Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-03-20

session. Haywards 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
ing the funds of municipal corpora
tons and providing for the publica.
ton of an annual statement of the
same; by Warren, providing that the
board of control may at any time par
ole inmates of the industrial schools:
by Calderwood, to give the board of
control power to remove children from
poor houses to the Davenport institu-
ton and charge their support to the
counties. Representative Larrabee in
troduced resolution in the house pro-
viding for a constitutional amend
ment to strike out the clause therein
locating the State University at Iowa
City.
Des Moines. March 15.-Senate-,
The conference committee reported a
substitute concurrent resolution men,
orialiZing congress TO pass the Hoar
bill in restriction of the issuance Of
injunctions by federal courts during
strikes. The new resolution expresses
the belief that the Hoar bill is good
one and that the legislature has
abundant confidence In the Iowa dele
cation in congress. It is compromise
which 1t is said will be adopted with
out dissent. A message was received
from the governor suggesting the pas
sage of a general statute transferring
the Jurisdiction over grounds on which
the government will erect buildings
to the federal authorities. Heretofore
this has been effected by special acts.
Governor Cummins suggested that a
draft of law which he transmitted be
adopted. The matter went to the com
mittee on judiciary.
Among bills passed were the follow.
ing: To prohibit the sale Of cocaine
except on prescription of physician;
to permit persons moving from one
voting precinct to another after reg.
istration to register on election day
and vote; to permit supervisors to re-
pair river levees in emergency with
out waiting for meeting of the board;
to change the weight of millet and
Hungarian seed from 4S to so pounds
to the bushel; giving the board Of con-
troll power to detain girls at the Indus.
trial school at Mitchellville until they
are 81; to apply the fish protection law
| to the Big Sioux river; to punish kid
naping for ransom by Imprisonment
for any term of years from ten years to
| Lire.
House.-Sweeping amendments to
the proposed law for the creation of a
| board of control to govern the state
educational institutions were introduc.
| ed and the whole business was again
sent to the committee of judiciary, a
motion to refer to a special committee
being defeated. The amendments add
the governor and sup rintendent of
instruction to the board and modify
it's powers in the matter of hiring
professors. Cummins Of Black Hawk,
chairman of the committee to which
| the Torrens land register bill was re-
| ferred, reported In favor of the bill,
+! but with the recommendation that 1t
be not further considered at this time.
but that it be referred to a commits
sion to report to the next general as
sembly. Hawk Of Jasper the author of
the bill. has already introduced bill
providing for such a commission. A
bill providing for five days notice be-
fore assessing the mulct tax against
property was passed.