Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-04-07
GOVERNOR AND LEGISLATURE
WORKING hARMoNioUsLY IN
PATRIOTIC MOVEMENTS.
APPROPRIATION OF
100000 FOR PROPAGANDA
Money to Be Spent by Extension De-
partment to Encourage Greater Food
Production-6oth Houses Pass Bill
PIedsinq Resources of State to Ma.
ton For War Purposes.
Special TO Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. April 7.-Governor w
l.. Harding and the Iowa legislature
are taking the war situation well in
hand and are making every provision
possible so that Iowa may be ready to
do her part in all lines of activity con-
x1,000,000 is to be used for the support
of dependent wives, mothers or chill
Gren.
Governor Harding yesterday sent a
special message to the legislature ask
ing for an appropriation of not less
than 100000 to be spent by the ex-
tension department of Ames in pro-
paganda for food production.
The senate passed the military COM
mittee bill providing for the erection of
armories at the state university at
Iowa City and the Iowa State College
at Ames and appropriating s25O,000
therefor, or $fe5,o00 for each armory.
/, These are to be structures 200X400 feet
In dimensions with dirt floor and steel
I roofs and will provide room for bat
talon of infantry, or four compa MES
to drill in.
Pledge Resources Of State.
Both branches of the legislature
yesterday passed joint resolution
pledging the resources of the state to
the nation.
The war appropriation bill as it
passed the senate follows:
Section /. That there is hereby ap-
pjropriated out Of any money in the
state treasury not otherwise appro-
priated the sum Of S1.000,00 or as
much thereof as may be necessary and
authorized, to be used under this act:
the same to be used as provided in
this act in providing. equipping and
raising and for the benefit of any mill
tary organization of the state of Iowa
for service in the armies of the United
States on call of the president.
Section 2. That said funds herein
appropriated may be used to pay the
necessary expenses in securing enlist
sments. physical examinations, trans
sportation and sustenance and all other
necessary and advisable expenses con-
snected with the organization of such
smilitary organizations. The adjutant
general OF the state of Iowa is hereby
authorized to pay to- each company,
troop battery or other similar unit,
while in service, for the welfare and
I comfort of the men, sum not to ex-
coed the amount now allowed to such
snnits as a. total miscellaneous fund
under the military laws OF the state of
l0Na. Such payments may be made.
I however, monthly instead OF semi an
5nually. The commanding officer fof
each unit shall account to the adjutant
i general for all such funds received by
him.
Section 8. The adjutant general
: with the approval of the governor of
the state may pay out of said fund, to
the dependent Wife, mother or children
under IA years of age of any enlisted
man in any such military organization
a sum not to exceed $40 per month to
any dependent wife or mother, and to
any such minor dependent, not to ex-
coed $40 per month, but that said sum
to such dependents of any soldier shall
not exceed the total sum Of $50 per
month; provided, however, no SUCH
payments shall be made to any sucn
the federal government.
ScCtIOH AdAl dtl SuulS drawn on
said fund shalt be drawn by a warrant
OF the auditor of state on the treasurer
Of state. upon a reauisition made by
the adjutant general and Endorsed by
the governor; and such requisition
shall show the exact purpose for which
the sum therein named is to be used
or has been expended and all exjendi-
lures under this act shall be audited
as other state expenditures are
audited.
Section 5. All expenditures made
by the state OF Iowa for the purposes
named in this act for any other mill
tary purposes for which the federal
government by its laws now in force
or herafter enacted would be liable, or
for which said federal government as
sumes to be liable, shall be repaid to
the state and claim therefor shall be
made by the governor for and on be-
half Of the state Of Iowa.
All Records Shattered.
The Iowa legislature shattered
days appropriations in the history
of Iowa yesterday when appropria-
ton bills carrying a total of nearly
.$4.500,O00 passed one or both houses
of the general assembly.
The record does not necessarily
mean any extravaganza in the con-
duct of state affairs, altho Representa-
tive Scott Of Appanoose, who is earn
Sestly against all appropriations, went
to bed with a broken heart.
1t might have been worse, however,
as the house, by killing the Shortess
teachers pension bill, UP for recon
lsideration, missed an opportunity to
sexpend $4,000, and saved another
100000 by killing the Nicholson bill
for a twine plant to be operated at
one or the other of~the state peniten.
tiaries.
The immense amount of appronria-