The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-04-08
over A MILLION
IS APPROPRIATED
Big sum VOTED TO STATE iNsTi.
TuTloNs TODAY.
SITTING COMMITTEE
House Decides To, Leave Unfinished
Business To Seven Members To
Expedite Matters-PensIon
For Policemen.
(By Julian Richards.)


senate this morning the appropriation
bills were called up and passed They
are as follows: State institutions UNI
der the board OF control, $50S,0 edu-
cational Institutions, $555,500; His
torical Building, $4,000; Capitol com
mission, $4,000. .
The senate passed bill by Saun.
ders providing for the pension of dis.
aDled policemen. The senate also
passed bill by Berry providing for
the payment OF damages for injuries
to domestic animals.
In the house the motion for the APP
polntment of sitting committee was
called up and possed. The committee
Is to consist of seven members and
will be appointed by the speaker next
Monday. The house passed the bill al
lowing boards OF supervisors to grant
permission for the placing of electric
wires for light and power along public
highways.
viii Keep Up Fight. ......s
With the defeat of the state mar
shall bill by the house yesterday tenn
perance and prohibition forces OF
Iowa closed their campaign for legis.
lation at the present session and be-
gan laying plans for lining up every
faction of the "drys," prohibitionists
and temperance advocates alike, for
what A. c. Rankin and Rev. d. Ever.
EFT Smith declared would be the great.
est anti-liquor campaign Iowa has
seen In twenty-seven years. <|.
This means a solidifying of all
the various factions that are fighting
the liquor traffic in Iowa." said Mr..
Smith 1T will be necessary to form
one great organization embracing all
the forces for temperance and prohi.
bition, and then we will begin fight
which | am confident will end in vic.
tory two years from now"
The Rankin bill providing for two
liquor law enforcement commission
ers with power to prosecute in any
county was showed under yesterday
by a vote of &C TO 30, after it had been
supported by Representative Inman,
who introduced st, and Representa-
tive Meredith, author of the resub.
mission resolutions :, .,,t,...., H.,
To Remove Officers.
Nine grounds. for removal of ap-
pointive officials are stated in, the bill
which Senator Whipple introduced in
the Iowa senate yesterday in response
to the request by, Governor, Carroll
for a strong removal law to meet con.
ditions such as have arisen in ,connec-
ton with Pharmacy Commissioner
B. F. Keltz. The bill provides that
by a majority vote of the executive
council, appointive officials may be re.
moved for any Of the following causes:
Habitual or wilIful neglect of duty.
Any disability preventing a proper
discharge Of the duties of his Office
Gross partially. "r
Extortion.
Corruption.
Willful misconduct of maladminis.
tration in office.
Failure to produce and fully &C
count for all public funds and property
in his hands at any inspection or, set
Element. III a.. ..,,.
The ninth Is drastic provision
which prohibits appointive omcers
from performing active political work
and from making contributions to
campaign funds. This section is more
specific than even the Healy law
under which the state board OIL control
was formed. 1t provides that any ap.
pointive officer who by solicitation
or otherwise exerts his influence li.
rectly or indirectly to induce other
officers or employees of the state to
adopt his political views or to favor
any particular person or candidate
for public office, or who shall in any
particular contribute money or other
thing of value to any person for cleo
ton purposes shall be removed from
his Office by the executive council"