The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-25
THE WOMEN CANNOT VOTE
Iowa Legislature Defeats Suffrage
Resolution and Ends the Mat
ter for This Session.
aEsulTA SURPRISE TO ITS ADVOCATES
-Attempt to Remove the Circle from
Head of Tickets Also Defeated
New Railway Taxation Law-Ap-
propriations for State Institutions
Other Notes of Interest.
Especial Correspondence


Especial Correspondence
Des Moines, Ia, March 1.-THE de-
feat of the woman suffrage resolution
by the house the past week disposes of
this matter for this session of the leg
fslature. Its defeat was a surprise to
the advocates of suffrage, but it was
mot a surprise to the members of the
legislature who were opposed to the
proposition and who had organized the
votes against it. The impression pre-.
vailed that it was introduced and
pushed with too much rapidity, having
only been defeated in the last general
assembly, and some members who per
.sonally would vote for such meas
ure themselves opposed it at this time
because they believed that one session
of the assembly should be permitted
to intervene between the times of its
consideration. 1t was well understood
by the members of the senate when
the measure was carried there that the
house would defeat it. In neither
chamber were any speeches made or
any contests INDUCED in.
Stick to the Circle.
The proposition which has been in
PRODUCED into every legislature since
the Australian ballot was adopted
that to remove the circle from the head
of the tickets on that ballot-has been
defeated again by this general assem-
bly,, and will not be heard of again I'M
ell the session of 1904. It was voted
down by large majority, it being con-
tended that it is unfair to the 95 per
cent. of the voters who desire to vote
a straight ticket to enact a law for the
benefit of the five per cent. who
scratch" their ballots.
Favor an Appellate Court.
A favorable report has come out of
the committees on the Temple bill to
provide for the creation of an appellate
court to do part of the work of the
supreme court. This provides for the
election of three judges to be elected
at the next general election after the
taking effect of the act, one for term
of two years, one for four years and
one for six years, and all subsequent
terms to be for six years. The court
would have exclusive appellate juris-
sdiction in all civil cases where the
amount in controversy does not exceed
$4,000, exclusive of interest and costs,
except in causes where the title to real
estate is directly involved or the con-
stitutionality of statute, the validity
of any act or ordinance of municipal
corporation, or the construction of a
will, or in suits for divorce, or in ac-
tions or special proceedings where no
money judgment is demanded, other
than costs. Other sections of the bill
provide the duties of the court usual to
such judicial bodies, and that the court
shall hold its sessions three terms each
year.
Railway Taxation.
The ease with which the new law for
the taxation of railroads in Iowa went
through the senate has indicated to the
friends of the measure that it will
not meet with serious opposition in
the house. The railroad men, on the
other hand, believe that the measure
will be defeated in the house or so
amended that it will protect the in
tterests of the railways to greater
extent than the measure is intended to
do. The new measure as it passed the
senate will require the executiv council
TO assess the railroads by taking into
consideration four things: The net
earnings, the gross earnings, the phys
Rcal condition and the value of stocks
and bonds.
State Institutions,
The board of control bill for appro-
priations for the state institutions I'm.
der that board has been recommended
for passage by the committees of the
general assembly. Itcarries an appro.
priation of $731,577 Already the Cher.
okee appropriation of $13S, 1000 has beer
made, which makes total of 1869 ST;
for the IA institutions. 1t is supposed
that extraordinary appropriations ant
reformatory expenses will swell the
support of the state institutions fol
the next two years to almost if MOI
quite $1,O00,OO0. The following is lis
of the appropriations for each of the
institutions recommended in the omni
bus bill:
Soldiers home .........................$ 1920
Soldiers orphans home................ 1920
College for the blind. $40
School for the deaf. 1910
Institutn for feeble-minded children 1O9, on
industrial school for boys. 47,45
Industrial school for girls 1910
iHospita! at Mount Pleasant. ......... 1N, As
Hospital at lndependence...... 1920
Hospital at Clarinda. 675O
Fort Madison penitentiary........ S1,0O
-Anamosa penitentiary....... 81, 80
Total .s731, 81
PIeases the Miners.
Legislation which is satisfactory t,
the miners of the state has been pro
posed in the general assembly and il
likely to be passed at this session. TIL,
mine explosion investigator commit
tee reported in favor Of certain meas