Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-31
REPRESENTATIVE HANSEN, OF
SHELBY, LOOKS TO FUTURE
OF SOLDIERS HOME.
WOULD MAKE INSTITUTION
AN OLD PEOPLES HOME
Full Text Of Senator Arney's Bills
Relative to the Soldiers Homo, In.
Guiding Pensions, Support, officary,
and Admission Of Wives BY Deereas.
ing Limit Of Date Of Marriage.

| Because he realizes that within COM
paratively a few years the Iowa Sol
diers Home will no longer be needed
as home for veterans of the civil
war, Representative Albert Hansen, OF
Shelby county, will propose in bill be-
! fore the house to provide Tor that time.
! Representative Hansen's bill would
make out of the present soldiers home
a state for aged and intirm persons. He
points out that in few years the num-
Der of veterans who are eligible Will
materially decrease. 1t is proposed
that when that time comes counties
may send worthy old people to the
home, the county being responsible Tor
their maintenance.
Senator Arrey's Home Legislation.
The different bills introduced by
Senator W, H. Arney, of this county,
relative to the soldiers home, VIII De
of interest to home members and others
and the Times Republican herewith
presents the text of the measures III
full.
The bill making it unlawful TO with
| hold any of soldiers pension alio" :
ance for his support is as follows:
BE it enacted by the general assem-
bly, of the state of Iowa: That chapter
| 1856 Of the acts of the thirty third gen
eral assembly is hereby repealed ana
in lieu thereof is enacted the following
1T shall be lawful to receive IN the
soldiers home persons VINO nave SUI
ficient means for their own support put
are otherwise eligible to become mem
hars cf the home, on payment OF the
COS, IF their support, which cost shail
no lived from time TO time by the board
If control Of state institutions. All
nancy paid under the provisions OF TINS
DOT shall he received by the command
ant and RENTED each month to the
sssurer of state and placed to the
cradi, OF the support fund of the home.
provided. however, that no person nav
ing sufficient means for his or her own
support shall be received or permitted
70 renoain in the home unless there be
room for all eligible applicants who 90
not have such means. but pension
money received by any member OF the
/! home from the United States govern
ment shall not be taken from him Tor
his support in the home.
Would Decrease Marriage Limit.
| The bill shortening the date OF mar
riage that would enable a soldiers wife
/ TO enter the home. is as follows:
pc il enacted by the general assem-
| h1,. Of the state of Iowa: That section
t . SOC of the supplement TO the code OF
| 1907 is hereby repealed and there Is
| hereby enacted in lieu thereof the FOL
! lowing: 80.
The board Of control Of state insti-
! ,utions may receive into the nome
under such rules and regulations and
subject to such conditions as said board
NAV prescribe, the dependent persons
not having sufficient means or aolhts
10 s,pnort themselves, designated as
follows:
1 a Honorably discharged union SOL
diers. sailors and marines.
80 Women who prior to the year
1900 married honorably discharged
I union soldiers. sailors or marines anc
who have ceased to be the wives o.
such soldiers. sailors, or marines o!
reason of their death or because oil
yorced from them without fault On ths
-art Of the wives. and subsequent
4 marriage shall not deprive such womer
of their right to the benefits OF the
home nor shall such right depend upor
the presence Of the husband in the
home as a member OF 1t.
So Army nurses and the fathers ane
mothers of honorably discharged unior
soldiers. sailors and marines.
THE board may permit husbands ant
wives to occupy together cottages OF
+ other quarters on the home grounds"
/ ELL Relating to Officers.
The bill, providing for other than civil
war veterans as officers Of the soldiers
home is as follows:
"Ee it enacted by the general assem-
blv Of the state of Iowa: That sec
ton 1904 Of the supplement to the cod
of 1907 is hereby amended by addfnt
thereto the following:
IF at any time a vacancy snaH exls
in the office of comnan6ant, adjutan'
nuartern1a ster, or surgeon, and a suit
able person who has an honorable dis
charge from the United States army o
navy is not available for the office. /
shall be lawful to appoint any othe
nerson other wise properly qualified t
fill the vacancy.
States Support Fund.
The measure relating to the supper
funG of the state for the soldiers hom
follows:
BE it enacted by the general assem-
bIv of the state of Iowa: That sectio
2,soS of the supplement to the code
1867 is hereby amended by addin
thereto the following:
IF the average number Of member
shall be less than $50 in any month
the auditor Of state and treasurer
state shall credit the home with tn
sum of s1275O dollars for that montl
and the sums SO credited shall b
drawn from the state treasury in tn
same manner and for the same pu,
poses as the regular monthly per car
ita allowance is drawn.