The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-15
IOWA LEGISLATURE.
Daily Summary of the Work Done
by Lawmakers in the Twenty
Ninth General Assembly.


buildings designated to accommodate 100
persons to swing outward 1t applies to
all buildings now or hereafter to De erected.
The fish and game wardens bill, adding
| catfish to the list of game fish, and author
ling the license of persons to take cat
fish In the closed season, has also been
passed. By vote of q to 20 it was decid-
ed to parole Wesley r. Elkins, the boy
murderer from Clayton county. The dis
cussion consumed the greater part of yes
terday, the time limit having been removed
so that both sides might be given a full
hearing.
Des Moines, Ia. April 4.-The senate has
passed bill adjusting the difficulty that
has long existed between the osteopathic
and the regular doctors of the state, requir-
Ing the state board of medical examiners
to issue certificates to those osteopathtc
physicians who pass an examination in
designated sciences; also the house bill de-
| signed to effect the levying and collection
| of the mulct tax against places and requir-
ing the legal notice of the levy to be made
to enable the collection.
Des Moines Ia, April 5.-The senate has
passed the Hubbard merger bill with
but five dissenting votes. 1t authorizes
Iowa railroads to extend their lines into
all other states, to own, construct and buy
railroads, and to buy, own and control
| stock and securities of other railroads in
| all other states. A resolution providing for
| but motion to reconsider was fled
| Des Moines, Ia. April 1.-THE senate has
killed the bill which passed the house to
create BARRIERS commission to examine
and license BARRIERS. Bills have been passed
| to exempt from taxation $500 of the prop
| erty of every soldier not worth to ex-
coed $1,000; giving county attorneys in
| counties of over 80, 900 inhabitants the right
| to select their own ASSISTANTS; fixing the
salary of county superintendent at $1,2v
| year, instead of four dollars day; APP
propriating 1000 annually to the State Hor
| ticultural society and providing that all
| the copies of the reports shall be bound
in cloth.
| Des Moines, Ia, April S.-The senate has
| passed the house bill giving the board of
control power to visit and inspect homes
/ for friendless children and empowering
judges to commit children to these homes
| upon showing that their parents are unfit
to care for them or if they are homeless;
also the bill to make guilty of larceny a
farm tenant who sells the grain he grows
without notifying the buyer that the land
| lord has lien thereon for rent and has
pardon of William Young, of Woodbury.
county: Joseph McCreary, of Mills coun-
ty, and George Stanley, of Story county,
serving life sentences for murder.
Des Moines. Ia, April 9.-The senate yes
terday passed a substitute for the Mols-
berry bill relating to the indebtedness OF
railroads by a vote of q to Is.
| In the House.
Des Moines, Ia, April SIN the house
a bill has been passed providing that in
case no general election is held in 1905, the
| boards of supervisors may make up the
grand and petit jury lists from the poll
books of the previous year. This contem-
plates the passage of the biennial election
| amendment The committee on judiciary
recommended for passage bills increasing
the number of guards at Fort Madison to
45 and the number at Anamosa to AZ; pro-
Viding that county attorneys shall appear
in cases arising from the binding out of
minors; removing the time limit in which
administrators may be appointed to Sc
cure property for the widows and families
of old soldiers.
Des Molnes. Ia. April 4.-Bills have been
passed in the house empowering the trus.
tees of any township to condemn land in or
der to secure gravel for roads; providing
that voter may register on election day
If he has moved from one precinct to an
other in the same county after the last reg
istration day.
Des Moines. Ia, April 5.-The house has
voted, AZ to 46, not to grant a conditional
pardon to John Wesley Elkins, who muir.
dered his father and mother in 1889. wher
he was u years of age. The senate haG
voted to grant the pardon An effort tc
reconsider will be made in the house. II
has been voted to pardon George Stanley
who has been in the penitentiary 80 years
for the murder of James Patterson. Stan
ley has been in the penitentiary Longer
than any man now living in Iowa. Othel
pardons have been recommended as fol
lows: Otto Often, of Pocahontas county
Theodore Bushick of Mills county; JOSEPH
McCreary, of Mills county; John Ballew. OF
Webster county; William Young of Wood
bury county.
Des Moines, Ia, April 1.-THE house has
adopted the report of the conference com.
mittee appointed to consider the senate
amendments to the Hamann interurbar
bill. The amendments provide that troll
ley line entering a city may haul such
freight as it can carry in baggage or com
bination cars. This may be done with
out condemnins the street and paying abut,
ting damages as the senate amendments
provided.
Des Moines, IA. April S.-The house yes
terday, with but one dissenting vote. passed
a bill requiring all mine operators in lowe
to employ shot examiners and firers at theil
own expense. The senate bill for the re
organization of the supreme court has also
been passed 1t increases the salaries o.
the supreme judges from $4,000 to 5000
year and requires them to be in continuous
session in Des MoineS for 91a months ir
each year; 1t requires them to open cour
to take submission of cases once
month and provides that only as many
cases as may be decided within the inter
venng time shall be submitted. 1t is pro
vided that the judges may not do work
outside the court for which they receive
compensation The law goes into effec
January l. 1904. The bill to create an ap
pellate court has been postponed.
Des Moines. Ia, April 9.-The bill known
as the Hubbard railway merger act, com
panion of the Molsberry bill, passed the
house yesterday in practically the same
form as it passed the senate. The impress
sion prevails that the governor will veto
1T, as it is generally claimed to be in
tended as an aid to the Hill-Harrimar
railway merger, a feature which induced
the governors veto of the Molsberry bill
Bulsarians Stirring Up Trouble.
Constantinople, April 9.-The val
of Adrianople, European Turkey, tel
egraphs that band of Bulgarians
with the object of provoking retail
iation, recently killed and mutilatet
three Mussulman peasants and boy
near Kirk-Kilisseh Ga town 80 miles
east-northeast of Adrianople) anG
then sought refuge in Bulgaria, hop
ing to be pursued and anticipating