bill requiring private banks to sub.
nit to the same inspection and make
the same reports as state and savings
banks.
A bill to raise the salaries of district
and supreme court judges.
A bill to establish an appellate court.
A bill to repeal the present tax-ferret
legislation.
A bill to establish q public account
ing of municipalities, so that taxpayers
may know the exact cost Of municipal
government.
A bill for primary election law.
The local taxation Of corporate fran
chises.
Municipal control of telephone com.
panies, with the right Of cities to own
and operate telephone systems.
A bill establishing uniformity Of text
books over the entire state.
Legislation looking toward the pur-
chase of the noted Meek Bros dam at
Bonaparte, that the Des Moines river
may be open for fish.
A bill providing for the reapportion-
ment ofthe counties in the congression-
al districts.
A bill to abolish days of grace on
commercial paper,
A bill providing for a compulsory
education law.
A bill to convert the Anamosa peni
tentiary into q reformatory for young