The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-03-25
GETTING READY
TO END SESSION
AMEs AND IOWA CITY GRAsPrNds
FOR APPROPRIATIONS.
PERSONAL INVESTIGATION MADE


Discussed Again in the House
The Initiative and Referendum
Comes Up in the Morning.
Des Moines, March 23-Speaker
Atkinson of the house announced this
morning that his newly appointed
sitting committee would begin its Ia
bors squelching legislation Thursday
The present standing committees Will
be permitted to report measures for
the last time tomorrow. The sitting
committee recognized as the most
powerful committee in the legislature
will take over the several hundred
pending measures for consideration
and their work is expected to permit
adjournment by the middle of April.
Shortly after Speaker Atkinson made
his announcement Senate Secretary
Waters handed the house clerk a
number of important prohibitory law
enforcement measures I a t h err
through the senate by the drys.
These will go into the hands of the
lsifting committee but as the majority
tof the members are considered drys,
the prohibition workers are not alarm
led that the measures will be killed.
Atkinson's appointment of a sitting
committee at this time is regarded by
some members as premature and the
report was current that an amend
ment would be offered that the work
be not started until ten days before
the session ends.
institutions Are Grasping.
So pronounced and so evident has
become the rivalry between the state
college at Ames and the state univer-
sity at Iowa City in grasping for state
appropriations the legislative appro-
priationB committees sent members
to each institution to make a personal
investigation as to the needs.
Friends of the state university have
made the charge that it is costing the
state more per pupil at Ames than it
lis at the university. This the state
college authorities deny. Then the
university people complain that work
of the university is duplicated at the
state college. This is a reverse pc.
sition from what they took two years
ago when they opposed correlation of
work Then they didn't object to
similar work being done at both. The
appropriations committee is making
it's own investigation and will decide
on the appropriations, they say, ac-
cording to the actual needs OF the
schools with no consideration to jeal-
IOusies or greedinesS of either institu-
ton.
Teachers' Annuity Bill.
The House as a special order is this
afternoon on a reconsideration dis
cussing the GrasOn teachers annui-
ties bill The bill failed of passage
when first considered by but three
votes. Late this afternoon reconsid-
Grafton of the Clark bill to make the
| state superintendent elective again is
up for special consideration.
Tomorrow morning as a special or
der at 10 o'clock the vote by which
the committee report to indefinitely
postpone the initiative and referen'
7 DUN resolution was adopted will be
taken up In the afternoon as spe-
cial order will be the WHITAKER bill
) to regulate lobbying at the legislature.
Following this will be taken up the
bill providing for state inspection of
all insurance rate making bureaus in
the state.
Thursday morning Anderson of
. Montgomery bill to require state in
spection of private banks comes up
as a special order.
. Capitol Extension Again.
An effort made by Representative
Ball of jefferson to take his bill for
the repeal OF capitol extension from
: the hands of the committee on ways
and means was temporarily frustrated
E today by Representative Elwood of
Howard county. Chairman Barry OF
the committee was absent so Elwood
objected to immediate consideration
of the measure. The resolution will
come up tomorrow.
. Revision Of Salaries.
Bills for the revision of salaries of
Icounty recorders, clerks and deputy
, sheriffs, were recommended by the
house committee on the compensation
of public officials. The bill for the
. salary of treasurer is already on the
calendar. A graduated scale of COM
,pensation for public officials would be
: established in accordance with the
size of the counties. ..
Blue Sky Law.
The judicial committee recommend
ed for passage the new blue sky law
drafted by Attorney General Cosson
land other attorneys general of vari-
Ious states and intended to remove
ANY questions of constitutionality
raised in test case now pending in
the u. s. supreme court. The meas
ure refers to foreign bonding and
stock companies desiring to do bust
ness in Iowa and is designed to pre-
vent get-rich-quick promoters from
reaping harvest