Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-18
.N|)RKA[ SCHOOL
KEEPS ITS NAME
Senate Defeats DeWolff Bill to
Change Name to Teachers
College
SENATE FEARED A JOKER
Believed There Was Something More
Back of Measure Than Aid to Pro-
fessors-Last of Contest Gases De-
eided-House Takes Power From
Committees.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Feb. 1S-After two
hours of hard debate the senate de-
feated the DeWolff bill to change the
name of the normal school at Cedar
Falls to the Iowa State Teachers Col
lege. DeWolff succeeded in getting the
bill changed back to the original form
with the word teachers instead of nor
NAL, then on final vote the bill was
lost, % to %.
The bill was introduced to give the
professors at Cedar Falls chance a,
the Carnegie pensions The debate de-
veioped that the members believed
that there is something else back Of the
bill, and that its real purpose was to
change the course of the normal school
school to a college. In the debate the
question of establishing board OF
education for the three colleges was
presented. Following this Chapman
proposed a resolution for joint com
mittee to prepare a bill to fix by law
the requirement for entrance and grad
uation for the Iowa State College and
Iowa State Normal School.
F'rudden introduced in the senate a
resolution menorializing congress for
a big appropriation for improvements
ON riverc and wat
The senate passed the Ripley bill to
settle the estate of absentees; the
Clark bill to require publication of the
regulations of the board of health, and
two legalizing acts.
Thu last of tho eantasts in the hnuse
Vas iinislled today when the commit
tee Investigating the Fremont county
election decided in favor of permitting
Penn to retain his seat. OF the five
house contests and one in the senate
only one resulted in unseating of the
member.
Brandes introduced in the house a
resolution for an investigation of the
institutions for the care of insane.
The house passed Senator Francis
bill requiring lights on boats; Senator
Saunders bill raising the pay of GER
tain county attorneys, and the Bruce
bill requiring the state accountant to
report on the board of agriculture.
The house spent an hour debating
Lees resolution requiring all amend
ments to committee bills to be printed
in the journal before they are acted
on, and it was finally passed The
effect will be to cut off the power OF
the committees.
Among the bills introduced were:
BY Hunter, of Polk, to give trustees
of the state library full authority over
the historical department and to fix
the salary of the superintendent and
assistants.
By Arney, to permit the commandant
of the soldiers home to sell the eff
fects of deceased soldiers.
BY Moore, of Linn, to move the Of
flee of the geological survey to Iowa
City.
BY Hackler to place gypsum mines
under inspection.
BY Hunter, of Polk, to license real
estate agents.
BY Moore, of Linn, to permit cities to
make river improvements.
BY Ward, permitting free passes to
funeral parties accompanying deceased
railroad employees.
BY Adams, a bill to codify the mill
tary law and conform to the war de-
partment rulings.
By Hunter, of Woodbury., to require
.he road tax paid in cities to go to the
city.
BY LarrAbee, to provide for county
highway engineers.
BY Saunders, to punish for immor-
ality.
The public utilities bill, which has
provoked so much interest all over the
state will have it's day before joint
session of the senate and house COM
mittees next Tuesday afternoon at z
o'clock. All persons interested In be-
ing heard on the measure will be there
at that time The hearing may extend
over several days This is the bill pro-
viding q. state commission with me
same powers as the railroad commits
sion over all public utilities of the
state, including municipal utilities.
The house on insurance this morning
reported favorable for passage che
Moore bill providing that companies
doing bonding business in the state
OF Iowa shall deposit with the county
auditor $25,0O0 to insure their reliable
;tu Tho hill oripina1ly called for n de-
posit of $4,000, but this was amended
by the author himself, Mr.. E. B. Moore
of Cedar Rapids.
The committee also recommended for
passage the Beery bill providing that
an insurance policy can be assigned TO
creditors only with the consent of the
beneficiary.
The committee also recommended for
passage the bill providing that the
time within which notice of accident
must be given to accident Insurance
companies be cut down to thirty days