Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-19

| was shown to be necessary q permit
could be issued without school attend
ance. But the senate, or rather one or
two senators, objected to the bill be-
cause of fear that 1t would encour-
age idleness and practically prevent
children learning to do things. SO the
bill was amended to read that no child
shall be employed in n lnine factory or
workshop under IA years of age for
more than six hours day" With
this amendment, which is a virtual in
vitation to employers to secure the en-
|rloyment of child labor, the bill was
passed. So far as 1t was bill to pre-
vent child labor in certain places the
bill is now worse than useless and
lcourage to say so on the floor of the
senate during the roll call.
|
| In accordance with the recommended
tions of the committee a bill has been
| favorably reported to the house to pro-
vide for q commission to make thor
ough investigation of land titles and
report to the next legislature. This is
all that can be done at this session in
the direction of providing for reform
in the matter of recording titles.
The senate appropriations committee
| has recommended favorably the follow
ing bills to give state aid to semi i-public
institutions: for the Benedict home for
fallen women in Des Mones, $1,000; for
the Rescue home in Dubuque, of SINH
lar import, $4,000; for the women's and
babies home in Sioux City. $4,000. All
these institutions are worthy charities.
| The Benedict home in Des NIoines has
received aid for a number of years but
the others have not.
| The Vicksburg bill was complimented
by a unanimous vote of SO for the bill
and not one against it in the house. The
| bill provides for the erection of monu-
ments at vicksburg park to the memory
of the Iowa soldiers who fell there.
! The supreme court reorganization bill
will come up in the senate on Thursday
provided Senator Healey has returned.
| Senator Trewin returned to the city
yesterday but Healey is yet busy in
court.
| The school committee of the house
had long session yesterday afternoon
chiefly on the bill to provide for board
of examiners for teachers In the coun-
| ties. The bill provides that the county
superintendent shall name two teachers
who, with him, are to form the board of
examiners and conduct all examina
tions. But members of the committee
od NJ hat no a a.
vantage over the present method for
the superintendent of schools would
merely appoint persons who would do
his bidding. They went over the entire
list of methods of making appointments
and found none satisfactory. The ,nem-
bers of the committee felt that 1t was
useless to bring out a bill for a board
of examiners unless an improvement
over present methods Is provided, and
they are not agreed on this point, the
committee will consider the matter at
another session The bill to give recog-
milton to those high schools and acade-
mics of the state that have courses for
the training of teachers was also con-
sidered at length. This bill would be
an encouragement to those small acade-
mics and larger high schols that are
actually doing large part of the work
of preparing teachers. There is an ap-
preparation provided for in the bill, but
its friends really want the bill passed
even if there is no money to go With 1t.
They claim that it would be of great
benefit to these secondary schools that
are training teachers for rural school
work.
If the road bill which passed the
house yesterday gets thru the senate it
will work revolution in road building
and road repair work in Iowa in a few
years. 1t provides for adoption of the
township system. The county system
did not meet with favor There Is a
feeling among the legislators that the
boards of supervisors already have too
much power and that they have the dis
tribution of all the funds which ought
to go thru their hands. There is deep
prejudice against giving these boards
more power and especially placing in
their hands power which might be
used for political advantage at all
times. Hence the township system is
favored by nearly all who are urging
reform in road work.
The problem of what to do with the
historical and other collections ot the
state of Iowa is again pressing hard on
Mr.. Aldrich and his associates. The
Smithsonian institution has just sent a
collection of $50 birds to be added to
the Iowa collection. AS the cases are
filled and there is no more room for
cases for the holding of the valuable
collections which have been donated or
sold to the Iowa museum it is hard to
tell what will be done with the things
that are coming right along. The era
of great expansion of this department
continues and Mr.. Aldrich is diligently
al work on his collections.
James NJ Brenton, republican candi-
date for mayor of Des Moines, went
over to the legislature yesterday ans
secured the taking off of the publica-
tion clause on the bill to create a board
of fire and police commissioners for Des
Moines. This leaves 1T so that the law
will not go into effect until after the
next mayor is installed in office in Des
Moines. The present mayor is demo-
crat. The publication clause of that
particular bill was therefore mighty
interesting thing.
FIRE AT DENlSON.