Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-02-05
COMBINED TEMPLE AND OFFICE
BUILDING PROPOSED FOR
STATE or IOWA.
SUI cAlls.FoR FUND
or MILLION AND A HALF
Measure Certain 70 Receive Consider.
alton by lssislators-Read lssisla
ton Continues to De Of First Import.
anes-Sub committees at Work -
Many oiiis introduced.

Des Moines. Feb. "a combined
memorial temple and office building to
cost si.6c0. COO. In memory Of the Iowa
boys who gave their lives in the great
war, is provided for in a bill introduced
yesterday in the house of representa-
tives by Representative W. f. Moore
of Guthrie county.
Representative Guthrie wants the
memorial temple and office building TO
be located 0n the capitol extension
grounds on Grand avenue between
Twelfth and Thirteenth streets.
The cost OF the structure is to be
raised by taking 100000 from the mil
lion dollar war fund. fund set aside
two years ago which has not been en-
tirely spent: the additional million
dollars 10 be raised by one-quarter
mill annual levy for four years.
The bill also provides for the APP
pertinent Of building committee con-
ssting of one member of the senate.
one from the house, chief justice of tne
state supreme court. and the executive
counci. The chief justice shall be
chairman OF the committee.
Representative Moore'e bill ii is be-
liered, will receive great deal of con-
sideration at the hands Of the lesis-
iators because of its practical ility 1t
is somewhat similar to the bill intro
duced by Senator Kimball in the senate
but specifies how the money is to be
raised.
Pending Bills.
Important measures among the
more than 200 now in committees are
expected to come before the Thirty
eighth general assembly this week.
Many of these measures were intro
duced only last week. and it may not
be until the latter part of this week
that comittees will be ready TO re-
port on them.
In tae senate. the elections COM
mittee has given its approval to two
election bills by Senator Glen KIM
ball, of Council Bluffs. and action on
these by the upper house is looked
for within few days.
One OF the Kimball bills would take
out Of the primary all state offices
below lieutenant governor and put
them back to the part convention basis
OF nomination, and the other would
place on the ballots the names of the
candidates for president and vice
president instead of those of presi-
Dental electors.
The senate also has before : 1t for
action the bill for eradication Of the
barberly bush. which was passed by
the house Saturday. The barberry
furthers the propa CATION Of the wheat
rust sporism.
Both houses expect to act early on
the bills by Senator Kimball and Rep
resentative F7enniken Of Jones county
virtually identical. outlawing the red
nag" in Iowa when raised or followed
in a manner likely TO incite trouble.
Roads Issue Uppsrrost.
The roads issue continues to hold
it's prominent place in both houses. the
drafting Of a road bill having been
placed in the hands of subcommittee
OF the highway committees Of the
house and senate, and this subcom-
mittee starts active work this week.
The joint committee is composed Of
the following members: House-Rep-
resentatives A. X. Westervelt, Greene
county: J. B.. Weaver. Polk; John T.
Hanson. Scott; H. F. Davidson. Page.
and Charles Gilmore, Clay, Senate
Senators Nicholas Balkema. Sioux
county; John W. Foster. Guthrie:
Walter W. Anderson, Greene: B. NJ.
Stoddard, Woodbury.: Harry c. White.
Benton. and ". H. Scott, Chickasaw.
Members Of the assembly who have
declared themselves opposed to radi-
cal changes in road legislation said
they were not satisfied with the per-
sonnet of the joint subcommittee.
which advocates Of new Hesitation for
hard surfaced roads considered good
ausury.
The house will act this week on the
Joint resolution already adopted by
the senate memorializing congress to
permit discharged soldiers to retain
their uniforms permanently.
1t Is considered likely that a COM
mittee report will be received in the
senate early this week on the bill by
Senator A. L. Rule. of Mason City.
seeking to control the spread of social
diseases. The measure bears the en-
dorsement Of the state board Of health.
The measure is declared the most
Of its kind ever proposed as a
law in this part of the country. and its
provisions covering penalties for vio-