Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-05
Legislature Will Give State
Aid to Memorial at
Des Moines
ON CHILDREN
PREMIUM
Representative Fulliam Presents Bill to
Pay Mothers 81 for Birth Of Every
Child Reported-$,5,o00 Wanted for
Erection Of Anti Toxin Laboratory
Other News.


Des Moines, Feb. 5.-Senator Saund-
ers and Representative Holmes intro
duced bills today to appropriate S1O,-
900 for the erection of the pedestal for
a monument to William B. Allison in
Des Moines, the monument itself to be
paid for out of public subscriptions and
to be located on or adjacent to the
capitol grounds. A commission con-
sisting of the governor. curator, chair
man of the Allison commission and a
senator and representative, is to have
charge Of the work. Popular subscrip-
tions are already being solicited.
In the house Fulliam introduced a
bill, to encourage the reporting of
births by requiring the county to pay
81 to each mother Of child who re-
ports the same to til. county authori-
ties within three months after birth.
Among other bills was one by Nc
Sianus for an appropriation for So.
t.isrs' monument in Ke, kuk; by Brown,
to require that the pay for itinerant
venders' licenses srould go to the-coun-
ty road fund; by Smith. of Des Moines,
to appropriate $4,000 for an anti-toxin
laboratory at Iowa City; by Felt, pro-
viding way to erect county hospitals;
by Kendig., to appropriate for new ele-
vators in the state house.
The senate passed a bill to permit
park boards to pay for paving on
streets adjacent and refused to concur
in the house amendment adding to the
number of railroad maps authorized.
The house passed bill permitting
The return to the old system for road
! districts in part; also the senate bill
lextending the time for the sale OF oid
stocks of paint.
! In the Ida county contest case the
committee disposed of everything ex-
cept thirty eight ballots. If these are
counted Baxter retains his seat. If moi
counted Corrie wins by five votes.
| The appropriations committees try
ing to figure out some way to reduce
the total cost of the roster of Iowa
soldiers now being printed. At first 81
500 was asked and secured to do the
work. 1t is half done and $12,50O is
wanted to continue the work. There
| will be 10000 sets of eight volumes
and they are costing about $1.25 a vol
ume and cheap at that. 1t means the
state will have 100000 tied up in this
| A NJ -iS have 9
much smaller edition and then have
stereotype matrices made for use in fu-
ture editions. The work entailed great
additional labor on Adjutant Genera
Thrift, who has just retired from office
but 1t is possible that Colonel Crossley
will continue in the direction Of the
compilation. Harvey Reid is at work
on the historical portion of the work
The report of Adjutant General Thrift
in the hands of the printer, shows thai
aside from this work his office has ac-
com plished a great deal in the way Of
bringing the guard up to very high
standard, equiping the companies with
modern implements and securing the
BEST possible discipline.
The Saunders bills relating to the Of
flee of sheriff are those prepared by
the sheriffs' association. One of them
makes it clear and positive that a sher-
| iff gets mileage for serving papers, anG
is retroactive, so that mileage earned
will be secured The others make com
pulsory rather than permissive the pay
| Of $1,000 for a first deputy in some
counties and $500 In others, and with
regard to payment for boarding pris
oners It appears that in some counties
mileage is withheld, in others there Is
constant effort to compel lower sala-
ries for deputies, etc. The sheriffs want
these laws fixed so there will be nc
question about what is meant.
Professor Mcbride of the state uni
versity, was here yesterday in the In
| terest of the movement to have Gre
ated a state conservation commission
with appropriation of $4,000 annually
the purpose being as set forth:
"To investigate thru the labors of the
secretary and hts assistants as may be
specified the present condition of the
streams and rivers of Iowa, their avail
ability for use in water power, the ma
ture of the present channels, useful
ness for purposes of drainage with
possibilities of Improvement and al
conditions which have respect to the
possibilities of improvement, the nature
of the banks and borders of such
streams, tendencies to erosion, and al
conditions which have respect to the
wise conservation of our lands, to in
vestigate the relation of native fores1
to water supply of such streams, and te
other conditions of fortunate agricult-
! ure; the possibility of the improve
ment of such lakes in Iowa as now
belong to the state, and the establish
ment where advisable of state forests
and forestry experiment stations; the
relation sustained by both forest an6
stream to the preservation within the
boundaries of the state of such varie-