Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-10
SENATE REFUSES PLACE ON
BOARD OF CONTROL TO FOR
MER CONGRESSMAN CHOSEN
TO SUCCEED coWNlE.
GOVERNOR NAMES
A VILLISCA MAN
NAME OF F. r. JONES is THEN
SENT OUT FOR CONFIRMATION
ALL MEMBERS OF BOARD OF
EDUCATION ARE APPROVED.
Des Moines Bureau of
The Ottumwa Courier.

The Ottumwa Courier.
Des Moines, April s.
The senate this morning turned
down the governors appointment oi
Judge Conner for the board of con
troll. The senate went into secret SEES
sion early to consider the report oil
the committee and remained in ses
sion for over an hour during which
time spirited debate took place On
the appointments. In the end the
Corners appointment was turned
down.
Jones for cownIe's Place.
Governor Carroll Immediately sent
to the senate the name Of F. F. Jones
Of Villisca as member of the board
of control.
The appointments on the board OF
education were all approved without
controversy by the senate. There had
been some talk of a fight because OF
the fact that no college graduate had
been placed on the board, but this did
not materialize.
The board as it Is to be made up if
the governors nominations are acted
upon favorably is as follows:
For the term of two years: A. B.
Funk, Republican Spirit Lake; George
T. Baker, Democrat, Davenport; T. D.
Foster, Democrat, Ottumwa.
For the term OF two years-P. K.
Holbrook, Republican, Onawa; G. K.
Brenton, Republican; Dallas Center;
D. D. Murphy, Democrat, Elkader.
For the term of six years.. H.
Trewin, Republican, Cedar Rapids;
Roger Leavitt, Republican, Cedar Rap
ids; E. T. schoentgen. Democrat,
Council Bluffs.
The senate put Off the fight as be-
tween the lunbe' trust and the com
merce counsel until this afternoon,
and then passed the fish AMI game
bill amended so as to forbid winter
fishing and the bill fixing the salaries
OF the clerks and employees about tho
state house. The latter made several
increases in salaries and Office force in
the departments.
The senate indefinitely postponed
the tax commission bill and the bill
to create a horticultural department.
House Adopts Asylum Report.
The house considered at length the
report of the committee on hospitals
and there was much opposition to ac-
cepting it, because 1t was incomplete
and indefinite. The report was finally
adopted The house passed the anti
cigarette bill, the bill requiring air.
brakes on street cars and the bill for
bidding drinking on trans. also the
bill forb,dIing bawdy houses. This leg
islature recalled from the governor
the Seeley bill exempting from taxa
ton the stocks of foreign corpora
tions.
Want a Drink When They Want It.
Members of the sitting committee in
the house ,elieve a man should have
the privilege of ordering wine or a
Martini if he wants it when he goes
into the dining car. and they have re-
fused to permit the Bruce bill prohib-
itins all drinking on trains to come to
vote
Instead the committee prepared a
favorable report on the Meredith
house substitute, which prohibits
drunkenness, publicly using profane
language and disturbing the peace,
and constitutes conductors and sta
rests and turn offenders over to town
authorities.
Now comes the Brotherhood of Rail
way Conductors and insist that the
Bruce bill be recommended in it's orig
inal form. They say the passage of a
substitute will require concurrence By
the senate and possibly defeat the
bill Representative Dodds is repre-.
senting their interests and the slit.
ing committee was prevailed upon to
delay it's report on the Meredith sub
stitute until some sort of an agree
ment is reached.
Salary Boosts Recommended.
Members board of control, from So,
900 to $500.
Governor, from $4,000 to $500
Auditor, secretary and treasurer Of
state from $4,000 to $500.
Believing that 1t is absurd and IN
fair to pay the governor Of Iowa less
than judges Of the supreme court OF
the president of the state university
the committee on retrenchment ant
reform, composed of the chairmen o.
the most important standing commit
tees of the house and senate yesterday
introduced in the house bill ircreas
ing Governor CarrolFs salary from
$4,000 to $500 year
BY the same bill the salaries of tho
auditor, treasurer and secretary C
state are increased from $4,000 to So,
500. In reality the increase is from
| 50 600 to $500, as these three Off
GERS now receive $500 a year for serv
i ice on the executive council which
will be denied them IL the salary is fix
ed at $500
| Members of the board of control ar