The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-04-10

- 0iSNts CATS are AanQleQ the liner shall
be regarded as railroads. The house
bill creating an opticians, commission
OF i've members to examine and issue
certificates to opticians was passed.
House. The house RECONSTRUCTED its A
action on the Elkins pardon resolution,
and voted In favor Of parole, 48 to 535. A
The house passed senate bills giving
the State Agricultural college and the
state university each one-fifth of
mill tax for five years for building 4
purposes, and both houses passed bill
giving the State Normal school one
tenth OF 9 mill for building purposes.
The house passed the senate bill in 4
recognition of the osteopathic physi- /
clans. authorizing the state board of !
medical examiners to issue certificates
to graduates of osteopathic colleges
and to others who pass examination,
ana authorizing the choice of an osteo-
patnlc physician to become member
OF the state board Of health and state
board OF medical examiners. The bill
making an appropriation OF $1,000 and
providing Tor woman's reformatory
at Anamosa was passed.
Des Moines, April 5.--Senate.-The
legislature completed its work OF vot-
Ing tax levies IN aid of the educational
institutions, giving the State IJniver.
sity two-tenths Of mill, the State Col.
lege OF Agriculture two-tenths and the
state Normal School one.tenth for Ave
years. These levies will yield $275. 900
year to these institutions, or 81 .375.-
900 for the period designated. The
proceeds go into buildings. An effort
to reconsider the vote by which the
Normal School levy was voted In the
senate was defeated. The senate pass.
ed the house bill giving the board OF
control the power to visit and inspect
homes for friendless children and EN-.
powering judges to commit children
to these homes upon showing that
their parents are unfit to care for them
or II they are homeless. The bill to
make guilty Of larceny farm tenan.
who sells the grain he grows without
notifying the buyer that the landlord
has q lien thereon for rent was passed.
The senate passed a bill to limit the
speed Of automobiles to twenty miles
an hour, and requiring them to carry
lights. The senate concurred in the
house resolution for the pardon Of
William Young, OF Woodbury. county,
Joseph McCreary Of Mills county, and
George Stanley Of Story county, serv-
ing life sentences for murder. This
makes four murderers pardoned by
this legislature. The other house rec
concentrations were postponed.
House-The house passed the senate
bill for the reorganization Of the SUI
preme court. It increases the salaries
of the supreme judges from $4,000 to
$500 year and requires them to be
In continuous session in the city of
Des Moines for nine and one-half
months each year. The house refused
to take up the Hubbard bill, s. r. III.
providing that Iowa railroad COM
panies may require other companies
In any state in the Union, and fixed
Its consideration as a special order for
10 a. m. Tuesday. H. r. 333. by Mat
ties. amending the present mulct law,
came up and after being amended.
slightly, passed by margin Of three
votes. The bill provides that no name
shall be Withdrawn from petition az.
ter 1t has been fled with the county
auditor, and also that irregularities or
discrepancies between the ordinary
signature of a voter and the way his
name appears upon the poll book
shall not be bar to the name being
counted in the petition.
Des Moines, April Senate. The
senate passed the house bill defining
habitual criminals and providing for
their punishment by twenty years i'm.
prisonment. Under this act three con.
victions of robbery, burglary or for
gerry makes an habitual criminal. The,
bill 20 make the office of supreme
court reporter appointive instead Of
elective after January, 1903, was pass
ed. Two important labor bills were
passed. One gives the state labor com.
missioner power to investigate labor
employing institutions without ques-a
ton and to make inquiries relative to
child labor; the other establishes fac
tory inspection In Iowa, authorizes
the labor commissioner to make regu
lations for the protection Of employees
in factories from dangerous machin
cry and to require sanitary accommo
dations for employees. Among other
bills passed were these: Giving in.
surance companies authority to. do
credit insurance business" to per-
NIT surety companies to go on mulct
saloon bonds; to provide for the in
spection, recognition and supervision
Of schools for the instruction and
training OF teachers for the common
schools, and providing for the licens
ing OF the graduates of the same: to
aid In SURPRISING the nuisance
caused by the pollution Of the Iowa
river by the Marshallton glucose
works; urging the levy Of one-mill
county road tax.
House. The house decided to CON
cur in the amendments made by the
senate to the bill creating q board Of
examiners and a commission to issue
certificates to sellers OF eye glasses
and called an optometry commission.
The house killed the senatorial reds
tricting scheme, by laying 1t on tho
table. The King bill to substitute
high schools was passed. The bill Ia
Appropriate $4,000 for monuments to
soldiers on Lookout mountain was
passed. The Kendall bill requirine
mine operators to employ both shot
fcers and shot examiners was passed.
Among other bills passed were. the
following: Providing for the inspec
ton and recognition of schools for
instruction; placing the Compensation
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