Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-05
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL

I Nv Il.
! After prolonged session, the
house committee on railroad and com.
merce passed out the Hughes anti
pass bill with favorable recommended
ton. The bill did not get through
the committee intact. however, and
| it will come before the house with
| several amendments, chief among
them being a clause forbidding the
issuance of passes to federal officers.
| AS the senate passed section 3 1t
| provided that The holding of no
tarial commission or a public office
that pays no fees, or salary, or POI
sition as member of the faculty or
an officer of state educational In.
| stitution, or acting as an officer or
| director of the Iowa state board OF
agriculture, or membership in the
national guard. or membership In
the fire department of any city, or
| The use OF transportation in accom-.
| panying live stock or perishable
| freight or the use of the return priv
| llege, or riding or accepting trans.
| portation upon special train, run
for the public safety health or well
fare, shall not operate to place any
person within the inhibitions of this
| act"
| The house committee amended by
striking out the words "or position
as member of the faculty or an Off
| GER of state educational Institutions
| Or acting as an officer or director of
the Iowa state board of agriculture
Or member of the national guard
Or membership in the fire depart.
| nent of any CITY,"
Fifty-one members of the house OF
representatives lined up against the
! Flenniken primary election bill on the
9th and defeated 1t, only forty-fiva
votes being cast for 1t. 1t was defeat
ed by the "standpatters" plus few
'progressives," augmented by most CT
/ The democrats. The "standpatters"
and democrats of the senate defeated
The primary election bill which was
before that house few days ago.
| So that the chance for primary leg
lslation at this session OF the legis-
lature is most remote. There Is
still pending In the senate a bill
which may or may not be considered.
The senate recently defeated the
Saunders reformatory bill by vote
of % to Is. 1t was the bill offered
by the special legislative committee
Of the last legislature which investi-
gated the subject of establishing a
reformatory and inaugurating the in
determinate sentence in Iowa. A
similar bill was passed through the
senate last session through the efforts
of Senator Garst. 1t was the theory
of the Fort Madison folks that the
establishment of a reformatory at
Anamosa, retaining Fort Madison for
a prison city only, would depopulatc
the latter institution.
The senate concurred in the house
amendments to the state certification
bill, by vote of &c. The amendment
of Importance limits the increase in
the salaries of county superintend
ents to 5000, instead of $240, as fixed
by the senate. This law-it will be
a law when the governor signs it
and that will be as soon as it reaches
him-will make teachers certificates
good in any county. Now they arc
only good In the counties where Is
sued. They will be issued by the
state superintendent instead of by
county superintendent. The state
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prepare the questions for teachers,
send them to county superintendent,
who will conduct the examinations.
The papers of the teachers will be
sent to the state department, where
they will be read, marked and grad
ed, and certificates issued In &C.
cordance with those marks. Under
the law county superintendent must
| hold certificates to teach. Now they
do not need certificates to be. eligible
| to the office They also will be re.
CURED to visit all the schools of their
counties and 1t is for this that the
additional 500 salary Is given.
| State Superintendent Riggs was re.
sponsible for this law and also the
one which already has passed fixing
the expiration of the school year at
July 1. He recommended the mea'
sures in his reports These laws are
the first important changes in the
school statutes of Iowa in a quarter
of a century.
The house voted down the recipro'
cal demurrage bill. Mr.. Powers, In
/ defense of the bill, called attention
to the great demand which is made
for some law of this kind to prevent
| the losses to shippers. Mr.. Doran
also spoke for the bill, and Mr.. Omll
denounced the bill as vicious one
and of great danger to the shippers
The vote to substitute was lost, 80 to
Az.
A shooting ARRAY that may result
fatally occurred at Marshalltown q
few days ago. The victim was Louis
Uhde, who was shot by Lee Meeks
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