The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-08
IOWA LEGISLATURE.
Daily Summary of the Work Done
by Lawmakers in the Twenty
Ninth General Assembly,

restrict railroad rights of way across pri-
vate property to 100 feet in width; to make
1t necessary for personal property assured
persons to prove only the loss and value of
the property for which recovery is sought,
accompanied by affidavit and notice. con-
tracts to the contrary Notwithstanding;
to give Independent school districts au-
thority to consolidate as we'll as school
townships; giving the right to the state
board of educational examiners to issue life
diplomas and three-year certificates, with
out examination, to graduates of peda-
gogcal courses in any institution APP
proved by the board of examiners
Des Moines, Ia. March 2S.-The senate
has passed a bill providing for the reor
ganization of the Iowa supreme court. 1t
increases the salaries of the judges from
1000 to Sc, 00l; it prohibits them doing work
for compensation other than that received
from the state; it requires them to be in
continuous session for 9R months in the
year; it provides that they shall take the
submission of only as many cases at one
sitting as they are able to determine and
finally decide within one month The law
is to go into effect January 1, 1904. The bill
will require the residence of the supreme
court judges in Des Mones Gov Cum
minis returned to the senate without his
approval the bill removing the limit of in
debtedness from railroad corporations,
which it has been charged, was passed in
NAiS ihAStCS VI tile IueIstI
Des Moines. Ia. March 29.-The senate
passed by a unanimous vote the house bill
approprating sl5000O for monuments to
Iowa soldiers at Nicksburg Military park.
The senate also passed by unanimous vote
the bill to appropriate $4,000 for the erec-
ton of monuments to the Iowa soldiers who
fought and those who died at the battles of
Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge.
A bill was also passed permitting the Shiloh
commission to eXpend the balance (s2,50O)
of the $4,000 appropriated for monuments
at Shiloh in dedicatory services. A resolu-
ton for final adjournment April went over
under the rules The compulsory education
bill was passed and having previously
passed the house, will become a law upon
being approved by Gov. Cummins
Des Moines, Ia, March Ex-senator F.
M. Molsberry has introduced another rail-
road bill along the same lines of the one
vetoed by Gov. Cummns. 1t is so changed
as to meet all the requirements of the
constitution, and is generally regarded as
compromise measure Its provisions are
of the greatest Importance to the people
of the state and to the corporations. as it
permits railway corporations to contract
an unlimited Indebtedness, whereas the
limit is now two-thirds of the capitalstock
Bills have been passed to preserve the
township scheme of disbursing the road
tax, but requires the tax to be collected in
to a period of five years.
Des Moines, Ia. April 1.-The senate has
passed bills changing the names of the state
asylums to state hospitals;" providing
that each county institute may send dele
gate to the convention of agriculture: pro-
viding for the condemnation of land for a
sewer for the army post; fixing the compen-
sation of appraisers of collateral inheri-
lance tax at two dollars per day; providing
for the parole of inmates of industrial
schools by the board of control.
committee on insurance has decided to re-
port for passage the bill to create an insur-
ance department. The house committee
to the appropriations committee.
In the House.
Des Moines, Ia, March PIT has been
discovered In the house that the house
has been concurrlng in senate amendments
to house bills by viva voce vote instead
of repassing the bills by roll call This is
held to invalidate all bills so passed and
those of them which have been signed by
the governor will have to be repassed re-
signed and republished. Bills have been
passed providing that all the copies of the
report of the horticultural society shall be
bound in cloth and increasing the annual
appropriation for the society from $500
to $4,000: permitting insurance companies
of the state. to insure creditors from loss
and to do what Is known as Credit insur-
ance:" providing that each farmers insti-
tute may send delegate to the annual con-
vention of the department of agriculture.
Des Moines. Ia. March 2S.-The house
has passed a joint resolution requesting
congress to call convention to amend the
constitution so as to provide for the cleo
ton of United States senat tors by popular
vote. Bills have been passed legalizng
the Iowa State Poultry association and APP
propriating $1,000 each year to assist in
Inf rnH ty,tY IN ~
hibition: providing that the various hos
pitfalls for the insane shall be known as the
Mt. Pleasant, Independence, Clarinda and
Cherokee state hospitals.
Des Moines. Ia, March 29.-Bills have
been passed in the house to Increase the
salary of the governor to s., 900 per year, but
the clause increasing the salary of the gov
ernor's secretary to S1,SOO was defeated !;
increasing the annual appropriation for
the state board of health from S., 600 to 81
500 per year; increasing the salary of the
secretary from 200 to 81, 500 per year: APP
propriating 5000 per year for the estab-
lishment of a meteorological department,
$500 to be the salary of the bacteriologist.
Des Moines, Ia, March 3l.-The house
committee on ways and means has voted
to recommend for indefinite postponement
the senate bill for the taxation of railroads
on basis of stocks and bonds. A bill has
been passed providing for the establish
ment of an inebriates' ward in the state
hospitals. 1t will enable the courts to com
nit men addicted to excessive use of intox-
icants, narcotics and drugs to this ward
instead of the insane hospitals.
Des Molnes. Ia, April 1.-The house ju-
dietary committee has voted to postpone
the bill for the creation of a board of con-
troll for the state educational institutions.
The senate amendment to the compulsory
education BILL taking it out of the power
of the teachers of the state to have children
sent to the reform schools for truancy
alone, has been concurred in. Bills have
been passed providing that Iowa insurance
companies shall only pay taxes on business
done in the state; giving the United States
government power to condemn land It keo-
kuk, where it is proposed to have the river
improved for the purpose of navigation by
the erection of dam; providing for the
appointment of a commission to investigate
the methods of registration of titles and
report to the next general assembly; to en-
courage the planting of trees by the remis-
sion of taxes on the land on which the trees
are planted. Mr.. Carter, of Sioux county
introduced bill to reorganiZe the senator's
al districts of the state.
Des Moines, Ia, April I'm the house
yesterday the bill to create department
of insurance separate from the office of
the auditor of state was defeated after an
hour had been spent distiguring It, 1t failed
to receive the requisite constitutional ma