Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-03-02
Legislative Notes.

the Penn bill for experiment road
work be killed.
Conservation committee asked that
Ellis bill providing for additional
forest trees be passed.
The drainage committee asked that
Kulp's bill relating to bitches and
drains be amended and passed.
The judiciary committee asked that
Whites bill providing for filing OF
testimony In divorce cases be killed
Milton of Cedar county presented
petition from fifty residents Of Ce-
dar county urging the passage Of the
bill providing for state aid to county
fairs.
S. r. No. lbs. by Ames. increasing
the salary of shorthand reporters in
the courts from Sc to So was called
up by Ames and passed by a vote OF
32 to o.
A drastic bill relative to obscene,
lascivious and indecent pictures,
cards and literature OF all kinds was
passed by the senate without dissent.
ing vote.
Judiciary committee recommended
that Cunningham's bill prohibiting
saloons from accepting pay checks
in payment Of debts be indefinitely
postponed.
The house refused to pass bill by
Fletcher Of Iowa, allowing druggists
who hold permits to sell liquor to fill
out the necessary blanks to be sign
ed in such sales.
The senate indefinitely postponed
the house concurrent resolution of
protest against the order of Theodore
Roosevelt forbidding employees of the
United States to lobby in their own
behalf.
Senator Allen of Pocahontas pre-.
scented a report from the committee
on agriculture. 1t recommended sen
ate file No. 220. by Hoyt. for the reg
istration Of farm names. The bill
was passed.
The senate passed senate file No.
155, by Ames of Tama. The vote was
32 to 0. The bill provides that the
state may get back the money paid
to court reporters for services In
criminal cases.
Senator Hammill called up senate
file No. 165, his bill prohibiting the
sale, giving away or having in ones
possession obscene pictures, litera-
ture and articles Of immoral use. The
bill was passed.
The senate received and placed In
the calendar with favorable recon-
mendation a bill to require that tel
ephone poles along the public high
ways be placed near the fence so
as not to be an obstruction.
The bill providing for the guaran-
tee of bank deposits In Iowa, intro
duced by Dabney of Davis, demo.
crat, was killed In the house by a
vote of 81 to 35, when the house re-
fused to substitute the minority for
the majority report.
Nine hundred citizens of Scott
county object to the resubmission OF
the constitutional amendment and the
passage of certain unjust and OPP
pressive" liquor laws before the leg.
islature in a petition presented In the
house by Representative Miller Of
Dubuque county.
The Iowa senate declared itself
in favor of an income tax amendment
to the constitution OF the United
States by adopting a joint resolution
to ratify the action of the Sixty-first
congress In passing a resolution pro
viding for such an amendment. The
vote was so to 3.
III. F. No. 297, by Kull of Howard
Providing that county seats estab.
lished in one place forty years can.
not be moved except on so per cent
of the vote of the people Of the coun.
ty. Kull moved to reconsider, laying
bill on the table. Seconded by OCon.
nor. Passed, &C to IA.
Francis OF Dickinson introduced a
bill in the senate to abolish the of.
fee Of state FISH and game warden
and to create in It's place state
fish and game council, which shall be
composed of a fish commissioner, a
game commissioner, and q fish and
game warden. Their salaries are fix
ed at $4,000 year.
Fl. F. No. 80. by Pro
viding for consolidated independent
scnool districts where two-thirds OF
the voters vote for it. and further
providing free transportation for pu-
pills to the consolidated districts.
Passed, 81 to 3.
Bills calling for appropriations
which total almost ssi,600.000 have
been introduced thus far by MEMBER
OF the general assembly.
II. F. No. 2S, by Shane--Providins
free tuition to rural pupils who de-
sire to attend properly accredited
high school. Passed. SO to IL.
Lounsberry of Marshall presented
protest of Marshalltown city council
against the Sammis-Crist public uti:-
tiles commission bill.
The house by vote OF 81 to 3
passed the Cunningham bill providing
for consolidated school districts and
free transportation.
A bill by Goodykoontz of Boone
confirming the title OF John A. Jas.
insky to certain land in Greene coun-
ty, was passed.
Roads committee recommended that
Cousins bin for ~ poll tax for road
work be killed.