The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-24
PACKED BY ROADS
Iowa House Committee Hostile to
Railway Assessment Bill.
ACT SUBSEQUENTLY
MacLean Speaks Against the Bill for
an Educational Board of
Managers. cs .er

Special to The Journal.
Des Moines, Iowa, March "a. = The
evident beginning of the end on the
senate WAYS and means subcommittee
railway assessment bill came yesterday
when The hearings on this measure were
begun before the house ways and means
committee. 1t is felt on every hand the
committee will report this bill for in
definite postpone7nent, and that the only
way it can get to the floor is through a
minority report. The committee is packed
with railroad satellites. not less than two
thirds of it being friendly to the cor
poration interests. The hearing yester-
day did not develop much of interest that
was not touched on In the hearings before
the senate committee: W. w. Baldwin, Of
the Burlington and other prominent rail-
way attorneys, were heard.
Before the house judiciary, hearings
were given on the bill for an educational
board of managers. President MacLean
and other representatives Of the state
university appeared against the bill Rep
resentative Wise. Of Black Hawk, spoke
against the bill on behalf of the state nor
NAL The opponents of the bill are san
guime of it's defeat. though the Judiciary
committee has not taken final action on
it and some of the members feel the
heads Of the university and the agricul-
tural college did not make as strong a
showing against the measure as they had
anticipated.
| The house appropriations committee has
recommended for passage bill giving
$50, 900 to the st. Louis exposition. Inc
senate committee has recommended
SIS. 600 for this purpose. 1t is believed a
compromise at something like hun,ed
thousand will be made.
Has a String to 1t.
The house appropriations committee
has also recommended an appropriation
of 500 900 for the building OF the east
wing of the historical building. Ih1s is
available, however, only in case the state
receives Its claim from the federal gov
ernment for interest on war bonds ana
war warrants, and then only secondary to
| the $50 900 the committee has recon-
! mended should go from this money to the
erection of an adjutant generals building
| THE same committee has killed the Secor
nnre food bill and, following the lead OF
| the senate appropriations committee, has
recommended the appropriations OF sI'o't
and 50 900 each for the Henedlct home U,
Des Moines and the rescue homes o.
sioux City and Dubuque respectively.
| The house committee on public health
has recommended for passage Dill re-
| curing osteopaths to submit to an ex-
| ANIMATION in physiology chemistry, MS
tology. pathology, gynecology, any oo,
| .+otr rios before the state board OF medlcal
I oy.noiners It the same time and under the
| same circumstances as other appllcaIil -
| for certificates to practice medicine. Inc
bill is not satisfactory to the os'eopa.n-
| ists who want a separate examining ooaro
Tho senate committee on appropriations
hos recommended for passage the bills 1or
annro1,rta lions for monuments to iowa
troons at Vicksburg, Lookout Nountaln
and Missionary Ridge. ,,,.,s
The house passed the senate Dill proVlo-
ing for the condemnation OF hsh way
through the Bonaparte dam IN the Des
Moines river. The bill is one greatly de-
sired by the sportsmen OF the STATE, tnere
hainq no way whereby fish can now reacn
| tbe upper waters of the Des Moines river
from the Mississippi.
| uou.a md Senate at Variance.
| The house is ruffled over the action OF
! tha senate in slaughterlng mouse dis
Kendall said the dignity of the house was
being trampled on and urged the mouse &c
| rofuse TO concur in further senate meas
1res until that body shows willingness
to reciprocate. One senate bill was held
1 1np to-day, the house having passed
resolution to adjourn until the desired
effort was made to take 1t up IN the
! seunte. This forenoon a canvas OF SEN
! atorz present developed that there was
| majority willing to pass it.
The friends of the railroad taxation bill
/ wereanxious to prevent the passage OF the
resolution lest it should kill the bill. Just
as the opponents of the resolution were
/ breaking for the coat ROOM in the hope OF
destroying the quorum, the house recalled
the resolution and prevented the necessity
of a fight Several minor bills passed
the senate. none Of more than local in