The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-30
THE LEGISLATURE.

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40 important business was transacted.
Bills were introduced to fix the county
superintendent's salary at $780,; to
create COMMISSION to fix the bolln-
DIARIES OF western Iowa; to repeal the
law requiring lists of building and
loan stockholders to be furnished as
SCISSORS; to reduce the int crest on
county warrants from 6 to 5 per cent;
to make the park commission laws
applicable to cities OF 22,0uU in order
to take in Burlington. The appropria-
ton bills for the state educational
institutions we're introduced in both
houses as follows: State normal,
$175,6o0; state university, 100000 and
$4,000 additional annual support;
agricultural college. $4,000 and
$4,000 annual additional support.
House.-The house voted to permit
the Introduction of petitions only
when the subject of them is being con
sidered. Bills We're introduced in the
house as follows: To substitute cleo.
trocution for hanging; to elect super
visors by counties instead of super
visor districts; to enact primary
law; to require the state treasurer
to deposit state money at not less
than / per cent; to establish nor
NAL school at Knoxville; to establish
reformatories at Anamosa. Kendall
introduced several very important
mining bills.
Joint Session.-William B. Allison.
Of Dubuque, and Jonathan p. Deliver,
of Fort Dodge, were at joint session
of the senate and the house of the
1'wenty-ninth General Assembly held
at noon today in the hall of the house
of Representatives, elected over q. III.
Thayer and John j. Seerley to the
United States senate. the former for
a full term of six years beginning
March 4, 1903, and the latter to fill
out the uneXpired term caused by the
death of the late John H. Gear, which
began March 4, 1901. The vote was
the strict party vote. Five members
were absent, leaving but Las votes in
the two houses, of which Allison and
Deliver received 119 and Thayer and
Seerley %. AT the joint session, John
r. Carter of Sioux City, was elected
editor of the Code supplement; Der.
nard Murphy, of Vinton, state printer
and Howard Tedford, of Mt Ayr. state
binder. The vote on these officers was
practically the same as that on United
States senator.
Des Moines, Jan. -Senate-Allyn
introduced a bill to create state
commission to examine auctioneers
and issue certificates to those who
pass, provided that those who have
practiced five years and can produce
certificate of good character may be
admitted without examination. Por-
ter proposed a law. requiring an eight
hour day on all public work, on work
AIDED by the public, and in coal mines.
A compulsory free text book law was
introduced by HaZleton; law to aid
the state to recover. $456,000 from the
feueral government on account of
money furnished during the civil war
to equip troops was introduced by
Senator Hubbard; and appropriation
bills for Clarinda qo3 500 and council
Bluffs S13,10o.
House.-Bills were introduced as
follows: BY Anderson of Warren, to
prevent a white person from marry
ing a person having as much as one
eighth part of negro blood; by Bealer
of Linn, giving savings banks right to
lend money outside OF state; by Ham
ann of Scott, to appropriate $4,000 to
Soldiers Orphans home at Daven-
port: by Powers, for the combining
OF and transporting pupils to schools
too small to maintain separately; by
Sweeley OF Woodbury., giving cities
right to own or to regulate telephone
systems as to changes for service, etc;
by Wilson of Washington. to repeal
the law relative to the teaching of
music in the public schools; by Camp
bell, providing maximum penalty
Of twenty years or $1,000 fine, or both,
for advising or employing person to
commit murder. An important reso-
luton was introduced by Warren of
Marion providing that the state mem
oralize congress to preserve the rights
of the state in the meandered lake
beds, of which a great number exist
in northern Iowa.
Des Moines. Jan, 27.- senate.-Hay-
ward introduced bill abolishing days
of grace; Bishop introduced a bill to
make debts offsets against all prop
erty assessments instead of moneys
and credits alone; COPYRIGHT bill to
authorize health insurance.; Junkin to
codify the collateral Inheritance laws,
and Lister to prohibit migratory
divorces. Appropriation bills were in
troduced for Cherokee, $13S,0OO; for
the Soldiers Orphans Home at Daven-
port, $4,000; for the state historical
building, s150.000 for the biennium and
100000 for the four years, and for
the Benedict Home. 100000
House.-N. E. Kendall moved to re-
consider resolution he had made re-
garding petitions only being presented
when subject to which they referred
was under consideration. Motion car
ried and hereafter petitions may be
presented at any time Following are
important bills introduced: BY Boy
sen, to appropriate $4,000 to Girls
Industrial School at Mitchellyille and
S47,450 to Boys School at Eldora; by
English, to appropriate $4,000 to
Benedict Home at Des Moines; by
Hawk, for Torrens system of land
registration; by Larrabee, to decrease
width of highways from sc to SO feet;
by Mordhorst. to permit steamboat
companies to be sued in the same man.