Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-03-03
Proposed Legislation

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Court Judges will not receive their
pay checks until they have cleared
the docket.
Present methods Of assessments
will be taken form the executive
council and placed in the hands Ola
tax commission.
+ A maximum hour will be estab-
lished and a minimum wage scale
agreed upon.
Secondary roads viii be taken
from the state highway commission
and placed in the hands Of boards o.
supervisors.
Deaf children up to two years Of
age will receive the benefits Of train
ing in their home districts.
Administrators will be required to
invest estate funds in state or gov
eminent bonds.
Laws amended so that voting ma
chimes may be used at elections by
taking off the circle and party affil-
iation to meet the requirements of
the machines.
Fines provided for defacing identi-
fication marks on machinery, etc.
A state audit committee selected
to pass on ali bills of officials and
employees Of the state.
The office of county recorder abol-
ished and commissioner Of title to
be appointed by the governor Gre
ated. 4
Rebates in writing insurance pro-
hibited.
State officers and others in the
employ of the state prohibited from
travelling outside Of Iowa without
first securing permits from proper
officials for expenses.
Rural credits bureau created us
ing the endowment funds Of the Iowa
State, Agricultural college for the
necessary funds.
Abolish state highway commission
and place the work In the hands Of
an engineer, with offices at Des
Moines.
Postpone action on applications
for divorce for one year.
Prohibiting boys and girls under
sixteen years of age from smoking
cigarets and swearing.
Taxing railroad properties on the
basis Of valuation submitted to the
interstate commerce commission.
Repeal of the anti-cigaret law.
Require men who desert their
wives and children to furnish bonds
of $1,000 and second of1ense to be
sent to jail for one year.
Requiring the examination of
school accounts where expenditures
exceed $4,000.
Provide for paving roads to GEM
eteries where provisions in the high
ways program does not provide for
such pavements.
To. give city councils power to fix
street car rates.
A blue sky law patterned after the
federal law.
Permitting sheriffs to collect fiji
teen, cents per mile. instead Of ten.
Exempt from taxation for ten
years new residence costing less than
$fO, 000.
Excusing women from jury service
when requested.
Provide for a bonus for soldiers
Of the world war.
Requiring claims for workmen's
compensation within thirty days aft
or injury, instead Of ninety, as now
provided.
Heavy fines prescribed for failure
to report births, deaths and other
vital statistics. :
Making .an appropriation to pub
lish roster of the Iowa soldiers in
the world war.
Providing for commission to pro-
vide uniform state laws. so as to
make Iowa laws conform as nearly
~ possible to the otller states when
adopted by national commission Of
all states.
Regulation Of restaurants. cafes.
lunch rooms, and all other places
selling prepared foods to the public
and licensing the came upon comply
ing with the law and punishing Of
tenders.
Permit boards a. directors Of
school districts to tar an amount not