Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-18
INVESTIGATION ASKED
Senate Adopts Trewin's Resolu.
ton to Probe Cause Of Off.
cial Dereliction.
House Passes the Furry Bill to
Provide for County
Examiners.
Cummings Bill to Raise Judges
Salaries Referred. Catholics
Enter Protest.
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Special to es-Republican.
| Des Moines Feb. 1S.-The senate this
morning passed the Trewin resolution
calling. on the reform committee to in
ivestigate why certain state officers
have refused to make reports OF eX-
penses as required by law. There was
no discussion on the bill. The board of
health bill to give the state board pow
er to interfere where local boards are
raralized was passed 33 to 8. The
bill to provide that school teachers may
be employed for a period of three years
by school boards, came near defeat, but
was recommitted to the committee.
| In the house fhis morning the Furry
bill for county examiners was passed,
after several amendments were made,
one of which makes 1t obligatory 10 ex-
anime the offices of auditor and clerk.
and another gives to the state auditor
and treasurer Jointly the duty Of pre-
pairing the uniform system of book
keeping.
The Cummings bill to raise the sal
aries of supreme judges was referred
today to the committee on compensa-
tion of public officers, after some de-
bate. An amendment was offered by
Sweeley to give judges now elected
81 900 for clerk hire, but this was de-
feated.
|
The house today passed bill to make
! 1t a crime to advise the commission of
murder, a bill aimed at anarchists. The
senate adopted the committee report
indefinitely postponing action on the
bill regarding Iowa war claims.
| The Cummings bill to raise salaries
of the supreme judges and to provide
for practically continuous terms of the
court has not passed the house tho 1t
reached the point of being ready for
\ passage. The progress of the bill was
interfered with just before the final
vote ty the introduction of Gen. Fitz-
\ hugh Lee to the house. The general
made a happy speech and by the time
/ he was thru the attention of the mouse
had been drawn from the Cummings
| bill and Mr.. Temple moved adjourn
| ment which was carried. A motion to
amend by fixing the salary at $4,000 a
/ year instead of $4,000 was lost. This
was moved by Head and seconded by
Anderson. Mr.. Cummings made very
effective speech in favor of the bill He
stated that the salaries of the supreme
judges of Iowa are ridiculously small as
compared with salaries in other states
of equal standing with Iowa and the av-
erage of salaries is less in this class
! of states than that proposed in this bill.
He contended with force and eloquence
that the supreme judges of Iowa should
not be required to perform their duties
| for salaries that compel great sacrifices
and are entirely inadequate to the work
done. He was followed by Mr.. Temple
| in favor of the bill and in opposition to
! the head amendment. 1t is regarded as
certain the bill will pass when it
reaches vote.
The dairy bill was introduced in the
! legislature today. This is the bill to
provide for several field assistants to
go about the state and make inspection
| of creameries, to require that all test
| ing apparatus shall come thru the office
of the dairy commissioner. and general
I=ly to improve the dairy inspection busi-
ness of the state. 1t is n bill prepared
by the state dairy commissioner and
members of the state dairy association
President Sam Schilling, of Mason City,
of the state dairy association, Secretary
John Daily, of Charles City; w. X.
Boardman, of Nevada; and Professors
G. L. Mckay and C. f. Curtiss, of Iowa
State College, were in the city yester
day and put the finishing touches on
the measure.
| The bill to provide that women OF de-
fective minds shall be kept at the in
stitution at Glenwood up to the age of
46, was reported favorably to the house
today from the committee on feeble
minded. The bill was unanimously APP
proved in committee.
The municipal code commission bills,
seven in number, which were intro
duced in the senate by James II. Trew-
In, We're unanimously approved by the
committee on cities and towns and will
be acted on soon. These bills make nu-
merous small changes in the municipal
laws and some changes in regard to
board of health regulations.
Nothing was done yesterday In re-
gard to the senate contests from the
act that only one member of the Bruce
Emmert committee was present, and In
| the Crawford Nolan case Senator
Crawford was away attending the fu-
neral of grandchild.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee made pleasant
speech before the house yesterday af-
ternoon He was found in the build
ing and recognized. He was taken to
the platform and made a pretty speech
which pleased all the members. He es-
pecially referred to the Forty-ninth
Iowa regiment at Jacksonville with
him.
The house judiciary committee today
reported back to the house three SEN
ate bills favorably. These We're the
Hubbard bill to make possession of
burglar tools proof of a crime. Court
rights bill to legalize publication Of