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

legislature completed its work OF vot.
ing tax leviGs in aid Of the educational
institutions. giving the State Univer.
sity two-tenths Of mill. the State Col
lege OF Agriculture twotenths and the
State Normal School one.tenth for Ave
years. These levies will yield $275.0 900
year to these institutions. or 1875.
900 for the period designated. The
proceeds 60 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 IL they are homeless. The bill to
make guilty of larceny a farm tenant
who sells the grain he grows without
notifying the buyer that the landlord
has lien thereon for rent was passed.
The senate passed 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 pardpned by
this legislature. The other house rec.
concentrations were postponed.
House-The house passed the senate
bin for the reorganization of the SUI
preme court. 1t increases the salaries
of the supreme judges from $4,000 to
$500 a 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. F. III.
providing that Iowa railroad COM
panies may require other companies
in any state in the Union, and fixed
its consideration as special order for
10 a. m. Tuesday. H. F. 3S3. 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shall be withdrawn from petition at
ter it has been filed with the county
auditor. and also that Irregularities or
discrepancies between the ordinary
signature of 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 7.-Senate.-The
senate passed the house Dill 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. 1908, was pass
ed. Two important labor bills were
passed. One gives the state labor com.
missioner power to investigate labor
employing institutions without Ques.
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 employee Among other
bills passed wepes these: Giving in.
surance companies authority to do a
credit insurance business" to per.
NIT sdrety 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 suppressing the nuisance
caused by the pollution of the Iowa
river by the Marshalltown 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 a board of
examiners and a commission to issue
and called an optometry commission.
The house killed the senatorial redis.
tricting scheme. by laying it on the
table. The King bill to subsidiZe
high schools was passed. The bill to
Appropriate $4,000 for monuments to
soldiers on Lookout mountain was
passed. The Kendall bill requiring
mine operators to employ both shot
ficers 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
of county superintendent at $1,000 a
year instead of 81 per day; revising
the fish and game laws; providing that
all unincorporated organizations trans.
acting a cooperative business shall be
classified as building and .oan associa.
tons
Des Moines, April S.-Senate.-The
senate Tuesday passed a substitute
for the Molsberry bill relating to the
Indebtedness of railroads, substitute
for the bill recently vetoed by the
governor. The bill to permit county
attorneys to select their own assist
ants, instead of boards Of supervisors.
was passed. The house bill to permit
the parole Of inmates Of the industrial
school at any time the board sees fit
was passed. The bill fixing the sal.
aries Of the county auditors was con.
vides salaries as follows: In counties
Of $4,000 and less, $1,000; in counties
between $1,000 ana 10000. $1,000; in
counties of 10000 to $4,000. $1,000;
$4,000 to 10000, $1,000; 10000 to 100000
$L800; 10000 to $4,000, $4,000; above
$4,000, $4,000. The supervisors are
authorized to allow additional com.
pensation not to exceed $500.
House.-The Hubbard bill empower.
ing railway companies In Iowa to con-
troll or operate connecting extensions
in other states, passed the house Tues
day by vote Of 60 to 81. The house
passed the committee bill reorganizing
the representative districts of the
state. The bill appropriating $15O,O0O
for the st. Louis exposition was
passed. All amendments cutting down
the appropriation failed. The English
bill appropriating 100000 out of the
war claim against the government for
the erection Of the east wing o. the his.