Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-04-07
ASSEMBLY
ADJOURNS
IOWA LEGISLATURE ENDS sEs-
SION THAT HAS WITNESSED
MUCH STRIFE
MANY MEASURES KILLED
Bills That Failed Far outnumber
Those That Became Laws During
the sessIon-lmportant Legislation
Has Been Accomplished, However.

Has Been Accomplished, However.
Des Moines, April 6--(Special).
Lieutenant Governor Herriott
is expected In his farewell re-
marks to the senate this afternoon
to refer to Governor Cummins by
Indirectly saying that unfounded
charges had been made that the
legislature was influenced in legis-
lation by railroads.
Governor Cunmins will proba.
bly veto the long and short haul
Dill. His message recommended
that such a measure apply to pas
senger rates alone. The bill as
passed applies to freight rates
also. An effort was made in the
house to reconsider the bill, but 1t
failed.
A conference in the committee
on millage tax bills for educational
institutions agreed to report in fa-
vor of the Lewis amendments put
ting the expenditure on business
basis and to add section ap-
proving the erection Of an agricul-
tural hall at Ames to cost $25, 900.
The senate dropped the report
Of the committee recommending
non-interference with the execu-
ton of Busse and Smith one week
and two weeks from today respec-
lively.
The expenditure Of $3.50 was au.
thorized for the expenses Of the
celebration of the f1ftieth anniver-
sary Of the adoption of the Iowa
constitution, at Iowa City next
year.
The house today passed the SEN
ate bill exampting the reserves OF
fraternal Insurance concerns from
B taxation. . Fa
The clock was stopped at 1880
and the houses took a recess to
await the reports Of several COM
mittees and the enrolment Of
bills. The adjournment was at
about 3 o'clock.
Senators Jamison and Dunham
and Representatives Kendall,
Jones and Clary will be on the
commission to codify the insur-
ance laws Of Iowa.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. &
Des Moines Bureau Of the Courier,
Des Moines, April 8
The thirty-flrst general assem- bly, oi
Iowa is a thing of the past. It ad
journsd today.
It is celebrated more for the things
which 1t did not do than for the things
which 1t did.
Among the acts which 1t did enac,
were these Of Importance:
Child labor.
Anti-pass.
Pure food.
Hospital for consumptives.
State certification Of all teachers.
Circle off the ballot.
Insurance investigating commission
Mulct petition renewal every five
years.
United States senatorial conference
Oil discrimination.
But it killed many measures which
are regarded of more Importance thar
any of these. No matter which side
The critic may be on, the primary cleo
ton bills are regarded as the most i'm
portant which have been before the
Of Iowa for many, many
years.
The bill to establish single board
for the three educational institutions
comes next in importance among those
killed.
Then the reciprocal demurrage, the
two cent fare and the two cent family
mileage books bills were all killed.
All reformatory legislation wat
killed off, also, including the bill to es
tablish a reformatory for men under
% at Anamosa and toSestablish or in
augurate a board Of pardons and pa
role and to inaugurate the indetermin
ate sentence in this state.
Suffrage Bills Killed.
The woman's suffrage bill in tive
forms was defeated. The amendment
to be submitted to the people was
quickly killed, and then the bill to al
low women to vote for presidentia
electors.
The state marshal bill was killed
lWO vi Iii CO .IilaC6 IL UJGn uOuSSS. "A
G. Rankin wanted the houses on re
cord and he got them The senate
ditched the bill and the1
1t was revived in the house. Mr.. Ran
kin promises to return next winter
with positively inyincible force.
No Pardons Granted.
All pardons were turned down
~ L. ~
Cummins decided to interfere or thu
United States courts are appealed Il
Louis Busse will hang at Anamoss
next Friday and Joseph Smith viii
hang at Fort Madison a week from
next Friday or two weeks from today
All bills to punish wife desertior
were, killed. A dozen were offered.
All bills to put some restriction OF
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