Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-09
ABOUT READY 1O OUT
Iowa Legislature Has Only Few
Odds and Ends to
Clear Up.
The Senate Spends the Entire
Morning Discussing Two
Appropriation Bills.
A Number Of Bills Disposed Of
in the House..The Pro.
ceedings.
al to Times-Republican.

Icommenced business this morning with
! only thirty bills in the calendar. Bllls
were passed as follows. To permit rail-
roads to condemn for depot grounds be-
| fore completion of the road; to make 1T
a misdemeanor to purchase liquor for
minor: to require county superinten-
dents to report on normal school imam
ces to boards of supervisors and nave
the reports published; to permit towns
to levy taxes for town halls and librar-
| les; to raise the age limit at the deal
school from 81 to 25; to fix the number
of gauros at the state penitentiary.
The senate this morning spent the
entire time on two appropriation b1ils.
The board of control omnibus bill has
passed just as it came from the house.
THE bill for $4,000 for stock pavilion
at the state fair grounds was passed.
| The bill for an appellate court. Which
was introduced and fathered by Mr.
Temple, was permitted to dle
natural death. AT no time did this
4 bill meet with general approval Ihe
Judiciary committee of the house
placed 1t on the calendar for action
solely because Mr.. Temple is such an
influential member that no person
cared to oppose the bill in committee.
But Mr.. Temple permitted the bill
Ito remain there during the session and
4 finding that it had no chance OF pas
sage, inasmuch as the lawyer mem
/ bers Of the house were opposed to it,
and would beat 1t on the floor, he had
/ it dropped from the calendar. one
day in the senate one of the Leading
lawyers spoke Of it as danger or
threat, and this seemed to meet with
Ithe approval of members. Something
else will have to be devised II the SUI
lpreme court reorganization bill fails
to do the work of making 1T possible
for the supreme court to catch up with
hts work But a leading member de-
lclared in the senate the other day that
! in his opinion the supreme court under
tie law just jassed will be UP with its
.iwork inside of two years. This would
be matter of great qualification to
the lawyer members of the legislature
who supported the supreme court bill.
r.
Scott county to have the Legislature
do something that will increase the
attendance at the Iowa home for SOL
diers' orphans have thus far been In
vain. The senate has defeated two
bills having this object in view. One
of them made all orphan children who
may be sent to the home at Davenport
state charges. Under this bill there
would be great inducement for any
county to send all the dependent chill
dren in the county to Davenport and
| thereby escape responsibility for their
maintenance. Under the present sys-
tenn children sent to Davenport cost
the county something for support 1t
was pointed out that If all all are made
state charges the counties would soon
lfll the Davenport institution to over
flowing and necessitate enlargement.
On the other hand 1t is argued that
the home has nearly lost it's signifi-
canoe as home for the orphan chill
dren Of soldiers and unless some
change is made it will soon be COM
| paratively useless. The second bill
provided merely that orphan children
shall not be kept at poorhouses In the
state. Under this bill it would be
4 found in many cases cheaper to send
1.-THE children to the home than to keep
| them and maintain them in the coun-
| ties outside of the poorhouses. Mem
bers seemd to all agree that it is an
outrage that children should be per-
mitted to go to the county poorfarms
under any circumstances, but they
were unwilling to do anything that
/ oft tn
these children to the state home. The
members from Scott insist, however.
that the home at Davenport is one of
the best managed and most useful of
the state institutions and it is admir-
ably conducted under the present man
agement.
| The bill which passed the house in
relation to the st. Louis Louisiana
exposition carried an appropriation of
$3.50, 10000. The senate members are not
| favorably inclined toward this sum,
but believe it should be less. But the
pressure on members to give the full
amount suggested in the house bill
is strong and 1T may prevail. The
commission is to consist of thirteen
members and is to be partisan, con-
sisting of members of different political
parties. They will be appointed early
this spring and they will receive no
compensation, but have their eX-
penses paid.
The house has passed bill ap-
propriating $4,000 for the state his
torical society at Iowa City and also
making an annual allowance of $1,000
a year for publications. The society
desires to publish the Kirkwood let
ters and other valuable historical doc
uments. 1t is believed that this should
be done very soon, as the documents
are now in better condition than they
will ever be again. The society has
an excellent standing with the mem
bers of the legislature.
The appropriations committees are
getting nearer to the end every day.
The conferrees of these committees
acted on the institution bills yesterday.
The Iowa State college will get $135.-
900 in lump sum, of which $4,000
will be for commencing the collegi-
ate building, $4,000 for the support
fund for two years. $4,000 for the live
lstock, $4,000 for the experiment sta