The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-02-14
IOWA LEGISLATURE.
Daily Summary of the Work Done
by Lawmakers in the Twenty
Ninth General Assembly.

Des Moines, Ia, Feb. GA committee
rule providing that the senate hold ses-
sions every day from ten a. m. to - noon,
Sundays excepted, has been adopted. Bills
have been introduced fixing the assessment
of taxes on foreign insurance companies
at 2R per cent. instead of 3k per cent. as
at present; to repeal sections 2oS4-91 re-
lat1ng to taxes in aid of railroads.
Des Moines, Ia. Feb. bills are be-
fore the senate to convert the Knoxville
home for the blind into female reform
atory; prohibiting farmers fire, hail
windstorm, tornado and accident assoc
Citations from issuing paid up policies; to
require the assessment of property in
special charter cities at Is per cent. of its
actual value Appropriation bills as fol-
lows: For st. Louis, $250000 for Vicks-
burg monuments, s150,00O: for Clarinda,
S69,70O; for Knoxville reformatory, $4,000;
for completing historical building, $780,
600. The senate appropriations commit
tee decided to report favorably the bill
giving Cherokee s13S,o00 for furniture,
etc.
the bill for an emergency appropriation of
Sl3S,000 for the completion, equipment
and furniture of the Cherokee in
sane hospital has been passed. Bills
introduced: To provide department
in one of the hospitals of the state
for the treatment of dipsomaniacs, ine-
briates and persons addicted to excessive
use of narcotics: to provide an additional
judge for the Third judicial district; to
punish persons who advise homicide, adj
oltional to present penalty, making the
penalty ten years; to require railroad COM
panies to post bulletins in stations giving
the time of departure of trains; allowing
supervisors in counties of 10000 or over to
fix salary of county recorders at not to ex-
coed $1,000.
Des Moines, Ia, Feb. 11.-By vote of
30 to u the senate has passed the
Blanchard bill authorizing the people to
vote taxes in aid of the construction of
electric trolley lines. Bills have been
introduced to appropriate $4,000 for hos
pltal at independence and to amend
chapter 43 acts of the Twenty-seventh
general assembly, to grant aid to district
fairs.
The House.
Des Moines, Ia, Feb. Elm the house
bills have been introduced providing that
any person found guilty of crime before
justice of the peace must give bond for
costs as well as for appearance; appropri-
ating $780, 600 for a state arsenal, half to be
paid out in 1902 and 1903; the rooms va
Gated in the capitol building to be restored
to the Horticultural society; providing a
bounty of one cent for each English spar
row killed; providing for semiannual in
spection of mines. Mr.. Warren, of Ma
rion, offered a concurrent resolution re-
garding the st. Louis exposition, restrict
ing the appropriation for that purpose to
100000
Des Moines, Ia, Feb I'm the house
bills have been introduced for the erec-
ton of monuments to the Iowa regiments
at V1cksburg, mark the positions of Iowa
troops and appropriate $4,000 therefor;
defining kidnapping for the purpose of ram
som, and prescribing penalty of from
ten years to life imprisonment; provid-
ing for the completion of the state his
torical building and appropriating $780,
Oo0 for the purpose; to prohibit the wear
ing of G. A. r. and lodge buttons by
persons not authorized to wear them; ap-
propriating s63.50O for the hospital for the
insane at Clarinda changing time of
meeting for local boards of health from
October to November: making it compul-
sorry to mark weight on all sacks of flour,
meal and mill products.
Des Moines, Ia, Jan. 6.-B Bills have been
introduced in the house prohibiting gift
enterprises and doing business with trad
ing stamps; providing for reports to be
made by railway companies to the execu-
tive council; making it unlawful to kill wild
ducks geese or brant between January l
and September 1, instead of April Is and
September !, as at present; providing for a
hospital for inebriates.
Des Moines, Ia, Feb 11-Bills have
been introduced in the house providing
that notes given for insurance policies
shall be made payable in the county in
Which the maker resides: allowing coun-
ty supervisors four dollars, instead of
$3.50 per day for committee work. pro-
viding for the creation of woman's re-
formatory at Anamosa: to establish a
BARRIERS examining board of three to IL
cense BARRIERS.