Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-05
DRAINAGE Bill
PASSES SENATE
A Few Minor Amendments
Made and Measure Passed
Without Opposition
TwlNE PLANT TURNED DOWN
Charges Made That the cordase Trust
Lobby Had Influenced voters-Wo-
man Suffrage Resolution Defeated in
the House by a Vote Of az to 3e-
Legislative News.
Special to Times- Republican.


Des Moines, AIril 5.-The big drain
age bill was taken up In the senate
We're passed with only one vote in op-
position. The house today defeated the
bill to appropriate a quarter of a mil
lion TO establish 81 twine plant at Ana
mosa penitentiary, "A to 81. In the
debate it was openly charged that the
binding twine trust had had a large
lobby here for some time, working to
defeat the proposition.
The woman suffrage resolution was
today defeated in the house. AZ 70 SO,
without debate. The bill to give some
regulation to intorpora tion of COM
panies In Iowa was passed. 1t makes
the secretary of state and attorney
general conlmi ssion to pass on all
articles OF incorpo ration submitted.
The library committee of the house
recommends for passage the bill to
place on all library boards at least
three women members. There is no
In the law now Of this
kind. 1t has passed the senate. A
bill to permit cities and towns to enter
into contracts with college or ocieties
for mutual support OF library was
tended particularly to apply In the case
OF the Carnegie library for Mt. Vernon,
which was desired especially for IL
brary for Cornell college. A bill. to
permit towns to s,et apart for library
purposes as much as 20 per cent of the
proceeds OF the nlulct saloon licenses
was also favored
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Miss Edworthy, on behalf of the pro-
posal of a womaa's reformatory has
great hopes OF success. She has worked
very hard during the session and
against great odds, but it Is possible the
bin will get thru. She is insistent that
1t must come soms. time and might as
well be started now.
The Christensen joint resolution for a
amendment to adopt the
system Of direct Legislation by the mi
tative of the people on petition was
of quickly by the house COM
mittee on constitutional amendments.
Nobody wanted to talk about it or for
it and a few words ended the matter.
The bill was introduced only few days
ago and proposed system of passing
avs under the caption of BE 1t enact
ed by the people OF the state of Iowa"
Hhyo ~ ], M a
reform has brought out its reform
to simplify the matter of Sc
Letting employees and to reduce the
1t provides for "a committee
clerks in each branch of the legislature
to be selected by the committee on re-
and reform each session and
to be assigned to work by the clerk and
secretary and all 10 be stenograph-
ers.
Custodian T. Il. McCurdy at the
close. of the biennial period has just
filed his report on tire operations of his
department. From this 1t is learned
that the total expense for the two
years properly cha rgeable to his de-
partment, which includes management
Of the states prop er.y in the capitol
and historical building and heating
plant was ss3.724.27. The cost was
larger from the fact that
the repair work was going on and
there was much extra work for the
men. The custodian recommends an
ron fence around the capitol grounds.
Among the items of expense is coal s9.-
1896; water. s1.29209: gas. s3.S64.97.
The report shows that of the old mater
al released by reason of the capitol re-
pairs the custodian sold it to the
amount of $1,990.09, and turned over
to state institutions which is not yet
for material valued at $1,111.-
Is.
The women suffrage proposition
came Unexpectedly to the front on
Monday in the house. largely because
the house didn't hare much else to do,
and the minority report of the
committee in favor of letting the wo-
men vote was adopted over the major
ty report against 1t. This forces the
matter to a vote in the house, and the
plan is to let it go over to the senate
for the usual killing off.
The bill to limit the expense funds
of mutual insurance companies so that
they Will be proporiionate to the bust
ness done. passed the house yesterday.
This is a bill suggested by disclosures
made in the office of the state auditor.
1t was found that during the year 1902
three officers of a certain Iowa hail
association had received as salaries
more than $4,000, while another SINH
ar association had paid in salaries to
three officers $14.40(, and neither COM
pany had as much rs s3,000,000 insur-
ance in force in 1900. one of these same
companies paid as salaries to officers
ess than $4,000 on more than three
sourths of a millior dollars of insur-
ance. In 1901 this same association
with but 100000 added in insurance
paid out nearly $4,000 as salaries. This
comes from arranging pay thru 50