Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-24
OFF DAY FOR LEGISLATURE
Little Doing on Account of Day Being
a Holiday.
ATTACK ON BOARD OF CONTROL
Pamphlet Issued by n Fort Madison
Doctor After II Had Been sup
posed the Fight Had Been
Settled.
CFrom a staff correspondent

~ YIN = SAoAl tAAtektNNhNbNs
DIES MONIES, Feb. 2S.-(specisl)-owing
to .he day being a holiday little was done
in the legislature. The house held a fore
noon session and the senate in the after
noon.
A mild sensation was created by the fact
that a number of pamphlets made their
appearance among the members today,
coming from Fort Madison, in which Is
printed a series of savage attacks upon the
State Board of Control. and formal an
nouncement is made of the candidacy OF
ex-Warden Jones for the place on the state
board soon to be vacant or filled by reap
pointment. This pamphlet Is printed by
DR.. Neal, who was a disappointed applicant
for prison physician, and It consists largely
Of the series Of special articles which he
sent out with regard to the Fort Madison
prison. 1t was supposed for a time that
the effort to effect a change in the state
board because of the troubles at the prison
would be given up. but 1t now appears that
the attack is to be renewed.
state to build Highways.
A bill introduced today c~ontemplates that
the state itself shall set a good example
in the matter of building highways at the
state farms and it requires that the state
shall improve the highways adjoining the
various state farms. The state has about
1000 acres at the Institutions. The work
done by the state has been largely by the
inmates.
A bill by Jones ~contemplates the purchase
Of an oil painting Of Governor Carroll for
$3.50 and a Photographic group of the mem
bers of the legislature for $50 to be placed
in the historical department.
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A bill introduced by Mr.. Goodykoontz
regulates the number of men in a train
crew. 1t provides that for every freight
train there shall be at least five persons
in the crew and If more than fifty cars,
then six persons. i. train crew for a pas
senger train shall consist OF at least five
persons.
Guide Board Law No Good.
The house decided today hat the law
requiring township trustees to put up guide
boards and signs at every mile is of no
use. and changed the law so that the plac-
ing of such signs shall be merely optional.
The statement was made that the law is
not now enforced.
The house passed senate bills to regulate
the number OF codes to be distributed free
in the state. to revise the law as to motor
vehicles. to give park commissioners power
to pave near parks, and in regard to affi-
davits in assessment; also, house bills, to
provide for an assessor outside of a town,
and to add ''rooming houses to the law
in regard to hotels.
The senate defeated a bill to authorize
insurance OF doctors, dentists and drug
gists against damage, Suits or loss 'in con-
sequence. of error or mistake in the treat
ment of patients or the compromising OF
drugs" oiie
The bill had been reported favorsbly, but
received only five votes. The senate passed
a bill to appropriate $4,000 to aid in build
ing a dam across the Iowa river at the
Soldiers Home. The senate also passed q
bill to forbid the sale of liquor to persons
who have taken treatment at any institu-
ton for the drink habit.