Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-26
LEGISLATORS WENT ON A JVNKET.
Visit State Institutions After Lapse of Eight
Years Measu in Behalf of Veterans
List of Appropriations Vented
Other Notes of Interest
repecial observation-disclosures


ton in the northeastern part Of the
state. be investigated. The board OF
control report is reply. The legisla-
ture Is in a quandary as to what to do,
but it is possible that second school
will be put up in the eastern part OF
the state. The objection to the present
location is that the expense Of reaching
1t from most porulons of the state is so
great that large numbers of persons
whom 1t is erected for cannot attend
the school.
Child Labor.
The state senate spent about a week
considering the child labor bill. This
measure was drafted by Representative
Cummings, and Senator Dowell had
charge OF it in the senate. In the first
place the senate struck out the pro-
vision that children may not be en-
ployed in mercantile establishments.
This would permit them to be employed
in stores. lumber yards. etc. Then the
section relative to the employment Of
any minor who can neither read nor
write was stricken out. The bill is de-
signed to prohibit child labor in mines.
quarries. factories, etc. 1t was the
original intention to include stores,
also. but the striking out Of the msr-
camille establishments from the list Of
places whore children may not be en-
ployed still leaves them liable to en-
ployment in those places.
Good Roads,
A meeting of the State Good Roads
association was called for Des Moines
for February 24-25. This was for the
purpose of considering the bills relat-
ing to good roads which have been
formulated by some Of the ofacers.
One Of these provides for taxing the
cost of building good roads as follows:
State, so per cent; county, rs per cent;
township, Is per cent; benefited own
ers of abutting property. ten per cent.
AS the roads of the kind which the as
ISOLATION desires to have built cost
from $4,000 mile up, the cost to the
abutting property owners would be
$500 or so. 1t is plain to the friends Of
good roads in the state that the only
feasible scheme for starting the move
ment is to establish the state good
roads department provided for in a bill
introduced by Representative e. W..
Weeks, of Guthrie county, calling for
a $4,000 appropriation each two years
to start the work going. Mr.. Weeks
also has proposed that the feasibility
of working the state convicts on the
roads be investigated.
State Fair Building.
The bill to appropriate $4,000 for .
permanent dairy, agricultural and hor-
ticultural hall at the state fair ground
went through the house committee on
agriculture without difficulty, and; the
friends Of the measure fully expect It
to pass both houses and be signed BY
the governor within few weeks, so
that the work Of constructing the
building may be begun in time to I'm
ish 1t for the state fair in 1904. The
structure that is planned will be fire.
proof and permanent, built Of steel and
brick, like the big stock show pavilion
which was used for the first time last
year. The state fair management
hopes to have permanent structures,
only, on the state fair grounds within
few years. At present most OF the
buildings are built on the barn princi-
| pie.
A vexed Question.
The state board of control has res
| ported to the state legislature that II
will take at least $125,000 to put the
abandoned home for the blind at Knox,
| vile into condition for detention hos,
| pital for inebriates, ETC., and 1t seemi
unlikely, now, that the legislature will
undertake to expend this sum Of money
| for that class of people. The board oil
control and the institution superinten-
dents are very anxious to get rid OF
the inebriates who are now housed at
the insane hospitals, but 1t is more
likely that the legislature will appro-
pirate small sums for the alteration Of
portions Of the hospitals so that thi.
class Of unfortunates can continue tc
be cared for at the hospitals than tc
put $125,000 into separate institution
for them.
Republican Convention.
The republican state convention hal
been called for Des Moines, May 10
John N. Irwin, Of Keokuk, will be the
temporary chairman. Mr.. Irwin wal
minister Of Portugal several years ago
and also served as governor Of the tor.
ritory of Montana for several years
He was speaker Of the Iowa house Of
representatives. He is a wholesale
merchant He represents the so-called
stand patters" among the Iowa re-
publicans, being opposed to tariff re.
/ vision at this time in any form. The
convention OF May is will devote It's