Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-21
CITY MANAGER FOR
HAWKEYE CAPITAL
Radical Changes in Manage
ment Provided in Bill to
Be Introduced.
MAKE MAYOR RESPONSIBLE
From 4 staft correspondsnt)

among tue changes is a provision
enlarging the scope OF the mayors
powers which would make that official
city manager with the title of mayor,
elected as now. The mayor would be
directly responsible for all depart
ments OF municipal affairs, of which
he would have actual instead of SUPER
visorial control as at present.
lawmakers Investigate Coal Prices.
The senate has appointed a COM
mittee made up of Senators Price of
Abba, Casweil OF Depison and Has
kell OF Cedar Rapids to investigate
the alleged coal dealers combine in
cooperation with a committee ap-
pointed by the house. Senator Whit
more championed the resolution be-
fore the senate, Of which Representa-
tive w. w. Epps of Ottumwa was the
originator Senator Whitmore de-
clared that coal has jumped from Is
cents per bushcl in Ottumwa to Is
cents, while at the same time oper-
ators are selling to dealers, under
contract, at the same price they were
when coal was sold at Is cents per
bushel. II the commission finds there
is a violation OF the law il is to re-
port to the attorney general.
Cuts State Printing Cost.
A reduction in the cost OF printing
Of 10 per cent has been effected
through the office of state document
editor, as shown by the report of Ora
Williams, state document editor, Just
made public. The office ,'as estab-
lished by the Thirty-sixth oral as
sembly and has permitted t. ting
down of printing and the ma of
more brief editions so as to res. >,
the above saving. A table is pri.
showing the cost Of previous editio,
Of state documents as compared to
the latest editions. The cost Of twen-
ty-six state reports and documents
has been reduced $21 ,o23.64. The total
cost OF the latest edition of these re-
ports was $33,6o9.26, as compared
to $s5, ,5o8,o0, the cost Of the previous
edition. The elimination OF useless
matter, the cutting down of tables,
the cutting out of duplicate reports
has brought about the saving. The
report summary declares that the
quality of the states publications has
been improved. The reduction has
not been done by any looping off OF
unwarranted charges, the state docu-
ment editor says, but by the manner
in which the copy has been prepared
and edited. The printing and en-
craving Of is now done BY a number
Of different firms besides the state
printer,
Woman's Reformatoryi Head Chosen
Dr.. Lena A. Beach OF Carroll was
yesterday elected superintendent ol
the now women's reformatory al
Rockwell City by the state board oi
control. She will receive, a salary of
$1,000 per year and maintenance. DR..
Beach was formerly woman physician
at the Cherokee state hospital. She
has taken special work in Europe and
has worked in the psychopathic hos
pital in London, The board has also
elected Miss Grace Shellenberger OF
Des Moines state supervising librar-
ian, She will be in charge of all of
the libraries at the state institutions,
succeeding Miss Eliza Townsend. Her
salary will be $1,000 per year and ex-
penses.N
Greater Iowa" Men Here.
The officers and some of the lead
ing members of the Greater Iowa as
sociation, who are now touring the
state, were guests Of the Greater Des
Moines committee at the Des Moines
club last night. Good roads, better
schools and improved business and
social conditions were discussed. The
party will tour western Iowa for the
rest Of the week.
To Repeal Judiciary Law.
A bill to repeal the nonpartisan ju-
dietary law and nominate judges OF
the supreme, district and superior
courts by convention was introduced
into the senate today by Senator Hell
mer Of Carroll. 1t was referred to
the committee on judiciary. Senator
Broxam introduced measure to pro-
vide for uniform text books in the
state.
Consider Bone Dry" Bills.
The four bone dry" bills of Sena-
tor Whitmore Of Ottumwa were con-
sidered at a meeting of the senate
committee on the suppression of in
temperance held yesterday afternoon.
Attorney General Horace M. Havner,
who attended the meeting, declared
that the state needs legislation for
stopping the bringing in of liquor for
personal use. He says these bills
will not make the state bone dry"
because liquor can still be brought in
with automobiles, although in limited
quantities.
John B. Hammond has proposed a
law to prevent the use of the high
ways for the bringing in OF liquor,
but the attorney general objects to
this because he says it would be al
most impossible to enforce.
Both the attorney general and w.
{. Berber declared that Whitmore's S
bone dry" bills could break up all
organization of bootlcsgers, such as
they said existed in Des Mones and
the territory around.
A bill introduced into the senate
yesterday by Senator Adams has
reference to making more drastic the
laws against bank burglary for fixing
the penalty for bank holdups, or
"stickupsS at Imprisonment at hard
labor for life or for not less than
twenty-five years. His bill, known
as senate file 81, would make the car
rying OF explosives evidence of in
tent to commit burglary with explo-
slves. The penalty would be impris-
onment not less than twenty-five nor
more than forty years. His third
bill, known as senate file 33, would