Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-30
BILLS ARE COMING THICK
Introduction Practically All Of the Days
Business in Legislature.
CONTEST OVER THE SOLDIERS ROSTER
Sugar Factory seeks TO Induce Au-
thOrities to Raise Large Acreage
at the state INDUSTRIAL school
at Eldora.
CFrom a Stan Correspondents

IuuCeu III edCn mouse lOuay ana lnat was the
sum total of the days activity. with the
exception of an Intellectual effort on the
part OF Dow of Franklin in the house to
get his committee clerk affirmed after
he had failed to pass the examination, and
the appointment of committee on mile
age in the senate
The following bills were introduced:
| In the Senate-By Newberry, increasing
/ the pay of the deputy dairy and food in
speGt9r and assistants to sl,5oo BY Clarke.
applying the law OF assessing street Inn
provements to abutting property to towns
as well as cities BY Durham, providing
i for the purchase of legisla tive indexes BY
Mates, giving minority stockholders rep
resentation on boards Of directors BY De
Armand, creating general district court
| ing the police matron law TO special char
ter cities BY De Armand. prohibiting
others than members wearing badges OF
secret societies. BY Allen, regulating law
| as to lost tax sale certificates.
In the House-By Weeks appropriating
$4,000 for improvements at the state fair,
| By OIL anti-lrecracker bill BY Moore,
| fixing twenty years as maximum punish
ment for burglars entering buildings with
explosives BY Backmore, wage exemption
! law, BY Weeks, correcting jury system.
BY Kelly, regulating lying-in hospitals. BY
/ Clarke. regulating disposition of dead
| bodies. By Sullivan, to preserve testimony
thorizing city councils to control whistling
aud ringing of bells on locomotives BY
McAllister, for publishing a roster of old
| soldiers.
Fight over Soldiers Roster.
The same old fight over the publication of
! roster of Iowa soldiers is again up at
this session. as 1t has been for several
past. Some old soldiers oppose the PROPOSE
ton because It will make another position
under the appointment of the adjutant
general of the guard. Others oppose it be-
| cause IL will cost $4,000 or $4,000. Meal
lister of Linn has introduced a bill ordering
the adjutant general to prepare and pub
lish the roster and approprlating money
for the work. Weeks of Guthrie has in
troduced a bill in the house TO have dis
trict courts in each county appoint COM
missions of three to prepare the list of all
who enlisted In the respective counties
and file them with the recorder to be re-
corded, with their military record. The
work is to be done at the expense OF the
county, and IL the state later wished to
have the roster printed the recorders could
easily be reCsS'ed to certify the names to
the secretary Of state or adJutant general
to be printed.
II No Ice Famine.
There is to be no ice famine in Des
Moines. The recent cold weather has given !
ice men an opportunity Ice is a foot
more week of such weather will see the ice
houses of the city filed
Would Engage I'm Farming.
The new beet sugar factory to be located
at Waverly is seeking to induce the State
Board of,Control to engage in raising sugar
beets on the farm connected with the Boys
Industrial school at Eidora. The concern
will contract. to take the beets from 200
| acres of land from the institution 1t is
very remunerative farming and the board
would like to take advantage of IT, but
hasn't enough land A bill will likely be
introduced appropriating money to buy the
land.
Bad for Appropriations Committee.
The. visitation committee which i'm
spected the educational work at the State
university is likely to make a report that
will cause the appropriations committees
! to think awhile. They were Impressed
with the idea that while the askings for
the State university are large, that all is
needed that has been asked for and that
If the state can possibly do SO there must
be a great increase In expenditure for
state educational work. I'VE found an
increase of 600 students at Iowa City"
said Senator Newberry, land every de-
partment and room crowded to the limit.
In fact there is much getting along with
makeshifts in such a way that II is dts
| grace to the state We are inviting these
young people TO come to our institutions;
| It is our duty to care for them. The uni
versity was never more prosperous Let
us keep it So"
Wage Exemption Again.
The new wage exemption bill is in
little different form this year. 1t yields
an exemption of so per cent of the wages
of the laborer, and after three months 90
per cent can be taken under attachment.
It is backed this time not by the grocers
alone, but by the Federation of Retail
Merchants, including all branches, under
the leadership of the gnpcers association,
which is the strongest. Similar bills have
been urged for several sessions, but this
one is quite conservative.
Libraries for state Institutions.
Acting on the theory that If books are
an influence In moldng the lives Of nor
NAL people they can be used to much more
advantage and benefit in. molding the lives
OF the abnormal in the penitentiaries and
insane hospitals, the Iowa Board Of Con-
troll has employed Miss Marian f. Carey.
a trained librarian, to organize and take
charge of the libraries at all the thirteen
| state institutions. Miss Carey is now
! hard at work and already evidences of
the success of the work are apparent
Iowa is the pioneer of the states in this
I important undertaking The success Of
the work already has interested other
states and they are agitating following
the example Of Iowa.
Hog House Covers Three Acres.
The hog house which the swine breeders
of the state are declaring TO be of greater
Importance than the erection OF an execu-
tive mansion is TO be no mean and insig-
nihcant affair. AS a matter of fact, 1t
| will cover three acres Of land and will
! furnish roof to cover about 1000 head OF
hogs. Notwithstanding the fact that It is
an immense affair 1t will cost only $4,000.
When completed II the Legislature pro
vides the funds for its erection. It VIII
be the largest building in the city OF Des
MOines or state of Iowa
Limit Hours of Employment.
Representative Marston's DILL limiting
the hours OF continuous employment Of
railroad men provides that no employe
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