Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-03-16
member declared that not only in state


dition of nepotism. There was but
slight opposition to the measure. An
other bill by the Hamilton senator,
which the senate has adopted, pre-
vents any public officer in the state
receiving an increase in salary dur
ing the term for which he was elected
or appointed.
Some Members Shy on Bills.
Although more than one thousand
bills and resolutions have been intro
duced in the two houses of the as
sembly, two senators and thirteen rep
resentatives have established the rec
ord of having none of the measures
credited to their names. The senators
who have not enrolled their names in
the bill book are Fellows of ALBANIA
kee; and Voorhees, of Cass; and the
record holders in the house are: Ad-
kins of O'Brien, Bailey of Shelby, OAR
rah of Franklin, Gilmore OF Clay, Hall
of Taylor, Krouse of Wayne, Lewis OF
Clarke, Mooty of Grundy, Nordyke OF
Keokuk, Price of Dickinson, Rees OF
Fremont, Richards of Muscatine,
Smith of Bremen and Wilson Of Chero-
kee. The record for high place in the
senate, as to number of bills intro
duced is close between Kimball OF
Pottawattamie, and Parker of Polk,
with Whitmore of Wapello trailing at
their heels kimball has 20 bills to
his credit, Parker q and Whitmore
g. Henigbaum of Scott, LIE Compile
of Wayne. and Smith of Madison, have
one bill each to their credit In the
house Randall of Linn, and Weaver
of Polk are the leaders in the number
of bills presented, with Is for the
former and IA for the latter. The one
bill members are Andre, Becker,
Dunkelberg, Edgington, Finch, Lang
fit, Lenocker, Mead, Scott, Slosson,
Stanley, and Wilson of Mitchell. Stone
of Sioux, who stood manfully back OF
the no-bill Notifications in the Seth
general assembly, has fallen over the
breastworks, and now has record OF
four measures which he has fathered
and is fostering.
Would Not Condemn Senators.
By unanimous vote the lower house
of the assembly has expunged from
the record a lengthy resolution pre-
scented by Rayburn of Poweshiek,
strongly condemning Senators Cum
minis and Kenyon for the part they
took in filibustering during the clos
ing days of the late session of con-
gress to prevent the passage of the
bill asked for by President Wilson,
giving him power to arm merchant
ships and to place the United States
in a condition of armed neutrality.
The Iowa senator's were two OF twelve
statesmen of that body who, by up
holding the senatorial prerogative of
unlimited debate, prevented the 80
members favoring the bill from reach
ing a vote on the same.
Still Unlawful to Tip.
The bill by Senator Caswell, of
Crawford county, which was passed
through the senate with ease early in
the session, and which would have
repealed the law forbidding tipping
in Iowa, met with it's death in the
house. The effort for repeal only re-
ceived 80 votes in the house. The
anti-tipping law was adopted by the
seth general assembly. 1t has proven
more or less of a farce, and in ac-
cordance with Governor Harding's
plea to have useless statutes removed
from the books, Senator Caswell
sought its eradication.
Fight Over Soldiers Monument
Bills have been introduced in both
houses which have for their object the
permanent location of the Iowa SOL
diers' and sailors monument on the
site which it now occupies. The cap
itol improvement plans look to the
moving Of the monument to a posi-
ton two blocks to the east OF the state
house, and about four blocks from Its
present location. The Allison monu-
ment has been erected alongside the
soldiers s',..lt nd if the latter is per-
manently cl;el where it stands. the
Allison me lorial must necessarily be
moved. The controversy over the To-
cation of the monument will develop
one of the bitterest lights of the ses-
sion, it is expected.
Several New Laws Enacted.
That the legislators are getting
down to real work IL indicated by the
number of completed acts which have
gone through both houses and to the
governor for signature the past week.
important among the completed meas
ures are the following: Amending
highways law relative to establish
ment of highways by consent; relat-
ing to removal of county seats and
county records; giving supervisors
right to change location of homes for
Door, to purchase land for such pur-
pose and to sell old sites; relating to
school taxation; amending statutes
relative to proof of service Of notice
in certain cases; giving municipal
court judges right to solemnize mar
riages; legalizing publication of no
tees and quieting title of unknown
claimants; legalizing consolidated
school district election in .Chickasaw
county; legalizing appointment of IL
brary trustees at Montezuma and their
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