Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-07
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Iowa House Turns Down a Reso.
luton Expressing Sympathy
for the Beers.
Bill to Increase the Pay OF
Shorthand Reporters Is
Passed.
Senate Passes Special Tax
Measure for University and
State College.
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representatives this morning refused 10
sho wany sympathy for the Beers IN
their struggle in South Africa. Magic
opposed the resolution offered by DON
ahue and declared that the house might
as we'll express sympathy for the FIN
pino deserters as for the motlon. a
motion to refer to the committee on
federal relations was defeated and the
resolution was tabled by vote OF %
to 3S.
The Cummings bill to give shorthand
4 reporters Sc day, with minimum
4 salary of $1,000 a year. passed the
house by large majority today.
4 Hawk introduced q resolution IN
1 dorsing the policy of placing all the
4 state educational institutions under one
l board. The senate passed the mllage
1 tax for the state university and also
for the agricultural college, and then
postponed consideration of the railway
assessment bill until next TUESDAY.
4 The vote on postponement was ~ to
lis.
\ sThe senate will consider the sheriff's
4 fee bill in substantially the form IN
4 which ii came over from the house
/ The committee on compensation VI
] rublic officers. of which Senator Lister
1 js the chairman, made only one change
4 in the bill, and that was to limit the
4 compensation in the smaller counties,
those of less than 1900 population, to
$500 a year for both the sheriff and
his deputy. This will affect but few
counties of the state.
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The house judiciary committee,
which is giving the greatest care to
everything which passes thru 1T, has
placed the stamp of approval on the bill
tIoc the American Bar Association to
codifys the laws relating to negotiable
and to secure uniformity
thruout the United States. This bill
was introduced by Chairman Clarke at
the instance of the officials of the
American Bar Association. 1t is UNDER
stood that it makes but little change in
line present Iowa INV oII IlSS5OtidpiN III
struments, but the association is hay-
ing 1T passed for the purpose of getting
all laws alike and thus avoiding the
Iconfusion of the present system. Eight
cen states have adopted 1T and 1t is IN
force in the District of Columbia. Other
states are adopting it as fast as they
4 come to it. When the law is In force
in all states the transfer of negotiable
instruments will be comparatively easy
in all the states.
Another bill which is along the line
tof state uniformity of laws is that of
1.-THE Divorce Reform League. This bill
/ which provides that a divorce shall not
be granted In Iowa to recent resident
OF another state without considering
4 the grounds of divorce in the state from
! " hich which the plaintiff has come has
1 passed the senate, but is resting with a
Il lhouse committee 1t is a step IN the
4 direction of securing uniform divorce
laws in all the states and preventing
4 the divorce scandals of some states.
The Hayward bill in the senate to
4 reduce the rate of interest on school or
/. ders to per cent has been killed.
The bill of the ph:lanthropic women
of the state to provide method of car
ling for homeless and friendless chill
dren has received committee disap-
proval in the senate. The bill is an
! elaborate one.
The dental board bill by Harper,
which provides for material changes In
the board, has been sent to the senate
committee on public health.
The bill to require that auctioneers
shall pay a license when they come in
n to Iowa from another state has been
2 killed off by a senate committee.
A house committee has acted favora-
bly, on the Alexander bill to give library
boards the right to mandamus city
councils to carry out the provisions OF
contracts on which library bequests are
made. This is to encourage the library
movement and to give assurance to
. those who make gifts for library pur-
poses that some adverse city council
shall not be able to cripple the library
at some future time or destroy the wall
ue of the bequest.
The house will be asked to consider
the bill providing for publication of a
volume of laws relating to township
officers with change fixing the price
o. the volume at S1.50 instead of $3.50
The Calderwood bill to provide for
sending dependent children to the State
Orphans Home at state expense has
been approved by the house committee
on charitable institutions.
The following is the bill which Sena-
tor Classen has introduced for an act
to amend chapter 80 of the acts OF the
Twenty eighth general assembly in re-
gard to pension money of members oil
the Iowa Soldiers Home at Marshall
, town:
"Be it enacted by the general assem-
bly, of the state of Iowa:
Section l. That section two CD OF
chapter ninety two {92) of the acts OF
the Twenty eighth general assembly Is
, hereby amended by striking from the
, seventeenth and eighteenth lines there
, Of the words as follows: For the nee
,, cssary wants of such depositor.'
Sec 2. Section 9 of said chapter Is
thereby repealed and in lieu thereof Is
} enacted the following:
"Sec. 3. Each member of the Homs
who receives a nension and who has 6
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