Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-05
GENERAL ASSEMBLY

$500 avs WaS paSseu. among DIS
passed We're the following: Relative
to bringing in nursery stock from
other states; requiring wives to sign
assignment of wages to make such
order effective with the person pay.
Ing the wages; authorizing employ
nent of two home.placing agents for
the state institutions. The senate
soncurred in the house amendments
10 the state certification bill by War
rem. The Lewis private banking bill
got but five votes, his among them
Senator COPYRIGHT said the measure
was unconstitutional.
House-The house committee on
railroads and commerce reported on
the anti-pass bill, suggesting a number
Of amendments. The senate resolu.
ton to adjourn at noon, April G, was
adopted. The Sankey 2 cent fare bill
was brought up in the minority report
OF the committee on railroad and COM
merce After debate the minority
report was defeated by vote OF 40
to 81 The house then voted to in
definitely postpone further consider
alton of the question. The state edu-
cational board of control bill was de-
hated for several hours, but con-
sideration was not concluded.
Des Moines, March 29.--Senate--
Among bills passed were the follow
Ing: To require itemlzed reports
from township officers; to authorize
payment of expenses OF the transpor-
tation and commitment OF INDECENT
inebriates; to give the state the
right to dispose of INDECENT children
in the orphans home without respect
to the wishes of parents whs are not
fit to have charge OF their children
and to adopt them into families. The
primary bill failed of constitutions
al majority and was defeated.
House-Among bills passed were
the following: To put cemeteries
with school houses and churches In
the law prohibiting saloons within
800 feet OF them: providing for five
years limit to the mulct law; appro-
priating $4,000 for the establishment
OF state sanitarlum for consump-
tiyes; providing millage tax for the
state normal school and the state
agricultural college; appropriating
$1,000 for joint dedication OF Iowa
soldiers monuments on southern bat
tlefields; approprlating $4,000 to
carry on agricultural extension work
from the state agricultural college:
the COPYRIGHT bill for the protection
OF birds. The educational board or
control bill was defeated.
Des Moines, March 30,--Senate---
Among bills passed were the follow"
ing: To appropriate $4,000 for a
bronze statue of Samuel j. Kirkwood
in the National statuary hall at Wash
ington; to prevent double taxation in
the case of banks which organize
companies to build buildings; giving
state geological department $4,000;
to reimburse M. H. Byers in the sum
Of $2,50Ci for prosecuting and collect
ing Spanish war claims; adding Slo,'
600 to the experiment station appro'
priation at Ames college; to require
pasteurization OF SKINNED milk at
1856 degrees, to eradicate tuberculo'
sis; to provide $4,000 for the fish and
game commissioner; to give life com
panies the right to transact health
accident and employers liability In
surance; to require records of fees
charged by county recorders.
House-By a vote OF 7G to IL, the
Hughes anti-pass bill was pissed
The Conn bill, requiring an annual
apportionment and accounting by life
insurance companies was passed.
Among other bills passed were these;
granting the Fort Dodge, Des MONIES
and Southern railway additional
rights on the campus at Ames; to
provide for election OF township trus-
tees for terms OF three years; to pro-
vide course of instruction IA
ceramics at the agricultural col
lege at Ames.
Des Moines, March 31.--Senate-
The senate refused to concur In tho
house amendment to the anti-pass
bill adding publication clause. The
bill goes back to the house. A joint
resolution. asking congress TO call
convention to amend the constitution
SO as to prohibit polygamy, was
passed. The senate concurred In the
house amendments to establish uni.
form system of accounts In munich"
Dal1tl9S. = Inc TSHBiOuS ihoti hSAi"t.
bin was passed with amendment and
goes back to the house. The bill 10
appropriate $4,000 for three years Tor
hall of archives was passed House
file 103, making registered letter no
tice of process on nonresident cor.
porations, served on the secretary OF
state, sufficient, was passed. Inc
Turner bill to appropriate money Tor
inspection Of county and private IN
stitutions in which insane persons are
kept, was passed.
House-The Greene congressional
redistricting bill failed to carry. The
Buckingham bill, providing for an ex-
ira mill tax levy to be used on ROADS
where a drainage ditch follows a pub
lie highway for some distance, passed;
the Jones bill, correcting the code In
regard to the compensation OF trus-
tees and township clerks, passed;
the Saunders bill, relating to the pur'
chase Of water works by cities, passed;
the Shaffer bill, providing for the ex'
animation of registered cattle brought
into the state for breeding purposes
passed; the military bill, revising the
national guard laws. passed; the Ma
ben bill, reapportioning the STATE
representative districts and providing
for a ration OF representation, passed.
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