Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-20
Wants State to Appropriate For
improvement OF Park Where
Soldiers Are Buried
SENATE MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS
Liberal Appropriations For Rivers.
Harbors and Waterways Asked =
House Adopts Anti -Bucketshop Bill
Senate Refuses to Adjourn For
Washinston's Birthday.
,ecial to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. Feb. 2O.-The legislature
of North Dakota by resolution, mas
asked the legislatures of Iowa and Ne
braska to make an appropriation 20
improve the park which has been es-
tabished by North Dakota on ground
donated by the federal government at
the battle of Glasgow Hills, in North
Dakota, where number Of Iowa and
Nebraska soldiers are buried. The bat
tie was with Indians in 1868.
The legislature of South Dakota also
sent to Iowa resolution calling for a
constitutional amendment to forbid
polygamy and asking Iowa to adopt
the same.
The senate adopted the Frudden res
olution for memorial to congress
asking for liberal appropriations for
rivers and harbors and Improvement
of canals and waterways
The senate passed the Whipple bill
for the education of the deaf and
blind, the Francis bill relative to Of
ficers holding over the Savage bill 20
permit the agricultural department TO
issue bulletins, the Moon bill relating
to pay of assessors in cities, the house
bill to raise the age at which persons
may be admitted to the industrial
schools and also the Saunders bill 10
prosecute for immortality.
The senate refused to take adjourn
ment for Washington's birthday.
The house passed the Sullivan bill
to forbid the operation of bucketshops
in Iowa: also the soldier roster publ
cas;on bill with the number of sets re-
dueed to 2,50o, and the bill to COM
mence all terms of county officers on
the second secular day of the year.
Special to Tines Republican.
Des Moines, Feb. 2O.--Six weeks Of
the legislature have now been con-
sumed and about thirty bills have
either gone to the governor or are
bills that had passed both houses was
twelve, and up to last evening eighteen
more were added. Perhaps the most
important of these is the bill which de-
fines the duty of sheriff and makes
it clear that he is not only to make
arrests but to ferret out crime and file
informations. A bill to provide
rattlesnake bounty and a bill to pro-
vide way for effecting settlement of
estates Of absent persons are in the
list. The following is the record for
the past two weeks:
Bills Passed Both Houses.
S. r. S-Reauiring interest on public
money in banks.
S. F. Defining the duties of sher-
ifs.
S. F. 11-Giving $50 for burial of old
soldier.
H. r. 7-Authorizing dredging of
Medium lake.
H. F. 9-Settlement of estates of alb
sentees.
S. F. 26-Rattlesnake bounty.
H. F. 34-Ice for officers at soldiers
home.
S. F. 37-Revision Of law as to as
sessment rolls.
S. F. 50-Legaliziiig act.
S. f. 45-Settlement Of claims by
state.
S. F. ss-Transfer of certificates of
pure bred stock.
S. F. 1O0-Authorizing pay for water
works surveys.
S. F. 102-Pay of county attorneys in
two counties.
S. r. 154-Allison monument appro-
priation.
H. F. 145-Legalizing act.
H. F. 17O-Increasing fire tax levy
in cities.
s. F. 172-Admitting fathers to SOL
diers' home.
H. F. 179-Pay Of jurors at $3.50 a
day.
Passed House Alone.
H. F. Appropriation for Briggs
removal.
H. F. 141-Publishing motor vehicle
numbers.
H. F. 157-Legalizing act.
H F.. 161-Admission to industrial
schools.
H. F. 20s-Revision Of quarantine
regulations.
Passed Senate Alone.
S. F. 22-Aid for libraries and hos
pitals.
S. +. 33-Direct inheritance tax.
s. F. 48-Increased aid to county
fairs.
S. F. s1-Assumption of risk in en-
ployment.
s. Il. S2--Publication rules of health
boards.
S. F. 9S-Legalizing act.
s. f. 1O1-Changing poor farms to
county homes.
S. F. 1os-Revising ballot law as to
names.
S. F. 117-sheriff to employ de-
tectives.
S. F. lss-Pay for inaugural cere-
monies. ).