Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-03-29

The educational board of regents
bill was debated several hours today
by Senators COPYRIGHT and Warren
and the latter will resume at $3.50 to-
morrow morning.
House-Among bills passed were
the following: The Standard Oil anti
discrimination bill, providing that
after taking into consideration the
cost of freightage. rates shall be the
same in all parts of the state; the
Warren teachers certificate bill: the
Maben state veterinary bill, providing
that the state veterinarian shall have
| an office in the state house and be
given a deputy, who shall receive a
salary of $1,000 year, and enlarg.
ing the duties of the office.
Des Moines, March 22.-The educa.
tional board of regents bill passed
| the senate today by vote of so to
| 16. The debate was closed at noon
| by Senator Whipple, chairman of the
! legislative commission which recon-
| mended the measure, and after an
hour had been consumed in reading
the bill it was passed at / o'clock and
| messaged to the house during the
| afternoon.
House-The efforts Of Mr.. Cobb to
take the state marshal bill out of the
hands of the committee on appropria-
tions failed by vote of 32 to Sc,
and the bill remains in that commit
| tee. Robinson's bill to put state and
savings banks ON an equality with ma
tional banks in regard to taxation
was defeated. Ritter's bill securing,
in the matter of religious instruction,
free exercise of religious preference
to all inmates of state, county and
! city institutions, was passed. The CON-
mittee report favoring indefinite post
ponement of the Sankey 2-cent fare
bill failed of adoption, and the bill
will come before the house. The
Ericsson library bill and the substitute
for the Molsberry bill relating to the
examination of pharmacists, passed
the house.
Des Moines, March 23.-Senate-
The senate voted to Adjourn April 6.
Memorial resolutions were adopted
and speeches for Judge Kline were
heard. H. F. 119, to increase the
limit of Indebtedness for purposes OF
acquiring public utilities, was passed.
The senate appropriations committee
/ has recommended an appropriation
of $4,000 for the national guard in
stead of 100000, as asked, and fixed
the salary of the assistant adjutant
general at $1,000 instead of $1,000.
s. f. 274 was passed. 1t makes it
larceny for a guardian OF estate to
use money or property of the estate
| held in trust.
House-The resolutions of respect
to the late Judge l.. G. Kline were
reported and adopted by the house.
The senate educational board of re-
! gents bill was made special oroef
! for Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
By vote of to 81 the Wright bill
increasing the salary of the members
of the general assembly from $500 to
! S70O, was lost on the floor of the
| house. The Wise bill regulating
trust companies, authorizing such
companies, and state and savings
banks to act in fiduciary capacity,
passed the house. Among other bills
passed were the following: Provid-
! ing FOR the painting red Of gasoline
cans; increasing the salary of the
! superintendent of the girls REFORM
| atory at Mitchellville from $1,000 to
| $1,000 per year; to regulate lying-in
| hospitals; to prevent liquor dealers in
other states from doing business in
the state without complying with the
mulct law.
Des Moines, March 24.-Senate--
The bill to add cemeteries to churches
and schools in the list of places with
| in 800 feet Of which saloons may
not be established, was passed. The
| bill to allow city to pledge fran
chise as well as the physical prop
erty connected with municipal
plant and permitting the issuance of
general bonds as a part of the pur-
chase price of such plants was pass
ed. The Frudden bill, taxing sollci.
tors for liquor houses, was sent to
the committee on suppression of in
temperance.
House-The present laws relating
to weights and measures were repeal
ed and bill was passed giving Off
cial legal weight to seventy articles;
the Gregory bill to prevent the uso
of poisons In embalming dead bodies
was passed; the Hambleton bill, per.
hitting insurance companies to invest
in drainage bonds, passed; the Peet
bill, forbidding the sale or giving of
| liquors to minors, intoxicated per-
| sons or persons in the habit of be-
| coming intoxicated. except upon a
written order of the parents, guardian
or physician, persons who have taken
a "cure for drunkenness" being also
included in the bill, passed; the Hol-
lembeak bill, to except state mutual
insurance companies from taxation.
the same as county mutuals, passed;
the Hart bill, exempting the widows
of soldiers of the Spanish war as well
as soldiers of other wars, from taxa
ton, passed; the Hart bill admitting
soldiers of any war, as well as sol
diers of the civil war, to the SOL
diers' home, but giving the preference
to civil war veterans, passed.