Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-08
IOWA SENATE IN SECRET SESSION
TURNS DOWN cARRoLL's CON.
TRoL BOARD APPoINTEE.
viLLiScA MANS NAME
AT ONCE PRESENTED
Senate Approves All Selections on New
Educational Board-saIary Increase
Voted to State House Employes-
House Accepts Report of Committee
on Hospitals.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. April S-The senate
this morning turned down the COVER
nor's appointment of Judge Conner for
the board of control. The senate went
into secret session early to consider
the report of the committee and re-
maned in session for over an hour,
during which time a spirited debate
took place on the appointments In
the end Conner's appointment was
turned down.
Governor Carroll Immediately sent
70 the senate the name of f. f. Jones,
of Villisca, as a member of the board
of control
The appointments oh the board of
education We're all approved without
controversy by the senate. There had
been some talk of a fight because of
the fact that no college graduate had
been placed on the board, but this was
not done.
The senate put off the fight as be-
tween the lumber trust and commerce
council until afternoon, then passed
the fish and game bill, amended so
as to forbid winter fishing, and the bill
fixing salaries of clerks and employees
about the state house. The latter made
several Increases in the salary and
office force in the departments. The
senate indefinitely postponed the tax
commission bill and the bill to create
horticultural department.
The house considered at length the
report of the committe on hospitals,
and there was much opposition to ac-
cepting it because 1t was incomplete
and indefinite. The report was finally
adopted. The house passed the anti
cigaret bill, the bill requiring air
brakes on street cars, and the bill for
bidding drinking on trains; also the
bill forbidding bawdy houses.
The legislature recalled from the
governor the Seely bill exempting from
taxation stocks of foreign corpora
tions. - "a -9L
There seems to be little prospect Of
the passage of the Seeley bill look
ing to the teaching of agriculture in
the common schools Of the state. The
bill, in the form in which it finally
passed the senate, would do little more
than give, warning to the teachers of
the state that within three years the
teaching of the rudiments of agricul-
ture would be required in the COM
mon schools and especially in the
rural schools of the state. Neither is
there to be anything done to provide
for the education of teachers for this
work at the state teachers college.
or for any other special branch. Pres
ident Seerley of the teachers coll
lege wanted help for giving teachers
training in commercial lines. as there
is now great demand for teachers of
this kind, but the legislature turned
it down.
The Carroll bill for the creation Of
new "board of public health" is
sleeping in the hands of the senate
appropriations committee where 1t is
likely to remain. On the house side the
bill never even got to first base The
idea of creating a new board, of al
most unlimited powers, W Ildllule eP-
erything from vaccination to instruc-
ton in butter making and prosecuting
for sale of impure paint. never caught
but a few of the senator's. The senate
committee is trying to figure out how
much the new plan would cost more
than the present one but it is hard
thing to estimate as the appropriation
in the bill Is indefinite in character
and the expenditures might be almost
without limit.
The adoption of the bill to appro-
pirate for the national guard means
that. henceforth the guard will have
just $4,000 a year more to use than
it has now-$40, 900 from the state and
100000 from the federal government.
The guard will be required to have
four machine gun batteries and some
other new organizations, but the
greatest expense will be in increasing
the membership Of the companies.
This will make 1t very much more diff
ficult to keep the full quota Of COM
panies and a larger number of dis
bandrleIlts may be expected. The ten