Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-02-14
THE LEGISLATURE.

nE kEUlcLAI ONEs
Des Moines. Feb. TO- Senate By
vote of 80 to 10 the senate Saturday
| passed the Blanchard bill authorizing
| the people to vote taxes in aid of the
| construction of electric trolley lines.
| condition prohibiting the issuing of
watered stock by the corporations
| which secure the taxes was voted in.
| to the bill unanimously. Some Of the
opponents of the measure predict that
it will fail in the house. Senator
| Crossley in debate Saturday said the
| passage of bills of this character
would soon make Iowa the New Jersey
of the west. The Teachout bills au-
thorizing Des Moines to lend the water
works company $4,000 to help con-
struct mains to the site for the army
post passed the senate, unanimously,
saturday, and as soon as the bills are
| signed by the governor and published
! the loan will be legal and may be eff
fected by the city council. The bill
making taxes on property In the hands
| of receivers a preferred claim was
| passed without opposition. Among
| bills introduced were the following:
BY Hopkins, repeating chapter 1O9 OF
| the acts of the Twenty-eighth general
assembly, which compelled teaching
of vocal music in the schools;by Ho-
bart, repeating sections 152S-1568. re-
| specting working of roads. The bill
makes each county road district,
under supervision of the board of SUI
pervisors; general levy of mill is
authorized, the part raised in cities
and towns being expended therein
under direction of the council; 4
mill levy is authorized, the tax raised
in different townships being expended
therein; a road supervisor is created
for one year terms, at SO per day. The
supervisors may contract to the lowest
bidder to do the work.
| House.-A communication from gov
ernor respecting the report of the
| Shiloh commission was filed. On
motion of Stuckslager the message
was referred to special committee
Of three to draft bill in accordance
with it's provisions. Three bills OF
minor Importance were passed. A
| motion to reconsider the action by
| which the bill to abolish days of gSace
was defeated was filed by Temple and
Payne Among bills introduced were
| the following: BY Langan, to establish
a BARRIERS examining board OF three
to license BARRIERS; by Calderwood,
permitting boards of supervisors in
counties of over 10000 to increase the
salaries of county recorders to ST.
900; by Moore, amending the military
code of Iowa, providing that the Iowa
National Guard shall consist of four
regiments of infantry, one signal COM
pany, and at the discretion Of the COM
mander-in-chief, two troops of cavalry
and two batteries. If a requistion is
made by the president the governor
shall order into service the National
Guard Enlistments in the guard are
to be from one to three years. Bill Is
a general revision of the code on
minor points.
Des Moines, Feb. 1O.-Senate.-The
senate passed the Hogue bill to COM
pei railroads to furnish freight cars
to all shippers upon demand; the bill
is intended to stop all determinations.
Several other bills of minor import
ance were passed. Among bills intro
duced were the following: By Ho-
bart, to amend section 3O8, making
salary of county attorneys in coun-
ties of $4,000. $1,000; in counties OF
$4,000 to 10000, Si,2c0; between 10000
and 10000, $4,000; by Smith creating
a four-year commission of three mem
bers to superintend completion of the
capitol and appropriate $450,O00 there
for; by Moisberry, to establish bar
bers' examining board and to license
practitioners of the profession.
House-Sweet of Bremen offered a
concurrent resolution that the speaker
! of the house and the president of the
:, senate declare the two houses ad-
journed sine die March 20. The reso-
luton carried without dissenting
vote. A motion was made to accept
the report of the committee recon-
mending for indefinite postponement
H. F. sc, by Larrabee, providing thai
the width of roads be reduced from 66
to so feet Larrabee asked for roll
call, which resulted in the adoption of
the report by a vote of Sc to 26.
Dealers bill permitting state and saw
ings banks to MAKE loans on real
estate outside of the state was passed.
Among bills introduced was one by
Sweet authorizing school boards to
elect teachers and superintendent
for term Of three years.
Des Moines, Feb. 11.-Senate.-Sen
ator Ball, of Johnson county, intro
duced a bill in the senate Tuesday
extending to electric lines all of the
! present statutes relating to steam
ranroads. This measure is sweeping
in it's provisions, but it especially ex-
empts street car lines from the appli-
callon of the railroad laws. HUB
bard's bill making the maximum pen
atty for having burglars tools in pos
session five years in the penitentiary.
was passed. Senator Townsend intro
duced a BILL by request, prohibiting
reinsurance of risks held by Iowa in
surance companies in foreign insur-
ance companies. 1t is alleged that
outside companies secure the business
of weak concerns in Iowa, to avoid the
payment of the ulscriminative taxes.
! which they would be compelled to pay
| if they did business in Iowa in their
/ own name.
| House.-The bill by English. which
| has the sanction of Governor Cum