The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-16
PROPOSED CHANGES IN IOWA
LAWS.

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| Among the proposed changes and
additions to the Iowa statutes by the
coming legislature, are the following:
To establish an inebriate hospital for
drunkards on the same basis as the
state insane hospitals are now main
tained.
To establish an additional state
normal school, at cost of approproxi-
mately 100000.
| To establish state reformatories for
men and women at the Anamosa
prison, making Fort Madison the one
state penitentiary.
To institute meat inspection in cities.
To license BARRIERS.
To make divorce laws more stringent.
To appropriate $25O,OOO for the st.
Louis exposition.
To appropriate 100000 for the COM
pletion Of the state historical hall, only
$l50,000 being used within two years.
| To repeal the Blanchard anti-compact
law preventing insurance men from con.
ferring with respect to insurance rates.
! To compel insurance companies to
pay the full face value Of policies,
whatever the value of the burned prop
erty. Valued policy.)
To insure the property of the state of
Iowa amounting, outside of the capitol
building, to about $3.50, 100000.
To appropriate $4,000 for a state
arsenal.
To appropriate $l5O,OOo for the
soldiers monuments to be erected by
Iowa at the Vicksburg battle field.
To abolish bill boards.
To compel the state penitentiaries to
furnish at cost 10 counties rocks broken
by the convict labor.
To compel physicians and midwiyes
to report vital statistics and providing
compensation therefore.
To give school superintendents in
cities the right and power to examine
their own teachers and issue certificates
thereto, instead of the county superin.
tendents.
To enact an habitual criminal act
giving judges the right to sentence in
definitely persons thrice conyicted of
cllme.
To make the Grand Army of the
Republic state department.
To give the fish and game commits
sioner power to, appoint deputies who
shall receive compensation in the shape
of part of the fines collected from IL
legal hunters.
Tc abolish spring duck hunting in
Iowa.
| To tax corporate franchises.
| To create state examining board for
civil engineers.
To give state aid and subsidy to high
schools maintaining certain standards
of studies.
To increase the salary of district
judges from $4,000 to 81 1000.
To increase the salaries of supreme
judges from 81 900 to $4,000.
To compel the supreme judges to
live in Des Moines.
To establish an appellate court con-
sisting of three judges, who shall have
final jurisdiction over cases involving
not to exceed $4,000 and no constitu-
tional question,
To readjust the salaries of sherifs to
eliminate the fee business.
To require state uniformity of blanks
used by recorders.
To establish system of state ac-
counting for county treasurers.
To compel private banks to submit to
state inspection.
To compel the education of every
child under fourteen years OF age.
To prohibit the employment of child
labor.
To establish juvenile court and re-
quire the isolation of juveniles from
adult persons in jails and prisons.
To compel peace officers to act also
as health and humane officers.
To authorize fishing with net in
bayous, in high water and below fall
freezing.
To limit the number of fish taken to
twenty-five.
To prohibit the exposure and sale of
game during the closed seasons.
To fix definite amount covered by
exemption from execution, in the case
of wages.
Two joint resolutions will be intro
duced also. They are:
To strike the word 'male" from the
constitution.
To abolish elections in odd numbered
years.
To require cities to levy an additional
tax of not !less than $500 year for
municipal purposes on legalized saloons.
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