Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-24

Il Total .................l.. .$2zO,UVu
4 The legislature also appropriated
$4,000 for a new cottage at the Iowa
i Industrial School for Girls at Mitch
/ ellville, $125.000 for an inf1rlnary at
Independence, and $4,000 for a new
I cell house at Fort Madison. These are
n the larger appropriations, but do not
make up but about one-half Of the total
appropriations to the board ofscontroI
F the total being $S01,55O. A considerable
[ part OF the balance will be available
/, this year. The $4,000 infirmary at
independence cannot all be built next
4 year. There will be but about S25, 600
1 of this available for 1908, which will
Z not permit of more than the putting
1 in of the foundation. The board may
/ let the contracts for the erection of the
building late that year and may have
! some of the work done in the fall, pay
| ing but part of the contract, the mat
4 ter being vet to be determined.
OF the other improvements about the
state institutions the legislature pro-
I.vided. $4,000 for improving the
grounds, $4,000 for fire protection and
$4,000 for new engine and generator at
4 eAlO SOfNiGA = 11OIlO, S3O,VVV LII ACOullo-
! ing, and equipping the boys Industrial
school, at Il the soldiers orphans home;
$4,000 for Improving the grounds. s3,-
/ 500 for storage and refrigerator plant,
and $4,000 for light, heat, laundry and
boiler house at Council Bluffs; $1,000
for, new furniture. $4,000 for new
boilers, $4,000 for engine and generator
at Glenwood. and $4,000 for water
supply at Glenwood; $4,000 for con-
verting hay barn into farmers lodge
and $500 for tunnels at Mount Pleas
ant; $4,000 for engine and generators,
and $4,000 for vehtilating system at
Independence; $4,000 for engine and
generators, $4,000 for sewer and tun-
nels, and $500 for smoke stack at
Clarinda
The erection of new buildings pro-
vided for by the legislature is sone-
what handicapped by the fact that it Is
late in the spring before the appropri.
ations are known and considerable
time is then necessarily taken up in
preparing the plans and specifications,
advertising for bids and letting the
contracts, so that it is; always late be-
fore actual building is commenced.
80
Governor Clmmins Is hesitating
about the signing Of q bill which con-
templates the REIMBURSEMENT of the
rights of the state in certain land al
legged to have been formed out Of the
bed of the Des Moines river in Ottum-
wa and title to which rests in the state
The land is said to be occupied by a
factory and other buildings. Under
the bill the present occupants of the
land will have first chance to buy.
The governor feels that this is the
wrong way to have such things done,
and that IL the state owns property
which It is willing to sell it should be
dividual would sell. He knows moth
ing of the merits Of the case at Ottum-
wa, but he does recall the experience
with an almost exactly similar bill
passed by the Thirtieth general as
sembly, which he afterwards realized
he should have vetoed. This provided
for the Sale of the land which Iowa
owns ia Omaha and which is worth
a half million dollars When the gov
ernor signed the bill, It is recalled, he
was i'll and unable to give careful con-
-sideration to what it meant Happily
for the state that bill was repealed
before the beneficiaries were able to
make good, and with the coming into
office of new attorney general the
state will not lose. But II those who
put thru the bill relating to the land
In Omaha had been able to secure title
under that act before it's character was
discovered the state would have been
loser by a large sum. There is only
small sum involved at Ottun1wa but
the principle is much the same.
In former years the state Of Iowa re-
CURED of the railroads that they make
reports of accidents involving loss of
life, these reports going to the railroad
commission. In all the early reports
these accidents are listed. When the
code was made over again in 1897 this
lause was lost Nobody seems to
now how or why this was left out,
aut for a number Of years all effort
to get it replaced in the laws has been
successfully fought until this year.
Now the clause is again part of the
law, and the railroad commission will
receive reports of all railroad accidents
so that investigation may be made il
deemed advisable. The railroad COM
panies will be required to report by
telegraph to Des Moines and later to
report by mail all accidents.