The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-01-21
FLOOD Of BILLS
GREET ASSEMBLY
THIS MORNING
APPROPRIATION OF $4,000 ASKED
FOR PLANT BREEDING FARM.
LOCATE WoMAN'S REFORMATORY
Representative Clark of Monroe Co.
Has Bill Prohibiting the Inter
Marriage of Races-Simiiar Bill
Defeated Two Years Ago. E.

Des Moines, Jan. 20.-H. w. Ring
of Linn county viii hold conference
today with Prof Carl T. Seesaw, dean
Of the graduate school of the Iowa
/ State university, on the establish
ment of proposed child welfare re-
search station at the university. Ring
will introduce a bill into the house,
probably tomorrow, providing for the
appropriation of $4,000 for the estab-
lishment of the station.
There was a food of bills in the
house this morning. Among the
most important are the following:
BY Ball, to repeal the non-partisan
judiciary law;
By Ball, to increase the penalty for
men and women who represent them
selves to hotel keepers to be married
and procure rooms for immoral pur-
poses to 5000 fine or three months in
Jail;
BY Eggleston, to reduce the power
of the state highway commission Civ
ing it only supervision of highway
crossings;
By EgglestOn. to require township
trustees to mark dangerous places on
the highways and require automobiles
and other vehicles to slow down to
IS miles an hour;
BY Eggleston, to make telephone
and telegraph companies common
carriers under the supervision of the
state railroad commission;
BY Wenstrand, to provide for the
city manager plan;
BY Cochrane to employ school SUI
perintendents for three year term;
By Taylor, to put private banks
under state supervision;
BY Klinker law permitting espe-
cially travelling Ben absent from the
city on election day to vote where
the Australian ballot system is used;
BY Rogers, for the construction of
overhead and underground crossings
on highways over railroads.;
BY JamisOn, law abOlishing state
board of parole and return to old sys-
tenn;
BY Schmedika, to reduce width Of
roads to fifty feet and remove OBJ
structions;
BY Schmedika, law to have common
carriers carrying live stock to pro-
vide sleeping hunks or berths for per
sons III charge,
BY Craver, to reduce the bounty on
wolves from $50 to $40;
BY Craver, to keep dogs on home
lot except in city where license Is
charged.
Fruit Breeding Plant.
Establishment Of a plant breeding
farm in Iowa for the purpose of breed
ing and developing fruits will be one
Of the constructive actions asked Of
the legislature.
( The request will come from the
Iowa State Horticultural Society
which wants an appropriation of $780,,
600 for farm land, $4,000 for i'm
Iprovcments and $4,000 annually for
maintenance.
Wesley Greene, secretary Of the
State Horticultural Society, says Iowa
has the possibilities of being one OF
the greatest fruit states in the couB;
try and could be made the greatest
garden truck producing spot on earth.
I 1t is the idea OF the horticultural
lists that the wonderful work OF. fruit
breeding and development which has
been done by Chas. G. Patton of
Charles City, without assistance could
be carried on under state patronage
to a wonderful advantage to the state.
! 1t Is planned that from this state
horticultural farm, the state entOmol-
ogist could work, looking after the
states trees and inspecting all bulbs,
sprouts and nursery stock imported.
The bill will provide that the farm
be centrally located, but no specific
location has been decided upon.
Some law which will require the
spraying of fruit trees may also be
asked of the present general assem-
bly,. Spraying of trees last year, Mr.
Greene says, would have added one
million bushels of apples to the Iowa
crop.
Womans Reformatory.
The Iowa legislature may be asked
to decide specifically upon the loca
ton for the Woman's Reformatory
which was provided by law enacted
two years ago. That law stated the
reformatory should be placed at some
new" location. Residents at Ana
mosa, where the mems reformation!
is located, have been trying to &c
the state board of control to bu!
property Just. across the road from
the mems reformatory for the VIC
mans reformatory. They have in
sisted this would be a new location
. Members of the state board, however
, say that this might be in accordance
, with the letter of the law but no
, the spirit that was inended.
Rockwell City Wants II.
Rockwell City has been an aggres
'sive candidate for the Woman's RI
: formatory and many club women hav
n been urging that 1t be located nea
S Das Moines. The Board of ContrC
I has accordingly been embarrassed
IA situation that has delayed decision