Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-13

fight to save the old trustee system
had to be started from Chicago did no
of itself create a very good impress
sion.
Representative McAllister, Clark
Powers and Hambleton have made {
minority report in favor of the passags
of a bill the schools committee of the
house turned down under which some
latitude is to be allowed in the dis.
tribution of the permanent school fun(
interest and school funds so that .
district needing large SUM may gel
the same. The bill is by Wise but the
committee was opposed to it.
The bill to require telephone COM
panies to make connections and to
join toll lines to town exchanges, was
introduced in the house by Mr. Cobb.
| Protests continue to pour in upon
] the members against the plan to add
] an osteopath to the state health
board. even though that plan has been
abandoned entirely.
| Senator Maytag returned to his seat
in the senate after being at home over
Sunday much pleased with what he
had learned and observed as to the
growth of sentiment in Jasper county
on the primary law. Jasper is one Of
| the counties where the republicans
have always got along very we'll with
out a primary system, and naturally in
all such counties the sentiment for Il
| primary system fully legaliZed was not
| strong. But it is growing stronger es-
| pecially among the farmers. Some
| days ago the senator sent out a num-
Der of letters to township trustees in
regard to road tax matters and not
mentioning anything else. One third
| or more of the replies contain a volun-
tary Endorsement of the primary bill.
This is sample of the way the farm
ers are waking UP to the merits Of the
question.
Bills have been introduced for monu-
ments to Timothy Brown and to John
A. Morgan, soldiers of the revolution,
buried in Iowa. Only a few of the
graves of these revolutionary soldiers
remain unmarked.
MIR. BiXby is the father of bill to
require that creameries shall heat the
skim milk which they deliver to pa
irons. This is already done by many
of the creameries in our county," said
Mr.. Bxby, but not by all of them. 1t
is found that many herds of cattle
and of hogs get tuberculosis through
the spread of the germs from creamer-
les. This may be avoided by steril-
izipg the skim milk which is returned
10 the farmers. Ii costs but little and
is a measure in the interest of public
health
The State Horticultural Society de-
tee for all time occupancy of the rooms
in the state house now occupied in
part by the society at the east end of
the main corridor, and bill to that
effect has been introduced. These
rooms were originally designed for the
use of the society, at time when it
was supposed the state house would be
big enough for everybody with room to
spare. The agricultural society has
rooms designated by legislative enact
ment and the fruit and flower men
desire the same.
At the session of the senate yester-
day afternoon number of bills were
passed. One was the bill to give the
district judges authority to order that
jurors be furnished beds, where their
deliberations keep them up and they
fail to arrive at a verdict. The bill
places the matter in the discretion of
the court
A legalizing act for Meservey in
Cerro Gordo county was also passed.
The senate passed the Hambleton
bill from the house providing that
where more than one kind of real es-
tate is described in an instrument
there shall be but one re-
cording and one recording fee,
but that it shall be indexed for each
kind of property. Many recorders have
charged double where town lots and
country real estate is described in the
same instrument.
The house bill to punish for tearing
up sidewalks ON Halloween was passed
by the senate after the penalty had
been cut down from $500 fine to 500
and the imprisonment from one year
to thirty days.
John Connolly, journal clerk
in the senate, has resigned. He is
a resident of Polk county, and his sue
cessor is ]. S. Irish. elected on the
nomination of Dowell of Polk.
Senator Turner has introduced three
bills looking towards the adoption Of
children placed in the orphans home
at Davenport or in the industrial
schools. The board of control and Miss
the state agent, claim that
they could do much better by the chill
dren if the children were the wards of
the state with the state holding the
right to adopt them into homes. This
bill will provide for that with
certain natural limitations 1t is
claimed that young children
as young as seven
years find their way to the industrial
school for boys, which should better
be in homes. Furthermore it is the ex-
perience of the state board that often
times it is because of the home in
which a boy is raised that he finds
his way to the school. AS his home is
the primary cause of his downfall he
cannot be released from the school till |
The maximum age, whereas if he could