Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-29

insurance pollc1eS, so tnat their pollcieS
must be approved before business can
be done and all policies be issued only
on medical examination.
The house also today passed a bill
to give towns the right to condemn
posal plants; bill to regulate the dis
them from destruction; and a bill to
provide for three assistant dairy COM
missioners.
The bill to raise the salary Of deputy
county treasurers was defeated. The
bills passed were all house bills and
have not been to the senate.
An illustration Of what sometimes
happens when visiting committees un-
dertake to dispose of big questions in
great haste was shown in connection
with the report OF the committee Of the
legislature which visited the deaf
school last week. The report covered
the main points In regard to the site
of the school and the character of the
TO the members of the legislature.
Then the report went on to refer TO the
condition OF the buildings:
Outside woodwork on all the build
ings needs painting very much, In fact
no painting is visible on some Of the
woodwork The brick sidewalks are IN
a dilapitated condition and disgrace
to the place, and the brick walls need
pointing up and painting at as early \
date as possible, and If no money is
available at present for these purposes
We recommend that sufficient appro-
priation be made now"
From this it was inferred by some Of
the legislators that the buildings had
been shamefuhy neglected by the state
authorities and that the committee iu-
tended to censure the board Of control
for negligence. But in the appropriation
of two years ago, on the recommended
ton of the board of/control, there was
an item of $4,000 for contingent and
repairs, the board then insisting that
the repairs should be made. When
the fire came, nearly two years ago,
the board realized that something
must be done at once to provide a
means Of living. A conference was had
with the executive council, and that
body could provide for temporary
building but not for furnishing. The
board had only one fund which Nigh.
be diverted in an emergency-it was
this $4,000. New beds and dishes and
kitchen utensils had to be bought post
haste and the board used every dol
lar OF it in this way. 1t was the belief
of the members of the board and Of the
executive council and the officers Of
the school that beds and dinner plates
were more important than new side
walks and paint for the buildings, at
that particular time. After the report
of the visiting committee was made
last week and this record was shown
them, some members felt a good deal
like taking 1t back, for they had not
taken the trouble to find out how 1t
came that the repair work contemplat-
ed two years ago had not been done.
The primary elections bill has not
yet been brought before either house
for passage. The promoters OF the
measure have been thus far very cau-
tious and will go slow enough to make
sure of every advantage possible. The
house bill Is one that will apply to
Polk county only and probably has
some chance of getting thru that body,
but the senate committee bin which
would apply primary rules to the en-
tire state stands no show at all.
The special committee appointed to
nd nrt hat
or not 1T would be best to put in city
park for the city at an expense of
$4,000 to the state has prepared re-
port which is adverse to sush invest
ment. The report states that the pur-
pose is worthy enough, that the old
site of Camp Mcclellan ought to be
public property and would make a fine
city park for Davenport, but that lin
view of the states finances and the
for larger support for the
state educational institutions it would
not be advisable to buy the property
at this time.
The pardons committees are about
ready to make reports. 1t is now
certain that there will not
be more than one pardon granted by
the legislature out Of the sixteen cases
being the case of
Frank Hall, of Pottawattamie county,
an old man dying of cancer.
DIR. Newman, secretary to the SEN
ate, estimates that 1t will be pretty
close to the 18th when the Legislature
gets away. He knows how slowly busi
ness lis done in the closing days and
how difficult it Is to get the final
work all cleaned up.