The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-03-28
Fish and Game Laws.

Fish and Game Laws.
| Next to highways and the stat
printing proposition about the most ir
teresting question before the legisla
;ture. is that relating to fish and game
4 Eighteen different bills have been II
;phase of the fish and game situation
and five in the senate. Here are tn
points involved and the name of tn
author of the bill: Permitting fishin
with hook, and line at any time, Oe1
tel; relating to use of spear, etc
Turner; removing projections from
quail, Findley: requiring license o
nonresidents for fishing, Dean; close'
season for prairie chicken, McFarlane
classify mourning doves as gam
birds, Oertel; forbidding hunting Ii
|cense to one under IS Finley; rela
ting to seining of non-game fish, Scott
relating to closed season for pheasant
Neff; exempting old soldiers from
hunting licenses, Anderson, of Greene
authorizing fishing with rod, line ant
hook, Finley, fixing closed seasol
for raccoons, Meredith; providing
tlmily licenses for fishing, Wilson anc
Crozier, amending as to the time fol
use of hook and line, Murray, exempt
ing old soldiers from license law, An
derson of Greene, use of fish and game
fund to pay damages by hunters, Gilt
liner; removing protection from ca,
fish as game fish, Durbin; game pro
lection in hands of the sheriff, Mooty;
requiring screens at pumpig stations
Lindly; relating to catching rabbits
with ferrets, Grout, closed season for
prairie chickens to be extended
Grout, authority to maintain parks by
Game Warden, Holdogel; trapping
beaver, mink, otter and muskrat, Eel
lows.
chiropractic Bill Defeated.
If petitions avail anything their ei'
dectiveness should have borne fruit
when the chiropractic bill was called
ia the senate. More and longer pet1'
tions were sent to the legislature ia
vorable to the legalizing of this cult
that were ever received upon any
other pending measure in the history
Of the state But when the matter
came to a vote only Is senators went
Il REGARD favorable to the bill.
New Automobile Rules.
Senator Rule, of Mason City, out
lines in a bill introduced in the senate
asst week. what he regards as safe and
sane procedure in the running of an
automobile. The cut-out is to be placed
in the discard while the vehicle is
upon either street or public high
way The bill provides further that
no child under IS shall be permitted
to drive an automobile. The present
law fixes the limit at Is years.
No Increase in Mileage for Supervisors
7 The Bruce bill which passed the
house providing for an gincrease in the
allowance for mileage for supervisdrs
from to 10 cents mile was defeated
in the senate. The Rayburn bill has
passed both houses allowing jurors
So per day instead Of $3.50. The Kim
ball bill which passed the senate pro-
vides that on petition of 10 per cent
Of the voters of a county the people
may vote on the question Of whether
or not county supervisors shall be
elected from the county at large or
by districts. 1t also provides that
vote may be taken on whether the
number of members of the board of
upervisors shall be three or five.
More Normal Schools.
At every session Of the legislature
for the past thirty years bills have
been introduced providing for addi-
tional normal schools. Numerous
have such things under pri-
,ate control and the desire to have the
state take over such enterprises
prompts the effort. Bloomfield has
lch an institution and representative
Anderson, of Davis county, has intro
1uced bill making an annual appro-
rriation of 100000 for establishment
Of three new normal schools in the
southwestern and north
sections of Iowa. Guthrie
county has offered the state her county
high school at PanOra. Shenandoah
has been trying for years to get the
state to take over the private normal
school at that place. And now comes
IN itimatfon from Knoxville that IL
ne inebriate institution is abandoned
he equipment will furnish a nucleus
or normal school.
Extending Term of Township Trustees
A bill by Wenstrand, of Page county
yearly elections of one town
ship trustee to make the board consist
of two experienced trus-
ees. was passed in the house We'd
lesday, IS to S. At present the trus-
ees are elected every two years. The
Measure goes to the senate.
"BIack Plague" Measure.
Eugenics in marriage is the aim OF
he Coakley "black plague" bill which
makes a felony punishable by impris-
,nment in the penitentiary for three
'ears of the act of transmitting any
disease. The measure is very
lrastic and even takes cognizance of
he marriage relation. 1t would COM
,el physicians to disclose the diseased
conditions of minors to their parents.
under the law also would
e compelled to testify to their par
tents condition if the case came into
ourt. The bill passed the house.
=, Sheriffs Get More Fees.
The bill by Senator LATER allowing
heriffs Is cents for meals for prison
RS instead of y 1-2, Is cents for lodg-
ng prisoners and increasing mileage
rom 5 to 10 cents is now a law. duly
igned by the Governor and effective
uly 1st.
New Dog Law.
The bill by Anderson, of Davis, re.
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