Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-03-10
THE LEGISLATURE.


sonate yesterday passed the Saun-
ders bill relating to the right to vote
shares of stock. According to its pro-
visions, administrators and executors
may vote shares of stock and the
pledger Of corporation stoc also has
the right to vote II until his rights
are foreclosed, barring written con-
tract to the contrary. In case OF at
tachment Of stock shares, the owner
| may vote same until Invested of his
rights by execution.
House.-Senate file 200, to appro-
pirate $4,000 for the st Louis COM
mission exhibit, was passed, Langhan
OF Clinton voting no. House file 135,
| to Increase the support fund at the
| Mitchellville school, was passed. The
per capita Is raised from s12 to $13
month. House file 1856, the Wright
bill, affecting common carriers, was
passed. II permits all railroads hand
ling shipment to be sued In the
county where 1t originates. The bill
TO appropriate 1000 for the Benedict
home was passed. The bill to appro-
PIRATE $4,000 to buy railway commits
sloners' maps was passed.
Des Moines. Feb. 29.-House.--
Saunders bill to punish severely tho
taking of opium. liquor and weapons
to inmates of state institutions was
passed. Jepson's hill TO authorize
cities to license and control employ
ment agencies was pessed. Weeks
Dill providing that persons who carry
about liquor for sale or gift shall be
known as bootleggers. and permit
ting injunctions to be issued against
such persons, was passed.
Des fIoines, March 2,--,What Is
known ms the English bill regulating
| the consolidation OF insurance con-
Germs in Iowa was quickly passed. Tho
| bill was endorsed by both the auditor
Of state and the insuraUcc concerns
interested in II and It Ind no Opposi.
ton. The house also passed the bill
regulating the consolidation of frater.
nal insurance concerns. II covers the
same ground as the general bill but
special act was passed because the
iraternals did not want to be included
in the general statute. The house
passed the Boaler bill compelling pref.
srence to be given veterans OF ths
civil war In public appointments,
Des Moines, March 2.-Senate.--The
senate passed five bills, two of them OF
considerable Importance. The two i'm.
portant bills were house file No. 6l.
appropriating money for the purpose
OF inspecting county and private in.
situations In which insane persons are
kept, and the house joint resolution
relative to the duties OF the commits
Bioner of bureau OF labor statistics
The latter provides for the co-opera.
ton of the commissioner with tho
United States bureau Of labor Stats
tics. The house bill providing for the
protection OF employees In punishment
cases was also passed by the senate.
Senator COPYRIGHT explained the bill.
He said that Mt present person en-
ployed by the Illinois Central railroad.
for example, could be garnished In the
state of Iowa and thus deprived OF
his right of exemption. The purpose
of the bill Ia to make this impossible.
House.--The nnti-child labor bill
was under consideration most OF tho
day. Christianson's automobile bill
requiring owners to register with the
secretary of state who shall Issue
seal showing such registr on, It's
number being posted conspicuously on
| the back of the vehicle, was called up,
| and passed, by a vote of II to 3. Reg
oId osIu eIu sanqomolne IoJ suonuIn
| posed.
Des Molnes, March 3.--Senate.--
| The senate defeated the bill providing
| for examination of county Offices. Tho
vote, finally taken In the afternoon,
stood twenty for and twenty-seven
against. The defeat was final. II was
brought eho,N only after a vigorous
debate, In which many of the senator's
took part Senator Smith called up his
bill establishing an asylum for dipso-
maniacs, inebriates and those addict
ed to the use of narcotics. The read
ing OF the bill was taken up In the
afternoon session but 1t was not con-
cluded.
House.-The child labor bill was do.
feated after n hard fight. The final
vote was 35 to IS. The memorial by
Cheney. asking congress to pass tho
Dolllver bill to repeal the bankruptcy
law. was adopted. "
Des Mones, March 4.-Senate.--
Senator Lambert moved that the bill
making an additional appropriation OK
$4,000 for the Louisiana Purchase COM
mission be recalled, giving as his rea-
son the fact that the commission had
decided to place the money In the con-
tingent fund instead OF apportioning
t to the various departments as d.
rected by the legislature. The motion
was adopted without dissenting vote.
se.-Representative Langan of.
fered a resolution calling for detail
tl. II nnI 4.
tol improvement commissions as TO
the expenditures made by them and
the employees. salaries and duties OF all
employees. The resolution went over
under the rule. Langan also intro
duced a resolution calling back from
the senate the bill appropriating
$4,000 for the st. Louis exposition
commission. Calderwood's bill provid-
Ing for two factory inspectors was de-
feated. The bill to establish a high
way commission to consider good
roads was defeated. The Buckingham
bill, making II possible to recover
from the owner Of one dog when two
are engaged in killing sheep, was
passed. The house passed the Wise
railroad bills. They were drafted by
the executive council. They give tho
roads till April / to file annual reports
and allow them to file only additions
instead Of whole reports after 1905.
We worry over the extravagences
of others more than we do over our
own.
When he was eleven years old the
late Sir Henry Keppei, the little ad-
miral' of the British feet, and his