Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-06
AUTHORITY OVER SWINE PLAGUE
TAKEN AWAY FROM vErERiN.
AIRY DEPARTMENT.
SERUM LABORATORY TAKES
I, OVER SOME OF POWERS
Veterinary Department. May Abandon
All Work in Connection With Cholera
in Order 70 Avoid Clash With New
DEPARTMENTAL Bills Signed Except
"Blus Sky" Law.


whether the state animal health board
or veterinary department will UNDER
take to do anything toward Graduating
the hog cholera in Iowa. The board is
in session here to consider future work.
Apparently it's work on the swine
plague Is at an end.
The animal health board and vet
thority and power to enforce quaran-
tine Of animals. 1t is admitted that
quarantine for hog cholera. is very inn
portant. in fact the plague can not very
we'll be combatted without quarantine.
But quarantine without ability to con-
troll the distribution of the cholera
virus, which is used to give herds Of
swine a mild form Of the plague. would
be useless.
Now the legislature has taken from
the state animal health board all the
control over the virus and serum form
erly had. The members of the board
are very much puzzled as to their duty
now. If they establish quarantine they
are likely to run afoul Of the serum dis
tribution department Of the state. To
avoid clashing it may be necessary to
abandon all work In connection with
the swine plague.
Prof. A. NJ. Deyoe, state superin-
tendent. is receiving many calls to go
to different parts of the state and ad-
dress meetings of rural school patrons
where they are taking interest in the
work for better schools made possible
under the new legislation. He yester-
day received invitations to go into APP
panoose, Hardin, Audubon, Clinton and
other counties where rural school bet
terment is being considered. He last
week visited Liberty TOW nship, Mar
shall county. where four-room school
house is to be built on two and a half
acres of ground not near any town,
and they are to have an auditorium and
rooms for domestic science and manual
training.
Governor Clarke has signed the bill
which authorizes cities along the border
rivers of the state. where there Is navi-
CATION to own and maintain docks and
control the river fronts. 1t seems this
bill was opposed in one city but mum
Der of other cities were demanding it,
and the governor reached the con-
clusion that it would be an entirely
safe proposition.
The governor has also signed the call
cium carbide bill against which some
severe attacks were made.
This leaves only the blue sky bill in
his hands for consideration. q
The legislation retrenchment and re-
form committee will be here at least a
part Of this week to consult with state
officials and others and to receive a
report OF progress on the part Of the
efficiency engineers who have been
checking up in the various state offices.
The ''R. and r. Com" will also re-
ceive from Joseph H. Byrnes, who has
been made Its secretary, an informal
report on some investigations about the
state house as to the necessity for adj
ditional help in some offices and such
read5ustment of office work as may
be necessary to transact the business
of the state. 1t was contemplated that
his committee should have extensive
authority in this matter.
The committee will also be asked to
pass on the plans Of the state highway
commission for office force and work
and possibly on some other of the new
departments.
This committee now consists of ten
members as follows: Allen, Mates,
Gillette, Francis. Wilson. Jacobs. Lar
rabee, Klay, Miller and Black.
There is no place in the state house
for a private office for Judge Winfield
s. Withrow. the new member Of the
supreme court. When the capitol was
built there was room made for five
judges and this was supposed to be all
the state would ever need. When the
sixth was added some years ago tho
little covey hole which had been orig
inally a private hallway for the judges
and later changed into an office for
the attorney general, was taken for the
sixth judge. Now there are no more
corners to be taken over for office
room. Each of the judges should have
private office for work, for each one
has stenographer and theirs is a
busy office.
The state board of education will
soon plan for the expenditure of $685.
900 in remodeling and undermining the
old main building at the college for the
blind, vinton. This is one of the old
est buildings in use by the state at any
institution and there has long been
great need Of making it over again.
The legislature made, this appropri-
alton and also increased the support
fund to the extent of about $500 a
year A large part of this will go to
strengthening the faculty and paying
better salaries to teachers.
A booklet with all the laws of the
state relating to pure food, pure seed.
pure paint. full weights. clean diaries,
sanitary bakeries. seed corn. and ev-
erything that comes under the big de-
partment presided over by W. B. Bar
Eey will be sent out soon to $4,000 adj
dresses in Iowa. Just now there Is the