Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-18
Iowa
REGULATING THE HOTELS
Senate Passes Bill Containing Stlin-
gent Provisions.
CITIES MAY PENSION FIREMEN
w. A.. Young Concludes He Does Not
want the Job of Custodian OF
the Capital and His Nomi-
nation IL withdrawn.
From a staff Correspondent

tFrom a staff CorrespondentD
DIES MONIES. March 17.-CspccialD-The
senate passed today a DILL which was
originally introduced in the senate by
Smith OF Mitchell, but which has already
passed the house, intended to give pro-
lection to the travelling public by placing
stringent regulations on the hotels OF the
state as to fire escapes and safety APP
planes and fireproof construction, also
providing a state hotel inspector on salary,
who will look after the enforcement of the
law and shut up hotels that do not comply
with the law.
The senate also passed a substitute for
the house bill in regard to quarantine eX-
penses, leaving the control of quarantine
with the state board, but also pDvidins
that the local boards shall have greater
authority over the matter of expenses.
The senate also passed the following:
Frudden bill to authorize the state to
give to the city of Dubuque certain land
within that city.
smith of Des Moines bill to authorize,
under certain conditions, the formation of
road districts like the drainage districts.
Moon bill requiring the enclosure OF street
car platforms.
Bowman, house bill, to permit sentence
ing to hard labor in Jail men of any age.
removing the fifty-year limit.
kellogg. house bill. to authorize sub
mission OF questions at a city election as
we'll as at a general election.
Sammls bill legalizing acts OF corpora
lions not having seals.
The senate this afternoon passed the
| Saunders bill to authorize cities to create
a fund for the pensioning of old disabled
! firemen. also the bill from the house to
permit the trial Of persons for murder,
! while they are yet servinb sentence for a
lesser crime.
ptometr Bill In the House.
A prolonged discussion was brought out
in the house over n bill to give some regu-
! lation to optomstry and giving the state
| Board of Health additional power to liz
cense persons to practice o%ptoretry, It de-
welcomed into a general discussion of the acts
of the state Board of Health and the doc
tors In general. In the end the bill failed
OF passage having IS votes for and as
! against. One member had changed his vote
in order to move a reconsideration and
the bill will be brought up again.
Did Not Want to BE Custodian.
w. A. Young of Keokuk county, who was
appointed by Governor Carroll to be Gus
todian of the capitol bu lding and grounds.
after a consultation with the governor and
members of the senate decided he would
withdraw his name and today Governor
Carroll sent to the senate a communication
to that effect. Young would probably have
been confirmed though that Is not certain.
but the chief reason was that after investi-
cation he found that the job was one
which he would not care to have.
Little Highway Legislation.
Highway legislation for the session is
likely to be somewhat meager. The senate
passed n bill authorizing the betterment of
roads by the use of the drag, and also a
bill permitting townships to go back TO
the old system of a dozen road supervisors
to a township with each farmer working
out his taxes" as in the old time. There
is on the senate calendar a bill favorably
recommended to authorize the establish
ment of road districts somewhat after the
style of drainage districts, upon petition
4 of resident property owners and a report
Of the county engineer. In such districts
it will be possible to make roads and as
sess half the cost to abutting property.
The plan of having state bonus for high
ways has not met with great favor and
the plan of having a state engineer and
directing all road building from one CEN
trail authority is not ripe.
Fish In the Big Rivers.
Senator Quigley desires that the Iowa
legislature memorabilia congress to take
over complete control of the Mississippi
and Missouri rivers insofar as 1t relates to
fishing matters. 1t Is found that SEEMING
fish is carried on in the middle of the
rivers without any chance for the state
laws Of either state to regulate. If the
federal government should take over con-
troll and pass a law forbidding SEEMING ex-
cept with large mesh seins the matter
would be regulated promptly.
Representative Drury says that one OF