Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1919-03-26

ty board OF education, which, under
the new school bill recently. passed,
will hereafter be composed OF the SUI
perintendent and six other men over
the county especially selected for such
position. Under the old law the appeal
was taken to the state superintendent,
and sometimes consolidated districts
meandered in and around farmers
house and sometimes into other school
districts to take away most OF the sup
port of the smaller schools.
Lieutenant Governor Moore permit
ted an hour for horse play" in the
Senate Thursday forenoon when lit
tie bill by Senator Mitchell OF Mahas-
ka county came up. The bill simply
provided that rabbits should be tnclud-
ed in the list of game animals which
cannot be shipped out of the state.
For several days senators had been
preparing a burlesque attack on this
bill. Senator Haskell of Cedar Rapids
was called upon to preside for the
time being-and that was enough
to stage goodly comedy. Amendments
and jokes on rabbits occupied the time
for As minutes, when the lieutenant
governor resumed his position and on
motion disregarded all amendments
and put the bill up to vote. 1t car
ried, by the way, but it will not be-
come a law, it is said Carrying a
bill through either house does not sig
nifty that it will ever get to the gov
ernor's desk and be signed. Most Of
the members have found that to be a
fact long ago.
Representative Lake Of Sioux City
went to the mat on his new boxing
exhibition bill in the House Thurs
day-and the bill went down and out
by vote decisive enough to kill II.
And the Lake. bill was a good bill,
too, regulating boxing bouts and exhi-
billions under the authority Of athlet-
ic clubs in the state only, and under
rules to be carried out by commits
sion of three men to be named by
the governor, none of whom should be
boxers or connected with the sport.
In fact, the bill was real regulatory
measure for decent boxing in the state,
but too many were afraid OF it to pass
it.
Public Utilities Bill Failed.
The pub lie utilities bill got into
such danger in the Senate Thursday
that its friends had to rush to its res
cue and withdraw tho bill entirely
to keep it from defeat and disgrace
This public utilities proposition Is one
that has been casting its shadow over
the state house for 10, these many
years. This time it comes into both
houses, gets out of the Senate COM
mittee and on its passage with an ar
ray Of lobbyists and interested men
that required extra seating Of the
room with camp chairs. This bill
which is a long one, provides that
city and town electric light and pow
er plants, water works. city railways,
telephones, ETC., shall come under the
state railway commissioners giving
the latter power to fix rates and 9TH
erwise to exerciset,a complete infiu-
ence over such public utilities ia cases
of dispute between them and the
towns in which they operate. The
bill also increased the number OF state
railway commissioners to five. Mem
bers from the country districts who
observed the friends of the measure
and the methods used to help get the
bill through. became suspicious OF it
as they have done at other sessions.
and . attest vote showed they had
majority of the Senate against the
measure. The same bill in the House
may yet be passed-if it can get
enough votes.
That Sioux City Jaunt.
It is hard to tell whether the leg