Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-04-11

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Des Moines, April 9.--Senate.-The
senate pardoned John Ballew OF Fort
Dodge, who murdered q companion
about ten years ago. the mousse a.
ready had passed the measure. The
senate also passed the house Dill 70
pardon Otto Often, OF Pocahontas
county. This makes seven murderers
1 serving life sentences pardoned by TINS
legislature. The senate passed the
house bill appropriating $7l6,o17 LOT
the state institutions under the BOARD
of control and this matter Is now dls'
posed of. The senate passed the UNI.
form negotiable law formerly
passed the house. which was recon-
mended by the National Bar assocla'
ton, and is the law in twenty states
1t does not change and only codihes
the present statutes in Iowa. The Dill
to appropriate $4,000 for stock pa
Wilton at the state fair ground was
passed. The bill to appropriate
$3.50 900 for Improvement OF the CAPT
toll building. S62500 to be expended
each year for four years after 1903
was passed. A secretary is authorized
at 5000 year. The bill to give boards
of health power to regulate quaran
tined premises, but charging the ex.
pense thereof to the public, was
passed. The bill to admit to bail per-
sons accused of murder and treason.
but prohibiting their admission to bail
after conviction, was passed.
| House.-The Maytag bills to give
the state labor commissioner power to
inspect factories with respect to child
employment and to require labor en-
ploying institutions to protect
dangerous machinery and furnish
adequate sanitary regulations. were
passed by the house and will become
laws. The house passed the Trewin
resolution memoralizing congress- to
pass the Nelson CSrlis bill to revlvify
the interstate commerce commission.
Among other bills passed were the fol-
lowing: Prohibiting the purchase of
Intoxicating liquors for the use of
minors, drunkards. and persons who
have taken any OF the so-called cures
for drunkenness; providing that the
county superintendent shall Tile annual
reports with the board of supervisors
and shall file statement Of the re-
ceipts and expenditures of each county
institute; providing that the secretary
of state shall certify to each state Of
fee quarterly the amount of printing
allowed such office for the following
quarter; providing that pension money
retained by the Soldiers Home az
thorities on account of some miede-
meanor of the person receiving such
pension may be restored to him If the
commaniant sees fit; also that the
| half of the pension money now going
to the wife may be retained or paid
| to the minor children if the wife has
deserted the husband or is lad
woman.
Des Moines, April 10-Senate.-The
senate concurreds IN the house amend
ments to.the' Hubbard ill, permitting
Iowa. railroads to consolidate with and
acquire other roads in other states not
7 adjacent to Iowa, and it now goes to
the governor for his approval or dis
approval. The educational institution
appropriation bill passed by the SEN
ate carries amounts as follows: State
university, $4,000 annual additional
support and $145,000 general appro'
priation; agricultural college, $4,000
annual additional support and $4,000
general appropriation; state normal
school, $4,000 annual additional sup.
port and s4.526 general appropriation.
The senate voted to appropriate $780,.
O0O for the Improvement Of the state
capitol building The senate passed a
bill to appropriate $125.0O0 for the
Iowa exhibit at the ST. Louis exposi.
ton, but the house refused to concur,
having appropriated $15O,00O. The
senate passed the house bills for re.
districting the state for members Of
the senate and house of representa-.
tives. No changes are made in the
senatorial districts. Des Moines and
Lee county each loses member of
the house, which are given to districts
in northwestern Iowa. 1t cuts the
democrats out of two members Of the
lower house, and against this there
was strong protest. The senate laid
on the table the bills proposing
changes in the tax ferret laws of the
state. The senate concurred in the
house bill to increase the salaries of
the district judges from $4,000 to
$500. There are f1fty-three OF these
judges in Iowa. The bill to create a
commission to superintend peddlers of
eyeglasses and called board of
optometry was killed by the senate.
House.-The house committee on
railroads voted unanimously to recon-
mend the Molsberry bill relating to
railroad Indebtedness for indefinite
postponement. it being known thar
Governor Cummins would veto it. The
house passed the senate bill providing
for shot examiners in the coal mines
of Iowa. the senate having declined
to endorse the house bill requiring
operators to hire both shot firers and
shot examiners. The house refused to
pass the senate bill to make the su.
pre1Nc court reporter an appUintlVe Of.
ficer within control of the court. This
was big victory for B. I. Salinger.
Lyman of Poweshiek offered the fol.
lowing resolution which was seconded
by Durham of Delaware:
BE it resolved by the house of rep
resentatives of the twenty-ninth gen.
eral assembly, that the thanks of this
body are extended to the Hon. w. L.
Eaton for the very able, courteous, and
satisfactory manner in which he has
discharged the difficult and perplex.
ing duties of speaker Of this house.
The best wishes of this body follow
him during his entire career"
After short addresses by Layman,
Durham, Hughes, Dodds, Walters,
Robinson, Kerr, Kendall, Carter, Fur.
ry, Killing. Wilson, Lang, Cummings,
Koontz. Temple and Clarke, the reso.
luton was adopted by q unanimous
vote The sneaker then hriofv nd
dressed the house. expressing his