Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-23
ATTACKON
DOCTORS
Legislator Says Board Of
Health Should Be Abol.
ished
Des Moines Bureau of
The Ottumwa Courier,


In the discussion of the bill pro-
viding for district sanitary conventions
and for increasing the salary OF mem
bers of the state board of health an
attack was made on the state board Of
health by Representative Miller If
Bremen county, who claimed the board
pose of the bill is to conduct cam
paigns of cGucation throughout the
conventions on senita,iea Miller
doubted the ability of the board to
educate the public and referred to IN
experience in his county wherein the
board declared the disease contagious
and took away a physicians license
because he refused to maintain quar-
antine on the case when it was proved
otherwise
Discussions were interrupted by the
Washington birthday exercises with
out reaching vote on Lne bill.
The senate today set next Tuesday
at 2 p. m. as a special order for con-
sideration of the 2-cent fare bill. 1t
is learned that there will be no argu-
ment on the floor of the senate in op-
position to the bill and that it is like
ly to pass the senate unanimously.
Senator Gale introduced a woman
suffrage resolution.
| 'the Gillilland bill to authorize the
building of shelters opposite depots
on double tracks of railroads was pass
ed; also a bill by Whipple extending
the time for merchants to get rid of
old stocks of canned corn and peas;
i ole e.. l., /.
purchase Of land at the Mount Pleas
ant hospital
Among the bills introduced was one
by Smith of Des Moines requiring alb
stracters to give bonds; by Stucklager
to forbid the stealing of steam from
steam pipes; by Dunham to provide
a commission for revising school laws
and by Dunham to exempt farmers and
telephone companies from incorporat.
ing fees
Hume introduced bill requiring
railroads to notify the railroad com
mission and the governor immediate
ly in case of railroad accidents.
| Sullivan of Polk an anti-smoke
nuisance bill.
Schultz a bill appropriating $4,000
for the purpose of gathering informa
tion relating to municipal governments
to be paid on order Of the executive
i council.
Sparks bill requiring vesti
4 blues Of street cars to be enclosed on
all sides and heated
A big fight is on in the judiciary
committees over the question of legal
izing the certificate to teach received
by Mrs. Jennie Huegle of this county
who was elected to the office of county
superintendent but failed to pass the
state examination. Mrs. HuegIe's case
is in court. She won out in the dis
trict court and the Polk County Teach
ers Association carried it to the su
! preme court. The bill that is up leal
ICES all certificates issued after Oct
IL, 1905 and before Oct. /. 1906 Mrs
Huegle's friends have written letter:
over the state to teachers general,
stirring them up to believe that unles.
this pill passes t. ;fr certificates arr
of no account. Those in opposition tt
this deny it. They say that the rule
that first grade certificates issued afte
Oct. l, 1905, under the old law woult
be good for but one year and then tn,
applicants would have to take the ex
; animation, under the new law wa.
; made because county superintendent
during the campaign of 1906 gave frs
grade certificates that were linnlerited
!, In one county it is claimed $50 wer,
issued, where ordinarily there are no
more than or issued a year.
I Before the appropria tions coalmitte,
Inf the senate a strong showing wa