The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-12-24
IOWA LEGISLATORS WILL BE
BUSY.

sion, including the appropriation and
legaliZins acts. Less than one third
perhaps will pass.
| The following will be among the bills
that will come up during the next ses-
sion:
To create an insurance department..
To reduce the taxes collected on life
insurance premiums.
| Establishment of fire marshal sys-
TEN.
Requiring all public funds to be put
at interest for the benefit Of the public
| treasury.
| Increasing the inquiries made respect
ing the business of banks.
Making loan and trust companies
qualified to act as guardians, trustees,
etc.
Rotate the names of candidates on the
primary ballots.
Adopt the genuine Australian ballot.
| To restore the circle to the present
/ ballot.
To prevent telephone companies
charging different rates in different
portions Of the state to drive out com
petition.
To compel telephone companies to
make connections with each others
lines.
To tax the terminals of raj Is
locally.
To take away the power of
road commission to reverse Ha1
orders for viaducts.
To give cities the power 10
railroads to elevate tracks.
To make the railroad commission ap-
pointive and give the governor power
to remove. members.
To establish public utilities com
mission on the New York basis.
To establish transportation bureau
to represent the people in rate matters.
To compel corporations to make an
nual reports to the state.
Encouragement Of good roads build
ing.
Encouragement of statewide promo
ton Of waterways.
Reciprocal demurrage.
To compel railroad companies to main
tain motor Car service on branch lines
having but one train each way each
day.
To compel all supervisors to be elect
ed at large in each county.
To extend the terms of county officers
to four years.
To compel convict made goods to be
so branded.
To provide penalties for parents who
neglect children, in addition to 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 at labor
thought by authorities to be under the
prohibited age.
To require record to be made in
Juvenile courts.
To require mine operators to pay the
wages Of shot firers, whose wages are
now paid by the miners.
To PIT the gypsum mines under the
state mining laws.
To require state water inspection.
To prohibit pollution of rivers with
sewage.
To create state board of osteopathy.
To create state board of optometry
To require parents to report births.
To investigate the extent of social
diseases.
To compel construction of municipal
abattoirs to be operated under munic.
ipal and state inspection and super.
vision.
To require municipal inspection of
meat markets.
To require municipal inspection of
diaries.
To appropriate funds with which to
reimburse owners of stock killed be.
cause tubercular.
To prohibit the payment of different
prices for cream and milk in the same
sections Of the state by centralizing
creameries.
To appropriate funds for holding
short courses in dairying in various
parts Of the state. .
Revision Of the school laws affecting
rural schools so as to make county
unit, consolidate the rural schools and
furnish country children as good advan-
tages as those of the cities have
Establish board of control for the
three state educational institutions, the
university and agricultural and normal
colleges.
To provide for the training of teach
ers of agriculture and the introduction
of agriculture in the public schools
curriculum of the state; possibly the es
tablishmeDt of agricultural high schools
To compel blind children to attend
Tue CoileSe lOf Uue Dllnu ana zeal and
dumb children to attend the state
school for that class.
To establish state school of corres
pondence in agriculture, connected with
the agricultural college.
To permit the electors to choose
superintendent of schools, instead OF
school boards.
Resubmission of the prohibitory
liquor amendment.
Increasing the mulct tax on retail
saloons from $500 to $1,000.
| Prohibiting brewer from owning
saloons.
To prohibit corporations owning sa
looms.
To give the attorney general power
to supplant county attorneys in liquor
prosecutions.
TO compel county attorneys to pro
coed in all features of the mulct liquor
laws.
To prohibits drug stores selling any
liquor except pure alcohol and that or
physicians prescriptions.
To prohibit the sale of patent msdi
fcineS having mora than Z nar cant alco