Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26
Iowa
BOARD FOR THREE SCHOOLS
Legislature Decides on Consolidation
of Control.
NO REPORTS BY CORPORATIONS
Bill TO Increase Fees for Examine
lions Before the state Medical
Board IL KILLED in the
Senate.
NO REPORTS BY CORPORATIONS
cFrom a staff correspondent }

ttrom a starr correspondent
DIES MONIES. Ia. March 3.-tSpe-
cial)-The three educational institutions
of Iowa will be placed under a single
Board of Control. The house this morn
ing passed the senate bill by Whipple
with this provision. The Institutions TO
come under the single board are the
state university at Iowa City, the state
Agricultural college at Ames and the
State Normal school at Cedar Falls.
The new law provides that the governor
shall appoint. with the approval of the
senate, nine members of the state board,
who shall draw 81 per day for general
supervision, providing that they charge
for not more than sixty full days in a
year. They have the power to appoint a
finance committee of three at full sal
aries, who shall audit the accounts of
the Institutions and take charge Of the
details. The larger committee Is merely
to direct the policy and approve the
actions Of the smaller committee.
Corporations in Iowa will not have to
make annual reports TO the secretary OF
state, for the senate this morning killed
the Fitzpatrick bill carrying with it this
provision. Owe of the principal oppo-
nents to the measure was Senator Saund-
ers of Council Bluffs, who during the
course of his remarks said the bill had
been before the three preceding legisla-
lures and defeated. Two years ago. he
said. the measure passed the senate with
twenty-six votes and Senator Saunders
declared the last vote necessary to carry
II had been secured through questionable
methods. The chief opposition to the
measure was on the ground that It was
a revenue measure. as the bill provided
each corporation must pay a fee each
year.
The Gillilland bill passed the senate.
This a~ppropriates 81 900 for the state
entomologist to use in studying the
brown-tail moth and means of its eradi-
cation. This insect is now destroying
many fruit trees in Iowa.
Upon motion of Senator Moon OF
Wapello county the senate reconsldered
its vote of yesterday whereby it RAISED
the bill appropriating 800. 900 for a steel
grandstand at the state fair grounds.
The senate committee on public health
this morning reported for indefinite post
ponement the bill prohibiting newspapers
printing alleged Objectionable" adyer-
tisements.
No Increase I'm Medical Fees.
The State Board OF Medical Examiners
Offered the legislature a bill to increase
the fees received for medical examinations
and back Of the fiat refusal of the senate
te consider such a scheme lies a story of
how hard it is to make both ends meet
in financial affairs about the state house.
The board, as such, is hopelessly bank
rupt. ..C
1t appears that when the state executive
council, which audlts and approves all bills
of every kind paid held one of its first
meetings after the first of the wear Mr.
Rleakley, the new auditor, asked for some
guidance as TO the over drawing OF &C
counts. Governor Carroll at once informed
him that 1t was clearly illegal to overdraw
any accounts, and under a reform ad-
ministration nothing of the sort would be
tolerated. But uditor Bleakley informed
him that the account was one which he
had inherited, and 1t then developed that
when the office of state auditor was turned
over the first Of the year from Carroll