Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-28
Speaker Kendall Reverscs
His Decision on Battlefield
Appropriation Measure
Des Moip W


terday on the appropriation for ex-
penses for dedicating monuments and
declared the bill passed. Miller of Bre-
mer, appealed from his decision. The
house sustained the ruling of the chair
by vote of 20 to s.
Speaker Kendall following the vote
sustaining the chair, announced that
1t was not an appealable decision but
that he thought the house should take
action on It and for that reason sub
mitted 1t to vote Of the house.
Many Now Bills.
The senate passed bill to revise
and enlarge the poison schedule and
require druggists to make a record of
all poison sales.
The Newberry bill to require pure
seeds and pure stock food was debat-
ed at length but not put to vote.
Bills introduced in the house were by
Koontz, providing that with the con-
sent Of property owners roads can be
limited to thirty feet wide.
BY. Grier-A reciprocal demurrage
bill.
by Darrah-Bill amending the code.
SO that the road tax can be worked
out.
Miller Of Bremen occupied the house
floor for a half hour just before ad-
\
personal privilege to explain his posi-
tion in relation to the soldiers monu-
ment appropriation, during which he
| read the expense account of the trip.
The house adjourned at Q: 80 this af-,
ternoon and no committee meetings
will be held out of respect to Lee of
Emmet. whose mother was buried at
that hour.
The senate, after spirited debate,
passed the Mates BILL, providing for
the minority representation of stock on
the board of directors Of insurance
| companies by a vote of Al to 3.
Senator Dunham introduced bills to
transfer the banking department to the
| treasurer OF state, and the municipal
retary of state. Also to appropriate
$4,000 additional for the tuberculosis
sanitarium at Iowa City.
The legislative commission which
will have charge of the revision of the
code and preparation of the new code
supplement consists Of Warren, De
| Wolf, Durham, Swift, Weeks ana
Hacker. The code editor is G. N. Jep-
son, formerly member of the house
from Woodbury. county. The revision
will include all that Is in the code SUP
plement of five years ago, in the last
two volumes of the session laws and in
the session laws that will include the
work of the presentlegislature When
the work has been done the code COM
mission will meet to approve of 1t and
direct publication of the new supple
ment. 1t is the intention that with
this supplement and the code of 1897
lawyer will have the code com
plete.
Options have been secured on GER
tain lots just south of the state capi-
tol grounds, adjoining the present
heating plant and state warehouse and
the legislature may appropriate $4,000
for purchase of this ground At pre-
sent there are unsightly old shacks on
the lots. Even If the state does not
desire at present to build on the lots
1t ought to own the same and keep the
ground in good condition But it is
probably the ground will be needed.
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This afternoon there will be hear
ing before committees on the bill to
examine and license for optometry
The state association has been urging
this, and good many doctors and
dentists of the state have also peti.
toned for the passage of some such
bill. At the same time the physicians
in the legislature and some others are
opposing the bill. A delegation is here
from the state university to represent
the medical college and protest against
licensing >pecialists in optometry.
The bill does not prevent the ordin-
ary practitioner from treating eyes as
other medical work
Not much showing has been made in
the fight to change the manner Of
electing directors of the state fair.
The movement was started by the
Mitchell County Agricultural society
and circular was sent out to all
county fair officers by r. Dorsey, presi-
dent, and w H. II. Gable. secretary,
asking that all such societies unite in
petitioning the legislature to provide
for election of directors by districts.
Only two or three such petitions have
come to the legislature, and members
declare the movement is dead one.
The subcommittee of the house
municipal corporations bill to which
has been given the Des Moines com
mission plan of government bill will
not take the bill up till after the re-
cess when hearing will be arranged
i 1t is understood that business men Of
4 Cedar Rapids and Sioux City will ap-
pear for the measure reinforcing the
4 business men of Des Moines Politi-
i clans of Des Moines are confident the
4 bill will be killed in the sub-commit-
tee but members of the subcommittee.
say the bill is likely to be reported
out and passed by the house
Ora Williams
4 FOB
4 The bill providing for a laboratory
j under control Of the board of conn,ol