The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-03-11
WOULD ABOLISH
THE. CUSTODIAN
DUTIES OF OFFICE TO BE ADDED
70 THOSE or Adult. GENERAL q
TELEPHONE MEASURE is KILLED
No Bills to Be Introduced In House
Afted Thursday of This Week.
Misdemeanor to Check On Bank,
Unless You Have Funds.

| Unless you rave FunoS.
Des Moines, March g. Senator
Savage OF Adair county today intro
duced a bill in the Iowa legislature
to abolish the office of capitol custo-
dian and his stenographer. The bill
provides that the duties now per
formed by the custodian shall be add
ed to the adjutant general who is not
overburdened with work. This will
do away with two salaried officers.
The present custodian, W. A. Duck
worth, was reappointed for that posi-
ton nearly month ago by the gov
ernor, but he has never been con
firmed by the senate. When the
legislature first convened and ap-
pointed additional janitors to WORK
about the capitol the custodian criti-
cised the legislature for employing
unnecessary help Later the gov
ernor's reference to unnecessary help
as graft" brought about an investi-
cation by the senate and members of
the retrenchment and reform COM
mittee have concluded that, the office
of custodian is among the first I'M
necessary offices that should be
abolished. He has been receiving
salary of $1,000 per year.
4 Telephone. Bill Loses.
The bill introduced by Senator
Francis to declare telephone compa.
MES common carriers ard put them
under the control of the railway COM
,, mission was practically killed by the
House committee on telegraphs and
telephones when the members voted
against reporting it for passage. the
same men who refused to report 1t
for passage also refused to report it
for indefinite postponement.
4 No Bills After Thursday.
No bills, will be introduced in the
House of the Iowa legislature after
Thursday of this week, resolution
having been adopted that no bills
| aside from committee bills shall be
= introduced after March TO- The
Senate has passed no resolution as
: yet limiting the time to which bills
may be introduced.
Checking Without Funds.
The Senate has passed the Kimball
bill making it a misdemeanor for
, any person to draw g check on a
1 bank in which he has insufficient
: funds to cover its face. The bill now
goes to the House for it's considera.
ton.
Supervisor Mix-Up.
4 Representative Horchem, of Du-
i buque today introduced bill in the
legislature designed to settle the
supervisor miX-up in Dubuque. The
' people there elected supervisors, to
fill the required number of seven, and
at the same election voted to reduce
the size of the board. There has
/ ever since been dissension as to
/ what members should retire. Mr..
e Horchem's bill provides that the
o number of supervisors decided upon
by the people shall be composed of
. those whose term of Office would ex-
pire last under their election.
G In the house today the following
a bills were introduced:
= BY Freeman, to pay $500 bounty
n for hawks; =.
{ BY Kopp, to provide for change of
/ venue from mayors court;
X By Crozier, to regulate proofs of
:. title to real estate and making rec.
/. ord evidence conclusive in certain
d cases;
e BY Ball, raising the age of consent
j. for females from Is to Is.
d By Wilson, amending the law re
s. lating to leVees, drainage bitches
J. and water courses;
BY Kane and .Kimball, AMENDING
= the law permitting the present mum:
y her of saloons in special chartered
q cities to run over from July / to Jan.
# /. 1916; =
IF BY Jameson, Strengthening the
It law to prohibit soliciting on the
If streets;
IS BY Moore, insanity for ten years
y five years OF which have been spent
o in an asylum, sufficient grounds fol
a divorce il parties have resided II
b Iowa one year; -, - .
BY Klinker, empowering the courts
% to summon IL grand jurors at his
q pleasure; t.. 5t@4.n... 81
e BY Lee, restricting the use of hog
If cholera virus and serum;
d BY Slaught, amending the divorce
N law, making years residence neces
e. fsary for divorce in Iowa; n..a &eE
g BY Slaught to prohibit the expend
y iture by committee, friends or candi
= date at primary election, of NOR,
8 than five per cent of the compensa
?, ton of the Office; @
=. BY Griffin, fixing tolls and rates fol
"a long distance telephone calls; 81
BY English, bill enlarging the al
thority OF insurance commissioner,
q BY Brammer, ten years experient,
Il required before dentists assistaf
\. can legally clean and polish teeth.
; By Brammer, fixing the compensa
q ton for county attorneys on tn,
n graduating scale according to til;
., population, at from $1,000 to $500
e and providing for percentage Of til,
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