Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-03-18
THE LEGISLATURE.

Old soldiers In all cases, III Tue Hldttei
CT state employment, was the cause or
heated debate. The debate arose
over the motion to refer to the judicl-
AIRY committee, and the motion was
defeated, Is to IS.
House.--The Chassell Bill, repeating
the Anderson road law, was made a
special order for Wednesday. The
bill empowering Des Moines to levy
2-mill tax to pay damages for vladuct
approaches, was passed. The bill Civ.
ing the DeS Moines park commission
ers power to levy anil tax for four
years. was passed The Buchanan Dill,
extending the open season for fishing
from November to November 10, and
from May 10 to May, was passed.
Des Moines, March 14.--Senate'-
The old soldiers bill providing thai
old soldiers shall be given preference
in the matter of state employment
passed the senate yesterday after
noon, but it was amended so that the
chief objection against the bill, that
Of making it necessary to employ an
old soldier, without considering
whether or not he Is competent, has
been removed Senator Stookey's
bill prohibiting the shooting Of quail
In Iowa, until January l, 1906, without
any reservatiorss, was passed. Sena
tor Garsts bill requiring aliens &c
pay collateral inheritance tax o;
twenty per cent on the true value was
passed. The bill provides that aliens
shall pay the twenty per centum tax
unless they be brothers or sisters OF
the decedent, in which case, they
shall pay ten per cent. Chassell's bill
fixing new scale OF salaries FOL
county auditors was passed.
House--Chassell's bill requiring the
statestate to refund to each county
onefourth of the collateral inheritance
tax collected. was passed. The house
passed the bill giving counties the
right to recover the cost of non-rest.
dent insanse. The bill to punish by
fine Of 500 persons who post tobacco
and LIQUOR advertisements within 400
feet of school houses, was passed The
house passed the Cummings bill re-
storing their pension money to men,
bers of the soldiers home. Chair
man Wise of the joint commission on
! capitol repairs made necessary by the
! fire, made it's report, recommend
ing an expenditure Of about $114,7S9.
Des Moines. March 15.-Senate-
Senator Courtright's bulk sale bill
was defeated in the senate yesterday
afternoon by vote of 81 to 81. The
bill was defeated after spirited de-.
bate and after it had been amended
| In such a way as to cause the bank
| ers to rise up in arms against it. The
bill was designed to prevent the sale
| s,. h,,11
pose Of defrauding creditors. 1t was
argued against it that 1t was designed
| as a piece Of class legislation and
was in the interest of the wholesalers
! and jobbers.
House.-the house passed the bill
% prohibit the docking of horses
ails in Iowa. There were but thirteen
votes against the measure. A BIZ
was passed extending to the unmar-
| cied widows, only, of Spanish-Ameri-
IAN soldiers the same exemptions as
ire enjoyed by the widows of t.
civil war veterans. The bill to ap-
>,ropriate $500 for the Grand Army
s.. headquarters was passed.
Des Moines, March 16.-Senate.-
rhe Temple amendment to give each
county a representative was report
ed out by the judiciary committee
The senate changed the name or the
title, so as to meet the objections OF
the governor. and sent it in its
amended form to the house. The
senate reconsidered it's action in
withdrawing the additional appropri'
alton of $4,000 for the st. Louis
fair and again made the appropria.
ton. This time the appropriation
was tied up ana the bill explicitly
skates how it shall be expended. A
concurrent resolution was adopted
memoralizing congress to erect a
monument at Washington to Abraham
! Lincoln.
House.-When the Chassell road
repeal law was called up as special
order in the housa yesterday, Mr..
Jepson's motion to lay on the table
was defeated. Several amendments
were offered, but all were defeated
The bill was then ordered engrossed
by a vote of 40 to SO. poran's bill
to require railroads to employ adult
telegraph operators and signalmen
was indefinitely postponed. Kennedy's
bill, making the First judicial district
co-extensive and coincident with the
First congressional district, was
passed. The bill empowering the
labor commissioner to employ one
factory inspector and clerk was
passed.
Des Moines. March l7.-Senate.-
The compulsory education bill passed
in the senate today in an amended
and disguised form. The bill as pass
ed increased the attendance from
twelve to sixteen weeks, the attend
ance to commence the first Of the
school year, unless otherwise ordered
by boards of directors. Senator Craw
ford's bill as originally introduced pro
vided for an attendance of thirty-foul
weeks, but this raised storm OF OBJ
jections, and Senator Hayward yester
day introduced the substitute, which
was passed. Other bills passed are
as follows: Making change In DAIRY
department.; increasing per capita
support for occupants of Soldiers Or
phans' Home from $40 to $12 pei
month: allowing S1.7S9.12 to teachers
and employees of school for deaf whose
property was destroyed by hre. <
House.-After debating the bill
which seeks to subject all the wages
of working men excepting $40 month
to garnisEment and execution FOL
debts the house adjourned without
completing consideration of the
| measure.
When w. c. Whitney was Secretary
of the Navy, he was noted for the
brief, quick way with which he dis
matched business. He found the de
partment full of "dead wood" as he
once expresseo,it, and was compelled
to do lot dT"chopping before nc
co,r1d do any blowing" Among Other