Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-25
GOVERNOR HAS TAKEN NO Ac-
TON ON QUARTET OF LEalsLA-
TIVE ENGAGEMENTS.
PETITION WELL SIGNED
oes Moines Corporations Are Pushing
Plans for Commission Form Of Gov
ernment-Iowa Wants 100000
Laborers-Gossip of the Capital.
Des Moines Bureau
VI lVIi6 OIIUIIIWd CUUKfSf
Das Mnines A nril %.

DCS VMOlUSS DuISStu
OF the Ottumwa Courier
Des Moines, April %.
Four Jaws remain in the hands o
The governor unsigned. They are tn,
anti smoke bill, the bill limiting tn,
dividends of insurance companies, thu
bill relating to the sale of accretion.
due to the change of the channel o
the Des Moines river and bill pro
viding that Judges of the district cour
may use their discretion as to sending
70 the inebriate asylum persons con.
victed Of being inebriates.
The latter bill Is one that the board
Of control recommended to the thirty.
hrst general assembly. It has beer
discovered through the practical oper-
ations Of the inebriHte law that many
tramps and persons OF character
that indicates very plainly that the
inebriate asylum nor any other asylum
VIII cure them Of being inebriates are
sent to the inebriate asylum by the
district courts just to get them out Of
the community" Where inebriacy is
desire for liquor in undue quantitie,
the asylum can work a cure, but where
the liquor habit ia due to laziness and
the vagrant habit the asylum Is unable
to cure 1t.
The bill that is BEFORE the governor
provides that the courts shall have dis
erection In the matter OF commit
ments and Furthermore provides that
on accommodation OF the superin-
tendent that an inmate shows no prom
ise OF being cured the board of con-
troll can release the patient. This is
intended as a check on the district
court judges. When a tramp is sent
70 the asylum ITO get rid Of him." the
board can at once release him instead
OF holding him there for the term OF
his sentence at state expense.
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The deep we'll proposition for the
state institutions Is to be abandoned
SO far as the Glenwood Institution is
concerned. In the appropriations of
the last legislature there is one OF $32,-
BOO Tor a system Of waterworks to be
Quilt by running galleries out into the
gravel beds under the Missouri river
me state has spent many thousands
ofsdollars trying to get water supply
at the Glenwood school for the feeble
minded. The wells have been sunk al
most to the limit without success and
not only at Glenwood but at some OF
the other institutions the deep well
proposition has been failure and the
water supply is very limited. A new
Plan VIII be tried at Glenwood and Il
It is q success something on the sam.
order will be tried at the other institu.
tons II possible.
Every public service corporation in
pss Mofnes through some official has
signed the petition for the Commission
pan OF government. Recently these
offieials decided to feel the pulse OF the
people. It Is learned from direct
sources that an eastern man was
brought here to make inquiries among
tne people to ascertain what the sentf-
ment was regarding the corporations
ana more especially regarding the
Street car company. It was desired to
nave an outsider gather the inforna-
ton SO that 1t would be unbiased, It il
learned that large per cent of the
vice corporations would be much bet
ter thought Of IL they were not such
lnVeterate tax dodgers and were not
persistentiy opposing the popular
trend. One citizen told the man thai
and he frankly admitted that he had
heard 1t from many sources. Since
then public men In Des Moines think
tney see change in the bearing Of the
ofhcials OF the public service corpora
lions toward the public. 1t was Just
ABOUT this time that the grand Jury BY
a majority Of one refused to indiet q
q street car official for bribery when
reputable citizens testified to seeing the
the bribe money paid over The force
q the REFUSAL Of the grand Jury had its
eHect on the public mind and the pub
nc mind was divided though there
seemed to be preponderance one way.
As an evidence Of the changed attitude
OF the public service corporations
mere Is the signing of the petition for
change in the form Of government
mat is recognized to be in the interest
OF REFORM and an additional evidence
IN that each one of the public service
corporations has consented to allow tn.
assessor to double its assessment.
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According to the labor COM
missioner. n. D. Brigham. iowa
could use 100000 workmen. Gov cum
MINIS recently received a letter from n
webster City citizen asking that some
.nlns De done to relieve the demand
Ior farm laborers. The governor
lurnea II over to the labor commits
sloner. VINO has been forced to respond
ma. the legislature turned down a bill
sising the commission authority and
power 70 open a state labor burea i,
ana funds sufficient for finding men
tor the work and work for the men
9iner INQUIRIES have been received
nat indicate to Mr.. Brigham that 100
200 laborers could be found positions
m Iowa Il there was any means for
recurring them at the Immigration Of
ices IN New York. Such effort as n IN
possible for the commissioner to mako
ne is now making but has not haan
able to supply MAN. laborers.
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Vice President Fairbanks will this
week. not only speak before the Grant
,!no In Des Moines. where he is ass,Ir-
q cordial reception but he vii,
STOP on Invitation at the Iowa AKricri.
torel college at Anes and sneak II
ne boys and girls Of Iowa from the
farms and the cottages and rive ,ntii.
cation OF his Views on matters Of prime
IMPORTANCE. - iis
It Is entirely within the bounds n
possibility that Mr.. Fairbanks viii
surprise and disappoint some persons
In what he has to say in Iowa. It is
recalled that a few years ago the vice
president spoke in Iowa and he came
out strongly in support of the policies
supported by President Mckinley with
special reference to the tariff. He
I believes now that the tariff should b.
revised Just as Iowa republicans have