Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-07
PEDESTAL FOR MONUMENT
State to Provide One for Statue Of
Late Senator Allison.
BOUNTY OFFERED FOR BABIES
Effort Making 20 Cut Down Expense
of soldier Roster, which, ~ Press
emit Plans Are Carried out, VIII
he Thousand.
1From q sad correspondent.l

From a staff Correspondent
DIES MONIES. Feb. g. (Special.)-A
monument 70 the late Senator Allison Is to
be erected in Des Molnes upon ground adj
jacent to the state capitol. A bill to sp-
! propriate $4,000 for the building of a
pedestal for said monument was introduced
today by Senator Saunders and Represen-
tative Holmes. It provides for a commits
sion consisting Of Governor Carroll. Cura-
tor ShambAugh, General Dodge and two
members of the legislature to construct the
pedestal and virtually to locate the monu-
ment. The monument itself Is 10 be con-
structed from funds raised by popular
subscription and this work is in progress
now.
The only work done in open session today
was passage of a bill in the senate TO au-
thorize park boards to pay for paving and
refusal OF the, senate TO concur in a house
extravaganza to add fifteen maps to the
number which may be given each member.
The house passed a small road bill and
the bill to extend time for sale Of unlabeled
stocks of paint.
Bounty offered for Reporting Births.
A bill OF Representative Fulliam requires
that the county auditor shall pay 81 to
each mother of a child born in Iowa upon
her making report of the same 70 the
county auditor within three months after
birth. Other bills:
BY Felt-To authorize counties to build
BY White-For automobile Insurance.
BY .Sheldon-To appropriate $4,000 for
new elevators at state house.
BY Dabney-To exempt mutual phone
companies from taxation.
BY HolmesEChanging rule as to proof
OF age Of children in factories.
L Nv MCMannG-Tn QnnTOnrilta Il mn fnr
soldiers monument in Keokuk.
By Brownie have fees of itinerant
vendors paid into road fund.
, BY Hamill-To amend drainage laws.
Contest Case Nearing End.
The. contest committee having in charge
the case from Ida county today disposed of
everything in the case except consideration
Of thirty-eight ballots. These were counted
by the judges of election, but it is in
sisted they were Improperly counted. If
they are thrown out Corrie, the republican,
will take the seat of Baxter, the ineum-
bent. The committee will continue to hear
arguments on this question and later will
decide the one point.
Cost of Soldiers Roster.
The appropriations committee are try
Ing to figure out some way to reduce the
total cost of the roster of Iowa soldiers
now being printed, At first $500 was
asked and secured to do the work. 1t
is half done and, sl2, 500 is wanted to
continue the work. There will be 10, 1000
sets of eight volumes, and they are cost
ing about $1.25. 1t means the state will
have slo0, 900 tied UP in this work. A
plan suggested is to have a much smaller
edition and then have stereotype mat
rices made for use in future editions.
The work c1tailed great additional labor
on Adjutan. General, Thrift. who has
just retired from office, but it is posi-
BILE that Colonel Crossley will continue
in the direction of the compilation. Har-
vey Reid is at work on the historical
portion of the work. The report of Adj
jutant General Thrift, in the hands OF
the printer, shows that aside from this
work his office has accomplished a great
deal in the way of bringing the guard
up to a high standard. e~quipping the
companies with modern Implements and
securing the best possible discipline.
What SheriRs Want.
The Saunders bills relating to the office
of sheriff are those prepared by the
sheriffs' association. One of them makes
1t clear and positive hat a sheriff gets
mileage for serving papers and is
retroactive, so that mileage earned will
be secured. Tn others make compul-
sorry, rather than permissive. the pay of
$1,000 for a first deputy in some coun-
ties and $500 in others and with regard
to payment for boarding prisoners. It
appears that in some counties mileage
is withheld, in others there is a constant
effort to compel lower salaries for depu-
ties, etc. The sheriffs want these laws
fixed so there will be no question about
what is meant
Half Million Estate in Court.
The uaoat .,oInnninoua n~aAa.o -.az-a -.
passed through the court in Audubon county
is now being placed on the record by County
Clerk McGinnis. II comprises about sixty
records and mentions Iowa and Illinois
farm lands valued at more than 100000
The suit in which the huge document is a
part is that OF Lydia l.. Leet, guardian for
Helen Leet, and Anus Boysen. guardian
for William Leet, against the estate Of the
late F. NJ. Leet. F. M. Leet died in 1906,
leaving a widow and two children. Helen
Leet one OF the heirs, now coming OF age
asks that her portion OF the estate be set
aside for her sole use and benefit
City Goes 90 Commission.
The Des Moines city council will spend
no more time and money dickering with the
railroads II regard to a viaduct for Des
Moines. They will put the fate OF the
viaduct in the hands Of the State Railway
commission. An ordinance TO this effect
Al Active Salesman-A Bee Want Ad.
was passed by the council today. For
twenty years the city has been trying to
get the railroads entering Des Moines to
build a viaduet.