Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-02-22
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Mornes, Iowa. Feb. II. 1900

AT present. said Mr.. Wright. dis.
cussing his bill. "the money lender.
who charges exorbitant interest on
the money loaned on assignment OF
wages. comes in with his first claim
on pay day. The grocer, the mer-
chants who furnish household necess.
tiles, are left out"
The bill provides that any assign.
ment of wages not earned at the time
OF the assignment shall not be valid.
The bill also provides assignments
dence according to the order In which
written notice is served upon the en-
ployer.
Senator Turner has offered series
OF bills relating to the finding OF
homes for wards OF the state in the
industrial schools and the orphans
home. One provided for the employ.
ment Of state agents to have In charge
the business of finding proper homes
for these children when they are dis.
charged from the institutions. The
state already has made start in this
direction, Miss Clare Lubbock having
been engaged in finding work for the
last year or two under the direction
Of the board Of control under author.
ity of measure whose passage was
Turner The new act will extend
he field OF this work materially. The
other bills relate to the extension OF
the laws governing the adoption OF
children so as to give the state au.
thority to contract the adoption OF
wards from I re three institutions re.
ferred to. The bills have the In.
aorsement of the board of control.
The senate committee on elections
voted to report for passage the Cross.
ley primary bill. There were three
votes against it--Molsberry. Durham
| and Jackson. Senator Molesberry
moved to strike out the section relat.
ing to United States senators, and
which provided that the people should
have the chance TO express their pref
erence as to these officers, at the pri.
mary elections. No vote was taken
on this motion, as Senator Bruce
| moved as substitute that the bill
be reported for passage. The motion
carried with three negative votes
The bill has been amended In some
amendments being prepared by the
author OF the BILL They eliminate
the provisions for registration OF
party affiliation at the general election
in the fall. They provide that the
voter when he first attends q primary
shall elect the party to which he be.
longs, and this record will determine
his future party affiliation until he
changes. II he desires to change at
the polls all he has to do is to swear
his vote In.
The senate committee on appro-
priations voted to recommend for
passage the Lewis bill authorizing
the governor to call a conference OF
delegates from different states of the
union to devise means to secure a
convention TO amend the federal con-
stitution so as to make the United
States senators elective by the people
instead Of legislatures. The PROPOSE.
ton by Senator Lewis was In the
form OF a joint resolution and 1t has
been disclosed in former proceedings
that money cannot be appropriated
by joint resolution. The proposition
carried an expenditure of 500 In
issuing the invitations and the cores.
pondence necessitated on the part of
the executive Office. Therefore, the
committee decided to report as SUBJ
rfs f,.f1 O.. h.
bill which will contain the same pro-
visions.
Iowa teachers may continue with
impunity to marry without notice to
the school directors who employ
them. A few days ago the senate
passed a bill providing that when
teachers violated their contracts for
teaching their certificates might be
revoked by the county superintend-
ents. Senator Young of Calhoun had
moved the adoption OF the resolution
and 1t went through. Later Senator
Dowell of Polk county moved to recon.
slider the vote by which this amend.
ment was adopted and succeeded by
very small margin in getting a re.
COnSlutTdJlOu. utu the
was stricken from the bill by ma.
jority OF two votes. The claim was
made on the floor of the senate by
Senators Young, Brooks, Kline and
others that directors OF schools have
considerable trouble with teachers
who break their contracts to teach IN
order to accept places in other
schools; incidentally, 1t is said that
many of them break their contracts
to enter into the more enduring and
congenial contract OF matrimony.
The senate committee on federal
relations voted to recommend for
passage, with immaterlal amend
ments, the Weeks railroad rate regu-
( lation resolution. This resolution
requests the Iowa delegation in con-
| gress to use its influence in support
OF reasonable rate regulation legisla-
ton. 1t passed the house without
| special objection, and was referred In
the senate to the committee of SEN
ator Crawford.
Representative Welden's bill pro-
viding for separate board Of osteo.
| pathic examiners has been recon-
mended for indefinite postponement.
! The Greeley bill on hazlng. which had
! passed the house, met like fate.
|
Passerby-"Is that your pork down
there on the road, guv'nor?" Farmer