Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-12
(BY LEON BROWN.)
Des Moines Bureau of Courier.
Des MoineS, March 10.

SCudl anu SllAIOll, III duulIASA.
Muscatine will be in the first district
being classed along with Louisa, Wash
ington, Keokuk, Jefferson, Henry, Des
Moines, Lee and Van Buren,.
Wapello county will have the distinc-
ton of being associated with Polk
county and may have a chance to get
taste of real, genuine Des Moines
primaries, if the Greene bill passes.
Along with Wapello will be Polk, War
rem, Marion, Lucas and Monroe.
The other districts will be made up
as follows:
Third-Butler, Hardin, Grundy,
Blackhawll, Buchanan, Delaware, Du-
buque and Jackson.
Fourth-Winnebago Worth, Mitch
ell, Howard, Winneshiek, Allamakee,
Floyd, Chicasaw, Bremen, Fayette and
Clayton.
Fifth-Emmet, Palo Alto, Kossuth,
Hancock, Cerro Gordo, Pocahontas,
Humboldt, Wright, Franklin, Webster
and Hamilton.
sixth-story, Marshall, Tama, Jas
per, Poweshiek, Iowa, Johnson and
Mahaska.
Eighth-Adams, Union, Clarke, Ere
mont, Page, Taylor, Ringgold, Decatur,
Wayne, Appanoose and Davis.
Ninth-Harrison, Shelby, Audubon,
Pottawattamie, Cass, Adair, Madison,
Mills and Montgomery.
Tenth-Ida, Sac, Calhoun, Monona,
Crawford, Carroll, Greene, Boone,
Guthrie and Dallas.
Eleventh-Lyon, Osceola, Dickinson,
Sioux, O'Brien, Clay, Plymouth, Chero-
kee, Buena Vista and Woodbury..
Many went to Ames yesterday after.
noon to visit the state agricultural col
lege. 1t was pleasant junket. The
Northwestern railroad furnished eight
coaches as a special train and 400 tick
cts were issued Last year about q
900 people went up and among these
of course, were vast throngs of Des
Moines folks who really had no bust
ness on the train. This was avoided
this time.
The old members as rule, stayed
away. The new members went up.
The authorities of the college wonder.
ed for some time whether to get up the
excursion but decided to do it. Some
of the members of the legislature adj
vised against it, but it was decided to
do it, just the same.
A lunch and speeches constituted
the program of the day.
Incidentally it has developed that
there is a very strong sentiment in
the legislature in favor of board of
educational control to take charge of
the three institutions. Several of the
members of the boards of trustees OF
the institutions are inclined to favor
such proposition and the appearance
of bill to this effect any day would
not be surprising to any one.
1t is said that the caucus to select
trustees for the institutions might
have been called before this had il
not been for the suspicion that some
such movement was on foot. If il
were taken after the trustees ha6
been newly elected it would be an EN-
barrassment to everybody. By holding
off the election this could be KEEP
clear Of the complication.
Very many of the strongest men il
the assembly are in favor of the pla1
of putting all the institutions under ;
single board. The lobbying for appro
priations which is absolutely neces
sary now, by the educational trustees
and authorities is very distasteful t.
| them as well as to the legislature.
None of the subcommittee whicl
were named to visit the educational in
stitutions has made a report to the az
preparations committees as yet.
The movement for the relocation O
the school for the deaf started alto
gether too late. 1t involves half mil
| lion dollars and the legislature is no
4 ready to grapple with the proposition
Appropriations amounting to $500
900 have been asked of the Legislature
and the state has about $1,500,000 t
spend. The proposition to eXpend
quarter of a million on new institu
ton for the deaf would not be so ba,
| were it not for the fact that this woul
be merely a preliminary expenditure
it would involve as much more in tn
immediate future as well as the abar
4 donment of the 100000 worth of stat
property at Council Bluffs.
The bill provides for relocation with
in 100 miles of Des Moines Thi
\ would indicate that it would go t
i Grinnell, Fort Dodge or some othe
centrally located city. At first it wa
fixed at fifty miles but this was chang
ed to read 100.
l, Representative Calderwood stuc
to his fight to get the factory inspector
bill reconsidered until he won it, prae
tically. That is, he got it reconsidere
, and recommitted to the labor commit
tee as stated in these dispatches yes
terday.
) This means that he will amend tn
5 measure to satisfy number who hav
objected to some of the provisions Q
the original bill but are not opposed t
the proposition,