The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-02-27

| to make the states laws and consld-
| er vital legislation, and that they
will be in almost continuous session
and make that their entire business.
Now, right off the reel are you FOR
| or against it?
| All the state employees in the Of,
| fees of the capitol building held
meeting in the state house one, even
| ing recently and sought to organize
| to get their salaries raised. They
| planned, it is said, to make a state
wide campaign, bringing every lntiu-
ence Of their friends to bear on me
legislators to compel the raise IN sal,
aries. Then more practical counsel
prevailed and they appointed a COM
mittee of three to take the matter
up with the appropriations and de-
partmental affairs committees, which
has been done, The latter commit
tee ask for list of all the employ
statement of their duties, whether
they are employed for all or a part
of the time, what their pay now is,
and what they think it ought to be.
There is an impression that gets to
every legislative assembly that there
are good many state employees,
clerks, etc, whose services are, not
but the trouble is to discover which
ones these are. and not do Injustice
to any, Some of the most import
ant department heads and clerks are
said to be the most neglected in the
salary lists, because they do not de-
vote so much effort to getting their
stipend raised as others VINO nave
little else to do.
Passed Cigarette License Bill.
The senate fixed up and passed
the new state cigarette law Wednes-
day, in two hours time. That was
pretty good, too, because nobody was
sure that such a law could be liked
up and passed at this session ny eth
er house. Senator Rule had the bill,
and in it he provides for q, state
license of 500 for each dealer IN
license to be procured from the state
dairy and food department. 1t makes
lawful the sale of cigarettes and the
"makin's' to anybody over eighteen
years old, and contains drastic pun
: ishment features for such, sales to
school boys or any ore else under
eighteen, with injunction to issue
gazette supplies may be sold illegal
". The bill was amended with
view to killing it, and was opposed
strongly by Senator Proudfoot OF
Warren county, but most amend
ments went into the bill and still It
remained aliy y "a and On mt the BIN noM
goes to the house, where deadly enc
With amen dments and motions and
gas galore. We are told that the in
junction feature of the bill will be
fought hard in the house. on the
ground that it is wrong to hold avn.
which they know NOTHING and haye
no notice Advocates Of the bill
point out that cigarettes are sold
now indiscriminately to boys and
men, and that the old law has no
teeth in it, Senator Rule believes
this new law will have enough teeth
in it to make enforcement possible,
ing the unlicensed dealers and thus
preventing the sale of cigarettes to
minors.
It is not to be disputed that right
now in Des Moines cigarettes are
sold in hundreds of places regardless
of the law.
Anti-Tipping Law Stays.
Another good oratorical battle
that took place in the senate We'd
Parker to repeal the ornamental but
utterly useless law against tipping.
A similar bill was passed in the sen
ate two years ago and was lost IN
the house when that body got to
throwing brickbats and baskets in
stead of completing the legislation
before it on the last day OF the SEES
Of Burlington, fought against the
bill. denouncing those who failed. to
enforce it as towards, and claiming
hat it could be enforced if the Of
ficials willed to enforce it.
Representative Powers of CraW-
ford county got his bill on the ways
and launched Tuesday, recurring
that patriotism be taught as stated
course of study in every school in
Iowa in the future. The course is
to be outlined and required by the
state school officers, and the re,
quirement falls on all public and
private schools, which means paro-
The bill by Representative Dean OF
Osceola county is coming to bat this
week, and if passed it will require
that nothing but the English Ian
guage be used in the schools of Iowa
in the future for instruction OF pu-
pills up to the eighth grade, and the
act applies to public public and private ab
guages may be taught in high schools
and colleges, but cannot, be used for
the purposes of elementary instruc-
ton of pupils. The bill is favorably
reported out for passage, and the
chances are said to be that it will
not be opposed, though it may be
amended on the floor.
Representative Klaus of Delaware
county got "a favorable report from
the committee Wednesday on his bill
House File No. 232, providing for the
extension of the Perkins law to
adults. The bill will get for poor |
teen wears the same wonderful bene-
fits and treatment for deformities
now given to children under sixteen
through the Perkins law. The bill
provides suitable restrictions and
safeguards so that it's provisions can
not be abused, and if passed should
do a lot toward fixing up and making
self-supporting many Of the older
cripples of the state who are other
wise becoming or apt to become,
public charges.