Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-04-07
THE LEGISLATURE.

Des Moines, March 2S.--Senate.-
The bill by Senator Young OF
Calhoun, giving the boards OF SUI
pervisors the power to review and de-
tern1ine the quarantine expense fixed
by local quarantine eaH odots6 aAO
by local boards of health was passed.
Senate file 266, by Ericsson, relating
to the appointment of library truS
tees, their powers and duties, was
passed. Turner's bill, in some cases
prohibiting and in others regulating
the use of roads by steam engines,
was passed. Senator Jamison's bill
relating to the forfeiture of policies
by non-payment of premiums, was in
definitely postponed.
Des Moines. March 29.-Senate.-
After spirited debate Dealers house
bill, permitting state and savings
banks to loan money outside Of the
state, within fifty miles of the bound
airy lines, was defeated. A substitute
for the Hopkins bill, providing for the
filing of maps by telephone and rele-
graph lines with county auditors, was
passed. The substitute excerpts plat
ted towns.
The house bill, amending the fire es-
cape law, making it's provisions lit
lie less stringent, was passed by the
senate. The Chassell bill to amend the
road law SO as to make the return to
The old road law optional in the differ.
snt counties, was killed The Crossley
bill, proposing a change in the con-
gressional and judicial districts was
Jofnofnd Tho 20 ~ Gr,t
,tep in providing money for state insti-
utions yesterday by appropriating
s25S000. The appropriations were for
.he hall Of history, the agricultural
building and the different rescue
nomes in the state.
House.-The English primary bill,
which effects Polk county only, was
passed. The most important general
business Of the day IN the house was
The passage of the 4 .er bill, which re-
luires all life insurance policies writ.
zen in this state to be approved by the
governor, attorney general and auditor
Of state, or two of them. The measure
IS designed to shut out all investment
and bond companies. 1t provides that
fife insurance policies may not be writ.
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Des Moines, March 30.-Senate.--
The Crossley primary bill was defeat.
ed in the senate today Hughes anti
pass bill was called Up and Senator
Crawford offered to amend by prohib.
iting the granting Of passes for the
purpose of influencing legislation"
Senator Hughes opposed this and it
was defeated, II to Is. The extradi.
ton bill to fit the Dye case was
passed. The English bill making 1t
impossible for railroads to employ
men more than 16 hours in twenty.
four was defeated. ..'
House.-The bill to appropriate
at Knoxville was passed by the house |
yesterday by vote of 55 to SO, but |
motion was filed to reconsider. Inc
measure was long and vigorously de. |
bated. The senate already has passed |
it, so that it will become a law with |
the signature of the governor. The
bill to appropriate $4,000 for hospi. |
tai for consumptives in Iowa passed |
the house with no opposition in the |
way of speeches and with but three /,
negative votes. The Hambleton reso-
luton for commission to report on
the practicability of concentration
and consolidation of the educational
interests at Iowa City and Ames OF
the university and agricultural col
leges, was lost without a roll call.
Many bills of minor importance were
passed.
Des Mofnes, March 31.-Senate.-
The senate failed to pass the antr-pass
bill, the vote being "a to II, not con-
stitutional majority. The bill making
an appropriation for a monument for
the soldiers who died at Anderson
Vile was passed Senator Lewis bill
providing for the revocation of the
licenses of saloon men at the eXpn d.
ton of three years upon the petition
Of a certain percentage of the voters,
was passed by a bare constitutional
majority. the vote being &c to II. The
bill relative to the compensation OF
county auditors was passed. The bill
does away with the fee system and
provides for salaries of $1,000 and
81 500 and in counties with a popula-
ton over $4,000, the board of super
visors may fix the compensation. The
bill was passed by vote of 81 to 5.
Senator Saunders secured the passage
Of a bill enabling the state. of Iowa
to sell and dispose of all abandoned
river channels, bars, or islands in the
navigable rivers of the state.
House.-The bill to appropriate SIS,
900 for the purchase by the state in
partnership with Davenport OF the
south 122 acres of Camp Mcclellan
in that city was passed by bare con.
stitutional majority of 81 votes. The
house defeated the bin to enlarge the
powers of the state board of education.
al examiners. This bill provided that
the examiners might issue certificates
to graduates of the state educational
institutions without examination. The
amendment to give the
legislature power to pass a law to
condemn land for bitches and assess
the benefits was passed The bill re-
lieving counties of responsibility in
cases of accident from traction en-.
gines dropping through bridges when
the driver fails to obey the law, was
passed. a..
Despondent because or continued ill
health Mrs. Altha H. Hunter of Cedar
Falls, wife of Frank II. Hunter,
salesman, committed sui
eide by taking carbolic acid. She was
found in bed by her 20-year-old son.
Her husband is away on an extended
business trip.
To withstand evil is quite as nee
essary as to do good.-Mrs. Craik.
Most Of the good times we have are