Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-01-31

SIdIe SOOO
Sundries, contingent and pub
AClIy 12UOO
Decorating grounds, grades,
Furniture. fixtures, heat and
wiring building ...... 80. 5000
Bureau of information -. '. 1900
Live stock .......... .... $4,000
1h-dA SG0S, lUU
Secretary davidson Of the executive
council has drafted. with the approval
o. the executive council, bills for two
important changes in the laws relat.
ing to the taxation of telephone, tele.
grap.4 and express companies. Under
the present laws the companies make
their annual reports to the auditor of
state. In practice, however, the re-
ports are compiled Dy the secretary
of the executive council and the as
sessments are certified out by the
secretary of the executive council
The bills provide that the reports shall
be made to the secretary of the coun-
Gil instead of the auditor of state. A
section will be proposed for addition
to the bill for the taxation Of telephone
and telegraph companies. ana a sim
liar one is drafted for the law relat
ing to express taxation. The effect
would be to require the companies to
submit to the county auditor of each
county profile maps. showing the ex-
tent of their line or route in the county
by the government subdivision of forty
acres. The maps will also be required
to show the companies subdivisions
o. land and other property. Posses
sion of profile maps of this kind will
enable the county auditor, it is be-
lieved, to certify out the assessment
on any county by taxing districts with
the least possible trouble. In order
to assure the preparation of the pro-
file maps the bills contain the provi.
sions authorizing the county auditor
to have the county surveyor make a
map as required for each company
having property in the county, the
collected of the company by the
county. 1he bills are intended to
lessen some of me most serious diff
culties that were encountered in the
assessment of the telegraph, telephone
and express companies last year.
The state board of control will ask
the legislature to fix the per capita
support fund of the Cherokee Insane
hospital at SIS. This is So in excess
of the per capita at the other hospitals
But the board also recommends that
the ~ be made charge against the
state treasury and that it be met by
general taxation instead of by the
counties which will send patients to
the Cherokee institution. Unless the
legislature does adjust the mater in
that way the counties of northwest
Iowa will be the victims of a consd.
cradle discrimination. This discrim-
ination, indeed, has extended. already,
over a number of years under the
present and past system. For several
years the per capita at Clarinda was
muc larger than at the other hospit-
ais, also, and the northwestern count
fes of the state sent their patients to
that institution. Besides paying this
extra support for their insane above
that paid by other counties, the north
western counties have been forced to
transport their insane and their con-
victs, much further than any other
counties. For this reason the repre-
sentatives in the legislature from that
section and the board urge that in the
case of Cherokee the counties be put
on an equal basis at the beginning
The board of control hopes. also, that
if this plan is followed by the legisla-
ture, at this time, it will lead, event
uaIIy. to making all of the insane
hospitals state charges and their sup
port payable direct from the state
treasury instead of by counties. An
emergency appropriation of $13S,00O
for Cherokee furnishing, etc, has been
introduced in the senate.
State Superintendent Barrett has
drafted measure providing for the
examination of teachers by county
boards of examiners along the line
formulated by the educational council
of the State Teachers Association
Copies of this measure have been for
Warded to all the members of the leg
islative committee of the association.
accompanied by questions asking for
suggestions along certain lines. AS
soon as this measure is drafted to the
satisfaction of all the members of
There are 5,1ss, 900 Hebrews in Rus:
STA, according to the latest census re-
turns.
OF all the newspapers published in
the world, 68 per cent are in the Eng
ish language.
The number of government officials |
it was $4,000.
Rev. DR.. Charles Nichols, who |
achieved notoriety by publishing a |
list of whom he regarded the elite of |
society in the United States, has been
with orders from lyceum
bureaus and lecturing associations to
lefine his views Of what American So
,iety should consist i