Iowa Senate Debates Broad Tax and Education Bills
The Iowa Senate introduced numerous measures on the 17th to tax telegraph and express firms, regulate electors, and license out of state hunters. Additional bills on the 18th include convict labor limits, a library commission, and state normal school funding, with further proposals on blasphemy, indeterminate sentences, and endowment fund rates.
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Cedar Falls
State University Medical Department
Board of Medical Examiners
Iowa City
Law Department
Legislation Passes on University Land and School Tax
A bill relieving the State University from a land deed condition for an observatory site was passed. An act legalizing Fayette school district acts also passed. Senator Brighton and Fenrose introduced policy and ballot law bills. The Senate approved legalizing Fayette township school house tax and it will be published in the Capital and Postal Card at Fayette. FP worded as filed.
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Charles Floyd
Senator Heyward
Lavenport
Senator Ball
State Historical Society
Iowa City
State University
Cheshire
Twenty-seventh General Assembly
Lewis
Lewi
Fayette
Brighton
Fenrose
Fayette Township
Fayette County
Trewin
Was
Byers
Committee On Judiciary
Pilot Mound
Blake
Webster
Fort Dodge
Supreme Court
Binlding
Committee On Public Libraries
Committee On
Knoxville and state acts listed in late session notes
In the house on the seventeenth a slate of bills was read including converting Knoxville school for the blind to a normal school and relocating the blind to Vinton. Proposals cover convict labor bans, school district codes, bonds for trustees, a soldiers monuments commission, park commissioner elections, weed control on roads, endowment fund interest, and a state printer election. A joint session with the senate adjourned to 11 today.
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State Agricultural College
Senate
House
Pilot Mound and Iowa education bills advance in legislature
A House committee report favors a leprotizing act for Pilot Mound and amending section 2743 to authorize independent school districts to receive bequests. Bills address university funding, state taxes, railroad maps, and barber licensure with public examinations and strict health requirements.
Des Moines Legislation and House Proceedings Summary
The session notes Speaker Bowen absent on the 20th with Speaker Pro Tem Yemple presiding. Ways and Means backed a Wil bill to empower the State Agricultural College trustees to accept any interest rate for the endowment and it passed under suspension. Three bills introduced cover Des Moines river improvement, gas and electric plant heating use of exhaust steam, and landlord tenant relations with recorded leases.
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Bowen
Yemple
Ways and Means
State Agricultural College
Des Moines
Petition Seeks Temple for Federal Judge Vacancy
A circulating petition among house members aims to appoint Mon M L Temple of Clarke county to the vacant federal judgeship created by Judge Woolson's death. The push expects broad Republican acceptance in the legislature and potential senate endorsement.
Lower House Committees and Assignments Listed in Detail
A long list details committees and assignments under Speaker Bowen. Names of members span many counties and cities including Des Moines, Palo Alto, Clinton, Jefferson, and Muscatine, with numerous subcommittees and topics such as Appropriations, Municipal Corporations, Banks and Banking, Printing, Private Corporations, Retrenchment and Reform, Pensions, Education, Agriculture, Public Lands, Police Regulations, Fish and Game, Public Wealth, and various district allocations. The document reads as a bureaucratic roll of names and jurisdictions across Iowa.
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Oivois
Monns
Jaton Mitchell
Jenna
Riegold
Tmughes
Iuwa
Dows
Finn
Tigers
Shelby
McCurdy
Buchanan
Shamuarehdison
Stewart
Polk
Linton
Tamu
Craft
Legs Cawlus
Kossuth
Sokal
Jones
Wright
Guthrie
Jaeger
Des Moines
Corney
Ciylon
Davis
Fremont
Bengston
Jefferson
Tunetary Temple
Chart
Byars
Corr
Eaton
Mitchell
Rinke
Wabster
Humerto Gorca
Carter
Bionx
Muntam
Delaware
Lyman
Paweshtek
Kendall
Monroe
Fulwards
Butler
Pane
Appaloose
Maharkay Wilson Washington
Furry
Haren
Whitenen
Beatt
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Grundy
Warren
Marion
Tillsinger
Jackson
Sweet
Bremer
Marshal
Lee
McGinn
Clinton
Theophilus
Scott
Appropriations
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Linn
Letts
Lou
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Keer Ques
Wart
Benton Faittson
Yowner
Floyd
Claw
Jiamittoay
Ark Hi “Arte
Page
Payne
Appanoase
Journ
Cerro’ Gourde
Wilson
Wrehington
Haeselquist
Lavery Patton
Pranklin
Hawalls Mills
Tank
Jasper
Roysen
Audubon
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Laver
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Mr. Speaker
Smallpox at Munyhalltows Des Muines Jan 22
Dr Kennedy of the state board of health returned from Marshalltown after examining seven people with a disease suspected as smallpox. He confirmed it is smallpox and advised the mayor and council on quarantine measures to prevent spread. Six cases involve a colored family in a nearby dwelling.
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Des Muines
J. F. Kennedy
State Board of Health
Marshalltown
Wy ‘Housiness Betich
Senator Titus Hopes Big Election Amendment Vote
Senator Titus will introduce his bill for submitting the biennial election amendment to popular vote once the committee is appointed. The measure is regarded as the most important in sight with interviews showing broad support and no anticipated opposition in either house this winter.
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Titus
Des Moines Municipal Electric Plant Case Blows Hope
The supreme court handed down a decision in Des Moines municipal electric light case. Municipal ownership advocates say the ruling deals a severe blow in the city. Des Moines contracted to build a municipal electric light plant and was enjoined from carrying out the contract. The deal anticipated yearly payments until the plant was paid for, after which it would become city property.
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DHS
End of Munkaczzy Rumor Sparks Hungarian Fate Talk
Rumors say the famed Hungarian figure Munkaczzy, long linked to controversy, faces a final decline as reports claim mental instability recent paralysis and looming blindness threaten his health and public standing.
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Munkacy
Munkaczzy
Semi Monthly Pay Change At Boston And Maine Railroad
The Boston and Maine railroad employees will receive pay every two weeks instead of monthly starting with the new year. This change ends a longstanding monthly payroll cycle used for several years.
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Boston & Maine Railroad
Netting Around Beds Protects Against Tarantulas in Santiago Homes
In Santiago, upper-class houses use a close netting around bedsteads starting at the floor and gathered at the top. The purpose is to protect occupants from tarantulas.
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Santiago
La Porte touted as Gulf seaport site for growth
The article extols La Porte as the farthest inland Gulf seaport with high dry land pure water and ideal climate. It notes the American Land Co of Chicago plans a general sale of La Porte property February 14 to 17, 1900.
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Soutiy
Mexican Gulf
la Paris
Galveston Bay
LaPorte
Gulf
American Land Co
Madison Street
Chicago
la Porte
Patents Granted for Air Heater and Planting Machine
G W Crass of Grinnell receives a patent for an auxiliary air heater fitted to stoves to heat and circulate air. W J Morgan of Atlantic is granted a patent for a plant planting machine advanced by horses to sow cabbage and tobacco. H Whitney of Chicago shares in an undivided half. Des Moines Iowa December 27 1899.
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G. W. Crass
Grinnell
Ve J. Morgan
Atlantic
H. Whitney
Chicago
Thomas G. Orwig & CO
Des Moines
Towa
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