Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-04-10

recommend the conditional pardon OF
j. Wesley Elkins, now serving a life
sentence at Anamosa for the murder
OF his father and stepmother. The
senate had voted to grant the pardon.
motion to reconsider has been filed
in the house already, signed by Messrs.
jerks and Teachout. The house de-
voted the whole day to the case. al.
though the time of each speaker, with
the exception of the leader on each
side, was limited, several had their
time extended by vote Of the house.
The house adopted the report of the
conference committee appointed to
consider the senate amendments to
the Hamann interurban bill. The
amendments provide that a trolley
line entering city may haul such
freight as it can carry In baggage or
combination cars. This may be done
without condemning the street and
paying abutting damages as the senate
amendments provided.
Des Moines, April 4.-Senate.-Reso.
buttons in honor of United States Sen,
ator John Fl. Gear were adopted by
the houses of the legislature. The
Molsberry bill relating to bonded in.
debtedness of railroads and removing
the statutory limit was put over until
Tuesday morning next. The bill to re.
quire coal mine operators to employ
shot examiners was passed. An eff
fort to include shot flrers was lost.
The senate passed a bill to restrict
the operation of associations not cor.
porations which are eng: ged In ton.
tine building and loan BUSINESS. by
requiring them to deposit $4,000 in
approved securities with the auditor
OF state. The senate agreed to the
amendments on the interurban bill,
so that these lines may enter cities as
street car companies without paying
damages to owners of property abut.
ting on the streets used by their
tracks so long as passenger and com.
bination baggage cars are used. When
freight cars are handled the lines shall
be regarded as railroads. The house
bill creating an opticians commission
OF five members to examine and issue
certificates to opticians was passed.
House.-The house reconsidered its
action on the Elkins pardon resolution,
and voted In favor OF parole, 4S to 35.
The house passed senate bills giving
the State Agricultural college and the
State university each one-fifth of a
mill tax for five years for building
purposes. and both houses passed a bill
giving the State Normal school one
tenth of a mill for building purposes.
The house passed the senate bill in
recognition of the osteopathic physi.
clans, authorizing the state board of
medical examiners to issue certificates
to graduates of osteopathic colleges
and to others who pass examination.
and authorizing the choice of an osteo-
pathic physician to become a member
OF the state board of health and state
board OF medical examiners. The bill
making an appropriation of $4,000 and
providing for woman's reformatory
at Anamosa was passed.
Des Moines, April 5.-Senate.-The
legislature completed its work of vot.
ing tax levies in aid of the educational
institutions, giving the State Univer.
sity two-tenths of a mill, the State Col.
lege OF Agriculture two.tenths and the
State Normal School one-tenth for five
years. These levies will yield S275, 900
year to these institutions, or $1,375,-
900 for the period designated. The
proceeds go into buildings. An effort
to reconsider the vote by which the
Normal School levy was voted in the
senate was defeated. The senate pass
ed the house bill giving the board of
control the power to visit and inspect
homes for friendless children and EN-.
towering judges to commit children
to these homes upon showing that
their parents are unfit to care for them
or If they are homeless. The bill to
make guilty of larceny a farm tenant
who sells the grain he grows without
notifying the buyer that the landlord
has lien thereon for rent was passed.
The senate passed a bill to limit the
speed of automobiles to twenty miles
an hour, and requiring them to carry
lights. The senate concurred in the
house resolution for the pardon of
William Young, of Woodbury. county,
Joseph McCreary Of Mills county, and
George Stanley of Story county, sery-
ing life sentences for murder. This
makes four murderers pardoned by
this legislature. The other house rec.
concentrations were postponed.
House-The house passed the senate
bill for the reorganization of the su.
preme court. It increases the salaries
Vi tiiS oupiSiiO JuuStS lIODu 9t,VOU 10
$500 year and requires them to be
in continuous session in the city OF
Des Moines for nine and one-half
months each year. The house refused
to take up the Hubbard bill. S. r. III,
providing that Iowa railroad COM
panies may require other companies
in any state in the Union. and fixed
its consideration as a special order for
10 a. m. Tuesday. III. F. 1913, by Mat
ties. amending the present mulct law,
came up and after being amended
slightly, passed by a margin of three
votes. The bill provides that no name
shall be withdrawn from a petition af-
ter it has been filed with the county
auditor, and also that Irregularities or
discrepancies between the ordinary
signature of voter and the way his
name appears upon the poll book
shall not be a bar TO the name being
counted in the petition.