Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-01
APPROPRIATION
Of $y9G,OOO
First ofthe Big Supply Measures
Passed the Iowa House
Today
FOR THE BOARD OF CONTROL
Large Amount For Permanent I'M
provements at the State institutions
is Not Opposed in the House-A
Number Of Minor Bills Passed-Les-
islative News.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican,.
Des Moines, April 1.-The first of
the big Appropriate bills was passed
by the house this morning by unan-
imous vote. This was the bill to appro-
pirate sS96,000 for the use Of the board
of control in permanent improvements
at state Institutions. The bill was not
amended.
The following bills were passed by
the house: Re-establishing the present
representative districts; to re- establish
the old law in regard to vital statistics;
a bill to define and punish bootleggers;
bill to punish for spread of infec-
tious diseases.
The senate today passed a resolu-
ton authorizing a sitting committee to
have charge of the rest of the bills for
the session and this committee will
next week weed out the bills having
no merit. The senate today passed the
committee bin to provide for a board
of paroles and pardons, consisting of
two members to act with the governor
1t ais, conternplates the dndeterminate
sentence feature.
Mr.. Jaeobsonis bill to facilitate the
changing of names will be appre-
ciated by many OF the foreign born
citizens or those of foreign descent, es-
pecially the Scanfinavians. It places
r. ~ ~
clerks the duty of registering legal
changes in names. and it will be done
very inexpensively.
Senator Hughes, OF iowa county.
who is persistent in his efforts to Sc
cure the adoption by Iowa of a law to
forbid the use of passes by persons in
official positions and having duties to
perform in relation to the public, is not
a visionary by any means, but a level
head cd honest, earnest, business man,
who believes that a free railroad pass
ds the most seductive form of bribery
which it is possible to devise. He got
his hill thru the house two sessions and
1T failed In the senate and now that he
has himself been transferred to the
senate he failed to get 1t thru there.
But he is likely to continue the efforts
indefinitely unless he has his way.
800
The Juvenile court bin was reported
to tile house for passage by the judic-
iary committee today. It has passed
the senate unanimously and will go
thru the house quickly. 1t establishes
juvenile courts in large cities and will
make very little additional expense to
the court work. The district judges
will preside.
The Cummings bin to codify and re-
| model the law relating to incorpora :
tions in Iowa was recommended for
passage by the house judiciary commit
tee. The bin places in the hands OF
the attorney general and the secretary
OF state a veto on loans to incorporate
companies Of all kinds to do crooked
business in Iowa, or companies incor-
porsrted on fictitious capital or other
wise contrary to public policy.
The senate passed bill to prohibit
issuance of divorce DEGREES at the APP
pearance terms of court The house
judiciary committee killed it off, and
quick divorces will prevail in Iowa.
Members of the legislature are con-
graduating themselves that they have
not been bothered greatly by the advo-
Gates OF giving the ballot to women
AS predicted early in the session, the
subject has not been given any con-
sid'sration whatever. This week, Mr.
Cheney, of Spencer, introduced a pro-
posed, amendment striking the word
male" from the Iowa constitution 1t
las ed until the committee could get a
whack at it when 1t went down, A
similar proposal was pending in the
house from the first week and attracted
no attention.
srhe bill to appropriate for the An
I dersonville monument has run the
gauntlet and a commission will be APP
pointed to build the same at cost of
$1l.500. Iowa has now provided for
me numents at Shiloh. Vicksburg. Look
our. Mountain and Andersonville and
has taken steps looking toward rnonu-
ments in North Dakota.
The stock shippers bill was amended
by the senate so that the shippers have
As hours instead of SO in which to start
on the return home. This amendment
WAS in direct violation of the agree
ment entered into some time ago on this
bill The railroad attorneys and the
stock shippers entered into an agree
ment and this was we'll understood by
leading members of the legislature, that
the bill should be passed just as 1t came
from the house and this would be salts
factory to all parties The railroad men
say that they expressly stipulated that
the bill should not give the stock ship
per more than 36 hours at the point of
destination before starting back, and
they now declare that If the bill becom-
e., a law as amended 1t will not be OBJ
served at all. AS the Iowa legislature
cannot make law reaching over to
Chicago observance of the law will de-