Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-10
SENATE SANCTIONS MoLsBERRY BILL
House Votes FavorabIy on Resolution
20 Adjourn April 10 and IL Now
Goes to the senate for
Its Concurrence.
(From a staff Correspondent

to permit the Rock Island, which Is an Iowa
corporation, to do business under the Iowa
laws in the far southwest, where 1t is ex-
tending its lines. The bill, as passed, was
as follows:
Section THAT any railroad corporation
organized under and by virtue of the laws
Of this state, and owning and operating a
railroad therein, shall be authorized and
or territory Of the United States. in which
II may control or operate a connecting line
iiege IS Conferred UPON it By "itts it's articles of
Incorporation and all powers, privileges and
franchises conferred upon railroad corpo-
of Iowa or of such other state or territory,
for the purposes set forth In section 2
Sec. 2-That any railroad corporation so
organized under the laws of Iowa and
owning and operating a railroad therein,
and own, control or operate any connecting
extension of it's said railroad not parallel
or territory of the United States. and to
that. end may purchase and control the
STOCK, bonds or securities OF any sueh eH.
other state or territory.
Representative Gilchrist offered the fol-
lowing as an additional section to the bill,
but after some discussion the same was re-
jected before the bill was passed:
Sec. 3-Railroads which shall transport
or offer to transport property or persons
DONVCNAa VI hDe AAASE SAioA AANO
the corporate limits of any same two
towns or cities more than fSty miles apart,
such railroads shall not be held to be con-
Meeting lines, nor shall one be construed
to be a connecting extension Of the other,
the stocks. bonds or securities of any two
competing railroads except as may have
been permitted by the laws of Iowa in
force January l. 1902.
Redistricting the state.
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representatives was brought up and a sub
stitute offered by the democrats to leave
the districts just as they are. This sub
stitute was defeated. The bill was passed,
81 to 20. The bill cuts off one representa-
tive each from Des Moines and Lee coun-
ties and gives to every other county one
representative each, except the following
two-county districts: Lyon, Osceola, Dick
Inson, Emmett, Clay, Palo Alto, Winnebago,
Worth, Humboldt, Hancock, Monona and
Ida.
A bill to require registration of voters
or correction Of the registry lists just be-
fore the annual school elections was
adopted.
A bill to ~legalize the incorporation of
the town of Gravity was passed.
/ A bill to appropriate $500 for a monu-
ment to Charles Shepherd, a revolutionary
soldier, was passed. He was buried in the
country in Henry county and 1t is pro-
posed to erect the monument in a ceme-
terry in Mount Pleasant.
A bill to allow domestic insurance COM
panies having a capital Of $1,000 900 to do
business in Iowa was passed. The present
minimum is double this sum.
The senate amendments to a bill for
binding out children were adopted.
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Stock Breeders association was indeh-
nitely postponed.
The house adopted the resolution offered
time for adjournment.
The bill to appropriate $780, 900 for the
st. Louis exposition was passed.
Appropriation bills were passed as fol-
lows: One hundred thousand dollars for
the completion OF the state historical
building; 1900 for Des Moines Benedict
home; 1900 for the Dubuque Rescue
home; $4,000 for the Sioux City Women
and Babies home; $3.50 for the publication
Of state historical documents.
The senate bill to raise the allowance to
farmers institutes from $50 to SIS a year
was passed.
A bill to provide hat prisoners escaping
from the state stone quarry at Anamosa
shall be punished the same as for breaking
out of the penitentiary was passed.
Sitting Committed Proposed.
The senate this morning passed a resolu-
tion providing for a sitting committee Of
seven members. After the same is APP
pointed no bills other than appropriation
bills shall be considered except upon re-
port from this committee.
A bill to provide that no child shall be
allowed to remain in any county poor
house was defeated. The purpose of the
bill was to compel the counties to send
the children to the Orphans home at Dav-
EXPORT.
A bill to enact the Indiana law relating to
drainage was defeated.
Railroad Bill I'm the senate.
The Molsberry bill permitting Iowa rail-
road companies to increase their bonded
Indebtedness was brought up under special
order in the senate in the afternoon. being
a substitute for the bill vetoed. Senator
Molsberry made a spirited address, in
which ne denounced those who had at
tempted to brand the bill as a merger
bill, and said that the sole purpose OF the
bill was and is TO permit railroad corpora
lions to borrow money with which TO equip
their roads. make extensions. Improvements
and double tracks. Senator Hartman Of
fered a substitute for one section and this
amendment brought the bill back nearly
to the old law on the subject. The sole
effect Of the bill in the form in which II
was completed is to allow railroad COM
panies to borrow In all 100000 a mile fol
single tracks and $4,000 a mile for double
tracks. 1t also makes provision for in
creasing the bonded indebtedness Of street
railway roads and interurbans.
An effort was made to have the matter
postponed until tomorrow. but this wal
lost, is to 20.
The bill finally passed the senate, q
to II.
The following is the bill as amended:
Section /, That section 1911 of the cod
be and the same is hereby amended b,
striking out all after the word stock II
the NTH line TO and including the worl
equipped" In the twelfth line, and enact
ing the foiloWing In lieu thereof;
"But the provisions OF this section shall
not apply to the bonds or other street rail
way securities issued by street railway
companies of the state or interurban rail
ways Ia aid Of the location, construction
and equipment Of street railway or inter
urban railways to an amount not exceed
! ing $4,000 per mile OF single track, standar'
. gauge, or 5000 per mile OF Jingle track
narrow gauge, lines OF road for each mill
OF street railway actually constructed ant
sQuipped. nor shall the provisions Of thh