Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-25
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= Health-Committee bill on
. vital statistics ....... 2O,UO
!DeWolf-Beef and dairy cat
tie encouragement ...... l7,50'
Perkins--Legislative refer
- ence department ........ 5000
Wilson of Appanoose-For
|, fire marshal ........... ll,Oo'
Sullivan--Bureau of labor
II statistics ............... lo,Ao'
II Dunnegan-For state enta-
II mOlOglSt ..............'. o,oo'
Arney-Small grain growing
N exposition ............... o,oo'
} Legel-Promotion of horti-
culture .................. l,Vo'
Committee bill on pay for
= contests ................. 1'ooi
Bauman-Claim Of Bertha
Myers ...........L ~
The above list does not include the
. bills which have been recommended
out and placed on the senate calendar
or their corresponding senate bills
The total with these included would
be 1921 ,340.92.
Following are appropriation bills in
1.-The hands of committees other than
the appropriations committee, or
passed.
Francis-Increase salaries of
district judges ........,.. .$170,O0O
Committee bill on women's
reformatory .............,. lo4,ooo
Clarkson-Cost of employees
liability work ........... SO,00u
Larrabee-Appropriation for
hog cholera serum ......... $4,000
Northumberland department
at sanitarium ............. 1o,00o
mission .................:. 10000
Hadley-Legal department :. 10000
counties .................. 10000
neutrality-suspicious. OF state
| OmCerS ......... lV,oVo
Kimball-Pay assistant at
torney general ............ 1900
Farr - Additional judicial
! d1Str1ct I,Ooo
Sullivan-State board Of arbi-
tration o,ooo
Heald-State food and dairy
| department ............... 7,4OO
The above list added makes the
grand total of 1896, 940.92, to which
should be added, as the actual total
|askings from the legislature sufficient
amount in house bills to bring the
total to about $7,300,000.
It will be seen that if the amount
needed for the proper development OF
the state colleges and educational IN
stitutions is given it will more than
take up all the available funds; also
THAT if the amount needed for the state
institutions under the board OF control
lis appropriated it will more than use
all the money the state can get the
next two years.
Several bills are pending to increase
the total of state revenues, including
the direct inheritance tax and the
millage taxes.
Lobbying Less Offensive.
The ordinary and usual lobby meth
DDS have been seen In and around
legislative halls this session, though
in the view of old timers there has
been less of the offensive lobbying
than in the last two sessions. The
major part of the lobbying is done
openly, fairly and with due regard to
the proprieties, men appearing before
committees to state their case and
making use of their fair arguments.
The chief lobby work for the session
has been done on these subjects,
namely: the college controversy, labor
interests, employers of labor, teachers
pensions, insurance matters, temper
ance measures, school text books,
school reforms, taxation, franchises,
bridge contracts and regarding pharm-
acy questions.
All the probing done thus far, and
this Is not surprising, has gone but
little way in disclosing anything that
has not already been known either as
to lobbying or the methods of lobby
lists.
Lobbying VS.. Sailing.
One fact has been somewhat I'M
pressed on many of the members the
past week, however, and that Is that
the lobbyists are displaying some
shrewdness in the matter Of putting
up a s'stall' and throwing the public
off the track. They have, made, and are
making, good use of the we'll known
public prejudice against lobbying, legit-
innate and otherwise, and are seek !
ing to help their own bills by shouting
"lobby influence" at the other side.
This fact was we'll illustrated few
days ago. It became known, for in
stance early in the session that
bridge contractors had changed front
from last session and whereas they
were then generally opposed to having
it required by law that all bridge con-
tracts, even for small bridges, should
be let on advertised bids, now they
want that very system. 1t was because
of this that the legislators decided up
on disappointing the bridge men. Yet
when the bridge lobby, or what there
Is of 1t, was turned down cold and
kicked into the ditch, it was able to
procure publication in their mouth
piece of a declaration that the bridge
lobby rode over the Legislature. |
The exact reverse was the truth.
lhe attention Of Senator Jones was
called to this situation. EYES," he
said, "as usual, the matter ~ MT p
to the public wrongly. The members
Of the legislature maze very
thorough study OF the subject and got
at the bottom Of it all. Under the
present system of having bridge con-
tracts let, following advertised bids,