Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-04-11
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tension department at Ames in carry
ing forward a campaign for increased
acreage and crop production in keep
ing with instructions from confer
,ence participated in by leading farm
ers from all parts of the state.
Sitting Committees, to Get Busy.
With several hundred bills pending
sitting committee has been on duty
from the senate the past week. The
six members are Wilson, Proudfoot,
Fellows, Whitmore, Chase and Schrup,
Haskell, of Cedar Rapids, is chairman
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 a half million dollars!
were voted. This includes the million
and a half asked by the board of edu-
cation and the money required by the
board OF control for running the state
institutions. The senate appropriation
committe recommended for $4,000
for child welfare bureau to be es-
tablished at the state university. The
committe also recommended for pass
age bill appropriating $4,000 for the
woman's reformatory at Rockwell City
to 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erty was withdrawn as was also the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.
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. It was this domineering atti
tude that caused the house to defeat
the bill providing for anotheEsupreme
judge after it had passed that body
and was sent back for the concurrence
in senate amendments. The activity
of the newly appointed bank commits
sioner promoted the senate commit
ee on banking to report bill making
it an offense against the peace and
dignity of the state for an appointive
officer to participate in political &C
tivities or to contribute anything for
campaign expenses.
Illegal to Sell Checking Privileges.
The Holdogel bill passed the senate
enterprises to sell checking privileges
When, the Iowa editors attended a BAN
quiet at the Chamberlain hotel recent
ly they checked their hats and coats.
Some charming young ladies presided
over the check room and when the edi-
tors went for their wraps they thought
it gehteel and gallant to remember the
aforesaid girls with hunk of coin
of the realm, unmindful that firm
with speculative tendencies had paid
the Chamberlain hotel $1,000 for the
annual checking privilege and tht
handsome girls got none of the tips
nothing but a measley weekly stipend
was their share Senator Holdogel be-
lievesthis and similar transaction is
obtaining money under false pretenses
and the senate so voted. 0 course
the editors violated the anti-tipping
law There are others.
Sunday Laws in the Senate.
The amended Henigbaum bill rela-
tive to Sabbath observance or rather
the lack of it, passed the senate by a
vote OF 81 to II. The bilnproceeds
to outline what lines of occupation
shall be legal and when it comes to
the subject of amusements it provides
that any municipality of 500 inhabi-
tants or more may permit ball games,
theaters, moving pictures and the like
if majority of the people so vote
after an election has been petitioned
for by ten per cent of the voters. City
councils are charged with the duty Of
passing suitable ordinances relative
to licenses and restrictions but no
games nor shows nor movies shall be
held until after one o'clock on Sunday.
The house had previously defeated a
similar bill but it is thought this
measure will pass that body.
Concerning Taxation.
The committee on ways and means
from both houses held a session for
the purpose Of outlining a plan that
will give the state authority over GER
tain phases of taxation now assumed
by the general government. Members
OF the committee declared that the
United States should raise all the rev.
enue needed to run the governme1,
from the tariff They declare that the
federal government in levying taxes
on the income of corporations and in
dividuals and in levying direct or col
lateral inheritance taxes, goes into the
field for taxation which really belongs
to the states. Iowa is paying the fec
eral government more than $4,000, 900
in indirect taxes, the lawmakers de-