Legislative Notes Reflect Iowa House Actions 1917
In Des Moines February 8 1917 legislators report votes on preferential primary and constitutional amendment prohibiting intoxicating beverages. Newton voted Aye on multiple bills including road work and school site measures. Cass-Shelby senator opposed real estate condemnation for schools and city government reform. Laffer plans a bill to protect homesteads of disabled veterans from special assessments. Conservative editorial tone lauds Rep Newton for repealing a township board power affecting county school superintendents, praising the potential restoration of citizen rights statewide.
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Cass—Shelby
Ed. L. Newton
Senate
General Assembly
Newton
Adam
Ed. Newton
Representative Newton's Bills Introduced in House
Representative Newton introduced three House files HF 203 HF 204 and HF 305 detailing appropriations for construction maintenance and equipment for Iowa institutions including the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home and industrial reformatories with transfers and amendments noted for specific acts and state facilities. The records show funding for hospitals sanatoriums reformatories and related state establishments with a proposed amendment and related personnel or inmate provisions.
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Newton
Iowa
Geaf
Reformatory
State Hospital
Rockwell City
Anamosa Reformatory
Industrial School
Simaly Queeh
Siil
Newton Ayes Mark Iowa House Action on Several Bills
The house judiciary committee deferred the boxing legalization bill. Representative Newton voted Aye on assisstant county attorneys pay, non resident auctioneers, and a fire fund tax for second class cities. He also backed a bill creating a Dodge monument fund, and supported funding bonds for cities. The suffrage issue received fair hearing but was deemned less urgent. The Carter inquiry was noted as absent.
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Newton
Greenville M. Dodge
Novia x
Carter
Opas Shelny Steldina
Copperhead politics and pork prices mention in Iowa and D C
The note contrasts pork prices in Iowa and Washington DC with differing quality. It questions Adam Groundhog role and fur. Gov Harding has not endorsed woman suffrage, and opposition labels Copperhead as dangerous, likening it to past dark days.
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Iowa
Washington, D.C
Harding
Congress in session and politics aside in a broad critique
The column voices wide concerns about national policy and Iowa's funding, urging support for the President, criticizing booster culture, and arguing for prudent law, taxation, and nonpartisan judiciary while lampooning political tactics and calling for red blooded American resolve. It references Iowa road funding, commission plans, and political humor from local papers.
Suffragists Debate Constitutional Law With Assembly
Suffragists press the General Assembly with arguments on what constitutes constitutional law. They also seek to outline a proposed framework or plan related to the issue, aiming to influence legislative understanding and timing.
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