Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-01-24
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
IS HARD AT WORK.
CONSTITUTIONAL A MEN DIN E N T
ON THE WAY. MANY BILLS
ARE INTRODUCED.
COMPLIMENT NATIONAL GUARD
Old Soldiers Want Decoration Day
Kept Sacred. Suffrage Lead.
ers are Active

Old Soldiers Want Decoration Day
Kept Sacred. Suffrage Lead.
ers are Active.
(By ]. w. Jarnagin.)
Des Moines, Iowa, January 20, 1917.
After four day recess the 37th gen.
eral assembly reconvened Tuesday
afternoon, January 16, and both
houses transacted considerable busi-
ness. The most important event in the
house was the announcement OF COM
mittees. That there were some disap-
pointments when the list was read
goes without saying, but little out
ward manifestation indicated this.
There are sixty-one cOmmittees-one
more than at the last session. john
ston of Humboldt is made chairman
of the appropriation committee, Nc
Ferren of Hamilton heads the judiciar
committee, and Hall Of Taylor is chair
man of the ways and means commit
tee. These are the leading commit
tees and the chairmen, with two DEM
ocrats, form the house section of the
retrenchment committee. Other inn
portant committee chairmanships were
given as follows: Agriculture, Rich
ards Of Muscatine; banks and bank
ing, Rayburn of Poweshiek; insurance
Griffin Of Woodbury.; highways, john
ston Of Lucas; schools, Rowley of
Van Buren,; suppression intemper-
ance, Stanley of Adams; railroads,
Kimberly of Scott. >
Constitutional Amendment on the
Way.
Senator James NJ. Wilson, of the
Appanoose- Davis district, introduced
the resolution providing for the sub
mission Of the prohibitory amendment
in the senate and Representative Guy
e. Roberts, of Ringgold county, intro
duced the measure in the house. The
resolution was submitted to Attorney
General Havner and careful compari-
son was made with the resolution
adopted two years ago that they might
|abe Identical both in wording and pune /.
tuation. The resolution in both houses
and senate was referred to the COM
mittee on constitutional amendments
and favorable report has already
been made in both cases.
Bills Introduced.
A number Of bills have been intro
duced. Among the more important are
for the repeal of the presidential pref
erential primary law; the repeal OF
the insurance law passed by the l:ist
general assembly; providing that eight
hours shall constitute a days laDcr
on all public work: making it pos ,ibie
to provide free school books: repeal
lof the anti-tipping law; resolution ask
ing for investigation of coal combine
and advance in prices; change in pri-
mary election law; to appoint a COM
mittee of ten lawyers to revise the
code and expunge all needless l,Ws
requiring cities to provide public 'om-
fort stations; Eepealing restration
laws in the smaller cities; provldint,
| for a highway patrolman; ame1dins
laws in regard to distributution OF
| auto vehicle license fund and provid-
ing for oiling of roads outside limits
| of cities and towns; repeal law pro-
viding for selection of county superin-
tendent of schools by members OF
township school boards; to make high
ways a standard width OF fifty feet:
4 raising salary of assessors from $3.50
per day to 81; giving fire tornado
and hail mutual insurance companies
authority to write thier insurance;
classifying mourning doves and sun
fish as under game law; making the
payment of bounty on gophers option
al; permitting cities to levy tax for
community centers.
Compliment the National GuRrd.
| Resolutions were introduced in both
houses commencing the Iowa National
Guard for the splendid record made in
patrol duty on the Mexican border,
Eloquent tribnte was paid to the young
men by several members of the senate
and house and the vote of appreeia-
ton passed unanimously.
Constitutional Amendment Passes SEN
| ate.
BY vote Of As to 5 the senate
passed the prohibitory constitutional
amendment to prohibit the manufac-
on constitutional amendments, report
Iowa. Senator James M. Wilson, of
Centerville, chairman of the committee
on constitutional amendments report
| ed to the senate of unanimous recon-
mendatiOn of the committee for its
passage. On roll call, Senator Joseph
r. Frailey of Lee county, Senator Fred
G. Henigbaum Of Scott county and
Senator Nicholas j. Schrup Of Du-
buque county voted against it. Two
senators were absent, Senator Kimball
of Pottawattamie, who is i'll, and Sem
ator Green of Clinton county.
Proposed Change In Bee Inspection
Law.
In his annual report which has re-
Gently heen filed in the gnYernnr'S