Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-19
WELL Up WITH WORK
Judiciary Committee Has Practic.
ally All Its Bills Dis.
posed of.
House Amended the Primary
Bill, Making Its Accep-
tance Optional.
Appropriations Favorably Acted
Upon Exceed Revenues by
Over 100000.
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Special to Times Republican.
! Des Moines, March 19.-The house
Icommittee on judiciary is we'll up WIN
| its work now and has practically no
bills Of Importance before it save the
bill to provide for a board of managers
of the state educational institutions.
This bill was reported out unanimously
from the committee. An effort was
made to get 1t into a committee where
| II would be easier killed. 1t was sent
back to the committee because amend
ments that are vital were offered by
1 one of the authors of the bill. These
amendments go to the real merits OF
the measure. Among other things a
section is added as follows:
"The said board, together with the
governor and superintendent acting
Jointly. shall have power to elect
president for each of the said state ed
ucational institutions and shall, on the
lnornination of the president so elected,
elect secretary, professors, tutors,
teachers and such heads of depart
ments as now exist or may be hereafter
created in each of the several state
educational institutions.
ITO fix the salaries of each of said
officers and employees, prescribe their
duties and appoint substitutes who
shall discharge the duties OF such OFF,
GERS in their absence.
ITO arrange courses of study and
practice, and to establish professor
ships as may seem best to carry into
effect the provisions and law govern
ing said institutions, and to prescribe
conditions and terms Of admission into
the several institutions, and into the
several departments thereof.
ITO remove. by a majority vote, any
officer professor, teacher, tutor or other
lemploye."
The bill has met with general favor,
but the representatives of the present
faculties of the various institutions are
asking to be heard in opposition to It,
The representatives of the faculty at
tsas Iowa State College are to appear
this afternoon and of the State Univer-
sity on Thursday afternoon. Whether
the Normal School people desire to op-
pose the measure remains to be seen.
In the house today the primary cleo
tion bill was discussed all forenoon. af-
ter the passage of bill to appropriate
$4,000 for stock pavilion at the fair
grounds. The primary election bill was
amended by making it optional with
counties to accept 1t. The bill had not
reached vote at noon.
The senate unanimously adopted the
resolution of the conference committee
to strike injunctions. The bill to give
Oelwein a superior court was passed
and the bill to permit Ottumwa to let
contracts for water works by div: ding
the bids. Both appropriations commit
tees today appointed conference COM
mittees to plan for the Appropriation
work. The committees have received a
statement that the greatest amount Of
revenue possible, even by reappropriat-
ing 100000 and raising the tax levy to
3 mills is S1,012,000, and the committees
have already passed favorably on s45S,-
463 more than this. An effort will be
made to cut down the deficit ne-half,
which will be done by refusing some of
the appropriations already favored.
The omnibus bill for the state insti-
tutions will probably be amended, but
in manner that will not hurt 1t ma
terially. 1t carries s731,O00. The APP
rropriations committee realizes that
this can not we'll be sparad out of the
funds which come in the next two
years. Any provision for raising more
revenue will not bring in money until
rear the close of the period or after
wards. 1t is proposed that the bill shall
provide that only S60O,OO0 of the
amount to be appropriated shall be
paid out of the revenues of the present
period and the rest be held over until
afterwards. But this is practically
what will happen anyhow, for many of
the contracts will not be finished until
after the close of the biennial period
The money the board is spending now
and will be spending In permanent i'm
proyements at state institutions was
appropriated two years ago and not all
of the work then planned can be COM
rleted before the expiration of the
term. 1t may be that some of the land
to be purchased will be paid for in In
stallments. altho the state of Iowa has
rot been in the habit Of patronizing the
lnstallment houses
The Nolan Crawford contest case
came to an end yesterday when the
contest committee decided definitely
that the ballots will not be recounted
They We're kept so badly after the re-
turns had been made that. under the
laws of Iowa and the decisions of the
supreme court, they could not be ac-
copied as competent evidence. In fact
there never was any real merit to the
contest from Dubuque county. All that
it amounted to was faint hope that
some error might be discovered on q
recount that would take the edge off
the bad democratic defeat of last fall
In the legislation which was accom-
plished in the legislature yesterday
there We're some queer things. For in
stance, in the senate the bill to prohibit
child labor in certain places was pretty
badly cut up before 1t reached a vote
The bill was intended to prohibit the
employment of child under IA in any
factory, mine or workshop. 1t was pro-
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