Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-16

many for incompetency and for cruel
! ty. 1t is the invariable rule that
where an attendant fails to treat
patients with the greatest of care and
consideration she is Immediately dis
charged. AS there are over 1,400 EN-
ployes at the state institutions the
board and the superintendent have
difficulty in finding suitable persons
to fill all the places.
The committee is strictly a house
committee as the senate refused early
in the session to engage in the probing
business for political purposes. 1t is
expected the report of the house COM
mittee will be in about the time of
the appointment for the place on the
board of control, which latter is being
held back pending the report.
The house and the senate have now
passed separate bills relating to pri-
maries, both with the same purpose,
and it is expected that in some way
the matter will be got into shape for
conference. Either bill would remove
the alphabetical advantage now en-
| joyed by those whose names COM
mence with letters early on the list.
The manner in which the senate
treated Chapman's bill to regulate the
size of type in which newspapers shall
print news of death by suicide was
distinct warning against freak legisla-
! ton of all kinds. Chapman is deeply
in earnest in restricting the newspa-
per, though he is always against every
J thing that might affect his own pro-
fession but he managed to get only
eight votes for the bill. But fer the
fact that some personal pledges had
been made, the newspaper men present
would have cut this number to two or
three.
The state of Iowa, in connection
with the federal government, is just
completing one of the finest rifle
ranges in the whole country, and this
year it will be used by the guardsmen
in their state contest. The new ap-
preparation bill for the support of the
guard provides for four rifle ranges
and appropriates for them. A few
years ago the state had two and de-
cided upon change of plan and the
having of one good range. The bill in
creases the regular annual allowance
for the guard from 100000 year to
S153,600 a year, and 1T will require
that companies be larger. The bill
has passed the house.
The bill to transfer the insurance de-
partment and place it under the con-
troll of Governor Carroll is likely to be
reached in the senate this week. Just
: how hard the fight is to be nobody
I TO A n
work against the bill has been done
around the hotels, but nobody seems
!, to be working very hard for the bill
1t is stated that some effort has been
made to secure a pledge as to the
appointment of the head of the depart
!, ment of some one who will be accept
! able to the insurance interests, and i
, it known that if such pledge could be
: secured the bill could be passed very
:, quickly Negotiations have been I'M
der way the past week for settle
: ment that will be satisfactory al
S With regard to the discovery tina
e members of the pharmacy board have
been padding their per diem account
for some time and in fact drawing pa
II for practically the whole year, a men
It Der Of the executive council state'
r yesterday that there is nothing new il
!. it. The matter has been threshed on
e before and an effort was made by Coy
4. Cummins to have the legislature pro
d vide a salary instead of nominally
,r per diem, as it was long ago admi
N ted that $1,000 a year is not extravs
,e giant for the work done. The bills hav
IS been audited by the executive counc
to right along for many years and n
t. member of the council has complaine
d. of them or tried to have them change
h. and the fact that pay was drawn fc
,e the full year was we'll known at a
" times. Some time ago Mr.. Eaton. tn
ID new member, who Is to be retaine
st on the board, announced he intende
to charge for only parts Of days an
only for such time as he was engage
away from home. This brought ma
E. tiers to crisis, and Goss has been r
moved by the governor. There al
. about fifteen candidates for the plat
- on the board filled by Goss, and SON
~ of them have been very active. 1t
~ stated that in all there are at lea
le forty candidates for places on tt
board. but as the Goss vacancy has
= be filled by a Democrat the numbt
'i of candidates for that place is NJ
very large.
> President Storms and others of tt
e. state college at Ames appeared befol
~ -. the senate appropriations committt
10 Friday afternoon to present in deta
% the needs of the college. None of tho
lss who appeared for the college were d
" posed to talk. One of the college me
70 whose name could not be used, salt
ie 81 actually feel Inundated in comil
= here I feel that we ought to sit ba'
" and ask the members to come to I
VI and nothing but the fact that we ha
:, in our care great institution h
pe induced us to appear. We apparent
Sc have come to time when the publ
ne and the newspapers alike treat us
Gu if we were intruders when we cor
ne here to present merely the facts in
vi GARD TO the work we are DOING Tt