The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-21


lie treasury
Increasing the inquiries made re-
speeding the business of banks. /
Making loan and trust companies (
qualified to act as guardians, trustees,
etc.
Rotate the names of candidates on
the primary ballot
Adopt the genuine Australian bal. I
lot.
To restore the circle to the present
ballot.
To prevent telephone companies
charging different rates in different
portions of the state. to drive out
competition.
To compel telephone companies to
make connections with each others
lines.
To tax the terminals of railroads
( locally,
/ To take away the power OF the rail
road commission 10 reverse municipal
orders for viaducts.
To give cities the power to compel
railroads TO elevate tracks.
To make the railroad commission
appointive and give the governor
power to remove members.
i To establish public utilities COM
mission on the New York basis.
To establish a transportation bureau
represent the people in rate mat
tiers.
To compel corporations to make an
nual reports TO the state.
Encouragement of good roads build
ing.
Encouragement of statewide promo
: ton of waterways.
5 Reciprocal demurrage.
To compel railroad companies to
maintain motor car service on branch
!. lines having but one train each way
. each day.
: To compel all supervisors TO be
elected at large in each county.
To extend the terms of county Off
GERS to four years.
. To compel convict-made goods to be
so branded.
To provide penalties for parents
who neglect children. in addition tc
taking the children from their custody
: under the present law.
To give cities the right to establish
: play grounds.
: To compel employers and parents
to prove the age of children Il labol
thought by authorities to be undel
g the prohibited age.
n To require record to be made il
T. Juvenile cou4ts
e. To require mine operators to pay tn
wages of shot-firers, whose wages ar
now paid by the miners.
ST To put the gypsum mines under tn
O. state mining laws.
IS To require state water inspection.
IS. To prohibit, pollution OF rivers wit
er sewage.
To create state board of osteol
athy
in To create a state board of option
ed etry.
DIS To require parents to report births
ef- To investigate the extent of soci;
M. diseases.
IN To compel construction of municips
abattoirs to be operated under nun
cipal and state inspection and supe
~. vision.
ia To require municipal inspection {
~ meat markets.
10 To require municipal inspection {
~ diaries
- To appropriate funds with which !
reimburse owners of stock killed b
cause tubercular.
To prohibit the payment of diffe
~ emf prices for cream and milk in ii
~ same sections OF the state by cenra
ling creameries.
ler To appropriate funds fol- holdir
'lr- short courses in dairying in yariol
~ parts OF the state.
az Revision of the school laws affec
rs. ing rural schools so as to make
county unit, consolidate the rur
o. schools and furnish country childrs
ite as good advantages as those OF Il
mn cities have.
IS Establish a board OF control for 4
.he three tate educational institution
for the university and agricultural al
ew normal colleges.
of To provide for the training
I'd teachers of agriculture. ard the
PRODUCTION Of agriculture in the pu
rms lii school curriculum Of the state pt
Sc sibiy the establishment OF agrtcultH
ley high schools.
Il To compel blind children 70 atte
ec- the college for the blind, and deaf a
eat dumb children TO attend me sta
m school Tor that class.
hub To establish a state school o. cor
ION s.nod.uca in agriculture connect
zen with the agricultural college
To permit the electors 10 ehoe
nth superintendent OF schools, instead
ere school boards.
an, Resubmission Of the prohibitc
ate liquor amendment
be Increasing the malct tax on ret