Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-03-19
OUTRAGE BILL.
WoMAN'S SUFFRAGE BILL is
DEFEATED.
NO NEW SCHOOL LEGISLATION
Rebuke 10 College Men Pension
for Firemen Printing Plants
at Reformatories.
By Ora Williams.

Gy OTd WUiidFlS.
Des Moines.-Nothing has ever be,
| fore equaled the dispassionate delib-
Grafton with which the Iowa Senate
the past week put to sleep for the
steenth time the proposal to amend
the constitution with regard to voting
matters. The Jameson resolution
ilich looked to amendment of the
constitution to strike out the sex dis
crlinlnation had been left on the cal
endar, reported out without recon-
nlendation, when the democratic sen
aior from Shenandoah left for Wash
lli&ton to take his seat in congress.
| Nobody had been secured to take it
up and urge its adoption. And also,
with Jamieson's bill which undertook
TO provide that women might vote
practically on every question which
comes before the voters except for
oiiicers and in matters OF adoption
OIL a constitutional amendment The
! latter was called up and briefly de-
i Lated, for it had some features that
! would commend it to the members.
! II WAS then defeated; after which
! vote was called for on the Suffrage
amendment There was not speech
for it and nothing said against it, but
| Ii received only a few votes. There
was present a large number of wom-
en- interested in the movement who
witnessed this process of burial of
/ the resolution without show of feel
/ ing, but later they decided upon
/ big meeting to start the work for the
/ future.
Status of Prohibition.
4 The proposed amendment to the
constitution with regard to constitu-
tional prohibition is in an uncertain
condition at present. The house
1 passed the measure after two DAYS
of effort to have it sidetracIed, the
4 majority being a large one. The SEN
ate got the measure in the course OF
the next day, and Senator Proud
foot, of Warren, to whom the w. c..
4 t. U. has looked for the handling of
the measure, insisted upon his right
to Immediately take charge of the
4 resolution and to have it referred to
the committee which he might desig-
nate The logical committee wodld be
that OF constitutional amendments,
to the committee on suppression of
Iintemperance. President Clarke
pointed out that the resolution had
come from the house and it was not
in the same position as a bill intre
duced, hence no senator had a right
to designate where it should go, but
objection having been made to it's
Preference in the regular way there
1 In .fln I,nt fo, b.n
to vote it to a committee This was
4 done and by an overwhelming vote
the senate sent it to the committee on
! constitutional amendments Senator
1 Prcudfoot became very angry at the
residing officer for declining to recog-
nize his right to have il sent to a
committee, and it is possible some
1 way viii be devised to get it up in
another way. 1t is supposed the com
| mittee in which the resolution now
rests by vote of the senate is unfav-
CRADLE to the resolution.
No Puritanical Sundays.
In like manner the Legislature has
practically made UP its mind that
there will be no new legislation to
\ limiting sports and amusements on
4 Sunday The two committees, on
4 either side, have heard extensive ar
guments on this question Some of
I the strongest possible arguments
have been presented for closing in
4 upon the Sunday theatres especially,
] and generally protecting the day by
legislation; but the house committee
/ at once reported adversely to the leg
iislation and the senate will not take
/ action.
No School Legislation
About the only possible school leg
| islation that is in sight is bill to
4 abolish all township or school dis
/ trict treasurers and have the school
! secretaries draw warrants on the
| county treasurer. The members of
1 the legislature feel that the school
/ treasurers have had to do with Great
4 ing sentiment against the proposed
/ revision of the school laws than any
others and that it was largely be-
cause they did not wish to lose their
/ control of the school funds 1t is
/ stated that these funds amounted to
/ about eight million dollars last sum
mer. All hope of general school law
revision has been Abandoned because
of the storm of opposition aroused
III tne country. NOW ILLS Planned to-
pass one special law to cut out all
the school treasurers, in the expec-
tation that this will make possible
better consideration of school legis-
lation in the future.
Rebuke to College Men
The report of the visiting commit
tee to the state educational institu-
| tons makes recommendations as to
| appropriations that will be distinct
disappointment to the heads of these
| institutions; but the feature that will
attract most attention is the rebulle
given the boards for the unauthoriz-
ed erection of homes for the presi-
dents at Iowa City and Cedar Falls.
The committee does not go into de-
fails. but simply points out that the
law which was intended to restrict
the boards in just such matters was
in full force before the buildings
were commenced. The committee
puts up to the legislature to deter
mine whether or not to approve this
work.
The State university asked an in
crease of $72,500 annually for sup
port; TIE committee recommends an
increase of $4,000 annually in the
e,lnnort fund and for tho nayf two