The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-01-31
IOWA LEGISLATURE.
Daily Summary of the Work Done
by Lawmakers in the Twenty
Ninth General Assembly.

Des Moines, Ia, Jan. 24.-Bills have been
introduced in the senate for the compi.a-
ton, editing and annotating the session
laws of the assemblies following the enact
ment of the code; for a primary election
law: to prohibit children under IA from
working in any mine, factory or workshop,
unless first securing certificate from the
president of the school board that INDECENT
parents need the labor and providing
fine Of S. TO 500; to legalize the indepeEc-
ent district of Ralston in Greene and car
roll counties; to make taxes on property IN
the hands of receivers preferred claim;
to repeal the chapter OF the Twenty-eighth
general assembly and to enact law IN It's
place authorizing a levy of two-tenths OF
a mill for the support OF the state uniVer-
sity. The standing committees were an
nounced.
Des Mones. Ia. Jan. 25--Bils have been
introduced in the senate to change the
| salary of the county superintendent from
per diem of four dollars to $3.50 per an
mum; to create boundary commission OF
three members to act with like Nebraska
commission to fix the boundary of western
Iowa; to amend section 1910 by adding
land farmers mutual cooperative tele-
phone companies" to the list of concerns
which must corporate; to change the pen
atty for having possession of burglar
tools from fine and Jail sentence TO impris-
onment for five years or fine of 500 or JAN
sentence of one year; to appropriate S59S,-
600 for the state university; to make taxes
levied on buildings Is persona! property a
lien thereon; to appropriate $3.50, GOO for the
Agricultural college; to appropriate Sl16,-
600 for the state normal school; TO make
county warrants draw five per cent. III
stead of six per cent. interest
Des Moines, Ia, Jan. 29.-Bils have been
introduced in the senate to appropriate
money for Cherokee asylum, sl3S,CSo, for
| n
for the orphans home at Davenport So
ESQ; to repeal sections 3,Cal and 1852 of the
code. relating to days of grace, abolishing
them; to provide for the listing and taxa
| ton of mortgages ard other liens on rea!
estate; to fix the salaries of court report
ers at $3.50 a year and fixing a legal rate
of ten cents per 100 words for Transcript
ing; to appropriate for Benedict home
$4,000; to appropriate for the completion
of the state historical building and to
complete the same. This approprates So
GEO year for four years for the build
ing, making but $150,0o0 for the biennial pc
| rio0; to regulate and authorize mutual
companies to insure against loss from i'll
| ness, accident or quarantine; to establish
law uniform with other states on MI
gratory divorces. 1t provides that mo
divorce shall be granted for any cause
arising prior to the residence of the plain
/ tiff or defendant in this state which was
not ground for divorce in the state where
| the cause arose"
The House.
Des Moines, Ia. Jan. 23.-The joint cor
ventlon of the Twenty-ninth general as
sembly yesterday formally elected William
B. Allison and Jonathan P. Doliver United
States senator's The vote stood strictly
upon party lines and was as follows: ALI
son and Doliver, 119; Thayer and Seerley.
&c; absent, g. Senator Allison had returned
to Washington. but Senator Dolliver was
escorted to the hall and spoke briefly. 9th
er officers We're elected by the joint con-
vention as follows: Editor of the code
| supplement, ]. r. Carter, of Sioux City;
state printer Bernard Murphy, of Vinton;
state binder, Howard Tedford. of Mount
Ayr
Des Moines, Ia. Jan. 24.--Speaker Eaton
has announced the standing committees.
Des Moines, Ia, Jan. 25-In the house
bills have been introduced to amend the
code relating to the execution of persons
under the sentence of death; to provide
for execution by electrocution instead of
hanging; providing for the nomination of
officers and election of delegates to po-
litical conventions by primary election;
prohibiting the employment of children
under IA years Of age in mines; to levy an
additional one-tenth of mill for build
ings at the state university: to author
lie the establishment of a depository for
state funds; to create an additional state
normal school; to amend section 2,799 Of
the code, relative to the uniting of indc-
pendent school districts
Des Moines, Ia, Jan. 29.--In the house
bills have been introduced to amend JOG
by striking out the circle opposite the name
OF each political party on the official bal
lot. 1t provides for the removal of the
circle. the voter to mark in each square
instead; appropriating $S3,1oo for the in
auStr!al school for girls at Mitchellvile;
TO amend the code in relation to discharges
of boys and girls from industrial schools;
raising age limit to q years; making an
appropriation of $47,450 for the industrial
school for boys al Eldora; making an APP
preparation of $4,000 for the Benedict home
at Des Moines; making appropriation for
the Iowa school for the deaf at Council
Bluffs: to retire district judges at SAL
airy of SloO per month who have served
IL consecutive years on the district bench
and have attained the age of IS.
Flooded with Counterfeit Money
San Juan, Porto Rico, Jan. 29.-Gov
Hunt has cabled to the treasury de-
; partment at Washington asking that
an expert be sent here to settle the
counterfeit quest at Ponce, where
$4,000 in bogus silver was recently
seized. Business there is practically
suspended. The merchants of Ponce
, are refusing to accept any silver coins
. of the dates 1898, 1899, 1900 and 1901
The counterfeit dollars are poorly ex.
ecuted, but the alleged spurious
!. halves and quarters defy detection
: They are, APPARENTLY, of the full
weight. The bank officers have ex
amined samples Of the silver from
: Ponce, and say the coins are good
, There are no experts here or al
Ponce.
I, TO lncrense saIarics
; Washington, Jan. Ex-senator Hear
: from the committee on the judiciary
: reported favorablY TO the senate Nj.