The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-01
IOWA LEGISLATURE.
Daily Summary of the Work Done
by Lawmakers in the Twenty
Ninth General Assembly,


Des Moines, H., March 20.-The senate
yesterday passed a bill repeating the pro-
vision for discriminative tax on the bust
ness of foreign insurance companies and
liked the tax at ~ per cent. on gross pre-
mlums, the same per cent. as paid by
American companies. Another bill passed
requires the state mine inspectors to visit
every coal mine with so tons daily output
at least twice year.
Des Moines, Ia March 21.-Bills have
teen passed in the senate providing that
that children under IA years of age shall
not be employed in mines. factories and
workshops to exceed six hours a day; to
amend the road laws so as to conform them
to the new statute extending the time OF
assessing railroads from March to July.
Des Moines. Ia, March 22.-The senate
has killed the bill for thetcreaticn of re-
formatory ct the Anamosa prison, and has
passed the bill repeating the law discrimi-
mating against foreign insurance compa-
MES in the matter of taxes, fixing their tax
at 2.5 per cent, or the same as the COM
panies of the United States outside of Iowa
pay. In executive session the senate con-
trmed the appointment of l.. G. Kline to
| succeed himself as member of the board
of control and of T. E. McCurdy to sue
coed j. d. McGarraugh IS custodian of the
capitol Other bills have been passed to
tic franchises in municipalities to be pub
ished by posting when no newspapers are
published within the corporation: provid-
ing that the right of inheritance from
parents and children by adoption shall be
the same rs between parents and children
born in lawful wedock. was passed.
Des Moines. Ia, March 24.-The senate
has passed the house bill, with amend
ments granting the right of eminent do
main to interurban trolley lines. allowing
them to use the highways applying to them
all the laws, relating to railroad corpora
lions.
Des Moines. Ia. March 25-The senate
has passed the house bill fixing the salaries
of sheriffs and deputies. The committee
on pardons by vote of to decided to re-
port to the senate against pardoring Wes-
| ley Elkins. who is confined at Anamosa
for numbering his father and mother.
Des Moines, Ia, March &c Only business
: Of a routine character was transacted in
! the senate yesterday.
In the House.
! Des Moines, Ia, March 20-In the house
| Mr. Buchanan introduced a resolution pro-
vding for final adjournment April 3. 1t
went over under the rules. bill has been
passed providing that the laws affecting
railways shall apply to interurban rail-
| ways. that interurbans in cities shall be
| governed by the same laws as street rail-
| ways that they may run along the public
| highways with the consent of two-thirds
of the owners of the abutting property.
| The biennial election amendment passed
yesterday by an overwhelming vote. 1t
| cannot be submitted to the people for over
| two years yet, however, as the constitu-
ton provides that two successive legisla-
| lures shall pass an amendment before 1t
may be submitted to the vote of the people.
Des Moines, Ia, March 21.-The house
l =, No o1,,fto To oIio ,ri
8. Bills have been passed appropriating
| $150,000 for Iowa monuments on the Vicks-
burg field, $4,000 to be expended during this
biennial period; appropriating $500 to be
| used in the purchase of land and the cree
ton of monument to Charles Shepherd. a
revolutionary soldier buried near Mills
paugh Mills in Henry county; providing
| that county recorders may employ addi-
tional help in their Offices and providing
that the board of supervisors may pay the
same; providing that the salaries of depu-
| ty state and county officers shall be paid
to the deputies themselves. and prohibit
ing their principals from receiving or re-
tanning any part thereof; prohibiting the
| playing of baseball or football on Sunday.
Des Moines, Ia March 22.-The house
committee on insurance has voted to rec
ommend for passage the Merriam bill for
the creation of a department of insurance
separate from the Office of the auditor of
state who has superintended insurance
| business in Iowa. The appropriations COM
mittee recommended for passage bill APP
/ propriating sl50.OOO for an Iowa exhibit at
the Louisiana Purchase exposition to be
held in ST. Louis in 1908.
Des Moines. Ia, March 24.-In the house
bills have been passed establishing a law
regarding negotiable instruments uniform
| with the laws of other states; increasing
the appropriation for armory rent for the
various companies Of the national guard
from 5000 to $3.50, and the general appro-
priation for the Iowa national guard from
200 to 100000 per annum. for the purpose
| of paying this additional armory rent; re-
moving the limit of bonded Indebtedness
which Iowa railroad companies may in
cur. The bill has passed the senate.
Des Moines, Ia, March 25-The house has
passed bills providing that civil actions
against nusances committed in more than
one county may be brought and carried tc
completion in any county where the nut
sance is committed in part; providing for
the transfer of lands to the United States
for federal buildings, to protect the prop
erty of public libraries and reading-rooms
against vandalism; providing that cite
may issue bonds for the Improvement OF
extension of waterworks. The house re-
called its resolution for adjournment, anG
a motion to reconsider was filed. Adjourn
ment is not expected before Apri! 10.
Des Moines, Ia, March 2G.--In the house
yesterday the question of creating de.
partment of insurance was brought III
and the bill was referred to the committee
on appropriation, after contest, the re-
suit of which leads the friends of the de-
partment TO believe that the proposition
will be defeated.