The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-01-17
NEW LAWS PROPOSED.
lators Will Probably Consider
in the Present Assembly.

latOrs Will Probably Consider
in the Present Assembly.
The following changes and addi-
tons to the Iowa statutes have been
recommended for introduction at the
present session of the state legisla-
ture:
To establish an inebriate hospital for
drunkards on the same basis as the state
insane hospitals are now maintained.
To establish an additional state normal
| school, at cost of approximately 100000
To establish state reformatories for men
| and women at the Anamosa prison, making
Fort Madison the one state penitentiary.
| To institute the parole and indeterminate
sentence systems.
| To license BARRIERS.
| To make divorce laws more stringent.
| To permit the state fair to mine the coal
| under the state fair grounds and expend
the proceeds in permanent Improvements.
| To appropriate s25O,G00 for the st. Louis
exposition.
To appropriate 100000 for the completion
of the state historical hall, only $4,000 be-
ing used within two years.
| To appropriate $2500G0 for the compile
ton and decoration Of the state capitol
building
| To compel insurance companies to pay
the full face value of policies, whatever
| policy.)
To insure the property Of the state OF
| Iowa, amounting, outside of the capitol
building, to about sl5,0oO.0Oo.
| To appropriate $4,000 for state arsenal;
| $S4Sl27 for the state institutions within the
management and control of the state board
of control; S375, 900 for the state agricultural
| college; $S75,S10 for the state university:
| $lOoOoO for the state normal school. and
$4,000 for the soldiers monuments to be-
erected by Iowa at the Vicksburg field
| To abolish billboards.
| To repeal the law creating board of pub
| lie works for cities.
| To compel the state penitentiaries to fur
| nish at cost to counties rock broken by
| the convict labor.
To compel physicians and midwives to re-
| port vital statistics and providing compen-
I sation therefor.
! To repeal laws charging industrial cor
| poration fees for Incorporating in this
| state.
| 10 give school superintendent in cities
| the right and power to examine their own
/ teachers and issue certificates thereto in
| stead of the county superintendent.
To give the state railroad commission
power to compel the establishment of UNI
degrade or overhead crossings wherever
/ 1t sees fit and assess the cost.
| To place interurban electric trolley lines
| under the control of the state board of rail-
| road commissioners
| 10 establish an insurance department and
| divorce 1t entirely from the office Of the
| auditor of state, In which it is now bu-
reau.
To enact an habitual criminal act giving
judges the right to sentence indefinitely
persons thrice convicted of crime
| To make the Grand Army of the Republic
state department.
To give the fish and game commissioner
! power to appoint deputies, who shall re-
| N of nar t pf
the fines collected from illegal hunters.
| To abolish spring duck hunting in Iowa.
| To tax corporate franchises.
| To compel telephone companies to pay for
the right to use the highways.
| To create q state examining board for
civil engineers.
To establish a state farmers institute
| secretary, who shall govern 50 state lee
turers employed to attend farmers insti-
tutes in counties; to aid county Institutes
with appropriations.
To give state aid and subsidy to high
schools maintaining certain standards of
studies.
To increase the salary of the governor
from s4.100 to $500; the salary of the as
sistant attorney general from 1890 to-
$3.50; salaries of district judges from $500
to $i,C0o, and salaries of supreme judges
from s, 900 to 5000
To compel the supreme judges to live in
Des Moines.
To establish an appellate court consist
ing of three judges, who shall have final
jurisdiction over cases involving not to eX-
coed 5000 and no constitutional question.
To readjust the salaries Of sheriffs to
eliminate the fee business.
To readjust the salaries of court report
ers' to make them a fixed sum.
To require state uniformity of blanks used
by recorders.
To compel the payment of a fee for mar
ginal cancellation Of recorded papers.
To establish a system of state accounting
for county treasures.
To require the payment of interest on
state deposits.
To authorize the state to pay the fee re.
quired to be paid for the state treasurer's
bond.
To establish a colony for epileptics
To compel private banks to submit to
state inspection
To amend the primary election law to
give it force and effect.
To abolish days of grace.
To redistrict the congressional and sem
atorial districts of the state.
To compel the education of every child
under IA years of age
To prohibit the employment Of child la
Dor.
To establish juvenile courts and require
the isolation of Juveniles from adult per-
sons in jails and prisons.
To compel peace officers to act also as
health and humane officers.
To compel vaccination.
To provide a severe penalty for kidnap.
ing.
To prohibit the exposure and sale of game
during the closed seasons
To fix definite amount covered by ex-
emption from execution in the case of
wages.
To establish board of examiners for
butter makers and compel examination
Joint resolutions to strike the word
male" from the constitution and to abol-
ish elections in odd-numbered years.
buying Trust Formed.