Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-10
FIVE Bills ARE PASSED
Iowa Senate Gets Down to Act
i've Business..House Not
in Session.
Hogue's Bill to Require Railroad
Companies to Furnish Cars
on Demand.
A Number of New Bills Intro
duced..Needs OF the
State Normal.
special to Times-Republican.

| alone was in session this forenoon and
passed five bills, which had been re-
ported favorably from the committees
/ The most important was Hogue's bill to
| furnish cars to shippers on demand
| This is accomplished by striking out
a clause which seems to give the COM
panies some discretion in the matter
| The other bills passed We're: a bill
relating to gifts and bequests for Ii
brary purposes and making 1t possible
to enforce contracts and agreements; a
| bill to permit condemnation of land for
library purposes; legalizing incorpora :
! ton publications where the notices
have been published in daily or semi
| weekly papers; correcting an error in
the code relating to fees in probate
matters.
/ New bills were introduced: Bach
man, to pay $4,000 for lot at Pilisbury
| Point and the Mrs. Sharp relics: Harp
er. to prevent condemnation of ceme-
! terry or county property; Hobart, pro-
viding for assistant county attorneys
I in large counties; Wilson, requiring
county superintendents to furnish
itemized statements of expenses OF
| county Institutes for publication;
Smith, appropriating s250,000 to COM
plete Iowa capitol; Fitchpatrick, ap-
propriating $500 for payments OF
damages to two women at Iowa state
college.
\ In the house this afternoon among the
| bills introduced were: A bill by Ander-
son to provide for the township system
of road supervision: by Stratten, for
appropriation for care of feeble minded
women at Glenwood: by Payne. to pro-
vide that county auditors shall print a
| finansi,sl. report: by Carter, to change
+ FEDS OF Justices of the peace.
! The house adopted a joint resolution
| fixing the date of adjournment as
March 20 at noon.
/ Late this afternoon President Seerley
+, and the faculty of the State Normal
School will appear before the house ap-
preparations committee to present the
needs of the normal school. 1t goes
without saying that nothing will be said
at the meeting that will be encouraging
/ for those who favor the establishment
of another normal school in Iowa.
President Seerley will appear by spe-
cial invitation of the committee. The
house has an afternoon session and the
committee will meet Immediately
thereafter TO hear the normal school
PEOPLE. The appropriations committees
of the legislature are engaged only in
preliminary work. With the Cherokee
hospital bill passed and a few minor
appropriation bills disposed of the COM
mittees will devote much time now to
the question of the general appropra-
tions The three educational institu-
tions and the board of control institu-
tions will all be considered together.
The representatives of the educational
institutions will be heard and their ar
guments be considered, and then the
board of control will be heard. The
policy of the committees is to call the
board of control before them whenever
penal and charitable institutions are
being considered. An omnibus bill will
be prepared covering all the board of
control institutions.
1--WE find it very satisfactory" said
John Hughes, Jr., of the house appro-
priations committee, ito call the board
of control before us and obtain reliable
information about these state institu-
tions observe that there is a grow
ing tendency on the part of the commit
teemen to rely on the board of control
statements. If they can not inform us
of the needs of the institutions who
can? They have made 1t study for
several years and speak with full know
ledge We find that the board has
asked for nothing but what is actually
necessary or 50 regarded by them.
Their estimates have not been made
with the expectation that they shall
be shaved by the legislature. AS the
committees go deeper into the matter
we find that the estimates of the board
can be relied on as pretty nearly cor
rect in every instance. This confidence.
in the work of the board gives us a
Igreat advantage and Will make the work
of the committees easier.
one of the most important bills intro
duced the past week in the legislature
is that relating to board of examiners
for the accounts OF county NIedSuIeTS
and other officers. This bill was intro
duced TWO years ago by Mr.. Eaton, now
speaker and strongly urged by him, but
it came in late in the session and there
was not time to get it thru. This year
The bill has been taken up, with some
slight changes to improve 1T, by Mark
j. Furry, of Hardin county, and intro
duced by him. Three state examiners
of public accounts are contemplated,
who shall visit the county offices at
least once each year, at irregular times.
and make a thorough examination of
the bpoks. Mr.. Eaton and Mr.. Furry
believe that this system would save the
state many thousand dollars annually.
There is hardly a county in the state
that has not had at some time defal-
cation In the county offices, large or
small, and while many of these cases
have been covered up or compromised
lit would be much better to compel
every county official to be on his
guard and to have his books in the best
possible condition at all times. What
has been lest by the counties by bad