Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-29
SOCIAL DISEASE
BILL is DRASTIC
Measure Sanctioned BY State Health
Board Introduces in Iowa Senate
increased Pay Voted to House En-
pIoyes.

Des Moines. Jan. 29.-Endorsed by
control of social disease was intro
duced in the Iowa. senate today by A.
L. Rule. Of Mason City and referred
to committee.
The measure declares the most viru-
fslent s5g4sf discAses are contagious. in
fectious. communicable and dangerous
to public health, and it's provisions in :
,clude the following:
Compulsory reports by physicians on
all cases. failure to do 50 constitutes Z.
misdemeanor subject to $500 Gne or
six months imprisonment. or both.
Local health boards would be en-
powered to enforce detention in hos
pitfalls of afflicted persons and might
establish quarantine.
Any person afflicted who transmits
or assumes the risk of transmitting
the disease to others would be guilty
of misdemeanor and would be sub
ject to $500 fine or imprisonment or
both.
county, introduced in the house his
"eXcess condemnation" constitutional
amendment bill, permitting municipali
ties to condemn ground necessary for
memorials or art grounds. streets,
squares, parkways. boulevards, parks,
Fairgrounds and sites for Public
buildings and land I'm and about and
along and leading to any or all of the
same" This excess would be held for
sale when the Improvements built had
increased ir-value.
Votes Increased Pay.
The house passed resolutions for
large increases in employees pay and
proposing to pay postage spent by as
scmblymen in answering their con-
stituents up to $50 for each member.
Walter Ramsay. chief clerk. gets $40 a
day instead of s6 by the salary resolu-
tion and other house and senate EN-
ployes are raised proportionately.
Representative Wander Ploeg, of
Marion county. introduced a counter
proposal to the board Of controls
plan to establish home for feeble
minded at the present inebriate hos
pital in Knoxville. The new bill seeks
to make a normal school of the hos
pital
Without examination, discharged ar
my physicians would be granted licens-
cs to, practice in Iowa under the terms
Of a bill by Representative Smith, Of
Clinton.
A meausre somewhat similar to
Senator kimballs bill was presented
, by Representative F1enniken. Of Jones'.
in the house. legislating the red nag
out Of Iowa.
School districts would be allowed to
levy limit OF $50 per pupil Of schoui
age instead Of $50 by measure faith
cred by Gundcrson. Of Pocahontas.
Mud Readers Active.
1t has been learned that leaders OF
the opposition in the house to county
bonding for paved roads plan soon to
call a caucus, at which an attempt
will be made to organize an anti-couh-
ty bond campaign
Informal canvass Of the house. made
by those interested in roads improve
ment, has shown at least siXty-thres
members who now favor county option
paving or bonding or something strone-
er; gifteen who are known to oppose
| It and thirty who are uncertain. 4
constitutional majority is fifty-flve.
Members Of the Iowa supreme court
attended, the hearing held by the elec-
tions committee Of the state senate
this afternoon relative to the bill pro-
posing repeal Of the non partisan judi
ciary law.
The attitude Of the justices on the
question Is no. known publicly except
| In the case Of Justice Salinger, at
whom the repeal bill two years ago
was admittedly directed and naturally
he opposed repeal. vi