Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-09
Iowa
FIGHT ON NEW SCHOOL BILL
Measure for Single Board in Iowa
Will Develop Hot Debate.
REGENTS ROUSE IRE OF MEMBERS
spend Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars
without Authority OF Law TO
Build House for President
of Iowa University.
tFrom a staff Correspondent

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DIES MONIES, March S-(Special.)-The
fight on the floor of the senate the COM
ing week for the bill to establish a state
board OF education to have control of the
three state colleges is expected to develop
some interesting facts. Two matters have
just come to the attention OF the legisla-
ture which will aid in the passage of the
bill. One is the feet that at the State uni
versity a home for the president has been
erected by the trustees out Of the millage
taxes at a cost of about SIS, 900. and there
was in fact no warrant of law for the use
Of the money in this way. Members of the
senate are saying that II is just such lack
of business management and disregard of
the plain laws of the state that is forcing
the one board idea to the front. The other
fact is that a professor from Ames has
been at work all the session on the floor
Of the house to oppose the bill, OF at least
has made that a part OF his work. while
still remaining on the payroll Of the Az
ricultural college. He has been ostensibly
helping a few Of the leading members in
matters of their personal bills, but in fact
has reported all along on the attitude of
members toward the Board of Sducation
bill. These and other things will add in
terest to the debate.
Jealous of Young ~Senator
Some of the older senators are beginning
to feel a little jealous of the success and
aggressiveness of Senator George Cosson
of Audubon. who, with the passage through
the senate Saturday Of the creamery COM
petition bill, has five big bills to his credit.
These include the bill to provide a way for
securing the removal of officials who re-
fuse to enforce the laws, a bill better de-
filming the duties and responsibilities of
county attorneys, a bill TO require that
sheriffs shall be in fact law-enforcing
officers, and a bill to limit the time for
taking appeals in criminal cases to six
months instead of a year. A mere state
ment of the character of these bills shows
they are OF great Importance. His bill to
revise the law as to the office of attorney
general has not yet been passed by the
senate. OF course, some of these bills may
fail in the house. but it is certain that no
member of either house has to his credit
any list of more important bills than these.
Cosson used to be a telegraph operator in
Perry and along the line of the Milwau-
kee, and as such commenced the study Of
law. He is a young and persistent worker
and has had the enterprise TO go right
after big things.
Department of horticulture.
The Gillilland bill to restablish the De-
partment OF Horticulture and Forestry
would place that department on a perma-
nent footing, while the nurserymen of the
state feel that 1t is and always has been
in a precarious position. In fact. there has
been for several years talk of consolidating
the department. with the Department o.
Agriculture as a measure of economy. The
Gillilland bill wehld give tie horticultur-
lists permanent occupancy OF the room now
used and also the room which the capitol
custodian has. II would place at the dis
posal OF the state horticultural society
5000 n year for publication of bulletins
regarding horticultural and forestry mat-
tiers. The officers OF the society shall have
control of the new department. The So
ciety, as such, already receives an annual
allowance for it's support and the publica-
ton OF the annual report.
Pure Boot Bill.
1t is understood that Iowa manufacturer
of shoes will present arguments in support
} of the Bruce pure boot blu which APP
plies the principles of the pure food, pure
seed and pure paint laws to the making OF
boots and shoes. The bill provides that il
l shall be unlawful "for any person to sell
any boot or shoe with a counter. heel, in
sole, outsole, middle-sole or slipsole made
in whole or In part of leather board,
strawboard, leatheroid. fibre board. horn
fibre. pate or any substitute for leather
whatsoever, without clearly. legibly and in
the English language stamping with a
metal die in plain view, upon the outside
OF the outsole of the boot or shoe. where
and by whom such boot or shoe was made
and what substitute for leather. II any,
has been used The provision does not
extend to rubber boots or a rubber heel
nor to steel OF. wood filters in the shank,
or to cork soles. The same bill requires
stamping as convict made the shoes and
boots made with prison labor. This would
affect a considerable industry carried or
In Iowa,
Controversy on Advertising.
Members of the house committee having
{ in charge the Hansen bill to prohibit GER
tain advertising I'm newspapers state that
the showing in opposition to this bill. as
) made by the newspaper men of the state
, before the committee. was one of the
strongest ever made against any bill. There
is very little likelihood of the bill becom-
ing a law. That some OF the members feel
very deeply that the publication OF some
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