The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-03-20
THE LEGISLATURE.


Des Moines, March 12.-Senate.--
The senate took up the Molesberry
bill, giving lowe railway companies
the right to issue bonds in excess OF
two-thirds of their capital stock. This
bill has been discussed among the SEN
ators for several days. The bill per-
mits to be done legally whatever has
and is being done by sufferance and
based on favorable decision of the
supreme court. declaring that bonds
issued were valid, even though they
might be in excess of two thirds of the
capital stock. The bill was. opposed
by Senator Healy, and was discussed
at some length, but did not come to
vote. Healy proposed an amendment
providing that the bonds shall not be
sold to acquire stock in other corpora
tions or to cancel stock in the corpora
ton. The bill to require railroads to
keep posted bulletins giving the time
or arrival and departure Of trains in
all depots was amended to require
the bulletins to show whether trains
are late or on time, and passed.
House-The house passed the bill
giving the state board of health power
to enforce its regulations in places
where the local boards refuse or me-
elect to do so. The bill will now be-
come law, having been passed by
both houses. Hawk introduced bill
providing for the appointment Of a
commission to make a study of the
different methods of recording and reg
istering land titles. The commission
is to report to the next legislature.
Hawk was the author of the Torrens
land bill, and his belief is that the
commission will report in favor of it.
Edwards bill requiring railroad COM
panies to file plats of all lines owned
or operated in the several counties of
the state with county auditors. was
passed.
Des Moines, March 13.-Senate.-
Consideration of the Molsoerry bill
to remove the limit OF Indebtedness
which the law theoretically provides
for railroad companies, was resumed
and after addresses by Hartman,
Molsberry and Healy, the bill was
passed. CourtrighIs bill to increase the
state subsidy of the farmers institutes
from $50 to $500 was passed. SEN
ator Hayward called up the bill which
makes the orphans in the Davenport
home state wards. The soldiers or
phans are now state wards. There
are fifty children in poor houses in
the state. Children are sent to the
industrial schools instead of to the
Davenport home because the former
are county charges and not state
wards. The bill was not disposed Of.
The Bruce Emmert contested election
case was debated at length, but not
disposed of.
House.-A quietus was given wom-
an suffrage by the lower house of the
Iowa general assembly today. By a
vote of Sc to 38 the resolution for the
submission Of a constitutional amend.
ment for equal suffrage was defeated.
Not a word was said in debate The
report of the committee recommend
ing indefinite postponement of the
resolution was read by the clerk,
Chairman Sweet, of the committee on
amendments and suffrage, moved its
adoption, the speaker waited two min
utes for remarks and ordered the roll
called. Among bills passed were the
following: By Payne, requiring coun-
ty auditors to compile and prepare
a financial report of the county; by
Langan of Clinton, providing for the
establishment of a BARRIERS examining
board to regulate the practice of bar
bering and to issue licenses to bar
bers; the bill provides for a
commission of three, their salar-
les to be paid wholly from fees; by
Sweet, amending section 1922, requir-
ing milk dealers and operators of
creameries to make reports to the
dairy commission and providing pen
atty for their failure to do so.
Des Moines, March 14.-Senate.-
Senator Molsberry forced to a vote
the Lewis motion to reconsider the
vote by which the Molsberry bill in aid
of the Burlington merger" was pass
ed Thursday. The motion was tabled
by vote of 80 to IL. The senate
seated James E. Bruce, of Atlantic, in
the seat occupied by J. M. Emmert, of
the Cass- Shelby district. The vote
was "a to 8. The democrats supported
DIR. Emmert and insisted that decid-
ing precinct vote should be eliminated
from the returns, not disputing that
Bruce had a popular majority of the
votes cast. Senator Bruce was sworn
in and will receive pay for the entire
session. Hayward's bill to make all
inmates of the soldiers orphans home
at Davenport state charges, was
defeated. Senator Hogue introduced
bill providing for the issuance of GER
tificates by the state board of educa-
tional examiners to persons complet.
ing courses of normal training to be
established and approved by the board
in all of the higher schools of the
state. This law is designed to elm.
mate the necessity for additional
state normal schools, making the work
of training teachers incidental to the
course of the colleges and advanced
high schools Of the state.
House.-The house indefinitely post.
poned the Hogue bill, which passed the
senate, compelling railroad companies
to furnish freight cars to shippers
without discrimination, and also the
Carter 2-cent fare bill. Among bills
passed were the following: BY Hurn,
requiring the clerk and treasurer Of
cities and towns to keep books show.