Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-04-04
COMMITTEE BILLS.
Wade Through Bunch Of School
Measuresj Many Killed
ABOLISH RURAL DISTRICTS
Recommendation Made for Assembly
TO Pass Measure Providing That
School Funds es Deposited
for Interest.

| Des Moines.-The schools commit
tee Of theiLenate has waded through
. bunch Of school bills. But ew 81
the proposed measureg came out with
favorable reports, the others being
recommended for the scrap heap.
One Of the important bills which
received favorable action at the
hands OF the committee is the Bal
kema measure which eliminates in.
dependent rural school districts and
makes the township the school unit.
The effect Of this measure is to wipe
out the numerous schools which have
from six tc eight pupils.
=, Another important bill which comes
out of the committee with the recon-
msndation that it pass, is the meas
ufe by Hammil OF Hancock, which
requires all school treasurers to place
the school funds out at interest,
which interest must be turned over
70 the contingent fund Of the school
corporation. There are . number of
school treasurers IL the state now
Who give the interest to the school
district. but most OF them think the
interest Is part Of the emoluments Of
tho Office. The bill requires interest
'oft 2 per cent on 80 per cent Of the
daily balances.
The. Dunnegan bill which calls for
On appropriation OF $4,000 to buy
the Western Normal school at Shen.
lAdoah and convert it into a state
normal school like the institution at
Cedar, Falls, will be returned to the
senate without any recommendation
whatever.
~ The bill by Brown Of Decatur to
appropriate $4,000 for the establish.
Insnt Of q similar institution at Tab.
or, taking over the Tabor college. and
The bill by Grow Of Monona for the
building. Of. the school at Denison,
were both reported fer indefinite
apostpon ement.
3 The other measures which the COM
mittes, hit in the head with view
Of killing. them are the Chase bill
creating . county board Of education
and the measure by Allen of Jeffer-
son providing for the commission
plan Of school government in all
school districts of 10000 population
or more: The committee deemed
both these measures inadvisabls.
sherIfss Win.
Representative Whitney's bill a.
lowing boards of supervisors to fix
the compensation for boarding and
lodging prisoners or to purchase and
furnish at the expense Of the county
all necessary food for prisoners was
killed in the house. Sheriffs of Iowa
counties will continue to board the
prisoners in their care at so much
per"
! Jacobs Of Calhoun Immediately in
troduced a motion to reconsider the
vote by which the bill was lost. 1t
10 probable that the measure will be
the center Of another heated discus
sion before the end Of the session
Work Prisoners.
The senate put ito stamp of ap.
prevail on the bill by Ream of Ma
haska which provides for the working
Of al able bodied prisoners in the
county and city jails and for the turn
ink over to their families of all mon. |
ey thus earned.
Only able bodied prisoners between
the ages Of is and 60 years are sub.
ject to the provisions of the bill. They
can be put ut any kind Of work just
10 there IL no contract system. They
lre not to receive more than 81 .
day and are not to work more than
eight hours day or on holidays or
Sunday.
Shane 0ill Recommended.
Representative Shane's bill rend-
ering Illegal the compromising of phys.
clans prescriptions by others than
registered pharmacists was recon.
nended for passage by the house
on pharmacy.
Another bill by Shane allowing the
of pharmacy to des-
gnate what remedies may be sold
~ others than druggists was recon-
nended by the committee for indeh. ,
lite postponement.
AIlow Dentists to Prescribe.
Representative Kulp Of Palo Alto
Introduced a bill in the house al
owing dentists to prescribe drugs or
Medicines and to perform surgical !
'perations necessary to the proper
reatment Of special classes of d.
eases involving the care of the teeth
md included in the curriculum of the
olleges from which the dentists
,raduated.
lower Penalty for Forgery.
Senator Francis bill providing that
Judges may at their discretion lower I
he penalty for conviction for forgery
low provided by law was passed in !
he house. The present law provides {
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