The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-07
Measure Before the Iowa Legisla-
ture for Removal of Convicts
Over Thirty One Years Old.
THE BILL MAY PASS BOTH HOUSES.
Adoption of Woman Suffrage Amend
ment by the Senate Will Probably
Fail in the House-Biennial Elec-
lions Meet with Favor-Other Leg
isIative Notes of Interest.
Especial correspondence.l

ate the past week and then recon-
sidered was the Emmert bill, Great
ing reformatory at Anamosa and
transferring all convicts above 81
years of age to the state prison at
Fort Madison. AS the bill first went
through it provided that judges
should sentence to the reformatory
without determining the length OF
sentence to be served. 1t also trans
ferred from the power of the gov
ernor to the state board of control
the right to parole convicts confined
in the reformatory. Reconsideration
of the measure was voted on the
grounds that the constitution did
not permit this transfer of power
either from the judiciary or from
the chief executive to another de,
partment of the state government
The measure in an amended form
will probably pass both houses be-
fore the end of the session, as the
movement toward the establishment
of reformatory is becoming very
popular in this state.
wigyams for Indians.
The legislature is ready to appro"
pirate $1,000 to buy wigwams and
blankets and other supplies for the
Indians on the Tama reservation,
whose property it has been found
necessary to destroy because of the
prevalence of smallpox on the res
ervation for the past year. 1t is
impossible to fumigate the property
and the state desires to destroy it
and replace it with new supplies. 1t
is thought that the government will
reimburse the state for the $1,000.
Woman Suffrage.
The adoption of the woman suf-
frage constitutional amendment res
olution by the senate was not sur
prise to the friends or the oppo-
nents of the measure. This legis-
1ature is the first to pass upon the
question. it will have to go through
the next general assembly before it
can be submitted to the people. 1t
is thought that the house will not
pass the resolution. The members
are not giving extended consideration
to the proposition at this session,
because it will fall to the next lesis-
1ature to determine finally whether
the amendment shall be submitted
to the people or not.
Biennial Elections.
The passage of the biennial cleo
tions amendment resolution by the
senate the past week was practically
unanimous, and there seems to be
no doubt but that it will pass the
house. There were only five votes
cast against it in the senate, and it
is said that no material opposition
to it will be expressed in the other
branch of the legislature. This
amendment will also have to pass
through another general assembly
before it can be submitted to the
vote of the people.
Memorialize Congress.
A large number of resolutions me-
morializing congress to pass certain
measures and requesting the Iowa
delegation to vote in certain ways
on certain measures have been pro
posed in this assembly. One related
to the bill affecting swamp lands
Another related to Senator Harris
resolution pending in congress re.
stricting the right of federal Judges
to issue injunctions during labor
strikes, and another relates to the
congressional measure Strengthening
the interstate commerce act. The
swamp land resolution was passed
by the house, but was put tc
sleep in the senate. The reso
luton on the Hoar bill passed
the senate but was killed il
the house. The resolution with re
spect to the interstate commerce.
commission has not yet been con
sidered.
Last Junlxet.
Probably the last junket of tn,
legislature is that arranged to thu
State Agricultural college at Ames
Trips have been taken to the State
normal school at Cedar Falls, to the
State university at Iowa City and to
the proposed normal school at Knox
vile. 1t was thought that the legis
1ature would attempt to go to Cher
ollee, but it will not do so, because
no difficulty was experienced in Sc
curing the appropriation for the com
pletion of the building, amounting
to $13S,000 and the extra support
fund necessary to put the institution
on q basis equal to those in the other
institution cities.
Country Roads.
An effort is being made in thu
legislature to get together on The
proposition to enact legislation look
ing to the improvement of the coun
try roads. Several bills have beer
introduced in the assembly, two o.
which it is thought will be combined
One of these provides for county or
ganization for the distribution Of
road taxes to be raised in cash, while
the other provides for township
plan. 1t is believed that the town
ship plan will go through, because
majority of the road districts OF
the state are in rural communities
in which it is regarded as desirable
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