Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-03-24
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Moines, March 10, 1e

Divorces while you wait will be
made impossible il the recommended
ton OF the senate judiciary commit
lee is Endorsed by the legislature.
| The committee decided to report a
substitute for the bill which was in
.roduced by Senator Jones and for the
,ne introduced by Senator Gilliland.
Senator Jones bill provided that di-
/ gorces could be obtained until one
FEAR after the application for divorce
had been made. Some other enthus-
asst in the matter. of making divorces
10th difficult and improbable, amend
| I'd by making it a misdemeanor for
he guilty person in a divorce pro-
| seeding to marry again. Senator Gill
GLANDS bill put off matrimony for q
year after the divorce. With these
| hard jolts administered in the direc-
lion of the made to order divorces,
she judiciary committee took the mat
:er up for consideration and proved
not quite so hard on the applicants
:or divorces as the senators named
above. The bill which they will re-
port simply makes it impossible for a
divorce to be obtained at the same
erm of court at which the application
IS made. The hearing must come at
The second term of court. The aim of
Inc committee is to make the granting
and securing of divorces in short or
iers, impossible. They must wait at
east five or six months after the petit
ion is filed. There is nothing in the
bill regulating marriage after the di.
vorce is secured.
The house committee on elections
1as killed the Harris bill providing
.Or the elimination of the circle from
che head of the tickets on the official
ballot.
Representative Head of Green coun-
~ has introduced a joint resolution
proposing an amendment to the con-
;titution giving the general assembly
he power pass laws permitting the
owners of land to construct drains,
bitches. and levees for agricultural,
sanitary and mining purposes across
he lands of others, and provide for
The organization of drainage districts,
rest the corporate authorities thereof
% construct such and keep in repair
Ill drains, etc, by special assessment
On the property benefited thereby.
Both houses of the legislature
ldopted a resolution providing for the
'eference of the st. Louis appropria-
ion bill, recently recalled from the
governor, to a special committee of
hree from either house to pass upon
is provisions and provide further re-
;trictions in the matter of the eX-
oenditure Of the additional $4,000 by
he ST. Louis commission. There was
some doubt as to whether the special
committee which originally drafted
the bill could still be held to be in ex.
stence, so a new committee was ap-
pointed, it's membership being the
same as the former one. The senate
members of this committee are Lewis,
Maytag and Lambert. The joint COM
mittee will draft a new bill, carrying
the same amount as the old one, but
with the most careful restrictions up
on the commission as to the expendi-.
ture of every penny of it. The bill
was recalled because of the fact that
the commission had indicated it's in
tention of putting the appropriation
into the general and contingent fund
and expanding it under it's own discre-
ton.
The celebrated bloodhound raid of
Mayor Brenton and his chief of
police, Fred Bracket, has received
the delicate attention of the supreme
court. The attention was couched in
Is
was of such a character as to raise
the red welts in places, where the
sarcasm was little stornger than
usual. The decision of the court is,
that the case which Frank McClurg
of Valley Junction brought against
the mayor, the chief of police and
other Des Moines citizens for search.
ing his premises without warrant,
will have to be tried over again. The
McClurgs sued Brenton for damages
for the action taken.
The senate appropriations commit
tee has passed on the appropriations
for the educational institutions. All
but the State Normal school suffered
very materially in the pairing process
In ALL the State Normal will get, ac-
cording to the recommendation of the
senate appropriation committee, 1884,.
000 The State university is cut the
most severely. The university people
asked for $4SO,000, and the senate
committee recommends the appropria
ton of 100000. Representative
Weeks, who was on the visiting com.
mittee to the State university, does
not concur in the recommendation OF
the other members of the visiting com.
mittee, and has prepared a minority
report, in which he recommends the
appropriation of $4,000. The univer-
sity people are up in arms and when
the matter is debated in the commit
tee of the whole, as it will under the
rules, storm Of protest is expected.
The senate committee recommended
hat the State Agricultural college at
Ames, receive 1922, 200 in place of the
$3.50, 900 asked for. In this recommen.
1ation there is no provision for an ad.
1itional support fund. 1t was expect
ed this would be taken care of by the
passage of the millage tax, but the
ways and means committee declared
against this, so the additional support
fund will still have to be taken care
d. The senate committee adopted the
report of the majority of the univer-
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