The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-04-03

Iowa tbs year. The proposition which
the miners agreed to accept commits
the operators to the employment of
shot examiners and permits the miners
to employ shot f1rers. The acceptance
OF the miners Is on condition that the
shot f1rer question shall be settled To-
cally. The miners confidently expect
the legislature to compel operators to
employ shot firers, and accepted the
proposition in the belief that the law
will soon require the operators to do
what they demanded.
The senate committee on ways and
means recommended for indefinite
postponement the house and senate
bills revising the collateral inheritance
laws.
The house committee on insurance
recommended for passage standard
policy bill. drafted by the members of
the committee acting under the advice
of the attorney general.
The house committee on elections
recommended for passage the Kerr
bill, restricting the amount of money
to be spent by candidates for nomina-
ton and election, and requiring them
to file schedule of the same. The
Hayward bill, making slight change
in the registration laws, was recon-
mended for indefinite postponement,
and the Meservey bill, requiring regis
tration for school election, was refer.
red to a subcommittee and will be
Smmended for passage.
u The house judiciary committee vot-
ed to report out the bill establishing
a board of control for educational
institutions with the recommendation
tat it be considered no further this
session. A resolution was adopted,
expressing the belief that the bill con-
tanned much merit, but that owing to
the fact that the session was SO near
close, it could not be carefully con-
s1dered. 1t was recommended, how
ever, that similar bill be introduced
early in the next general assembly.
The petition in the much-talked-of
case of the state of Iowa against LATE
Young. ex-state binder, to recover over
charges it is claimed were made by
him and collected during his term of
Office, has been filed by Attorney Gen
eral Mullan in the district court The
case was filed for the May term, when
1t is expected it will come up for trial.
The petition is very ordinary legal
document. 1t recites the fact that de.
PENDANT was formerly state binder,
tells what his duties as such were,
and then goes on to allege that dur
ing 1899 and 1900 Young overcharged
for certain work performed to the
amount of s4,632.73, and drew the
money, and for this amount the state
asks for Judgment.
The only bills of any Importance
that have passed the legislature this
session have originated in the house.
Inc most important of these meas
ures is the Anderson road bill which
completely revolutionizes the system
of road management in the state, talk
Ing the matter out Of the hands of
the local road supervisors and placing
it in the hands of the township board
of trustees, who are required to en-
ploy superintendent of roads in each
township. Under the present system
each township is divided up into sew
eral districts and the work on the road
is performed in desultory manner
without any system, the result being
that great deal of it is wasted. I'm.
der the plan which this bill provides
the work will all be zone by contract,
and for this purpose all of the taxes
will be paid in cash, with the single
exception OF the poll tax, and the great
majority OF it will probably be paid in
cash. The people of the state do not
realize the Importance of this meas.
ure, although it has been given wide
publicity. 1t will undoubtedly result
IN speedy improvement of the coun-
try roads throughout the state. The
work Will be done in a systematic
manner and the money raised by
taxation will not be wasted. There
will no longer be any possibility of
working out the road tax or pretend.
ting to work 1t out.
The negotiable instrument act, H. r.
551, which passed the house recently
and Is now in the hands of the senate.
is now law in this identical form in
several different states, including the
great commercial states, such as New
York, Massachusetts,, Pennsylvania
.-nois, Wisconsin and Ohio, and by
act OF congress, in the District of Col.
umbia. Ohio has passed it this win.
ter, and few days ago in New jersey
the house adopted it by unanimous
vote. It does not change the Iowa
laws in any particular, it is said by
tnsse who back it, and the object Of
Its adoption is not to effect changes
IN the law, but to codify the law on
negotiable Instruments and make the
same accessible and certain for the
business interests OF the state. It has
been said that it abolishes days of
grace era, for Iowa. This is-not true The
bill has the endorsement OF members
OF the supreme court and Of the law.
yers generally 1t will conform the
practice under Iowa laws to the prac.
tice in the states surrounding this
one. 'l1'''
II VIII be cold day when you find
a laundry starch anywhere near as
good as Defiance. -
s Lady-"Are your antiques all genu.
ine?" Clerk-"Yes, madam, and we
SO guarantee them" Lady-awalJ oil