The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-14
no,iyered to Iowa State Legis-
lature al Noon Today and
Takes up Various
Measures.
cooDRoADs ADVOCATED
,Decial Attention is Given to
the Important Topic Of
Improving the State
Highways.
JBy United Press. ]

iBy United Press.
DIES MONIES, Ia. jan dds.
c,,ssiug many things, but giving spec
81 attention to good roads legisla-
ian Improvement OF the capitol
grounds and the plan OF the state
hoard of education to change the
eorrses in the state university at
lava city, the state college at Ames
and the teachers college at Cedar
Fails. Governor B. r. Carroll sent his
last message to the Iowa state legis-
lature at noon today.
1t is a lengthy document and hard
IL subject which will be considered
hy the legislature now In session IS
missed by the governor, unless it be
mothers pension bills and legislation
Of this class, fathered by the progress
eiye element in both old parties.
"The question Of improving the
highways of the state is one not only
OF much interest but Of practical inn
portance," says the governor. Three
years ago called good roads meet
ings to be held in Des Moines and an
organization was formed; this organ
ization will presen. to you seyera
important matters OF which ask
your careful consideration and among
which are the following:
TO submit to the people OF the
state at the next general election the
question Of a bond issue for good
roads Improvement.
The levey Of a one mill tax for
state aid in the improvement of high
ways.
THE establishment OF permanent
state highway commission with ade-
quate powers.
The appointment Of county en-.
gineer in each county by the board
Of supervisors thereof, subject how
ever to the approval of the state
highway commission.
Classification OF rural highway.
A compulsory drag law, non-di-
vertible drag fund and simplifying
and making effective our present laws
on road dragging.
"a recodification OF the road laws
OF the state.
The governor then says that the
people Of the state are now ready to
make permanent road improvements
and calls attention to the agreement
o. the people along the road from
Des Moines to Spirit Lake, a distance
o. over two hundred miles, who h
agreed to deliver crushed stone suffi-
Gent to construct a stone road the
entlre distance. The governor says:
lhls action shows that the people of
IOWA are ready for the construction
u permanent highways. The COVER.
nor says: 1t is necessary to have a
permanent and active state highway
commission and this commission
shouid have charge of The expenditure
not only of the automobile license
lund, but of any other funds which
..le state may raise for aid In road
, -, ovements, The governor saws:
inat with convict labor excellent
'0aas can be built at low cost.
Improvement Of Capitol Grounds.
The governor recommends that The
s'a'e ouy all OF the ground living be
s.oen east Ninth and east Twelfth
saee's beginning at Capitol avenue
- ! extending TO the railroad tracks
- we foot of the hill to the south
~ -, ms to build an executive man
s s,o, It should be placed upon the
a,sn point OF ground to the sou.heas 81
~, me capitol building. Upon the
(, s.oVk immediately east OF the state
a aouse and south Of Capitol avenue
e =, be located a Judicial building,
~, ~ouio also suggest that when the
, me comes that It Is necessary Il
;a sne any considerable improyemen,
81, me states power plant it would 81
j. 80 :, % consider moving it to the foo,
~ me hill southwest OF the state
.'ouse where it could be reached i,
a SWITCH oneo "
N, Snoorses Educational Board.
adv governor says: That DESPITE
t,ona, se criticism these state educa
der !, institutions have prospered un
board ene management OF the star,
without expressing an opinion al
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