Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-29

DIES MONIES, Jan. 2S.-(Special. )--Repre.
sentative Lundts resolution submitting TO
the people for constitutional amendment
the initiative and referendum is another
measure confessedy aimed at the power
of the corporations in politics and against
political manipulation and bids fair to
assist in giving the general assembly now
in session the name Of being a reform legis-
lature
Committee Has Report.
The committee that visited the soldiers
home at Marshalltown has it's report ready
and it will probably be filed Monday The
report, in addition to the things asked by
the Board of Control, will recommend that
there be q new boiler house and boilers
and an addition to the hospital The mem
bers of the committee especially insist on
the need of the addition to the hospital
and say that the increasing age OF the
inmates OF the home is such that in a few
years the entire institution will be hos
pital Hon. John Cownie. chairman OF the
Board of Control states that the board
Is well aware Of the need of more hos
pital room, but that the need is not as
pressing as the needs OF some of the other
, state institutions, and hence was not asked
by the board.
Report Nearly Ready.
The report of the committee on the Board
of Control for the state educational insti-
buttons is being prepared by Senator Whip
pie and Senator Lambert and 1t Is under
stood will be filed In the senate and house
both this week. An extensive conference
was held with Dean Stanton OF Ames and
other conferences will be held this week
with other educators.
Redistrict senatortaIIy.
| Senator A. c. Wilson of Fayette county
is considering introducing bill for re-
distrlcting the state to senatorial dis
trcts. 1.-The state has not been districted
| for twenty years and needs 1t badly"
! said Senator Wilson. There are districts
| of a population OF only 5000 people and
others with three or four counties in them
with population of 1000. This Is mani
testify unjust and should be changed at
| once"
Meat Producers After Roads.
The Iowa Corn Belt Meat Producers as
! ISOLATION will meet in this city February
6 and the main objects of the regular an
nual convention will be to secure a fifteen
mile limit law for the shipping of stock
and a reduction OF the charges by commits
sion men for selling stock at Omaha. Sioux
City, Kansas Cit and 81. Joseph. The
| officers of the association have been ad-
vised by attorneys that law limiting rail-
| roads carrying stock to minimum OF
fifteen miles an hour between Iowa points
and Chicago will hold. The Chicago mar
| ket is back to the old commission charges
| of so a car and n boycott of the other
stock yards may be started compelling
them to reduce their charges. uos
Indoor Rife Practice.
| The first of the rifles for indoor rifle prac-
tice by the Iowa Guard were sent Satur-
day to Company c of Webster City. and
the entire guard will be fitted with them
at once and with ammunition for indoor
practice during the winter months. Target
practice is one of the things emphasized By
Adjutant General Thrift. The gun is ex.
actly the weight OF the regular army rifle
and has the same recoil, except that Il
shoots a %.
Good Roads Convention.
The Iowa Good Roads association will
meet in this city February I and in the
Young Mems Christian association audi
forum. The program for the occasion viii
deal chiefly with the matter of making
good dirt roads, and photographs and othei
illustrations of good road making will b,
on hand. d. Ward King OF Maitland. Mo.
J inventor OF the Missouri split log drag
with j. s. Trigg, NJ. F.. Bailey and others
will talk on the split log drag and it's use
Concrete cuverts and bridges will be dis
cussed by Henry Haag, NJ. f. Bannon an,
Thomas II Mcdonald.
Plot TO Vote Ringers.
A plot to vote ringers at the coming cit.
, primary was discovered today by the cit.
clerks office. In the change OF the new
Polk county primary law it became neces
sary. TO hold special registrations at thi
r time because there was no general election
last fall. II was discovered today in goinl
; over the books, which were closed late las
night, that the names of many voters ha.
. been scratched off as removed from tn
precinct Voters notifying the clerks offlc
! of change of residence were given a certth
) cate TO enable them to vote at their ney
! residence. The discovery discloses tina
strangers have gone TO the city hall an
declared their name to be that of som
I voter. They were given certificates TO vot
! In some other precinct and the name O
a the voter scratched from the poll book q
his precinct. On election day the strange
: will he able 10 vote and the legal vote
E will be unable to do so. An effort wi