Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-01
ALL SECTIONS WOULD BENEFIT
An Experimental Plan Proposed to De-
termine Feasibility of the Plan-Pro-
visions of the Bill Increasing Com
pensation Of County Attorneys -
Fixes Salaries in Counties.
Special to Times Republican.

/ ing special schools for the farm boys.
| There are to be four districts in the
state, with q school in each one. This
school shall be under control OF the
college at Ames, and it shall be of
/ three months duration, but the board
may change it into two schools of six
weeks each, or three schools of one
month each The schools will be To-
Gated by the college board, but the
rooms must be furnished free to the
college. The three schools may be
at different places, and there may be
changes about from year to year. In
this way 1t is figured that all sections
of the state would get the benefit Of
/ these short courses in agricultuEae
manual training and domestic science
and the cost could not be very great
to the state unless there was great ex-
pansion Of the movement and desire
to erect permanent buildings.
u
The substitute bill reported by the
i5house judiciary committee on fixing the
compensation of county attorneys pro-
vides for a scale of salaries dependent
upon the population of the county, as
follows: In counties of less than
$4,000 people, $1,000 year; in coun-
ties Of $4,000 and less than $4,000, a
salary of $1.250; in counties OF $4,000
and less than 10000, a salary of $1,000;
:, m fho,, q.
900, a salary of $1,75O; in counties OF
SIS, 900 and less than $4,000. q salary OF
81, 900, and in counties of $4,000 or over
salary Of 81, 500. 1t is provided that.
in counties where there is more than
one county seat the salary shall be
$2,O0d year. Legislators who have
examined into the matter are con-
WINGED that the present salaries are
very unequal and inadequate. Some
counties are paying their county at
torney $500 a year, while other coun-
ties, with now more business, are pay
ing considerably more. The committee
has sought to arrange the scale equit-
able to- all. IS.
Bergesson yesterday introduced his
bill providing that the county treasur-
ers shall handle all the school funds.
and thus abolish the office of school
treasurer.
The house yesterday concurred in the
amendments of the senate to the Sui
Ivan BILL providing for preserving
stenographie reports of the proceedings
Of coroners' juries in counties of a
population of $4,000 or over, and the
bill will go to the governor for his sig
nature.
The house has plenty of work on its
calendar when it returns after the re-
cess March S. The Peterson bill pro-
hibiting corporations from contributing
to political campaigns. the Smith wife
desertion bill. the uniform fire insur-
ance policy BILL the bill providing for
licensing graduate nurses, the pure
drug bill, the Newberry bill providing
for pure paints and oils, all important
measures, are on the calendar and can
be considered the first day after the
recess. There are as many more bills
on the calendar that have not attracted
much attention, but are important in
their way In addition, the judiciary
committee reported for passage the
anti-lobby bill, which will be on the
calendar when the house reconvenes.
The senate committee on cities and
towns has decided that it ought not to
be required that banks pay to cities
and towns interest on funds on deposit
There was strong effort to have this
bill pushed thru, but the senator's from
the more considerable cities of the
state made objection and declared it
was impracticable. i
The republican members of the leg
islature, in the Sixth district held a
caucus and unanimously selected W.
o. McElroy, of Newton. to be the Sixth
district member Of the board of trus-
tees Of the state college at Ames to
succeed himself. There had been talk
of other candidates and one day last
week the matter was settled. The 9TH
err districts have not as yet made their
selections.
A curious situation came up in con-
nection with Senate File 1913, a bill
which was introduced with special ref
erence to meeting the desires of the in
surance companies in the matter of re-
movaI OF stocks OF goods insured The
bill was drawn with reference to a GER
tain comma in a certain line of the
law, and the wrong line being mem
toned, the whole tenor of the bill was
changed. The committee reached the
conclusion that the bill was all right,
but later the error was pointed out and
change has been made
There appears to be no serious oppo-
sition to the bill giving cities of $4,000
board of police and fire commits
sioners; but there was desire to wait
and find out how 1t would affect cities
that are not yet of $4,000 population
but expect to be in short time. The
bill places all fireman including the
chief and all policemen except the
chief under civil service rules.
A bunch of railroad bills was con-
sidered by the house committee on
railroads. which comes near to being
the last OF the general hearings on
these bills. The senate committee has
not yet finished the hearing on the