Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-04-17

The senate also killed the state mar
shall bill which was to divide the state
Into seven marshal districts for the
enforcement of the liquor laws. This
bill has been before several sessions
of the legislature and its sponsors de-
clare 1t will be brought out again in
1909.
Spending the Peoples Money.
The rapidly increasing expenses of
the state government was il Illustrated
by the statement made by Chairman
Maytag. of the senate committee on
appropriations, when lie declared that
with all the revenue promised from
regular sources of taxation and the
special acts for that purpose the ex-
penses Of the coming biennial period
would exceed the receipts by more
than half million dollars. The de-
tailed statement of the appropriations
and the estimated receipts shows the
former to have been $1,G41,5OO. The
fixed expenses of the government for
the biennial period amount to $6,S54,-
800 and the total receipts, $T,921 ,s2f.
This left deficit of $573.974. To
meet this the legislature found it
necessary to increase the state levy
for the next two years from 3 to 3la
mills. AS usual the largest items OF
special appropriations so to the state
educational and charitable Institutions.
The total money to be used by these
n cti fxyn1
runs to $1,905.5O0 for the two years.
divided as follows: State normal
school at Cedar Falls, 1891 200; state
university at Iowa City, $795,500:
state agricultural college at Ames,
S71s.5OO.
Other state institutions get appropri-
ations aggregating total of $SO1.55O,
divided as follows: Soldiers home,
Marshalltown. $4,000: soldiers or
phans' home. Davenport, 81, 100, col
leee for the blind, Winton, $500;
school for deaf, Council Bluffs, S26,-
900: feeble minded school at G'enwood,
$103.GG0: industrial school for boys at
Eldora. $4,000; industrial school for
girls nj AIitchellville, $4,000; insane
hospital at Mt. Pleasant, 500, 800; in-
sane hospital. independence, $4,000;
insane hospital, Clarinda, $500; in
sane hospital at Cherokee, $145,5OO;
home for inebriates at Knoxville,
$3.50: penitentiary at Fort Madison,
$6,GG0; penitentiary at Anamosa, $780,
200.
Among the other special appropria-
tons made by the assembly are $751;
600 for the erection Of swine pavilion
ut the state fair grounds, $4,000 for
completion of the historical building,
$4,000 for additions and repairs to
the state storage house, $4,000 for re-
pairs to the steps and walks about
the capitol building and improvements
Of the grounds, and $4,000 for redeco-
ration of the senate chamber. Be-
sides these the support Of state in
situations for the next two years will
amount to 100000, and the support
Of the tuberculosis hospital will
amount to 100000 for twenty months
The expenses of the present assembly
amount to $4,000 and general ap,
preparations run to nearly 100000.
Session Lasted Eighty-Six Days.
The legislature was in session eighty
six days. During that time nearly
900 bills and joint resolutions We're
presented in both houses and of these
only 225 became laws. OF the bills
passed Governor Cummins exercised
his right of veto on but two; one Of
these made the position of document
librarian in the secretary Of states Of
flee statutory office and the other
provided for license fee by persons
engaged in SEEMING fish in the Nlissis-
sippi and Missouri rivers near the
Iowa banks.
OF the joint resolutions the most i'm
portant one to be adopted calls on
congress to create convention of the
states OF the Union for the purpose of
submitting constitutional amend
ment that will provide for the election
of United States senators by direct
vote of the people
The regulation resolution for sub
mission TO the voters of Iowa the aues-
ton of constitutional amendment
striking out the word male" from tho
state constitution was up for passage
but was defeated in the senate. After
wards the woman suf'rag'sts secured
the passage in the house of bill
which would allow them to vote at all
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