The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-03-25
ONE SALOON FOR
EACH 500 PEOPLE
CHANGE IS MADE ri PROPOSED
TEMPERANCE MEASURE.
CORPORATION BILL KILLED
Proposition to Demand Annual Re-
ports and Taxes is Defeated in
the senate-other News
Of Legislature.

state House, DeS MONIES, mar. "a
The house committee on suppression
Of intemperance today voted to amend
the senate bill so as to permit one
saloon to each five hundred inhabi-
tants in municipalities under the
mulct law The bin as originally
drawn provided for one saloon, for
each 1000 inhabitants.
Corporation Bill Killed.
The senate spent good part of the
forenoon session debating the bill re-
quiring all corporations doing bust
ness in Iowa to pay an annual fee
and make annual report to the secre-
uary of state.
Bill failed to pass by vote OF IA
to 26.
The senate passed the Gillilland
bill quarantining against brown tailed
moth. ~
The house spent the forenoon in
consideration of the Whipple senate
bill for board of control for state edu-
cational institutions. Bill passed by
a vote of 20 TO 20.
Taxes and Bountles.
The house has passed the Jacobs
bill providing that the stock of all ma.
tional, state and savings banks and
loan and trust companies shall be
assessed to the individual stakeholder.
Where groundhogs are as thick as
squirrels, which Is the condition in
Clinton county, by Senator Wilson'S
account, county supervisors win here
after be empowered to authorize the
auditors to pay a bounty of rs cents
on each ground hog killed within the
county.
Though many Of the senators admit
ted that they had never seen ground
hog, even on Feb 2, they voted for
the bill, which has already passed the
house.
New steel Grand stand.
The house bill appropriating $780,
900 for steel amphitheatre at the
state fair grounds was passed by the
senate. Senator Gillilland and the
others who opposed the measure yer.
bally, cast their votes for the appfo-
priation, and the Iowa state fair yisi-
tors during the coming summer viii
be able to enjoy the convenience OF
new, permanent amphltheatre OF
fireproof construction.
Brand All MIX Cans.
Branded milk and cream cans are
provided for in a bill introduced in
the Iowa legislature yesterday by re.
quest by Senator DE Wolf. The
measure carries the provision that
shippers of milk and cream shall file
with the secretary of stare the des-
cription of the mark by which they
will identify their milk cans. The
bill further provides that the notice
of the shippers claim to his distinc-
tive brand must be published three
times in weekly newspaper, in add
ton to being filed with the secretary
Of state. A penalty of from $25 to
500 will be the punishment for viola
tons of the law or for the changing
or erasing of brands on cans.
Saloon Men Are Heard.
For the first time during the session
| saloon men yesterday broke their 81
lence and through their attorneys
went before the house committee on
the suppression of intemperance and
presented their side of the case. Mr.
Birdsall, of Waterloo said that city
| is known as one of the best regulated
towns in the Mississippi valley. II
has twenty-four saloons and under the
Moon bill would be required to close
FIVE of these, as the 1905 census gives
Waterloo population of $4,000.
The attorneys called attention to
the unfairness of denying. a renewal
of consent to saloons whose permits
expire first after the Moon bill is in
effect.
Senator Van Law spoke on his bill
prohibiting saloons within 300 feet OF
public libraries He said the women
| and children of Marshalltown were
subjected to offensive experiences on
their way to and from the public IL
brary at Marshalltown and in other
Iowa cities. Representative Ballufi
asked him which was there first, the
saloon or the library Senator Van
Law said the saloon was there first
but that the library had been built on
the only available public site.
Resubmission Problems.
The opponents OF the resubmisstoT
amendment have raised an important
point in the discussion OF tllat ques
ton. II has been claimed by those
appeared before the committee urg
ing the passage of the resolution tina
| Il was the duty OF the legislature Z
give the people an opportunity q
vote upon any question they desired
The point is now made that the Ian
guage Of that part OF the constitu
tion which refers TO the amendment
provides that any amendment may b
proposed in either house and
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