Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-09

BILL TO SELL LANDS
DOOMED TO DEFEAT
Senator Whipple Planning to Introduce
Bill Calling For Erection Of Temple
of Justice on Capitol erounds-ssate
Officials to Oppose Measure and Fa-
vor Office Building.
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Des Moines, Feb. 9.-The capitol eS-
tension tax will not be repealed if the
report of the ways and means commit
tee made to the senate. today is ac-
cepted. This committee reported that
Senator Whitmore's bill providing for
the repeal of this tax for the remain
ing six years which it is yet to run, be
indefinitely postponed.
This tax is now yielding s150,00O per
year which is to be used in carrying
out the original provisions of the CAPT.
toll extension act. The tax, as fixed
by the Thirty-fifth general assembly,
Is to run ten years starting with 1918.
The first two years the tax amounted
TO " mill and produced practically
S1,000,000. For the remaining eight
years the executive council was au-
thorjZed to provide tax sufficient to
bring in $150,000 annually but the total
capitol extension tax is not to exceed
.s2,0oo,oOO.
1t is probable that Senator Ball and
Representative Rowley's bills to- sell
off about twenty acres of the capitol
grounds already purchased will also be
killed in the committees. 1t is, said
they would not get very far in the
house or senate if reported ont
Senator Whitmore is planning to in
troduce bill to build temple of JUS
tice on the capitol extension grounds
This is the plan which the state bar
association has been favoring. Such =
building will house the supreme court,
the office of the attorney general, the
railroad commissioners and the law Ii
brary. The rooms in the state house
now used by these departments would
then be remodeled and made into Of
fees for the state officials.
Many#of the state officials however
will oppose any temple of justice plan
because they want a state office
building. The bill to erect "a temple
of justice will no doubt be amended
to make, it an office building which is
to be erected and then the fight be-
tween the friends of the two plans will
be precipitated. =
Senator Whitmore also has. a bill
pending to erect a street car waiting
station opposite the state house on
Grand avenue.
County Free Text Books.
4 A county may have free text books
provided the property owners petition
for them under bill which will be
reported out by the house schools COM
.mittee Of the Iowa legislature today.
This would practically give counties
the privilege of having free text books
I'M schools II, the majority wishes
them Many cities OF the state now
have Va free text book system but
measures heretofore to provide them in
counties have met with stubborn OPP
position.
Assessors will get 81 per day In
stead of $3.50 as is now the case thru a
bill which passed the senate of the
Iowa legislature yesterday fathered by
Senator Byington, of Iowa City. A
similar measure will be acted on. by the
house.
Suffragists Call of Meeting.
Because war developments make it
time for. serious, rather than spec
tacular action, by American women, in
the opinion of Iowa suffragists, they
today announced that plans for the
suffrage meeting in the legislature Feb.
20 have been brought to an end. The
state board meeting, open to all suf-
fragists, will he held that day, as
planned. but there will be ,no state
house program
"The developments between this
country and Germany have put a
new note IN American life COM
mented Miss Anna B. Lawther, state
suffrage president today. Tt makes
us feel that suffragesSis more i'm.
perative than ever, but that the more
spectacular and entertaining features
in a campaign to get it, are out of har-
mony with events that are @transpiring
nationally" ~
Mrs Carrie Chapman Gait, presi-
dent Of the National Equal Suffrage
association, was: TO have come 10 Iowa
for the session on the Goth. She has
Cancelled that engagement to turn her
attention to national movement by
suffrag istssto be ready to assume wom-
ems burdens during war, if war comes.