Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-14
SENATE COMMITTEES APPROPRl.
ALTON FOR CATTLE BARN
TURNED DOWN.
COMMITTEE INFORMED
$4,000 Is SUFFICIENT
Several Appropriations Desired by
State institutions to Be Trimmed or
Eliminated Entirely-No Increase in
Salaries Of Deputy Wardens-Pitt
Machine in Bad Order.
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down to business now. Today a num-
Der OF bills will be reported on and sew
eral will be recommended for indefinite
postponement.
The state agricultural society, which
had asked for 100000 for a cattle barn
and for buying additional land, was
granted $4,000 by the committee in its
report the first OF the week. Yesterday
the representatives Of the state agri-
cultural board appeared before the
committee and stated that so far as the
building was concerned the amount
granted by the committee would do no
good, so they asked the committee to
give them nothing at all for a building
If the amount was not to be as origin
ally asked for inasmuch as the sum
granted would be entirely inadequate
to build the building contemplated. The
board, however, would be glad to Sc
cure S12.500 for the purchase Of a strip
of land needed for tenting purposes.
the executive committee said. The APP
preparations committee will therefore
report out favorably the request for
$4,000. This is quite a come down
from the original amount asked, how
ever, which was 100000.
Reductions to Be Made.
< The appropriations committee will
recommend out for indefinite postpone
ment the bill to raise the salaries Of
two employees in the state insurance
department. 1t will cut down the APP
preparation asked by the state histori-
cal society from $4,000 to $4,000 in it's
report to the senate. 1t will recon-
mend out for indefinite postponement
the bill increasing the salaries Of depu-
ty wardens. 1t Will recommend favor
ably the appropriation of $4,000 to
provide for the inspection of cattle for
tuberculosis.
Under the bovine tuberculosis bill to
be recommended today owners
Of cattle will pay tax of cents per
head and owners Of hogs a tax OF 1
cent per head to maintain this tubercu-
losis inspection which will be done I'M
der the state animal health commits
sion.
Senator Edwards. Of Story county.
yesterday introduced a Joint resolution
in the senate to provide that all state
taxes be paid by the railroads and 9TH
er public service corporations and that
these corporations then be relieved
from county township or municipal
taxes On. the other hand. with the
public service corporations paying the
state taxes the people would be re-
lieved Of state taxes and would pay
only county. township and municipal
taxes including school taxes. 1t would
require a constitutional amendment to
pass this. It was passed four years
n rlofo <oI fr,o
Pitt Machine Out Of Repair.
Having bumped into a stone wall
in It's effort to push over administra-
ton road legislation. the Pitt machine
in the Iowa house is backing away for
repairs prior to another effort to put
some of thetplans of It's chauffeurs into
execution.
Two bills are already before the
house to abolish the offices of state
printer and binder, and this matter is
to be considered next. 4 ii
A new bill also bobbed into existence
yesterday, this being measure intro
duced by Representatives Hall and
Coakley to let the official printing Of
all counties to the lowest bidder blythe
contract system.
something must be done soon Il Ger
tain parties are not to remain unre-
warded for their exertions in the last
campaign.
Pitt coss Slipping.
The Pitt machine. however, il no
longer in prime working order Some
Of the wheels are not working well to-
gether, and there are various sore
spots over the events Of the past two
weeks.
First, capitol extension plans went
awry, and then the machine ran into
it's toughest ditch on tho roads bills.
Differences Of opinion are beginning
to crop up, too. Some Of the mem
bers who have political ambitions can
not agree upon whether or not the
Kimball primary bill should be enacted
in It's present form, putting the nomi-
nations Of the lower state officials into
the hands of a convention.
There is difference. too, as to the
Foster road patrol bill. The great
majority OF the Pitt-Johnston road
men are opposed to this bill. but
several are for it, and the Elwood-
Maokie men are unit for the bill.
Speaker Pitt Is not free from crlti-
cism, and democratic members who
have been responsible for much Of the
machine strength so far are beginning
to show signs of restlessness.
Minority Leader Douglas Rogers is
insisting upon the repeal Of the in
surance rating law. his pet measure.
while many of his republican COL
leagues favor retaining the rating sys
tenn in some form.
Not Al Satisfactory.
II the offices Of state printer and
binder are not abolished. an election
will have to be held by the general as
sembly. A republican caucus to elect
printer and binder would be in the con-
troll OF factions not at all friendly to
the Pitt men and be highly unsatis-
factory to that branch Of the house.
It is doubtful whether any bill to
abolish the offices Of state printer and
binder can pass the house and It's de-
feat would be almost certain in the
senate.
Moro Paving For Iowa Falls.
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