Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-22


sition commission adopted resolution
asking an appropriation of $25O,000 for
an Iowa building and exhibit at st.
Louis in 1903 Some opposition ex-
listed to so large an appropriation until
it was learned how much money sur
rounding states proposed to expend,
but the majority of the commission de-
cided it would be better to ask for all
the money wanted and perhaps a lit
tie more because of the well known
tendencies of legislatures to scale
down requests for appropriations. A
bill making the appropriation and
providing for it's expenditure will be
presented to the legislature and its
passage urged by a committee con-
sisting of w. Fl. Berry of Indianola, G.
M. Curtis Of Clinton, e. H. Hunter of
Des Moines. S. M. Leach of Abel, A.
B. Funk of Spirit Lake, E. p. Heller of
Sioux City and c. T. Hancock of Du-
buque. Another committee on plan and
scope of work which will make re-
port to Governor Cummins, consists of
S. M. Leach of Abel, S. B. Evans of
Ottumwa, j. j. Hartenbower of Des
Moines, William Logan of Keokuk,
Senator Hayward of Davenport, G. J.
A. Erickson of Boone, J. G. Milliman
of Logan, George H, Van Houten of
Bedford, Samuel Mahon of Ottumwa
and w. H. Berry of Indianola. The
educational leaders of the state are
anxious that Iowa's educational inter-
ests shall not be neglected and COM
ylittee consisting of State Superin-
tendent Barrett, AlonZo Alternately of
Usage, Harvey Ingham of Algona,
Judge w. |. Babb of Mt. Pleasant and
others will outline plan for an edu-
cational exhibit and lay it before the
committee on plan and scope of the
exhibition.
Railroads Asked for Facts.
Governor Cummins, in line with the
views on the question of railway taxa
ton expressed in his inaugural ad-
dress, has laid before the executive
council a series of questions to be
added to the regular list sent out to
railroad companies and from the an
swers to which the council arrives at
the assessable value of the different
railway properties. The questions
propounded by Governor Cummins are
calculated to bring out more definite
information than has hitherto been
laid before the council In brief, he
wants to know:
The gross earnings on business orig
mating in the state and terminating
in the state.
The gross earnings on business orig
mating in the state and terminating
outside.
The gross earnings on business orig
mating without the state and termi-
mating within.
The gross earnings on business
neither originating nor terminating
within the state, but passing over Iowa
lines.
How much was expended from the
gross earnings of the past year for
betterments and how much In all for
betterments?
charge per mile paid on bonded debt
| for entire system during the past
three years; also in Iowa?
The average dividend paid per mile
I for same period.
A comparison of the value of the
lines in Iowa with the entire system.
| Governor Cummins thinks if all the
facts asked could be laid before the
council the problem of getting at the
exact value of the railroads would not
be difficult.
State BacterioIogist.
The state board of health will ask
the legislature for total appropria-
tion of $4,000, from which amount
the salary of state bacteriologist will
be betrayed. The board expects the
present legislature to create the Of
fee OF bacteriologist. The board will
also, as stated in a previous letter,
ask for stricter quarantine laws. The
board will not directly attack the os-
teopaths, with whom it has been In
conflict, legal and otherwise, for the
past two years, but will await the
presentation of a bill by the osteo-
paths themselves for the regulation OF
the practice of their profession and if
it is not satisfactory seeks its modifi-
cation.
DR.. G. ]. Bayer of Des Moines has
prepared a novel bill, which he will
present to the general assembly. He
proposes to create commission which
shall prepare set of questions to be
satisfactorily answered by all candi-
dates for the matrimonial state. In
case the legislature does not wish to
create another permanent commission
he would have the commission dissolve
after formulating set OF questions,
but he would prefer to have the COM
mission continued. He would have all
students at high schools and colleges
pass the examinations before they are
graduated. Persons who have not
graduated from such schools he would
require to pass the examination before