Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-15
REFORM COMMITTEE REPORTS
OUT MEASURE REVISING
PRINTING RATES.
SLIGHT REDUCTION IN
PRICES NOW CHARGED
Proposed Scale and Employment Of
Doeumsnt Editor to Save State $32,.
ooo ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Report.
Plan to Remove State Board Of
Health From FIIitics.
Special to Times Republican

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Des Moines, April 15.-The retrench-
ment and reform committee yesterday
reported out a bill recommending that
the offices of state printer and binder
be continued. The measure PROVIDES
a lower scale of rates on printing.
The revision of the rates and the
employment of a document editor
will save the state $4,000 annually
in the printing and binding, according
| to an estimate made by Senator Allen,
| chairman of the retrenchment and re-
form committee.
| Robert Henderson, state printer, and
John NJ. Jameson, state binder, nave
agreed to accept the new printing ana
! binding rates effective July 4, 1915. al
tho their present terms do not expire
until Jan. 1, 1917. The senate and the
house will hold a joint session Friday
or Saturday to elect printer and
binder. There are no candidates
against Henderson and Jameson.
The present scale for state printing
| is 4s cents a thousand ems on straight
| composition, 50 cents a thousand on
matter requiring three or more justi-
! fcations and so cents thousand on
rule and figure work. The rates pro-
posed In the new bill are As cents
| thousand for straight matter, so cents
thousand for matter requiring three
! justifications and IS cents a thousand
for rule and figure work. There are
reductions made in the most of printing
envelopes. blanks, and other details
which add to the savings under the
proposed system.
The estimated saving on printing
and binding per year is $4,000. The
estimated saving by the employment
Of document editor to cut down the
state reports is s2S.00O.
The retrenchment and reform COM
mittee used twenty senate commit
tee clerks yesterday to check over
the volume Of state printing in 1914
with the proposed new printing rates
in order to make an estimate Of what
the saving will be.
Changes Mind on One Bill.
Discovery that the Francis road bill
which It had passed In the afternoon
permitted the boards OF supervisors OF
Dickinson and Cerro Gordo counties to
bond the people for building high
wayeneiIcling Qkobojt Spirit and Clear
lakes without submitGng,stAe question
to a vote led to reconsideration at the
night session Of the Vote By which the
bill had passed The house then de-
feated it by q vote OF 20 to 4. Jones
Of Dickinson made the motion to kill
the bill. He explained afterward that
Senator Francis had agreed with him
that the bill was not satisfactory as 1t
had passed and that it was too late to-
attempt to remedy it.
The house had shown a favorable
disposition toward the building of per-
mapent highways when it voted 81 to
81 to allow the two counties to issue
bonds In the sum OF $4,000 each for
the purpose of building a special road
encircling Okoboji Spirit and Clear
lakes and connecting them to the town
Of Spirit Lake.
The bill presented the question of
whether a county should be allowed
to govern itself in the matter Of build
ing special highways. 1t involved
practically the same issue as does the
proposition of allowing counties to ere
ate permanent road district which may
issue bonds to build paved high
| ways.
The bill provides also that any money
in the state treasury which has been
received from the sale of lake beds
in either Of the counties shall be Civ
en- as state aid to the project.
Health Board Out of Politics.
The retrenchment and reform COM
mittee offered a bill in the house yes
terday designed to take the state board
Of health out of politics and make 1t
a scientific body.
Under its terms the board would
80 80 -
medicine, dean Of the college of home
opathic medicine, professor of bac-
| teriology, dean of applied science, pro-
fessor Of preventive medicine, all of
the state university; the professor of
chemistry at the Iowa State College
and the commissioner OF labor of the
state.
The members Will be called upon to
serve without additional compensation,
but will be allowed actual travelling ex-
penses. The board iS required to APP
point secretary, who shall be COM
! missioner of public health. He will
receive not to exceed $4,000 year and
must serve as secretary for the vari-
Gus examining boards as well.
| The board is given power to adopt
| its own general rules as is now done
by the present health body. The gem
eral office of the board still would be
located in Des MONIES.
| An important provision Of the meas
ure is that which provides that all
| water analyses shall be made in the
state laboratories at the state univer-
sity, state agricultural college or other
state institutions at actual cost. Some
what Of a sensation was created early
in the session when charges were made
that fees were being demanded for
these analyses by the state chemist un-
der the board Of health when the state
epidemiologist at Iowa City was willing
to make the analyses for nothing.
From the early days when Funk and
Hotchkiss and Lambert and other
printers tried to figure out that the
printing system Of Iowa was q mis-
take, until today, there has always,
been fight on over this matter. IN.
variably it has been decided, when In
vestigation has been fairly made, that
while there are imperfections In the
Iowa system, 1t is shown to be at least
better than any other that il used, in
other states near by.
The report Of the committee Of ten
members, following an investigation
covering a large part of the session, .
hearing on the part Of everyone having
any interest in the matter. IL that the