Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-12
E GENERAL ASSEMBLY

grand stand at the state fair was
Indefinitely postponed, 30 to Is.
Among bills passed were the follow.
ug: For registration OF stations;
o prevent park commissioners sell.
lng land to the public; to appropri.
tie $4,000 to complete the historical
building; to increase the salary OF
John Simpson, secretary Of the de.
partment of agriculture, from $500
% $500; the state institution APP
preparation bin, carrying $44S.050:
ippropriating $500 TO four rescue
homes.
House-Among the bills passed
we're the following: Providing for
experimental work at Ames College,:
20 pay Former Adjutant General
against United States: providing for
non-partisan ticket for municipal
elections in cities and towns of less
han 5000 population; to require OPP
orators of creameries to pasteurize
skimmed milk. State marshal bill
was indefinitely postponed. The TeteI
bill giving women the right to vote
TOR presidential electors was defeat
ed. as was also the Teter bill provid.
ing penalties for improper use OF
campaign funds.
Des Moines, April 4.-Senate-
Among bills passed were the following
Fixing the term of railroad commits
sioners at six years; to permit boards
Of supervisors to grant right -of-way &c
street railways along highways two
miles into the country from cities;
encouraging forestry; to authorize
municipal corporations of more thar
1880 people to establish and main
tain hospitals; to make the number
Of bank examiners FIVE instead OF
four; to make malicious injury tc
buildings and fixtures, etc.. punish
able by penitentiary sentence; to au
thorize ceramics and clay manufacture
to be taught at Ames; to make town
ship trustees hold Office two years;
to authorize executive council to grant
right of way over the Ames col
lege grounds to the Fort Dodge, Des
Moines G. Southern railroad; to make
the reserve OF fraternal insurance
concerns exempt from taxation.
House-Among bills passed were
the following: providing for three
official newspapers in counties with
population of 1900 instead Of
$4,000; providing for the care and re
moval to their place of legal settle
ment of nonresident insane; provid
ing for the payment of the railroad
fare to the place of commitment OF
persons discharged from the state
hospitals for inebriates; insurance
giving life insurance companies o
right to transact health, accident and
employers liability insurance.; the
Brooks agricultural bill; repeating
the law regarding additional collateral
inheritance tax to be collected from
aliens; giving boards of supervisors
the right to grant street railway com
pany right of way to a distance not
exceeding two miles from the cor
porate limits of town.
Des Moines, April 5.-Senate-Bills
were passed as follows: To increase
the support funds Of industrial
schools; to apportion state into legis
lative districts; to repeal the law as
to school district bonds and enact 8
substitutes; relating to notice of spec
ial school meetings.; relating to cleo
ton of superior court judges; to re
imburse Youde and Whitmer for con
test expenses; to increase the salary
of the commandant of the soldiers
home to $4,000; fixing weights ant
measures on new articles; providing
for the inspection OF imported CATTLE
which are registered or eligible tt
registry; asserting to the congress
sional act making further appropria
lions to the experiment station
,Ames.
House-Bills were passed as fol
lows: Providing for regulation of stall
lions; making an appropriation o
$4,000 for the participation Of Iowa II
the jamestown exposition; the lont
and short haul railroad bill; prohib
iting Sunday amusements where 9
price is charged; providing for tn
inspection of county and private in
sane hospitals; fixing the number ant
compensation of employees in the state
house.
Des Moines, April 6.-Senate-
Among bills passed were these
Revenue bill directing executive coun
ell to raise S2,0O0,000 in 1907; tenure
of office bills; to fix the chief justicet
tenure by allowing each of the judgei
whose terms next expire to serve ont
year, the oldest in age serving first.
relating to accounts between coun
ties and the state respecting inmate'
of the school for the deaf; relating to
the powers of the trustees OF thu
agricultural college; relating to ac
counts between the state and coun
ties for care of insane persons; the
omnibus appropriation bill. The sen
ate adopted by viva voce vote tho
recommendation of the pardons com
mittee against interference in thu
execution Of Louis Busse and JOSEPH
c. Smith.
House-Among bills passed wer'
the following: Relative to terms
office of county and high school trus
tees: exempting from taxation the
accommodations and funds of fraterna
beneficiary associations; raising tn,
price of publication of the officia
ballot; providing for the terms OF OF
fee of the justices Of the suprem'
court, as amended by the conference
committee; appropriating $4,000 TO
the historical and art building; u
provide for the general levy for state
purposes for 1907: relating to th'
election and terms of judges of thu
superior court.