Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-02-11
STATE NEBR Il
ASYLUM ! NOR[D.
Board of Control : kes a Re-
port to the Legislature on
the Cost to the State
TO USE KNOXVILLE BUILDINGS
Estimated That It Would Require
100000 to Remodel the Structure
There and Buy Land and Equipment
Support Fund of s125.ooo Needed
Other Legislative Proceedings

Des Mones, Feb. 1.-THE legislature
today received an extended report from
the board of control on the cost OF re-
buildings at Knoxville for the
state inebriate asylum. The report re-
commends an appropriation OF 100000
to fix the buildings properly and estab-
iish the aysium, with necessary equip
ment and land, provided it is intended
to detain the criminal inebrlates and
prevent adj escapes. Aside from fixing
1t up, virtually as q prison for the GRIM
inal inebriates. the estimates Is for
$3.50 to cover ali cost. Two hundred
acres of additional ground will have to
be secured and the present buildings
will have to be remodeled at consider
able expense while there vii have to be
added number of other buildings, in
cluddng q cottage for 100 men.
The house today passed a bill to APP
propriate $500 for monuments for Gen.
Stone, Gov. Stone. and Gen. Croker;
also bill for $4,000 for deficiency in
the national guard: also bill to fix sal
aries Of county recorders so that they
viii! not be dependent on fees, and a
bill to require re-recorddng OF instru-
ments without expense.
The senate concurrd in the rsoiution
for committee to investigate the
binding Irvine subject and committees
are named 10 do this. AT the same time
a bill was introduced today for $780,
900 to establish state binding twtne
plant at Anamoea.
The biennial election amendment
passes the senate, only Wilson and
Spaulding voting against 1t: but New
berry, Gilliland and Gale all declared
measure The senate passed the bill
recurring payment OF interest on state
funds in tn hands Of bankers, the vote
being unanimous.
The child labor bill introduced by
Mr.. Cummings In the house was ia
yorably reported from the judiciary
OF the house today. The bill
went to the judiciary committee IN the
first place instead of to the labor com
mittee and because of this fact 1t VIII
have added prestige in the house, ana
1t is pretty certain to go thru. Ine
bill IL endorsed and approved by the
women's clubs the Federation OF La
bor. the state labor bureau. the legis-
lative committee of the State Teach
ers' Association, and prominent law
yers. It has been passed upon by Il
member Of the supreme bench OF the
state and by others in high positions.
The bill has been SO carefully drawn
and is SO complete that 1t will hardly
be amended in the least. II is pat
termed somewhat after the Massachu-
setts law against child labor in facto-
ries and elsewhere and 1t Is found 10
work we'll there.
The drainage bills are not being dis
cussed much as yet. The committees
have been slow to get at them. Some
of the drainage bills went TO the judi
ciary committees and others 10 the ag-
rfculturaI committees. The fact is
that they all involve more OF law ana
the technical affairs Of the case than
they do Of practical drainage systems.
But in the house. because OF the fact
that the big drainage bills have gone
to the agricultural committee. II is the
intention of Speaker Clarke to add an
other member to that committee ard
1t will be a good lawyer. There are
now only one or two lawyers on the
1t is probable that Mr..
Wright, of Fort Dodge, an able law
YER and one who has made quite a
study of drainage legislation. will. be
added to the committee. A sub-com-
mittee has already been named to
handle all the drainage bills and Mr..
Wright will go on the subcommittee
also. and this committee will under
take 20 frame bill out of the many
bills proposed that will meet the ex-
OF the members in regard 10
drainage legislation.
The agricultural committee OF the
house today reported for passage the
bill appropriating $4,000 for new
building on the state fair grounds. The
committee listened to a committee OF
the state agricultural board and inn
mediately voted 10 favor the measure
The bill to give protection to de-
serted wives or to compel those who
desert to give support to their de-
serted families has again been laid on
the table in the house. 1t was pre-
sented two years ago and was quickly
disposed Of 1t came again, this time
from Mr.. Stoltenberg, the new mem
Der from Scott. The Judiciary COM
nittee of the house reported 1t today
for Indefinite postponement. The same
committee also killed off five bills pre-
sented by Mr. Frudden, OF Dubuque,
Intended to affect the matter OF Civ
ing instructions TO juries, and Urged
BY the bar of Dubuque. The Jones
pill in relation to taxing up tn cost
II sidewalks and the Teachosit bill
FOR the protection OF children I'd AMI.