Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-08
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servants of the state. The bill by
Senator Hughes to increase the pay OF
the superintendent of the state indus
/ trial school for girls is in line With
this. Undoubtedly there will be bill
| to increase the pay of the commandant
of the Soldiers Home and one to raise
the pay Of the superintendent of the
industrial school for boys. The four
heads of the state insane hospitals get
$4,000 each and have their houses fur
nished, and they are the best paid of
any of the heads of institutions. The
two wardens gets $4,000 each, with
1913 year for house fund, rent, etc.
AT Glenwood the superintendent gets
$2,4O0 year, al Council Bluffs $1,000
year and at Davenport the same, at
| Vinton the pay is $1,000 a year, at
Marshalltown $500 year, at Eldora
S1,SO0 a year and at Mitchellville 81
200 year. Take the case of Supern-
tendent Fitzgerald at Mitchellville,
| one of the most efficient men in his
line in America man who has ac-
compllshed wonders in the handling of
the poor girls that need a home rather
than prison-and it probably would
be only a short time until some other
state would ask and get his services
unless Iowa compensates him better.
In the case of Col. Horton, at Mar
shalltown. it is asserted by those who
visited the Soldiers Home from the
legislature, that he ought to be better
paid, since he has a large number UNI
der him and population difficult to
manage. Col. Drake, who came to the
Eldora school from Missouri, gave up
really larger salary and was offered
still more if he would stay there, but
he wanted to develop the Eldora school
and he is doing it. Unquestionably his
salary is being more than saved every
year by the methods he has introduced.
The salaries of heads of these insti-
buttons are fixed by statute. or a max
imum fixed, and in the latter cases
the board of control has given the
maximum.
Just now the appropriations cons
mittees are engaged in adapting the
regular appropriation bills to condi-
7 lions. Nearly all these bills have come
in, as in the past, covering a two-year
term; but the appropriations by the
Thirty-first general assembly will be
for a one-year term only. Thus the
appropriations committees will cut
many of them in half
: The joint assembly for the election
of officers of state institutions, etc,
will be held tomorrow forenoon in the
house. The first thing will be the
election of state printer and binder
Emory English and Edward d. Chas-
sell will be elected for the term COM
mencing January /, 1907. The follow
state educational institutions: State
university regents. First district,
Washington l. Babb; Second Joe r.
Lane; Sixth, w. D. Tisdale; Seventh.
Carroll Wright. State college trus-
tees-Fifth district d. NJ. Moninger:
Seventh Charles r. Brenton; Tenth,
j. B. Hungerford: Eleventh. W. J..
Dixon. Normal school trustees - l. j.
McDuffie and Roger Leavitt. In re-
gard to the printer and binder they
will be. elected for a tWo-year term,
which will take them UP to the time
Of meeting Of the next legislature.
The osteopaths will take another
turn at it and go after what they really
want. They had a bill before the leg
islature to give them place on the
state board Of health, evidently under
the impression that the state board
of health is the body that grants them
certificates on examination Now they
know that this Is not the case and their
bill has beer abandoned. They will
seek a place on the board of medical
examiners.
There was unanimity In the house
committee on agriculture in approving
the pure food bill as slightly chang
ed.
The binding Irvine question came to
the front yesterday when Mr.. Powers
presented to the committee on agri-
culture his plan for having the state
of Iowa enter upon the manufacture
of binding Irvine with convict labor at
Anamosa He presented an array of
statistics bearing on the subject, but
the committee, deferred action.
Representatives of the Corn Grow
ers' Association Of Iowa appeared be-
fore the joint appropriations commit
tees yesterday and made a plea for an
for the benefit of that
association, which they claim is doing
much good In the direction of improv-
ing Iowa corn.
Mr. Weeks has introduced a bin
which, IL adopted, would make ma
teral change in the road taxes, and
this without increasing the taxes. The
Hanna bill proposed an increase in the
road tax levy from l to mills.
or permitting such an increase. The
Weeks bill makes the same increase
but cuts the township levy from to
3 mills or, In other words, one mill is
taken from the township trustees and
placed at the disposal of the boards OF
supervisors. 1nasmuch as ii has often
been claimed that the counties get
more for their expenditures than the
townships the bill will be strongly
Two years ago the legislature pro-
yided a method Of mortgaging prop
erty where either spouse is insane. by
appointment Of special trustee to
the ,ncapacitated one. BY
he Temple bill. which pa ssed the
house yesterday, method is provided