Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-01-26
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| The effort. secure removal OF the
penitentiaryG Fort Madison Is not
likely TO ga. any force, since the Wis
iting comm .e recommended against
the change, on the ground that the
state has too much Invested there now
| to be abandoned. But some day there
must be a new cell house constructed
and this cannot be delayed long. If
the bill for a revision of the penal
system of the state goes through 1t
may facilitate the removal of the Fort
Madison penitentiary. The visiting
committee recommended that the state
would get more for the convict labor
farmed out at Fort Madison. The state
now gets - cents Il day
for some of this labor and SIS cents
day for the rest. The committee de-
clared this too small sum.
| The fight on the wife desertion bill
was the most interesting thing of the
session thus far. The house indulged
in this yesterday afternoon. Messrs.
Hart and Teter led the opposition TO
the bill. Mr. Hart insisted that the
bill was not being urged by the de-
serted wives and children, but by the
boards of supervisors as q measure to
escape some expenses. He pointed
out that there Is abundance Of law
to reach desertion cases and to compel
the husband to support wife II she
is deserving and this measure would
operate IN ,s"actice to convjcr
many worthy persons. It would add
to the duties of the criminal courts
without any good reason and 1t would
, encourage rather than otherwise do
mestic difficulties. Mr.. Teter insisted
While there was much pretty sentiment
back of the bill 1t would be harmful
in practice. He offered several amend
ments intended to safeguard the meas
ure from misuse and all were voted
down. The bill had been offered by
| Mr. sta 1berry and was supported by
him and Messrs. Calderwood, McAl-
lister, Kendall, Chassell and others and
was passed by t-- house after discus
sion at length.
The bill introduced in the senate
yesterday making the law that the
taxable value of property shall be 25
per cent of it's real value applicable to
special charter cities. is for the pur-
pose Of Strengthening out the tangle in
which things was placed by decision
of the supreme court last summer
There were two appeals to the su-
preme court under that law One re-
suited In the district court in decis-
ion that the law was not applicable to
special charter cities such as Dubuque,
Cedar Rapids and other cities, and the
other district court decision was that
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supreme court was evenly divided on
the matter and as result both lower
courts were affirmed, though the de-
cisions were directly opposite. Sena-
tor Crawford is from Dubuque and he
makes the law applicable to such cities
but provides in his bill that where
cities Save heen assessing at the full
value in order to raise the same
amount of taxes as they have former
ly raised they can if necessary exceed
the legal limit of tax levy proportion
ately with the decrease in the taxable
valuation.
According to a bill introduced by
Jackson conviction of the second Of
fense OF lewdness will result in per-
son getting an extra three years i'm
prisonment, provided 1t is mentioned
in the indictment that there was for
mer conviction.
The committee on corporations in
the senate has gotten ready informally
the Ericsson bill ON requiring corpora
tions to report regularly. The bill was
referred to a special committee to in
vestigate further but the entire COM
mittee on considering it made but one
change and that was to limit the re-
ports of corporations to the subjects
named in the bill and not allow the
secretary of state to require reports
on any other subjects he might de-
sire.
While this bill gives the secretary Of
state authority to require reports from
companies that have filed certified
copies of their articles. it does not
give him authority to force all COM
panies doing business in the state to
file certified copies Of their articles of
incorporation.
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