Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-04-02

Iowa Legislature.


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The Molesberry bill, better known as
the merger bill, passed the House Thurs
day by vote Of 81 to Is. 1t had pre-
viously passed the Senate by close vote.
| This bill l,moves the limit of indebted
ness for witch railways may be bonded.
There are number of other measures
calculated to strengthen the position Ct
railways in Iowa that are assured of pas
sage by practically the same vote as the
Molesberry bill. The Nagle bill, pro-
hibiting the playing of baseball or foot
ball Sundays, passed the House by
vote of 80 to 49,
The House on Friday passed the bill
presented by Walters of lama, which
provides that certain civil actions may
be brought in any county where nui-
sance is committed in part, or In any
county where any of-the acts or effects
constituting or requisite to the consum-
nation of nuisance. Previous to pas
sage the bill was amended to except mu-
inequalities from the provisions of the
act, SO that 1t is not possible to use the
same against cities and towns. The bill
by Warren to amend the acts Of the
Twenty-eighth General Assembly relat-
Ing to the Iowa industrial reformatory
for women, next came up. 1t provides
that when girl or woman not less than
l6 nor more than 20 years of age shall
be found guilty of any crime except MUIR
der, the court may, at its discretion, or
der that she be sent to the industrial re-
formatory. The Senate put in the en-
tire session in discussion Of the House
substitute for Boysen's bill relating to the
compensation Of sheriffs. This is meas
nre of considerable Importance to the va
rious counties, us 1t considerably modiRcs
the salaries of these officials.
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Neither the House nor the Senate were
able to transact much business Saturday
morning for the reason that the attend
ance was small and members hesitated to
take up bills on which there was any OBJ
| position. The House managed to take
number of bills off the calendar and the
Senate passed few. In the Senate the
House message asking the recall of the
adjournment resolution was read and the
recall agreed to ut once. The bill pro-
posed by Gov. Cummins in relation to
ceding rights on ground which may be ac-
Quired by the general government for
postofiices and federal buildings was
passed. Wilson called up and had passed
the bill which authorizes the city of Clin-
ton to buy n bridge across the Mississippi
river; the bill had just passed when
House message was received announcing
the passage of the same bill in the House,
and under suspension Of the rules the
House bill was substituted and passed
| in place of the Senate bill. In the House
| Buchanan moved to recall from the Sem
ate, the resolution fixing the time Of ad-
| journment at April 3. Barkley's bill pro-
yiding means for the protection Of libra
ries and reading rooms against yandals
by making violations misdemeanor was
| passed. The Senate amendments to the
House bill fixing the salaries Of sherihs
were concurred in by the House. The
bill by Langan of Clinton to give the
city Of Clinton the privilege of voting
bonds for the purchase of the bridge
across the Mississippi at that point was
| passed.
The House on Monday refused to con-
| cur in the Senate amendments to the
Hamann interurban bill, the declination
being on the grounds that the amend
mcnts struck at one of the greatest bene-
fits to accrue under the building Of inter-
urban railroads and would result prac-
tically in the suspension of building of
electric commercial lines. Hughes bread
bill providing that all loaves sold at 5
cents shall weigh at least one pound was
defeated in the House this morning by a
vote of 30 to 30. In the Senate Young
of Lee called up bill to amend the law
in regard to levy of special assessment
taxes i'll special charter cities, and it was
passed. Smith of Mitchell called up and
had passed the bill to give the executive
council authority over all building and
grounds of the State in Des Moines. The
Hasselquist bill to provide for railroad
lines over private rights of way was
passed. A bill by Trewin was called up
and passed. 1t provides that the Secre-
tary of State shall certify quarterly to
each State department, board of commits
sion the character of the printing and
binding ordered and done for that period
with the amounts paid for printing, bind
ing and stock for extras, and this state
ment shall be used by the department in
making out reports required by law ut
the end of each year. 1t is measure to
perfect the system of accounts adopted
some years ago.