Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-25
Allen REPORT
HAS LONG ROUTE
SENATE COMMITTEE WILL MAKE
NO RECOMMENDATIONS ON
secRsvARy's OFFICE.
FINDINGS WILL BE GENT
TO HOUSE FOR DISPOSAL
viii Then 30 Referred to Committee
For NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of Sec
rotary Of State 10 Lack Of Sufficient
Assistants-Deaf and Blind Children
Of State Must Go to School.
.pec,., 10 Times-Renublican.


Des Moines. March s5.-secretary Of
state w. s. Allen was before the COM
mi:tee on departmental affairs OF the
Iowa senate the most of the day Mon
day and was given OPPORTUNITY to ex-
plain conditions in his office. 1t Is
understood that the report Of the COM
mittee on the Allen investigating will
be forthcoming soon and will be made
without recommendation to the senate.
The senate may then message it over
to the house. where all actions looking
toward impeachment are instituted, and
the matter would be referred to a COM
mittee for Investigation and to report
back to the house.
One of the charges which Is being
made against Aliens office which has
not yet been brought out is that he has
made. no accounting on the sale of
code9or code supplements and has not
required the county officers who have
sold them to make an accounting. lt IS
said such an accounting has not been
made for FIVE years.
The secretary claims that the rea-
SON the automobile department has
fallen behind in its work is that the
license money is all paid or practically
all Of 1t within a few weeks time just
before the penalty falls due on April /
and that 1t has made such a rush of
work that it is impossible to handle it
without much delay. He says further
that he has been handicapped by lack
of help which the legislature has re-
fused to provide and that this de-
partment has been operated with far
less help than the automobile depart
ments of other states which CO NO.
have nearly 50 many cars as the de-
partment here.
Deaf Must Go to State School.
The legislature passed a bill requir-
ing eight months school. which will
prevent the operation of schools only
six months as is now being done in
many rural districts.
Compulsory attendance, except under
certain conditions of deaf children or
the school for the deaf at Council
Bluffs is provided for in the Neff bill.
which passed the senate Monday. hav-
ing previously passes the house. The
bill requires that all children and
young people between the ages of and
10 years who are so deaf as to be un-
able to obtain an education in the
common schools must he sent to the
Iowa school for the deaf unless they
come under the exceptions provided
for in the bill. The act is also to
apply to the blind children the same as
to the deaf.
The exceptions are (a) That the
child is in such bodily or mental con-
dition as to prevent or render futile
his or her attendance at school, (b)
That the child is SO diseased or pos
sesses such habits as to render his or
her presence menace to the health
or morals of other pupils. (c) That the
child is regular attendant at day
school for the Geaf maintained under
the provisions of chapter 30s of the
acts Of the Thirty seventh general as
sembly or is efficiently taught for the
scholastic year in private or other
school devoted to the. instruction of the
deaf or by private tutor the branches
taught in the, public schools.
The state board Of education is au-
thorized to employ an agent to aid in
the enforcement Of the provisions of
this act.
The provisions of the act, it is de-
clared, shall apply likewise to blind
children of the state OF like ages with
regard to attendance at the college for
the blind"