Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-03-25
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Mcines. March "a, 1904,

but the State Normal school suffered
very materially in the pairing proc csS
In all, the State Normal will get, &C.
cording to the Recommendation of the
senate appropriation committee, $S4;
600. The State university is cut the
most severely. The university people
asked for $4SO,00O, and the senate
committee recommends the appropria.
ton of 100000. Representative
Weeks, who was on the visiting com.
mittee to the State university, does
not concur in the recommendation OF
the other members of the visiting com.
mittee, and has prepared a minority
report, in which he recommends the
appropriation of $4,000. The univer.
sity people are up in arms and when
the matter is debated in the commit
tee of the whole as it will under the
rules, a storm Of protest is expected.
The senate committee recommended
that the State Agricultural college at
Ames. receive $232,000 in place of the
sS6O,OOO asked for. In this recommen-
iation there Is no provision for an ad.
ditional support fund. 1t was expect
ed this would be taken care of by the
passage Of the millage tax, but the
ways and means committee declared
against this,
The house of representatives has in.
definitely postponed the resolution by
Representative Head, expressing SYM
pathy with Russia in her war with
Japan. on report to that effect from
the committee on federal relations, or
,s1l fof i've nf MT h
rte county Is the chairman. This COM
mittee also reported in favor of the in
definite postponement of the resolu-
tons memorializing congress to i'm
prove the Des Moines, the Missouri
and the Mississippi rivers, and the re-
ports were adopted by the house.
The appropriations committees OF
the legislature have agreed to recon-
mend appropriations for the survivors
of the horrible accident in the state
house elevator few weeks ago as fol.
lows: For the husband of Mrs. Foun.
tain, $4,000; for the son of Mrs. Foun.
tain, $4,000; for the husband of Mrs
Hoch, $4,000, making $500 altogether
Mrs. Fountain and Mrs. HOch were
killed.
The bill by Senator Young of Lee
providing for the disposition Of money
received from the gate receipts at the
penitentiaries, has been passed by the
senate. The bill provides that the
money shall go to building up of the
Libraries in the Denitentiaries and
other state institutions. The admis.
sion to the penitentiaries is Csc, ex-
cept in the case OF relatives. A con-
siderable fund has accumulated under
this practice-S2,226S1 at Anamosa,
ard sS,66301 at Fort Madison. Under
the law, there is no way of disposing
OF this fund.
Reversing the decision Of the lower
court in the case Of John Watkins rs
the Iowa Central Railroad company
with O.. H. Mock intervenor, the SUI.
preme court gave majority opinion
that under the Iowa statutes the con.
veyance of right Of way in fee
grantee with the same unlimited
rights in the premises which a similar
conveyance for private uses would
vest in an individual purchaser. Judge
Weaver filed a minority opinion, con.
Cured in by Judge McClain, in which
he holds that the contrary of this de.
cision is true. The, case was appeal.
ed from Judge C. w. Vermilion, who
decided in favor of the plaintiffs.
The senate passed Senator Dowel's
bill, making it possible for cities to
make river improvements to prevent
floods. The bill, was presented as
result of the agitation of Des Moines
citizens who held meeting for The
purpose of formulating plan OF flood
prevention. The bill provides that
cities may dredge or improve rivers
in the manner that may be necessary
to prevent floods upon petition OF
property owners, and assess the cost
after the manner of street improve.
ments.
In response to the alarm call sent
into Washington by State Veterinarl.
an DR.. Paul Koto of Forest City con.
corning the outbreak of maladie du
colt among the horses of Van Bulen
county, in Iowa, E. #. Davidson ot
the bureau of animal industry at
Washington, has arrived in Iowa and
will look over the situation and re.
port to the department at Washing.
ton. No attempt is being made to
disguise the seriousness Of the
trouble. 1t will be herculean task
to trace the animals that have con.
tracted the disease, and this will ba
the only possible method OF stamping
it out.
The legislature is face to face with
the necessity of raising the Iowa tax
levy. 1t has been tacitly agreed to
appropriate 100000 and there is
only $1,500,000 in sight. Either a
most stringent pairing down process
will have to be INDUCED in, or The
levy will have to be increased.
. II don't see what we are TO do"
said Senator Garst, chairman of the
senate appropriations committee
1--WE have taeitly agreed to appropri.
ate two million and we nave only a
million and half in sight,
Representative Mates, chairman OF
the house committee on appropria.
tons, Is even more outspoke,a
"We are face to face with an i'm.
perative condition." said Mr.. Mates. |
eve will either have to raise the
tax levy or we will have to cut down
the appropriations unmercifulIy."
It is the guilty man who is always
afraid of his Shadow"
The smallest fish often inspire the
biggest tales.
When a clock is fast you can regu
late it but it's different with a young
man.