Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-01
Visiting Committee to Ames In
stitution Thinks Special Levy
Causes Extravaganza
cRITlclsE EXPENSE ACCOUNT
Increase of se5,ooo in Expenses at As-
ricuItura College, Chiefly for saIar-
les Condemned in Report of Visiting
mnnittees-Priority Claims Bill
Passes House.
Special to Thnes-Republican.

| Special to Times Republican.
| Des Moines, Feb. 1.-The report of
the committee which visited the State
College at Ames was submitted to the
legislature today. The committee in
| dulges in considerable criticism and
recommends abandonment of the mill
age tax because of the extravaganza
1t causes. The committee criticses the
increase of $4,000 in expenses, chiefly
in sararies.
The house today passed bill fixing
the matter of priority of claims in case
Of receivership, SO that sums due the
United States shall first be paid, then
state and other taxes and obligations
and afterwards the claims of employees
for unpaid wages, etc. The house also
passed, without debate, bill to permit
savings banks to invest in other
states. A bill to make loan and trust
companies pay the expense of exam
nations, and bill to permit only one
record of deeds describing two classes
of real property. A bill to make tax
liens in special charter cities apply
at once and a bill to change the time
of meeting of the board of health were
passed.
A bill was introduced for $500 for
monument to Governor Stone. The
senate passed appropriations for pub
| fishing the state census and for the
Larrabee reception expenses.
! Another board would be created by
the passage of the Shaffer bill to pro-
vide a board of five to be known as
the state board of optometry, which
board should have as duty that of
| granting certificates to persons who
| v ish to become eye doctors. The bill
1 provides for all the frills which should
| go with such board.
DR.. Dashiell, who lives in the coun-
ty where Simpson college is located,
would prohibit the game of foot ball
in all public schools, and as a penalty
he would have the school board sus-
pend the offending boy for month Or
more The punishment is left to the
discretion of the school board after
witnessing the game and passing on
the quality of the foot ball played.
The effort to force the alien corpora
tions engaged in selling their stock in
Iowa to contribute to the state is to
be made thru a bill introduced by Mr
Head, of Jefferson. The bill would
compel a corporation which UNDER
takes to sell stock in Iowa, but is IN
! corporated under the laws of another
state, to take out incorporation papers
in this state, and the penalties are Sc
we're for not doing this. 1t would shut
out some of the wildcat schemes and
secure some revenue from others.
The bee question is live one In
| Deflance-perhap it is burning one
or stinging one, judging from a pc
| tition presented to the house and re-
ferred to the committee on agrlcul-
| ture The petition is signed by num-
dred or more of the law abiding Cit
izens Of Defiance and asks for the pas
4 sage of a law to forbid the running at
large and roaming about the streets
unmuzzled of honey bees. Just why
| this desire to change the character OF
/ the busy bee and convert him into an
1 insect of idleness and dependent on
others for his daily bread does not ap-
pear in the petition which Mr. wy
land gave to the house. He suggested
that it go to the committee on fish and
game. but Speaker Clarke sent 1t 10
the committee on agriculture.
The. committee on insurance IN the
senate yesterday met and after dls-
cussing thoroughly the matter OF an
| investigation of Iowa insurance COM
panies referred the whole matter ID
a sub committee consisting OF Whlp
pie. Courtright Stuckslager, Wade ana
Maytag to investigate and report later.
The sub committee is expected to flnd
out how thoroughly the auditor has IN
vestigated and just what need there Is
of further investigations.
/ The judiciary committee OF the SEN
ate yesterday afternoon decided on an
adverse report on the wife desertion
bill that passed the house few days
ago, the opinion being that the bill Is
too drastic and not properly drawn.
The committees on ways and means
at their meeting yesterday afternoon
| discussed informally the lnequltaple
assessments of insurance companies.
1t was brought out In the discussion
that only s6,O19 is paid the state by al
the insurance companies in the state
The committee laid plans to go deep
ly into this question with view to
rectifying the conditions.
The Fifth district republican caucus
will be held this afternoon for the Sc
lection of a trustee of the state col
lege at Ames w. r. Moniger, CT
Marshalltown. will be nominated with
out opposition so far as known. The
| Eleventh district republicans unanl-
mously renominated ". j. Dixon or
Sac City, for trustee at Ames, and IN
! dorsed l. J. McDuffie. of LeMars, for
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