Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-18

SUM OF s12s,ooo APPROPRIATED
Former Hospital for the Blind to Be
RemodeIed and the inebriates Re-
moved From the Insane Asylums to
That pIace-stock Shippers Bill
Amended and Passed by the House.
,edal to Times Republican.

II.
Des Moines, March 1S.-The bill to
remove the inebriates from the insane
hospitals Ito Knoxville passed the SEN
ate today. 1t makes of the former home
for blind an asylum for inebrates and
ia.ppropriates $125,000 for remodeling
the home and preparing to care for the
inebriates. A bill was passed selling
State Square" in Des Modnes, a bill
to sell islands along the Mississippi and
Missouri rivers. Also bill to permit a
sewer thru the state property at the
Soldiers Home.
The house passed the bill to give
stock shippers return passes. The bill
was amended in accordance with an
agreement signed by the stockshippers
and railroad attorneys and as passed
was in the nature of a compromise.
The exemption garndshment bill was
discussed with much bitterness and H.
naMy passed 50 to "a. The invitation
for the legislature to visit Iowa City
next Thursday was accepted.
The republican caucus was held yes
terday afternoon and the matter OF
which district shall have. the demo-
cratic member of the State College
beard was settled. The caucus was
presided over by G. f. Crosse, with Ssn-
ator Whine as secretary The nomina-
ton Of B. Murphy for printer. Howard
Tedford for binder, b. F. Osborne for
trustee of the Normal School. and for
joe Lane, +, b. Haniey. H. w. Lauder
and v. L.z,r.-Y for university regents
were all cclanlatien, az there
were no contests FOR these places Then
vote was taken for second place on
the Cedar Falls board with result that
e. Fl. Griffin, of Atlantic, received 81 to
II. E. McClenahan, of Winterset, A..
The State College trusteeship took
time. Four candidates had been nomi-
nated--H. NJ. Let's in the First dis
trict George S. Allyn in the Eighth. G..
f. Barclay in the Second and Ellison
Orr in the Fourth After some par
leying Let's and Orr were nominated
by acclamation thus forcing the fight
squarely between Barclay and Allyn
democrat. Allyn won on ballot by 81
to So. The democrats will name Vim
cent Zmundt, of Iowa City, graduate
of the State College and rising young
lawyer, for the democratic member.
Twenty-one of the democrats had
united in letter to their republican
colleagues asking that they have the
trustee in the Second district, while
three others. the members from the
Eighth district, gave written notice
that they had caucused and had named
Pierce Wilson. of Centerville, as their
candidate. should the Eighth again get
the democratic member.
The joint university visiting commit
tee, which reported on the State Uni
versity, gave the board of managers
plan a second boost yesterday in their
written report. covering much the same
ground as the committee which re-
ported on the State College. The COM
mittee also sat down hard on the plan
for a big appropriation for the univer-
sity and recommended about STE, 900 in
stead of three or four times this sum
for the university. The committee
gave as one reason that since 1900 the
salaries of instructors and professors
have been increased at the university
from $4,000 to 100000 and other ex-
penses, not including land and build
ings. from $4,000 to $4,000, without
any substantial increase in enrolment
The committee recommends paying
$4,000 more for land but not the pur-
chase of the dam in the Iowa river.
The railroad commission of Iowa will
not be abolished this year. The rail-
road committee of the house came TO
its rescue yesterday and decided tha.
the bill which was introduced in the
house by Mr.. Sankey should not be-
passed. There was a good deal Of
laillery over this bill. 1t was sug-
gested that all the members of the
railroad committees expect to run for
railroad commissioners some time and
therefore they We're opposed to abo.-
ishing the office Then 1t was declared
by another that for the sake of keep
ing the railroad maps the commission
could we'll be continued The members
are to get twenty mounted maps each
and fifteen of the unmounted maps
for free distribution in their districts.
To cut off the commission would de-
prive members of these valuable maps.
Then the suggestion was made that the
might be abolished and the
clerical force be maintained for map
purposes, at least, to keep the Iowa
and schedule in force |
But in the end the committee voted that
it would be just as we'll to keep the
railroad commission. The members of
the commission take the jokes about
their abolition in good nature.
The bill to authorize the board of
control and commandant of the Sol
1iers' Home to admit veterans OF the
Mexican and Cuban wars to the Home
lndeT conditions which they may i'm
pose. was reported to the house for ia