Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-03-07
but was lost in the shoffle of the clos
ing days Of the senate.
House Friendly to Prairie Chickens.

chickens will be established in Iowa
if the senate concurs in the action OF
the house. The McFarlane bill, pro-
viding for the closed season, was
passed So to 33.
Representative Lee of Sac county
offered to amend the bill by proposing
an open season Of two months instead
Of three and a bag limit of four birds
instead of eight. The amendment was
vote down.
1t is believed that the Turner bill
providing a closed season for quail
will carry also.
Government Aid in Road Building.
Senator Balkema, chairman Of the
committee on highways in the SEN
ate. has drafted bill which gives the
methods to be pursued in receiving
Iowa's allotment of the money set
aside by the government for the i'm
rrovement of post roads, that is, roads
over which rural mail carriers pass.
Something over $2,000,000 will come to
Iowa within the next five-year peroid.
The Balkema bill provides that federal
aid shall be extended to the counties in
proportion to area. Senator Balkema
does not believe that federal aid
should be injected into the general
road law. In the house different at
titude is assumed. The Johnston Pitt
highway measure has a section rela-
tive to federal help, granting to the
highway commissioner authority to
receive such aid and make suitable
provisions therefor.
The Elwood bill, which has been Of
fered in the house as substitute for
the Johnston-Pitt bill, requires that
the federal aid received shall be dis
tributed among the counties in the
same proportion as the automobile
registration funds are distributed.
This, under the present law, is in pro-
portion to the number of townships in
each county. 1t provides that the funds
expended by the state to meet the fed
eral aid provisions shall be taken from
the automobile registration fund, and
that when this fund is insufficient the
amount shall be made up from the
road and bridge funds of the various
counties. 1t is specified that there
shall be no increase in road tax to
meet the federal aid provisions.
Some Tips that Don't Tip.
The repeal of the anti-tipping law
left some Objectionable conditions that
Senator Thompson of Burlington be-
lieves need fixing. In the large cities
the checking concession is a source of
revenue to hotels. In some of the big
hotels in Chicago a syndicate pays as
high as 100000 year for the checking
privilege. Pretty girls are placed in
charge and when the tipper presents
ttl,e smiling. ,tippee with ten or twenty
five cents he thinks he Is contributing
toward the upkeep Of poorly paid but
attractive young woman, but she keeps
none OF it. Her meager salary is4all
she gets for her smiles and obfging
manner. Sen. Thompson thinks this
q q 4 q species Of obtaining money unifar
ducing biii hda0Raash and he e proposes lnsIn,, M 2,
out hat rack checking privileges by
hotels. It is understood that the Cham
berlain hotel in Des Moines gets $1,000
year for the checking privilege.
| Change Proposed in Formation OF Con.
solidated Districts.
Representative Lenocker of Madison
has introduced a bill seeking to cor
rect certain flaws in the law governing
| the formation of consolidated school
districts and elections on proposals tC
consolidate, where the territory EN-
braces an incorporated town. In towr
districts having rural territory. the
voters outside the corporate limits nov
vote with the territory to be annexed
instead of voting with their own dis
trict. The Lenocker bill also provides
that in annexing territory, the entire
sub-district or rural independent dis
trict shall be taken, or when divided
a ms jority of the voters in the terri
tory not included shall assent.
Mr.. Lenocker contends that the orig
inal intent of the law providing TO
consolidated schools was to encourage
4 and establish community centers i,
rural communities rather than CO :tri
butte to improving the town and cit!
i schools. He says that of the 200 con
i solidated districts in the state only 8
4 of them are strictly rural and he be
4 lieves that II boys and girls are to b.
encouraged to remain on the farm -
4 fewer rural communities that arr
hooked up with the town schools tn
better. For this reason he urges con
solidation in rural communities, separ
ate and distinct from towns and cities
j Taxing Cigarets.
n Perhaps one of the most widely mis-
understood measures introduced in tn
senate was the bill by Senator Rul
of the Cerro Gordo- Hancock Franklil
district, providing for tax on cigaret
His bill maintains all Of the presen
penalties as to minors using thee
nails" but it places tax OF 500
iyear on all dealers in cigarets and Gig
4 aret papers. These come in under
decision of federal court in origina
packages and their sale cannot be pre-
vented by state law. Rule proposes t.
place the issuing OF licenses and tn
carrying out of the restrictions i'm
posed under the state dairy and fOOt
commissioner. He AYERS that he II
trying to prevent the indiscriminat'
violation of the present law by making
lit possible to restrict and contro
the traffic.
Automobile Tax Enormous.
A report sent to the general assem-
hly By w. S. Allen, secretary of state
! shows Iowa had 19S,5S7 automobile
in 1916 and the owners paid $1,679,92
lin license fees. There was car TO
e, cry IL people in the state. Poll
county leads in the number of cars. I
had 8,416. Scott had 4,445, six NOR
than Black Hawk. Dubuque had 2,S4
, and Hardin 3,110. Woodbury. had 1855
Davis county was lowest with 6S7. TIL
report shows 81 out of the 80 countie
fdrew more from the license fund thai
they paid in. Distribution Of the ia.
~, re Ia nr0 rated amOnp all fh