The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-03-27
THE LEGISLATURE.


Des Moines, March Senate
The senate debated the Emmert bill
to create reformatory for men at
the penitentiary at Anamosa and an.
propriate 100000 therefor at great
length, amended 1t SO persons con.
victed of rape, arson, burglary, or
murder shall not have the advantages
of the reformatory, and defeated it.
Senators COPYRIGHT. Dowell, Fitch.
patrick, Garst, Harper Hubbard.
Lyons, Maytag, Townsend voted for it,
only. Among bills passed were the
following: BY Edwards, requiring
telegraph and telephone companies to
file maps and schedules of their lines
with county auditors; by COPYRIGHT
to allow notice of election on grant.
ing public franchises in municipali.
ties to be punished by posting when
no newspapers are published within
the corporation; by COPYRIGHT, pro.
viding that the right of inheritance
from parents and children by adoption
shall be the same as between parents
and children born in lawful wedlock;
cepealing the law discriminating
against foreign insurance companies in
the matter of taxes, fixing their tax at
panies of the United States outside of
senate confirmed the appointment of
L. G. Kline to succeed himself as
member of the board of control and
of T. e. McCurdy to succeed j. D.
McGarraugh as custodian of the cap.
itol Senator Hartman voted against
McCurdy.
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ton bill failed to pass the house Wed.
nesday, there being only 48 votes for
it to 81 against. A motion to recon.
slider was filed and the bill will be
called up again. The general provi.
sions of the bill are as follows: All
parties shall hold their primaries on
the same day; these primaries are to
be governed by practically the same
rules as govern the general election,
the judges and clerks to be the same;
delegates selected at the primaries
are instructed to vote for the candi.
dates receiving the largest vote in
their respective precincts. All re.
turns are to be made to the county
auditor, who is to certify them to the
conventions of the respective parties
Senator Crossley, Representative
Greene and others interested in the
bill are engaged in amending it to
some extent and another attempt will
be made to secure it's passage. The
biennial election amendment passed
the house Wednesday with only six.
teen votes against it. 1t has already
passed the senate and will now be re.
ferred to the next general assembly,
by which it must be passed before it
can be submitted to the people. 1t
has been properly recorded in the
journal of each house 60 as to insure
it's constitutionality on this score. The
bill appropriating $37.500 for stock
pavilion at the state fair grounds was
passed.
Des Moines, March 20-Senate.-
The senate passed the Hamann house
bill, with amendments, granting the
right of eminent CONAN to interurban
trolley lines, allowing them to use the
highways, applying to them all of the
laws relating to railroad corporations,
but prohibiting them from entering
cities as street car lines for purposes
of transporting freight. That is, they
may operate within cities as street
car lines for the transportation of
passengers, mail and baggage, but if
they haul freight they must use the
streets as railroads and pay abutting
property owners damage, getting in
return perpetual franchises. The
senate concurred in the house amend
ments to the bill creating fire and
police commission to superintend
these departments in the city of Des
Moines and the bill now awaits the
signature of the governor to become
n lou Is
companies to file profiles of their lines
and make annual reports to county
auditors and to report to the executive
was defeated.
House.-The house passed the
Molesberry bill removing the limit of
bonded Indebtedness which Iowa rail.
road companies may incur. The vote
was Is to IS. The bill has passed the
senate and awaits the signature of
the governor. Clarke called up H. F.
351, establishing law regarding ne.
gotiable instruments uniform with the
laws of other states and repeating sec
tons 3043, 3045, 3049, 1850, 3O51, 1852,
1854 and S055. He explained the meas
ure at some length, stating that it
had been adopted by number of
tO1clSu CouuIIles, ny nineteen states
of the union, and that there was a
great necessity for such law in this
state. The bill he stated was sim
ply codification of the law and deci-
sions on the subject to conform to sim
liar laws in other states. After q
short debate the bill passed. Among
bills passed were the following: Pro-
hibiting baseball and football on Sun.
day; placing cat fish on the list of pro.
tected fish; providing that hosting
engineers must have two years exper-
fence before certificates of compe-
tency are issued to them. The house
adopted by a narrow margin the con.
ference report recommending a SUBJ
stitute for the former resolution en-.
dorsing the Hoar bill in restriction Of
injunctions, but did not vote on the
resolution itself. The house commit
tee on insurance has voted to recon-
mend for passage the Merriam bill
for the creation of department of
insurance, separate from the office of
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