Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-23
Went Thru the Senate Without
Opposition Today and Will
Win In the House
IN HALL OF FAME
Board of Managers Bill for State Edu-
cational institutions Completed by
the Committee ~ Provision Placing
Deaf and Blind Schools Under the
New Board.
Special to Times-Republican.

pes Moines, March 23.-The juvenile
court bill passed the senate without
today and will probably
pass the house unanimously. The bill
creates a juvenile court in cities, %
be held by the district judges. without
additional expense, save for rooms AMI
records and to dispose of all cases
affecting young people.
The house today passed the bill 70
provede for placing statue OF Gov
ernor Kirkwood In the capitol at Wash
ington. An effort was made to amend
by including also portrait of Secre-
tary Harlan or OF Justice Miller, but
both amendments failed and only one
statue Will be ordered at this time.
The board of managers bill for state
educational institutions was completes
today and 1t contains one provision
not before considered, but which viii
give 1t strength This is to include the
deaf school and the college for the
blind under the board. as we'll as Ne
three colleges and the board will con-
sist of five members.
The joint legislative session was held
today for election of printer and binder,
trustees and regents. and the caucus
nominees were all elected by the con-
vention.
Drainage legislation by the present
legislature has made all the progress
that could have been expected up to
the present time and there is no reason
r. doubt that before the session closes
there will be enacted n general law
relating to drainage In the state OF
Iowa that will be entirely satisfactory
to the people. 1t will be recalled that
number of bills We're introduced in
both houses to provide for system
OF drainage where bitches and drains
will have to cover large area. A sub
committee of the two committees on
agriculture was appointed to take
these several bills, and the suggestions
contained in the petitions and state
ments presented to the legislature, and
prepare one bill that would cover all
the points This committee has on It
several good lawyers. and the member
ship is OF practical business men. The
committee has been at work with more
or less regularity for weeks The diff
culties in the way Of preparing good
law have been increased by the recent
decisions Of the supreme court relating
to previous legislation. At the same
time the members Of the committee
found that some parts of the old law
have been found excellent, and as the
supreme court has already sustained
these sections. it will be better to base
the new law on the old rather than to
make an entire new statute. 1t is
along this line the committee is
now laboring. The report is expected
any day: and as the bill will be practi-
cally perfect the legislature will accept
as conclusive the work thus prepared.
The bill will be passed with little dis
cussior. There has been no disposition
to criticise the subcommittee for taxi
ing 50 much time in the preparation of
the bill, as it is regarded as one of the
most important measures to be con-
sidered, and it should be perfected in
committee.
In the minds of few persons some
confusion has arisen as to certain other
bills. A bill was passed in the house
the other day to provide for sale by the
state of islands in the Mississippi and
Missouri rivers belonging to the state.
and this was confused with the drain
age bills owing to a similarity of title.
This bill had nothing to do with either
the lake beds or drainage. The lake
Nod hi ,,,I,ic ict i,,tr Nv n fr
Robinson, is also an entirely different
measure; and while it provides for
drainage of the lake beds where the
people desire this should be done, it is
bill not intended to affect general
drainage legislation. The lake beds
bill will be passed soon. But neither
of the bills mentioned have anything
to do with the plans of the sub com
lnittee for a complete code to guide the
work of preparing general bitches and
drains over large areas.
One bit of legislation affecting the
railroads and labor interests has had
the good fortune to be not opposed by
anybody This raises suspicion that
it will be worthless, and yet there are
persons WHO lNSlSl llisil IL VIII De quite
useful at times. This is the bill intro
Guced by Emory English, one of the
Polk county representatives, the bril-
liant young editor of the Valley juno
ton Express. 1t is appropriate that
the bill should come from Valley juno
ton, essentially railroad town, where
the desires of railroad employees come
acutely to the surface The bill pro-
vides:
NO corporation operating railway
IL, the state of la shall, by any SUI
perintendent. trainmaster, train dis
catcher, yardmaster or other official
permit, exact, demand or require that
any engineer, foreman, conductor
brakeman, switchman or other employe
engaged in the movement of passenger
or freight trains or In switching serv-
Ice In yards or railway stations, to re-