Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-13
BILL PASSES UPPER HOUSE SET
TING ASIDE THIS SUM FOR AL
LlSON PEDESTAL WITH AMEND
MENT LIMITING EXPENDITURE
TWO APPROPRIATION
BILLS PRESENTED
STATE UNIVERSITY WANTS $3.50,
500 AND STATE FAIR $751; 900; SU-
PREME COURT PASSES ON PRl-
MARY CONTENTION.
Des Moines Bureau OF
The Ottumwa Courier.

| DeS MONIES Bureau or
The Ottumwa Courier.
Des Moines, Feb. il
The senate appropriations commit
tee recommended the bill to appropri
ate $4,000 for building the pedestal
for the Allison monument in Des
Moines and the senate Immediately
passed the bill with an amendment
limiting the state expenditure to thir.
ty per cent of the expenditure to be
made from other sources.
Two big appropriation bills were
| presented.
An appropriation of S1S100 is
asked for the state fair, chiefly for
new amphitheatre, also an appropria-
! ton OF S69S, 500 for the state univer-
sity, including 100000 for a wom-
ans building.
Ruling on Primary Law.
The supreme court today upheld
the primary election law in the mat
ter of getting names Of candidates on
the ticket in the case brought from
Madison county. The lower court had
directed that the names Of the Demo-
cratic candidate for senator be placed
on the ticket, though he was not nom
mated at primary or a convention.
The supreme court reversed this.
Liability Bills Cause Trouble.
There is one thing causing more
trouble for legislators than the bills
which undertake to change the rule
of law in Iowa as to the assumption
Of risk on the part of workman
who remains at his work with llnowl-
edge of its dangers. After the Clark
son bill had been talked about for
two hours on Wednesday it went to
the judiciary committee of the senate
where a hearing was had on the Pc
terson bill, which is somewhat
broader than the Clarkson bill. In the
discussion of this bill, James G. Da-
Wis, of the Northwestern railroad,
took very moderate position and in
Dictated that the corporations would
be content to have a bill that would
follow the lines Of the federal law, es-
pecially in limiting liability for
deaths to direct any near heirs or de-
pendent heirs, and also they would
prefer a clause preventing contingent
fees to attorneys in damage suits.
these bills contemplate increasing the
liability of the companies, and there
should be some protection to them.
He looked forward to time when the
continental system will be in vogue,
of fixing definitely the amount of re
covery and requiring it to be paid
in all cases.
Many Bills Reported.
The house judiciary committee has
put on the calendar fine line OF
| business for the house. The most in
teresting bill is the senate bill legal
izing settlement of cases in which
the state is involved, by the attorney
general Other senate bills recon
mended for passage were the rattle
snake bounty bill, uhich was placed
in the hands of Representative LARA
bee; the Nichols bill requiring a coun
ty auditor to foot up the assessmen
rolls and not to accept the footings
of assessors; the Francis bill requir
ing lights on steam and sail boats OF
Iowa lakes; the bill to require thu
county doctor to attend to quarantine
cases; the Moore bill to require tina
surety companies shall deposit secur
tiles with the auditor Of state thu
same as insurance companies; thu
Sullivan bill defining a bucket shol
and forbidding bucket shop transac
tons. This will keep the house bus.
so it will not want to take a recess
| for holiday.