The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-07
IOWA LEGISLATURE.
by Lawmakers in the Twenty
Ninth General Assembly.

Ny LuN"uheTS IN lne lNvchtys
Ninth General Assembly.
Des Moines, Ia, Feb. 27-The senate
ways and means committee has recon-
mended for passage the bill to give the
state agricultural college an additional
one-tenth mill building tax to partially re-
store the burned buildings. Bills have been
passed removing the limit on fees charged
for the filing of articles of incorporation
by the secretary of state (already passed
by the house,; house bill fixing the salary
of the physician at Fort Madison peniten-
tiary at SIS month; providing that no
tees to publish four weeks in succession
be published once each week for four weeks
in succession Bills introduced: To APP
proprlate 5000 for an equestrian statue OF
Francis j. Heron on the state capitol
grounds; to exempt residents OF other
states which do not charge fish and game
license from paying the Iowa license.
Des Moines, Ia, Feb. 2S.-Iowa woman
suffragists won great victory when the
state senate, by a vote of 2S to 16, passed
Senator Allyn's resolution providing for the
for equal suffrage. The senate committee
in the Bruce-Emmert contest from the
Cass-Shelby district has prepared report
seating j. G. Bruce, contestant and repub-
lican, in place of ]. NJ. Emmert, incumbent
and democrat, the ballots giving Bruce 10
majority.
Des Moines, Ia, March lin the senate
the bill abolishing days of grace has been
defeated. The committee on schools rec
commended for Indefinite postponement the
Hazelton bill providing for compulsory
free textbooks in all OF the schools of the
state.
Des Moines, Ia, March 3.-The senate
ways and means committee has found that
it will be possible to change the time of
oS 81 ha rai nf fha ct ta
from March % to August l, without inter-
fering with the collection of the road
taxes. A bill has been passed to appro-
pirate $1,000 to buy new furniture for the
Tama Indians, whose supplies We're burned
by the state on account of smallpox infec-
ton.
Des Moines, Ia, March 4-The senate has
passed the bill changing the date of max
ing of the railway assessment from March
25 to the second Monday in July and Civ
ing the railroads until April to file their
reports. Senators Trewin, Whipple and
Porter have been named as the code com
mission to superintend the publication of
the codification of the session laws of the
Twenty-seventh Twenty-eighth and
Twenty-ninth assemblies.
Des Moines, Ia, March 5.-No business
of Importance was transacted in the senate
yesterday.
In the House.
Des Mones, Ia, Feb. N.-Bills have been
passed in the house making the last regis
tration day the third before election: pro-
viding that all polling places shall be select
ed and prepared by township trustees; ex-
empting property to the amount of $500,
personal OF real, belonging to civil war SOL
diers and soldiers of the Mexican war.
Bills introduced: To appropriate $1,000 for
the erection of an equestrian statue of
Gen. Francis j. Heron on the capitol
grounds; to give cities power to levy a tax
of two mills for library purposes; to pro-
vide that when names on liquor consent
petitions do not agree with the names on
the poll lists the identity of said voters may
be shown by competent evidence.
Des Moines. Ia. Feb. 2S-When the SEN
ate resolution memorializing congress to
pass and requesting the Iowa delegation in
congress to vote for the Hoar bill to re-
strict injunctions issued during strikes
was taken up by the house Mr.. Durham,
of Delaware, offered a substitute express
ing confidence in the Iowa delegation and
whatever action 1t may take with reference
to this subject, and the substitute was
adopted. The committee on amendments
and suffrage decided to recommend the
woman suffrage amendment for indefinite
postponement. A motion to report it for
passage was defeated s to g.
Des Moines. Ia, March 1.-The house has
passed a bill providing jail sentence or
v.
Bills have been introduced providing that
in cities where voting machines are adopt
ed the council may include two or more
wards in one voting precinct; providing
for board of osteopathic examiners and
for the regulation of the practice of osteop-
athy.
| Des Moines, Ia. March 3-The house
committee on railroads killed the two-cent
| fare bill, and the bill raising district judges
salaries from $500 to 50 500 has been passed.
| The committee on suffrage voted to indefi-
nitely postpone the woman suffrage amend
| ment.
Des Moines, Ia, March 4-The house has
passed the bill changing the time of as
sessing the railroads from March 25 to Au-
gust !, and the time of requiring their re-
ports from February Is to April 1 also the
bill providing that all express companies
shall furnish county auditors with plats
| of their lines, and changing date of as
| sessments to second Monday in July. The
committee on appropriations recommended
for passage the Warren bill appropriating
$4,000 for woman's reformatory at Ana
mosa, to which women between the ages
| of 16 and 26 are to be sent.
Des Moines, Ia. March SIN the house
yesterday the bill authorizing one-fifth OF
a mill tax for the support of the state uni.
versity failed to pass.