Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-10
It IS THE BUSY DAY
Legislature is Doing Moth ing But
Work This Week.
MANY BILLS PASSED, SOME KILLED
No More FIowery Speeches Made But
the Object of Everyone Is to Finish
the Business at Hand as Quickly as
Possible. n
Des Moines, April s.

Des Moines, April s.
Were it possible for the legislator e
to remain in session another thirty
days and do business at the rate of the
past week l believe it would get
enough laws on the statute books to
last for the next decennial. There
are no vacations, no week end stop
pages of business to accommodate
those who would visit their families
Roll call follows roll call until the
mere reiteration of the names be-
comes wearisome to the listeners.
There is little debate, in the senate
they are limited to talks of seven min
utes except by unanimous consent.
Then too there is an epidemic Of
grip or malaria or brain flag Cypress
ing many of the members and this is
not conducive to oratory. The spec
ness end remains.
The Walters Bill.
= The senate yesterday killed the bill,
introduced in the house by Walters of
Tama, which provided that where a
nuisance was committed in one coun-
in another. 1t was supposed to apply
to the pollution of the Iowa river by
the glucose works at Marshalltown. 1t
was attacked in the senate on the
ground that it would be to the detri-
corporations.
The resolution introduced by the
same man and passed unanimously
70, g,
commission to investigate the whole
subject of sewage promises to have a
kinder fate, and the work of making
will be placed in the hands of the
state board of health.
In the house yesterday there was
presented resolution which calls for
final adjournment on April 10. This
ed. / believe the senate will amend
by making it the 18th, and that next
Friday the session will finally close.
Until this matter is finally settled
the speaker is unable under the terms
of the resolutions, to appoint the sift
ing committee. l believe Mr.. Eaton
is better satisfied to let theeS whole
body select the measures which shall
pass instead of delegating the office
to a few men, and it looks as if he is
keeping everyone at work with the
purpose of clearing the calendar by
call and disposition.
Senate Cuts Appropriation.
The senate welded the axe very eff
fectively and ruthlessly when it killed
appropriations which aggregated
100000, including the contingent pro
visions for the state historical build
ing and state arsenal. Should the I'D
per body carry out this drastic re
trenchment there will be no occasion
to raise the state levy, but it promises
to fare ill with the many minor de
mands which are being made upon the
purse of the commonwealth.
For Monument.
The house put in more time than
usual yesterday afternoon discussing
the advisability Of appropriating $35,
600 for the erection of monuments or
and finally decided that the state
should grant that amount. 1t appear
ed from the orators that yesterday
was the anniversary of the battle, an6
they urged that now that forty years
were not remembered suitably, the
legislature should repair it's fault or
this particular day.
Buchanan's Automobile Bill.
Buchanan of Wapello hardly knows
his automobile bill now that the sen
ate has amended and passed the same
1t is not necessary for owners to reg
lister their machines with the secre
tary of state as the original measure
provided. 1t was argued and with
some force that the tourist, coming in
to Iowa'from another state, would be
liable to arrest and punishment be
cause of inability to comply with this
rule. The speed of such vehicles is
limited to twenty miles an hour in the
country, and certain provisions are
made for hailing and warning team.