Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-30
DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS
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the very best men of the legislature.
1t certainly is non-partisan measure
and to a large extent non-partisan.
Inc conference report will be acted
on promptly.
A special order made for tomorrow
morning is a bill to give the state
board OF medical examiners unlimit-
ed power and authority to revoke a
certificate of doctor at any time and
practically for any purpose. 1t is a
bill which should enable the Board
If the power was wisely exercised to
get rid of a good many quacks and
tmpostors, and 1t would be power
which might easily be abused and be
made to work great injustice.
1t appears that the state of Iowa
has about finished It's buying of land
for the state institutions. In the
board of control appropriation bill rs
reported to the senate provision Is
made for the purchase of land only
at Cherokee and Fort Madison and
in each case only $4,000 is given. The
state farms are now sufficiently large
for all practical purposes, though it Is
regarded as certain that more land
viii some day be bought for the boys
school at Eldora. The legislature is
not this year making provisions for
very many new buildings. The largest
items for buildings in the bill are the
following:
Independence hospital infirm-
airy and equipment ......$ $4,000
Clarinda hospital cottage for
women .5..t... 4. ...... ~. rs, 900
Mt. Pleasant hospital wom-
ans infrmary $50. ....e... $4,000
Fort Madison penitentiary cell
house .......... 80. $4,000
near river -. ......,., $4,000
GlenWOOd new wing for GUS
todian building $500. .... 10000
Mitchellville new cottage for
SlTlS lu,UUu
Marshilltown quartermaster's
Quilting .......... ........ lu,Uuo
Mt. Pleasant making hay barn
into farmers lodge. -. 10000
The committees did not make ap-
preparations for charging the print.
ing plants at various state institutions
SO that the state printing could be
done there Nearly all the items which
go to make up the S675,550 relate to re,
pairs, fixing the heating apparatus
arranging for fire projections, etc.
But one of the big questions refer.
red to in the biennial message of Gov.
Cummins remains to be brought to
the attention of the legislature. This
| is the question of direct inheritance
tax. 1t is recalled that Gov. Cum.
minis did not pnt this on the same
basis as the suggestion of President
Roosevelt. He does not believe that
| a direct inheritance tax can be justf
| fled as a means of dispensing great
fortunes, but he does regard 1t as a
| legitimate exercise Of the taxing pow
ers of the state In order that this
may have some consideration Lieut.
Gov. Garst has Informally requested
committee of senators to consider
the proposition and if deemed adyis
able to bring in bill. This commit
tee consists of Smith of Mitchell. Gil
\
Lambert. A bill upon this question
would be simple in Its provisions ant
the only question involved is as to the
advisability of extending the present
inheritance tax law to include direc'
inheritances where large sums are lief
to direct heirs.
Representative Holmes of Kossutl
made one of the dearest and most ef
fectiye speeches yet made at this ses
sion of the legislature when he spok'
for the indeterminate sentence Law
yesterday, and his address had mucl
/ to do with securing the passage of thu
/ bill. For many years he has made
careful study of the problem and wa
we'll prepared to speak for the meas
ure. The bill, though in somewha
different form, was killed at the las
session of the legislature. 1t is on
of those propositions that it is cas-
1 to confuse the public mind upon am
easy to create the impression that
is a dangerous bill. There were prae
| tically no arguments against the bill
after Representative Holmes had fir
ished talking yesterday, and there wa
but one vote registered against i
that of Reitz of Lee county.
1 Judge Cook. chief counsel for tn
Milwaukee railroad, who was On tn
district bench for years and has TO
lowed the question of an indeterminat
sentence law ever since it was frs
preached in Iowa, said yesterday afte
that bill had passed that it was tn
first Important piece of reform legi'
lation that any Iowa legislature eve
Ipassed respecting crime. He was ais
unstinting in his praise Of Represel