The Minneapolis journal., 1902-03-20
Nagel Bill to Prohibit Ball Passes
the Iowa House.
"FANs" PIN HOPE TO THE SENATE
surance Company Business Put
on Same Business.
Special to The Journal.


& Des Moines, Iowa, March 2O.-The house
struck terror into the hearts o fthe fairs
to- day by passing the Nagel bill to pro-
hibit baseball and foitball on Sunday un-
der severe penalties. Baseball enthusiasts
are disgusted and trust the senate to kill
the bill & 5,
Kendall's bill to make fourteen instead
Of twelve the minimum age limit for en-
ployment of boys in mines. passed the
house, also the Moore bill increasing the
appropriation for armOry rent, for each
guard company from 5000 to $3.50.
The upper. house spent most, OF the fore
noon debating a motion to refer one APP
preparation bill from the house to the ap-
preparations committee. The bill car
ried s35, 900 for pavilion on the state
fair ground. By a vote Of twenty to nine
teen it finally went to the committee.
The house bill relating to telephone taxa
tion was defeated. The Des Moines fire
and police civil service bill was amended
to provide that the next instead of the
present mayor shall name the commits
siOnerS. ..,...D:t. .ssr a. 7,rs5.. .... IL
The senate has passed the bill repeal
ing the provision for a discriminative tax
on the, business Of foreign Insurance COM
panies and fixed the tax at 21s per cent on
gross premiums, the same percent paid
by mAerican companies. Only five SEN
ators voted against the proposition.
The house Wednesday afternoon; after
prolonged debate, finally defeated the pri-
mary elections bill by a vote Of 48 to 81.
reconsideration has been, moved and
Greene, the author. of the ?bill. hopes it
will ultimately be passed. He has pre-
pared amendments that will meet some of
the objections offered. While the bill as
amended is OPTIONAL with counties, Swee-
ley succeeded in injecting an amendment
to make the measure compulsory in all
cities over 10000 in population.
The Harper joint resolution for the sub
mission Of biennial elections amend
ment has passed the. house. 1t has al
ready passed the senate. 1t will be
necessary for the thirteenth general as
sembly to pass it again before it can be
submitted to the people. In urging the
! passage of the Joint resolution yesterday.
Sweet, of Bremen, chairman of the COM
mittee on constitutional amendments,
read letter, from Governor Van SAINT, in
which the latter commended the workings
of the Minnesota biennial law.
Redistricting Bill.
The house committee on representative
districts has reported for passage Dill
redistricting the state. Under the Dill,
Des Moines and Lee counties Will be cut
off from faving two representatives as
they now have. The democrats are much
ties both are democratic Under the bill,
Dubuque, Clinton, Scott. Linn, POLK,
Woodbury. and Pottawattamie counties
will each have two representatives as
they NOW have. fa ---.., ~. -
There are six double districts provide
for in the measure, each, district being
entitled to one representative Iney afe
Lyon- Osceola, Dickinson -Emmet, Clay :
Palo Alto, Humboldt Hancock and Winnie
hooo VIZ, nth, The hill fixes the ratio or
representation at 26,500, an arbitrary hg-
|ure. The present ratio is 22,O00. Onder
the present law the districts having more
than one county are: -Lyon-O' Brlen,
Clav-Palo Alto, Humboldt -Pocahontas,
Dickinson Emmet -Osceloa, :,Wlnn epago-
Worth, Ida -Monona and Hancock wright
Educational Board Attacked. x
The hearings against the bill for an
educational board of managers Degan pe-
fore the house Judiciary committee yes
terday. The Iowa City forces Will at
tack the measure Friday. Sd. -..-s
The committee of the house on tele-
phone. telegraph and express has Killed
the bill by Sweeley, of Woodbury.. Tor con-
troll of long distance telephone llnes ny
the state railway commission
The house committee on mines and MIN
ing has reported for passage Dill III DC
cordance with the recommenoatlols VI
the special mine commission to lnVestl-
uato the causes of mine accidents in Iowa.
# REQUIRES the employment OF expert
enced men to fire the shots IN coal mines
and makes it mandatory that al otne1
| emnlOyes shall retire to a safe' ulstauce
| when the shots are hred. '..
The house has passed the bill approprl-
atine SAT 800 for a stock pavilion on the
state fair grounds in Des Moines.> &.