Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-29
CARROLL TALKS OF LAWS
Iows's Governor Comments on Many
Enforcement Features.
EDUCATIONAL ACT IMPORTANT
Fire in Heart OF Des Moines During
Gale Close Can for MANY
Business Inter
estr.
tF'rom a staff Correspondent

tFrom a staff correspondent
DES MONIES. April ~2S.-tSpecial. Gov
ernor Carroll signed the last bill enacted
by the thirty-third general assembly to-
day. He gave out the following Interview:
THE Importance OF the legislation of the
recent session of the general assembly will
be better appreciated a few months from
now than It is at the present time. More
bills have been passed by the thirty-third
general assembly than were passed by the
thirty-second. and some OF them are equally
important with any measures passed in re-
cent years. Scarcely a more important
measure has ever been enacted than the
law creating the state Board of Educa-
ton. II has a great bearing. not only
upon the State university, the Agricultural
college and the State Teachers college,
but in a sense 1t affects our entire educa-
tional system, and the success or the fail
ure of the measure Is one of deep con-
Germ.
INC session OF the legislature has ever
passed so many statutes with regard to
law enforcement as the session which has
just closed. The law authorizing the dis
trict Judge to remove officials for neglect
Of duty puts II within the power OF every
community to have the laws properly en-
forced. and ! doubt not but that great
good is going to come from this l~egisla-
ton. A matter of no small Importance to
the travelling public is the law providing
for hotel inspection. This measure is per-
haps not so popular among the hotel peo-
pie. but the travelling men of the country,
especially those who must necessarily spend
a great portion of their lives in the hotels
OF the state, feel and appreciate the i'm
portance OF this measure.
ct believe alao that very much poOd will
result from the establishment of the con-
servation commission, which has been pro-
vided for by recent enactment. Another
measure of great Importance TO the farm
ing interests is that Of the establishment
OF a plant for the production Of hog serum
as a preventative of hog cholera. This is
somewhat experimental as yet. but II bears
about the same relation TO the hog inter
ests as the tuberculin test does TO the cat
tie interests. Secretary Wilson OF the Ag-
ricultural department is very much inter
ested in this matter and believes that it is
going 10 result in great good to the coun-
try generally.
Stringent Anti-Trust Law.
zone of the most stringent antitrust
laws enacted by any state in the union
was passed by the recent session of our
legislature and Will doubtless go a long
ways toward protecting the people
against the formation of these organiza-
lions.
THE entire military code Of the state
was revised and placed upon a plan in
harmony with the national law pertain
ing to the regular army. The guard of
the state will better appreciate the change
in our military code than will our civil.
ians, who are not so familiar with guard
I matters. The bill authorizing the execu-
tive council to remove officials for gross
neglect of duty. for malfeasance or mis-
feasance in office, for corruption. etc.
will also tend to give us better services
and bring about a better regard for Off
cial positions.
statutes were also enacted looking 70
the better protection of the labor inter
ests of the state. especially in the matter
of the assumption of risks. The i'm.
provements in the drainage laws and the
amendments to the primary election laws
are worthy of notice and are OF genera
interest.
MANY important matters failed to pass
during the recent session of the genera
assembly, but public attention has beer
called to them and the gAound work has
been laid for effective legislation in the
future. Among the more important ones
and those which will doubtless be up fol
consideration at future sessions OF ouI
legislature are the bills for the estab'
lishment Of a better system of road.
making; the consolidation of various de
partments Of the state government; tn,
abolition of the per diem system of com.
pensation wherever the same can be dis
pensed with; a revision OF the schoo
laws and of the tax laws of the state
the public utilities bill; the fixing Of
definite salaries in lieu Of the per diem
and other methods of compensation anC
the enlargement and identifying of the
capitol grounds. all of which will. anC
ought to. demand public attention durinl
the next two years"
Narrow EscaPe for Des MOineH.
The people OF Des MONIES feel that tn.