Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-29
BILL TO ABOLISH
PAROLE BOARD
OF iowa STATE
Committee of Departmental
Affairs Introduces Measure
to Combine Work With
Board of Control.
From a Staff Correspondent.

FkO1ll d SNdA correspondent.
Des Moines, Ia, March U.s.
Mrs. Charles Hill, 3845 First
street. committed suicide late yes
terday afternoon by taking poison.
Coroner Guy Gift has been making
an investigation to determine the ma
ture of the poison. Mrs. Hill had
been i'll for some time and had been
consulting the Mayo brothers at
Rochester, MINI. 1t it thought de-
spondency caused her to take her
own life.
Shooting Victim to Live.
Leonard Nelson, shot by Urick
Rosen at his home in Granger yes
terday, is reported to be resting easy
at Mercy hospital and is on his way
tc recovery. Rosen, who had been
drinking, blew out his own brains
after shooting Nelson. The shoot
ing took place after Nelson had
made an effort to sober up Rosen.
Would Abolish Parole Board.
The committee on departmental
affairs of the Iowa senate insti-
tied another departure at the state
house today when it introduced a
bill in the senate to abolish the state
board of parole and combine it's
work with that of the state board
of control. The bill is expected to
come up for consideration on the
floor OF the senate within short
time. The bill would transfer the
secretary of the parole board Office
to the Office of the state board of
control at the same salary he is now
receiving, and he would continue his
work much the same as at present.
except it would be under the direc-
ton of the board of control. A
force of clerical assistants to do the
parole board office work is also au-
thorized in the bill. Once each
month the board of control would
sit as a board of parole to con-
slider applications and other matters
in connection with the paroling of
prisoners. The control board is given
power to establish rules and regu
lations under which it may allow
prisoners to 60 on parole.
License Engineers.
Engineers and land surveyors in
Iowa must pass an examination un-
der state commission and obtain
license before they can engage in
their profession under the Buser
bill, passed by the Iowa senate late
Wednesday. The bill is yet to be
passed by the house. The commits
sion would have five members ap-
pointed by the governor. The men,
bers OF the commission must be men
of at least 10 years experience in
their profession. Senator Buser ex-
planned that the purpose of the mea-
sure was to create an engineering
standard in Iowa and to prevent in
efficient or inexperienced men from
undertaking responsible construc-
ton work, Senator Rule, in oppos-
ing the bill. declared that unless the
state engineering schools were
granting phony diplomas he could
see no necessity for such a measure.
AS inatterof fact, he said, the men
who finish the courses at the state
engineering schools and obtain. di-
pfomas are high-class men,. The bill
was carried by vote of % to 10
with six absent or not voting.
Insurance Bills Adopted.
The bill by the senate insurance
committee to prevent rebating by
agents and to require that only
those licensed as agents be per-
mitted to solicit insurance, passed
the Iowa senate today by vote of
rs to 10.
The senate also passed bill to
remove the discrimination in the
computation of taxes as between
mutual and stock, fire and casualty
companies by placing all ON the
same basis as to complete the levy
ing of taxes. Three insurance bills
were introduced in the senate today
by the senate committee on insur-
ance. One authorizes group insur-
ance whereby employers may insure
employees. Another specifies who
may be the benehciaries of frater-s
nal insurance policy. The third au-
thorizes fraternal beneficiary socie-
ties to issue death certificates.