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Des Moines, March 15.-Senate
The conference committee reported a
substitute concurrent resolution mem
orializing congress to pass the Hoar
bill in restriction of the issuance OF
injunctions by federal courts during
strikes. The new resolution expresses
the belief that the Hoar bill is q good
one. and that the legislature has
abundant confidence in>the Iowa dele
cation in congress. It is q compromise
which it is said will be adopted with
out dissent. A message was received
from the governor suggesting the pas
sage of a general statute transferring
the Jurisdiction over grounds on which
the government will erect buildings
to the federal authorities. Heretofore
this has been effected by special acts.
Governor Cummins suggested that
draft of law which he transmitted be
adopted. The matter went to the com
mittee on judiciary.
Among bills passed were the follow
ing: To prohibit the sale of cocaine
except on prescription of physician;
to permit persons moving from one
voting precinct to another after reg.
istration to register on election day
and vote; to permit supervisors to re,
pair river levees in emergency with,
out waiting for meeting of the board:
to change the weight of millet and
Hungarian seed from 4S to SO pounds
to the bushel; giving the board of con-
troll power to detain girls at the Indus
trial school at Mitchellville until they
are 81; to apply the fish protection law
to the Big Sioux river; to punish kid
naping for ransom by imprisonment
for any term of years from ten years to
life.
housekeeping amendments to
the proposed law for the creation Of q
board of control to govern the state
educational institutions were introduce
ed and the whole business was again
sent to the committee of judiciary, q
motion to refer to a special committee
being defeated The amendments add
the governor and SUI rintendent OF
instruction to the board and modify
its powers In the matter of hiring
professors. Cummins of Black Hawk.
chairman of the committee to which
the Torrens land register bill was re-
ferred. reported in favor of the bill,
but with the Recommendation that it
be not further considered at this time,
but that it be referred to commits
sion to report to the next general as
sembly. Hawk of Jasper the author of
the BILL has already introduced bill
providing for such commission. A
bill providing for five days notice be-
fore assessing the mulct tax against
property was passed.
Des Moines, March 17.-Senate-
The following bills were passed: BY
Kendall, requiring the board of mine
examiners to have certificates, four
as mine foremen and one as mine en-
gineer, and prohibiting members from
being connected with mining schools;
by Kendall, requiring mine inspectors
to visit all coal mines of more than
SO tons production day at least twice
year; by Buchanan, to give the
board of veterinarian commissioners
power to revoke certificates, etc.; by
Durham, to amend section 423, to make,
it clear that all expenditures in ex-
cess of $4,000 must be submitted to a
vote of the people before being made
by the board of supervisors.
House.-Buchanan of Wapello intro.
duced resolution for sine die adj
journment at IL NJ, April 3. It was
laid over under the rules. The bill
providing that the laws affecting rail-
ways shall apply to interurban rail
ways, that interurbans in cities shall
be governed by the same laws as street
railways, that they may run along the
public highways with the consent of
two-thirds of the owners of the abut-
| ting property, was passed. The bill
providing that in cities of 10000 or
over the board of supervisors shall
furnish the assessor with an office,
was passed. 1t also provides that in
cities of 10000 or over, which at pres
ent only includes Des Moines, that the
assessor shall receive not to exceed
So per day, and his deputies not to
exceed $3.50, deputies to be approved
by the board of supervisors.