Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-26

proposed Iowa law 1t would be a radical
departure from all past systems. 1t
would place the Iowa companies on new
basis for fully 80 per cent of all business
done now is contrary to this bill. There
is provision for requiring a medical eN-
animation in case a policyholder elects the
first of the four plans of taking the sur
plus. All policies issued on a different
plan than that contemplated here and I'm
force in Iowa shall go TO this plan next
December. No company shall make any
contract or agreement with a policyholder
for any waiver of any of the provisions
of the law.
House work Wei Along.
The house may make an effort this ses-
sion to clean everything up without the
aid OF a sitting committee. II is stated
there are less than seventy-ive bills in
the hands of committees and that the
house will have no difficulty in handling
everything In the house there are but
two important measures, that is to say,
measures that will be debated. These are
the primary election law and the Board of
Regents bill The only important bills in
the hands OF the senate are the indie
terminate sentence law and the insurance
investigation. If these are passed, as they
likely will be, they will be sent over to
the house and If the house passes the
primary bill it will be sent to the senate,
so that each house has three or four i'm
portant measures yet to dispose OF. The
child labor bill, which passed in both
houses but in different form, did not get
to the hands of a conference committee
till Saturday. when the speaker appointed
Hart. Cummings, Christensen and Clary as
the house committee. The senate some
days ago appointed Whipple, Dowell,
Jackson and COPYRIGHT. This bill will all
be settled in the committee.
Passed Through MisunderstandinR.
1t develops that a bill passed the house
Saturday through misunderstanding and
a motion may be made to recall It. The
bill provides that state mutual insurance
companies shall be exempt from taxation.
1t was explained that local and county mu-
tuals do not pay any taxes and therefore
the state mutuals should not But it was
contended that under a recent decision of
the supreme court county mutuals would
have to pay taxes, and so the bill was
made to include county mutuals as well
as state mutuals. Bringing pressure i'm
order to get the county mutuals exempt the
bill was gotten through. Now it develops
that the supreme court decision did not
hold that county mutuals would have to
trying for long time to get exemption
and those who opposed such a move be-
lieve they have been fiinhammed. Tho
total taxes from the state mutuals amount
to about $500 a year.
Indeterminate Sentence.
The discussion of the indeterminate sem
tence law will be resumed Tuesday AS
amended and as il viii be discussed Tues
day i'm the senate the bill changes the Ana
mosa penitentiary into reformatory and
provides that the governor shall appoint
Board OF Parole of three before the adj
| journment of the legislature, and these shall
\ be affirmed by the senate. They shall re-
ceive so a day and expenses for time en-
ployed and not to exceed 81 900 year. and
] shall employ a secretary at salary not
exceeding 5000. They shall formulate rules
| for the paroling of prisoners. After July
| 4. 1906, all persons convicted of crimes or
! felonies other than treason or murder in
the first degree, who are between 16 and 80
years old, shall be sent to the reformatory
and shall not be sentenced for a specific
length of time. They cannot be held more
than the maximum time for the felony or
one year They cannot be paroled unless
they have arrangements for employment
for six months. The Board Of Control Is
given authority to transfer prisoners to
| Fort Madison TO the penitentiary If they
| violate the reformatory rules and IL the re-
formatory is not crowded patients giving
hopeful indications OF reformation can be
transferred from Fort Madison to Anamosa.