Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-07

wife or minor children, shall deposit
with the commandant forthwith on re-
ceipt of his pension check one-half OF
the amount thereof, which shall be sent
a. once to the wife if she be dependent
upon others for support, or If there be
no wife to the guardian of the minor
child or children If dependent upon
others for support Provided, however,
that the commandant, if satisfied that
The wife has deserted her husband. or
is of bad character, or is not dependent
upon others for support. may pay the
money deposited as aforesaid TO the
Guardian of the dependent minor child
or children"
1t is explained that the bill gives
wider scope to the board Of control IN
the matter of returning to persons at
the Home those portions of their pen
sions which have been taken away. Its
force will be readily understood at the
Soldiers Home.
The railway assessment bill is being
held to it's place on the calendar by Its
friends. They say they do not care II
il is delayed a few days, but they want
to insist on having it considered in
regular order. The effort of Senator
IIazleton to have 1t postponed met with
no favor Yesterday. The warm fight
that is being made against the univer-
sity tax bill is supposed by many to
have some connection with the pro-
spective fight on the assessment Dill. III
has been limited that the opponents OF
the assessment bill are making loot
ball out of the university tax Dill IN
the hope that they can compel some or
the warm friends of the university TO
change front and help beat the assess
ment bill But this is secuted by all
parties. There are other and dlVefS
rumors as to what will happen to the
assessment bill. 1t is, of course, a Dill
that was the result of q compromise.
AmendGents will be offered. 1t is ru-
mored that those who really want to
defeat the bill are going to load 1T with
the most drastic amendments in order
that it will fail of passage at the end
The friends of the bill say they can not
do it. that in fact the friends of the bill
will welcome any changes which make
the bill stronger, and If they want to
make it straight-out stocks and bonds
bill 1T will be passed in that form. The
bill is a special order to follow consid-
Grafton of the university bill and the
state college bill and can not very we'll
be displaced. Senator Molsberry de-
sires to get his bill to permit bonding
of railroads to a vote first, but this
may not happen. There has not been
I1nuch discussion of The assessment bill
in, the lobbies the past few days, inter-
est apparently dropping off after the
bearings were concluded, but as soon
as the debate begins this interest will
come up again.
The disclosure was made yesterday
in the senate that there is in prepara-
ton a bill to create one board of re-
gents or trustees for the state educa-
t;onal institutions and to virtually fol-
low in this matter the plan of the state
board of control. AT least a part of the
| fight against the university tax IS due
TO a belief that the board of regents of
the State University have not displayed
the best business judgment In the ex-
penditure of the money that has been
given them by the state. For instance.
there is a bill pending before the legis
lature to pay certain sub-contractors
more than $4,000 because in the letting
Of contract they failed to take bonds
that would protect the workers. The
state will probably have to pay. Then
there has been suggestion that the
regents did not act wisely in the plac-
ling of the new Hall of Liberal Arts, but
this criticism will not stand, for COM
petent architect located the building.
But the bill for one board is likely to
come out for an airing any day.