The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-04-11
$l,000,O00.O0 TO
EQUIP GUARDS
Bill Passed Allowing $1.000,000 to
Equip Iowa Guard-Provision for
Soldiers Dependents.
WIFE OR MOTHER CARED FOR
Appropriations Pass House. ur and
One-HaIf Million Dollars TO Run
state Institutions.

DES MONIES. April 7-The desire
to adjourn Saturday, April 14th. has
stimulated activity in legislation to
get through the more important meas
ures. fractional alignments asserted
itself when the ruling of Speaker Pitt
was announced declaring the tatling
of the amended bill to create another
supreme Judge not effective because 1t
2 did not receive constitutional ma
jority. The house overruled the de-
cision of the speaker by a. vote of 81
to 40 and motion to strike out the
enaCting clause which meant the death
Of the bill passed by the decisive vote
of 63 to ~ BY motion in tile senate
the measure that had. passed both
houses extending the term Of county
officials to four years was recalled
from the enrolling committee and that
proposition was doubtless killed as
1t Is not believed it can receive votes
enough TO resurrect it. Tho five year
closed season for both prairie chick.
ems and quail passed both houses and
will become a law July 4th. The house
slaughtered the senate measure max
ing it al Offcnse to appoint relatives
TO Office. The Larson bill appropriat.
ing $4,000 to be used by the attor-
ney general in law enforcement has
passed both houses. The Shortess bill
granting pensions to teachers was res.
urrected and amended, but it failed to
pass the house. The bill giving rail.
ways an opportunity to charge the
same freight rates between two points
even though one road is not direct
line was defeated in the house. 1t is
known as the long and short haul bill
and an effort has been made for years
to get it through. Cummins vetoed
such a bill when he was governor. The
senate voted $4,000 for making fire
proof the old state house at Iowa City
which Is now part of tie university.
Crop Conferences At Ames.
The house passed q concurrent rasD
luton introduced by Representative
sl)arrah and Mooty calling for con.
X ference of representatives OF III tla
COliiliaB Of tbs stale TO be called at
Ames to consider the food situation
soon. ~ 5,i5 ss
Cement Trust 70 be investis isated.
Weaver got his bill through the
house providing for an investigation Of
the cement trust and the increase In
prices of cement products as sliown by
the report Of the state highway com.
mission. ..
A Million for War.
Governor Harding asked for an ap-
preparation of $500,O0O to equip the
Iowa national guard for service. The
committee on appropriations readily
acceded to the request, but when the
bill reached the house Rogers Of Car.
roll moved that the amount be made
$l,OOO,OOO and It carried without a
dissenting vote. The senate cOncurred
without opposition and the same day
Governor Harding signed the measure
and upon publication it becomes law. |
Provision was made in the bin too that |
$50 month be allowed any dependent
wife or mother of soldier and that |
$40 a month so for child under IA.
but not more than $50 a month to any
one individual. In addition to the ap.
preparation of q million dollars $780,.
900 was appropriated for armories at
'the State college at Anes and athe |
University at Iowa. City. BY special |
message Governor Harding asked for !
100000 to be used immediately by !
the extension department at Anles in !
carrying forward" a campaign for in |
creased acreage and CROP production |
in keeping with Instructions from a |
conference participated in by leading |
farmers from all parts OF the state. |
Sitting Committees to Get Busy |
With several hundred bills pending |
II sitting committee has been on duty |
from the senate the past week. The |
SIX members are Wilson. ProudfOOt |
Fellows, WhitmOre. Chase and Schrup /
Ia 1fOI - Dr. t.. .,I,, |
Of the committee. A sitting commit |
tee from the house will be appointed |
the first of the week. Each faction is |
to have three members.
Appropriations Pass the House.
Friday was the big day for dispos-
ing of appropriation bills in the house.
Nearly four and half million dollars
were voted. This includes the million
and a half asked by the, board of cdu
cation and the money required by the |
board OF control for running the state
institutions. The senate appropriation
committee recommended for passage
the house bill apprOpriating $4,000
for 4 child welfare bureau to be es-
tablisIed at the State university. The
age bill appropriating $4,000 for the
Spihtiu ~ tCioI li"Coiy 1I iNpCh"Cil Why
10 be- used in buying livestock and
equipment for the institution. The
bill authorizing the sale of that prop.
erty was withdrawn as was also the
one selling the custodial farm near
Des MOines. ..A
Politics and Politicians. ,.
Considerable resentment has been
manifested the past week to the per-
sistent lobbying of persons represent
ing various interests, Prominent SEN
ators and members of the house have
been told that to oppose certain bills
meant no political promotions in the
future. 1t was this domineering atti.
tude that caused the house to defeat
the bill providing for another supreme
Judge after 1t had passed that body
and was sent back for the concurrence
in senate amendments. The activity
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