Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-03-14

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This soil.
NJ More Water In Stocks.
..he water out of corporation stocks
'has been recommended for passage
by the senate corporation committee.
This measure requires corporations
to receive full cash value for all stock
issued. No stock may he disposed Of
unless the corporation receives cash
for it, or the equivalent 1t does not
interfere with the issuance of stock
for property or other valuable thing,
but it does stop the issue of stock in
discriminatory and without regard to
value, via the printing presses. If
the Peterson bill passes, no railroad
incorporated in this state, overnight
can double its stock issue. Vote in
the corporations committee was unani-
mously for the bill, and it is doubt
full if it will be opposed in the SEN
ate, or in the house, for that matter
Lower Sleeping Car Rates.
Reduced sleeping car rates is the
subject of bill introduced in the
house of representatives by Holmes of
Kossuth county. The bill declares
sleeping cars to be common carriers,
places them under state control in
regard to rates that may be char1-e
and fixes the rate according to
number of miles to be travelled
stead of by stations, as Is now fix
by the Pullman Car company. Mr.
Holmes bill goes further, and pro-
vldes that when person pays for a
lower berth in a sleeping car, he shall
nave the right to require the cpnduc-
tor or porter to keep the upper berth
closed until it is actually occupied
Trained Nurses Bill Passed.
The graduate nurses bill, a senate
measure that had passed that body.
passed the house, by vote Of n to
". Marston called the bill up early
Thursday morning. It provides for
the examination of nurses protesting
to be trained nurses by commission
consisting of two nurses two members
OF the board of health and the sec
rotary of the board of health, the is
s>ance of certificates and regulates
the practice Of nursing. Its chief
object was pointed out to be the pre-
vention of persons who are not train
ed nurses, advertising themselves to
be.
Primary Bill A Special order.
The square deal primary bill will
be taken up in the senate at 1920
o'clock on the morning of the 12th.
It was made special order for SEN
ate consideration at that hour and
day on suggestion of Senator Wilson
Of Fayette, chairman of the senate
elections committee, and the Joint
subcommittee Of the house and SEN
ate, whose bill was reported for pas.
sage.
Conn After Express Rates.
a general revision and reduction Of
express rates In the state is the OH
ject of bill which Representative
Conn Of Butler has introduced in the
house. The Conn bill places regula.
ton of express companies under the
state railroad commission, which also
has some control over them.
Divorces Must Wait A Year.
With a majority Of two the house
of representatives passed the bill pro.
hibiting divorced persons from marry
ing within year from the time Of
the divorce. In all sixteen amend
ments were offered to the measure.
But one was accepted by the house.
That was one by Chairman Weeks of
the committee on judiciary and pro-
vided that the court, at the time of
issudng the decree of divorce, may
grant permission for the parties to
the divorce remarrying within the
year.