Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-02-13
THE LEGISLATURE.

Knoxville home for the blina into
female reformatory; by COPYRIGHT,
giving a standard form Of official
bond: this is designed to compel
surety companies to give straight
bonds instead of insurance policies:
Garst, by request. prohibiting farm
ers' fire, hail, windstorm, tornado
and accident associations from is
suing paid up policies; by Alexander.
to require the assessment of prop
erty In special charter cities at 25
per cent of its actual value; by Alex
ander, to allow savings banks to &C.
cept twenty times their capital stock
in deposits.
Appropriation bills were proposed
as follows: For st. Louis, $3.50. 900;
for Clarinda, s69,700; for Knoxville
reformatory, $4,000; for completing
historical building, 100000. The
senate appropriations committee de-
cided to report favorably the bill
giving Cherokee s13S.oo0 for furniture.
etc.
House.-Warren's resolution to
limit the st. Louis appropriation to
100000 was sent to the committee
on appropriations, which is equivalent
to killing it. Bill to permit city of
Des Moines to lend $4,000 to the
water works company was passed. A
resolution accepting an invitation to
visit Knoxville on the 18th was car
ried. A number of bills Of importance
were introduced.
Des Moines, Feb. 5.-Senate.-The
bill for an emergency appropriation
of $13S,, 900 for the completion, equip
ment and furniture Of the Cherokee
insane hospital was passed without
oppo ition. Among bills oduced
| were the following: By Hubbard, to
provide a department In one of the
hospitals of the state for the treat
ment of dipsomapiacs, inebriates and
persons addicted to excessive use of
narcotics: by Smith, requiring reports
| O. ra-.roads to executive council to be
| uniform, and to cover gross and net
earnings on business originating In
Iowa, out of Iowa, terminating in
Iowa. or out of Iowa wholly outside
or inside Iowa.
House.-The house today memoir.
allied congress to pass the Lacey
bill to indemnify the states for pay.
| ments made on account Of purchase
of swamp lands at SLIPS an acre. This
includes about 1,000,0 900 acres In Iowa.
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reports to be made by railway COM
| panies to the executive council. The
plan outlined is practically the same
as that outlined by Governor Cum
Minis in his inaugural.
Des Moines, Feb. 6.-The senate &C
cepted an invitation to visit Knoxville
and inspect the abandoned home for
the blind buildings on the 18th. Trew.
ms bill to codify and republish the
session laws since 1897 passed. Ken
dalPs resolution for a commission to
investigate recent mine explosions in
Iowa was adopted. Among bills In
troduced were the following: By
Hopkins, to appropriate $4,000 to
erect on state fair grounds, fire proof
stock pavilion 175x225 feet. with a
show ring 170x120 and seating ca
ton, to appropriate $4,000 for monu
Mountain and Missionary Ridge; q
named from the eleven Iowa organiza
The Fourth, Fifth, Sixth. Ninth, Tenth
Seventeenth, Twenty-ffth. Twenty
sixth. Thirtieth and Thirty-hrst Iowa
regiments and First Iowa battery
were there.
HOUSEWIVES offered a Joint resolu
ton to amend the constitution by pro
viding for biennial elections. A large
number Of bills of minor importance
were introduced. Carter filed a motion
to consider the action of the house
in voting to request the Iowa delega
ton to vote for the Lacey swamp
land bill.
Des Moines. Feb. 7.-Senate.-The
trolley line tax proposition was taken
up and debated at length, but finally
was sent back to the commit ,e
Among bills introduced was one by
Iowa school for the deaf In central
eastern Iowa; to be under the state
board of control; an appropriation oil
100000 is made, and $4,000 annual
support.
House.-Among bills passed were
these: To provide water for the Des
Moines army post; appropriatlns
$13S,000 for the Cherokee hospital;
providing five days notice in garnish.
ment proceedings. The bill abolish
ing days of grace came in for con.
siderable discussion, and 1t was final
ly defeated by vote OF 43 to 81
Among bills introduced were the fol
lowing: BY Furry, providing for the
appointment of three public examin
ers by the governor to examine the
offices of treasurers and other county
officers annually; examiners to receive
SIS per day. and providing for a uniform
system of keeping the books of county
treasurer; by Hughes. providing for
$4,000 appropriation for inspection OF
county and private institutions in
which insane persons are kept.
Des Moines, Feb. 10.-Senate.- BY
vote of 80 to IL the senate Saturday
passed the Blanchard bill authorizing
the people to vote taxes In aid OF the
construction of electric trolley lines
A condition prohibiting the Issuing oil
watered stock by the corporations
which secure the taxes was voted In
to the bill unanimously. Some of ths
opponents of the measure predict that
it will fail in the house. Senator
Crossley in debate Saturday said the
passage of bills of this character
would soon make Iowa the New Jersey
of the west. The Teachout bills au
thorizing Des Moines to lend the water
works company $4,000 to help cor
struct mains to the site for the army
post passed the senate, unanimously
saturday, and as soon as the bills are
signed by the governor and published
the loan viii be legal and may be ef
fected by the city council. The bill
making taxes on property in the hands
OF receivers q preferred claim was
passed without opposition. Among
| bills introduced were the following
BY Hopkins, repeating chapter 109 Of
the acts of the Twenty-eighth genera
assembly. which compelled teaching
of vocal music in the schools;by Ho
bart, repeating sections 152S-156S, re