Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-26
FOR ONE BOARD OF REGENTS
Senate Committee FaVors Centralized Cor
troll of Educational Ins itutions.
ANOTHER TURN At SOLDIERS MONUMENTS
Youthful bridegroom Accused of Kid
mapping His Bride Complains 70
Police she Has Been Re-
Kidnapped by Father.
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From Stan Correspondent)
DIES MONIES, Ia. Feb. 25.-(Special Tel
egram.)-The senate appropriations com
mittee voted to report for passage the
bill consolidating the state educational i'm
stitutions under one board OF regents.
The house judiciary committee voted to
indefinitely postpone the bill prohibiting
Sunday theaters. There will be a minority
report favoring 1t.
Monument Commission Middle.
Publication in one of the Des Moines
newspapers of an article purporting to be
the report of the appropriations committee
OF the house on the bill appropriatlng
$1,000 additional to pay for the dedication
of the Iowa monuments on southern bat
tlehelds again came to the front in the
house today when a message from the
governor was read submitting the reports
OF the monument commissions, The gov
ernor's message, after reciting the solemn
features of those who witnessed the dedi-
cation of the monuments. stated that any
person who would describe such a journey
as a junket was either grossly ignorant
of the English language or else wilfully
misrepresented. The message explained in
some detail that the extra appropriation
was made necessary to pay for the meet
ings of the commissions in arranging for
the journey, the appropriation OF the last
session being for the journey, with no al
lowance for the meetings in preparation.
He stated further that his own expenses
were paid from his own contingent fund
and did not come from the extra appro-
priation.
Following the reading of the message
Representative Miller of Bremen, who last
Saturday took the blame of having given
the Objectionable article to one of the
newspapers. rose and withdrew the apology
he made at that time and maintained that
the article he gave out for publication was
the committee report as 1t claimed TO be.
He furthermore claimed that other news
papers of the city had also been guilty
of misrepresenting by putting into the
mouths OF members statements they did
not make.
House Bills.
In the house today a bill was introduced
by Clarke of Jefferson providing for the
establishment of a laboratory under the d.
rection Of the State Board of Control for
the study of criminal and defective classes
of society; bill by Mason of Lee appropri-
ating $4,000 for the penitentiary at Fort
Madison.
House Bills Pissed.
The house today passed the bill for the
the city limits Of Des Moines; referred back
to the committee on public health the bill
providing for a board of examiners for
graduate nurses; passed the bill relating TO
recording the votes of elections; passed the
bill providing that the people must vote
on the purchase of voting machines; a bill
increasing the amount of state aid for
county teachers Institutes from $50 for
each county to 81 for each school position
in each county with a minimum allowance
of 500 to each county, and bill providing
that before a petition Of consent is cir
culated under the mulct law Thirty days
notice must be given by publication In
newspapers of the county.
Raises supervisory Pay.
The senate passed the bill raising the pay
OF members of the boards of supervisors to
"a a day for meeting and 50 a day for COM
mittee work, and providing for extra pay
for work on drainage commissions.
The senate passed the bill legalizing the
acts Of certain mayors and persons who
had been notaries public IN taking acknowl-
edgements. This was oppo; ed by some MEM
bers as going too far in the matter of le-
galizlng acts.
The Ericsson bill in regard to. literary
boards joining with county historical So
cieties was passed.
Domestic Science at Bluffs.
In the senate Warren introduced a bill
to establish a department of domestic
science at the deaf school at Council BLUFFS.
The department which was there was
abandoned by the Board of Control and a
commi' ne legislature which visits
the commended that 1t be re-
ests bill makes it obligatory
TO n department there.