The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-03-18
To EXTEND WORK
OF REFORMATORY
USEFULNESS OF STATE lNSTITu-
TON TO BE ENLARGED.
THE STATE FINANCIAL AFFAIRS
Bill by Representative Ring Of Linn
Co. Provides the So Called Bud
get System and Governor to Go
over All Estimates.

Des Moines, Ia, March 16.-Expan-
sion of the purposes of the coming
Iowa woman's reformatory will be
discussed as special order by the
House tomorrow morning. The mat
ter arises in consideration of the bill
by Representative Bauman of Van
Buren, county. Two years ago the
legislature passed a law making an
appropriation for the building of
woman's reformatory. This bill by
Bauman makes no increased appro-
priation. 1t merely extends the use
fulness in q reformatory way of this
forthcoming state institution. Mr..
Bauman's bill provides that besides
the women removed to the reforma-
tory from the state reformatory now
shared with men there may also be
sent by judges of the district courts
such women as are now sentenced to
serve jail terms in Iowa. This would
give them the benefit of the instruc-
ton and help accorded there. 1t also
provides that when girls at the. state
industrial school reach the age limit
that they may be kept there and have
no place to go they may be transfer
red to the state reformatory for wo-
men and instructed there until state
agents can find homes or employ
ment for them outside. This is point
er out as a most commendable plan.
At present when the girls at the in
dustrial school reach the age of eight
cen they are turned out by the state,
undesirable as help to most families
and employers, no friends and no
money Mr.. Bauman insists the state
should care for them until they can
enter the world with a way to make a
living.
State Financial Affairs.
A decided Improvement in the man
ner of handling state financial affairs
is promised in the bill by Represent
alive Ring OF Linn county which pass
ed the House yesterday afternoon.
This provides the so called budget
system. If it is passed by the Sen
ate all institutions receiving support
from the state will be required dur
ing the November preceding each leg
islGture to file with the governor a
statement of the money they received
from the last general assembly, what
it was spent for the amount estimat-
ed for the needs the next two years,
and what it is to be spent for. Then,
the bill provides, the governor shall
| go over these reports and present
them to the legislature in his biennial
message together with his recon-
mendations in the matter. The leg
islature would then appropriate spe-
| cifiC amounts for the specific pur-
poses desired instead of voting blan-
ket millage taxes as at present.
Thumb Print Identification.
! Warden McClaughry of the state
refOrmatOry at Anamosa will be in
Des MOines the latter part of the
week to go before the Senate COM
mittee with an argument in favor or
the thumb print state Identification
bureau proposed in the bill intro
duced by Senator Sheean of Ana
mosa. G. D. Ellyson of Des Moines,
many years a bank president here
and an expert on handwriting and
thumb mark IDENTIFICATION, will also
appear before the committee and give
practical demonstration.
More Authority Given Cities. =.
Cities and towns are given author.
ity to condemn and purchase land
necessary to control streams and sur
face water flowing into sewers, for
sewer outlets, garbage disposal
plants, sewage disposal plants, and
dump grounds in the bill by Repre-
sentative Jamison of Des Moines,
which passed the house yesterday.
The House also passed the house
bill authorizing the board of health to
Isolate cases of whooping cough and
measles.