Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-03
NORK FOR LEGISLATURE
Long List Of Changes and Addi.
tons to the Iowa Statutes
Desired.
Nearly Every Trade. Industry
and Profession Seeking
Protective Measure.
Large Appropriations Asked for
by the State and Educational
Institutions.

Des Moines, Jan. 3.-The following
changes and additions to the Iowa stat
utes have been recommended to the
coming legislature, or probably will be
introduced to that body:
To establish an inebriate hospital fol
drunkards on the same basis as the state
Insane hospitals are now maintained.
To establish an additional state nor
NAL school, at a cost of approximately
800, Oo0.
To establish state ~reformatories fol-
men and women at the Anamosa prison
making Fort Madison the one state pen
itentiarY.
To institute the parole and indetermi-
nate sentence systems.
To institute meat inspection in cities
To inspect imported cattle for tuber-
culosis.
To license BARRIERS.
To make divorce laws more stringent.
To permit the state fair to mine the
coal under the state fair grounds and
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proyements.
To appropriate $780, 900 for the st,
Louis exposition.
To appropriate 100000 for the compile
ton of the state historical hall, only
$50, 900 being used within two years.
To appropriate $3.50, 900 for the compile
ton and decoration of the state capitol
building.
To repeal the Blanchard anti-compact
law preventing insurance men from con-
ferring with respect to insurance rates.
To compel insurance companies to pay
the full face value of policies, whatever
the value of the burned property. (Val-
ued policy.)
To insure the property of the state OF
Iowa, amounting, outside Of the capitol
building, to about SIS, 000, 600.
To appropriate $50, 900 for a state arse
nal.
To appropriate sS4s,12 for the state
institutions within the management and
control of the state board of control.
To appropriate $4,000 for the State
Agricultural College.
To appropriate $3.50 for the State
University.
To appropriate 500. 600 for the State
Normal School.
To appropriate $3.50. 600 for the soldiers
monuments to be erected by Iowa at the
Vicksburg field.
TIC abolish bill boards.
To permit damaged persons to re-
cover for mental anguish.
To repeal the law creating a board OF
p,,hlic works for cities.
To compel the state penitentiaries to
furnish. at cost to counties, rock broken
by the convict labor.
To compel physicians and midwives to
vital statistics and providing
compensation therefor.
To repeal laws charging industrial
corporation fees for Incorporating in
this state.
70 give school superintendent In
cities the right and power to examlne
own teachers and issue certificates
thereto. instead of the county superin-
tendents.
To give the state railroad commits
sion power to compel the establishment
Of undergrade crossings wherever 1T
sees fit and assess the cost.
To place inter-urban electric trolley
ines under the control of the state
OF railroad commissioners.
To establish an insurance department
and divorce 1t entirely from the office of
The auditor Of state, in which 1t is now
4 bureau.
To enact an habitual criminal act
giving judges the right to sentence In
definitely persons thrice convicted of
crime.
To make the Grand Army of the Re-
public a state department.
To buy the Bonaparte DAM.
To give the fish and game commits
sioner power to appoint deputies. who
shall receive compensation in the shape
part Of the fines collected from IL
Iegal hunters.
To abolish spring duck hunting In
To dam the Mississippi river just at
he foot of the Des Moincs rapids above
he juncture of the Des Moines and the
Mississippi.
To tax corporate franchises.
To compel telephone companies to
BAY for the right to use the highways.
To create a state examining board
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To establish a state farmers insti-
ute secretary, who shall govern fifty
lecturers employed to attend
institutes in counties; to aid
county institutes with appropriations.
To give state aid and subsidy to
high schools maintaining certain stand
lrds of studies.
To increase the salary OF the COVER
Tor from $4,100 to $4,000.
To increase the salary of the assist
attorney general from $1,000 to
1900.
To increase the salaries of the dis
riot judges from $4,000 to $4,000.
To increase the salaries of supreme
judges from $4,000 to $4,000.
To compel the supreme judges to
in Des Moines.
To establish IN APPELLATE court con-
of three Judges, who shall have
inal jurisdiction over cases involving
lot to exceed $4,000 and no consti-
utional question.
To r%eadjust the salaries of sheriffs to
Intimate the fee business