Mr. Kimball presented petition of constituents representing business interests of community, urging passage of House file No. 110, relating to exemption of personal earnings. Referred to committee on Ways and Means. Mr. Hawk presented petition of constituents representing business interests of community, urging passage of House file No. 110, relating to exemption of personal earnings. Referred to committee on Ways and Means. Mr. Nicolaus presented two petitions of citizens of Muscatine, Iowa, requesting the passage of House file No. 110. Referred to committee on Ways and Means. Mr. McAleer presented petition of citizens of Dubuque, Iowa, requesting the passage of House file No. 50. Referred to committee on Public Health. Mr. McAleer presented two petitions of citizens of various cities in the northeastern part of Iowa, urging the establishment of a school to be entitled "The Eastern Iowa School for the Deaf," to be located where, in the opinion of the General Assembly, it would be the most convenient in the eastern part of the state. Referred to committee on Appropriations. Mr. Cold presented petition of citizens of Tama county, urging support for constitutional amendment striking out the word "male." Signed by sixty-seven petitioners. Referred to committee on Woman Suffrage. Mr. Way presented petition of constituents representing business interests of community, urging passage of House file. No. 110, relating to exemption of personal earnings. Referred to committee on Ways and Means. Mr. Cold presented petition of citizens of Tama county, urging passage of a bill establishing a woman's reformatory. Total number of names, seventy. Referred to committee on Penitentiaries. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES Mr. Eaton, from the committee on Ways and Means, submitted the following report: MR. SPEAKER-Your committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred House file No. 110, a bill for an act to amend section 4011, chapter 3, title 19 of the code of 1897, relating to exemption of personal earnings, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and have instructed me to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same be indefinitely postponed. Ordered passed on file. MINORITY REPORT. W. L. EATON, Chairman. MR. SPEAKER-The undersigned members of your committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred House file No. 110, a bill for an act to amend section 4011, chapter 3, title 19 of the code of 1897, relating to the exemption of personal earnings, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration, and report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass. JAMES WILSON, C. E. STALLCOP, T. E. MCCURDY. W. B. TOWNER, Ordered passed on file. Mr. Kendall, from the committee on Mines and Mining, submitted the following report: MR. SPEAKER-Your committee on Mines and Mining, to whom was referred House file No. 126, a bill for an act to amend section 3105 of the code, relating to liens of coal miners, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and have instructed me to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass. N. E. KENDALL, Chairman. Ordered passed on file. Also: MR. SPEAKER-Your committee on Mines and Mining to whom was referred House file No. 22, a bill for an act to amend section 2490, relating to mines and mining, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and have instructed me to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass. Ordered passed on file. N. E. KENDALL, Chairman. Mr. Wilson of Keokuk, from the committee on Agriculture, submitted the following report: MR SPEAKER-Your committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred House file No. 133, a bill for an act providing for the regulation, limitation and control of the flow of water from artesian wells, and fixing the penalty and liability for violation of the same, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and have instructed me to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass. JAMES WILSON, Chairman. Ordered passed on file. MR. SPEAKER-Your committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred House file No. 29, a bill for an act to amend section 1563 of the code, relating to the Russian thistle, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and have instructed me to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass. JAMES WILSON, Chairman. Ordered passed on file. Mr. Hawk, from the committee on Public Health, submitted the following report: MR. SPEAKER-Your committee on Public Health, to whom was referred Senate file No. 43, a bill for an act to amend section 2582 of the code, relating to the admission to practice of students of the medical departments of the State university, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and have instructed me to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the substitute for the same do pass W. W. HAWK, Chairman. Ordered passed on file. MR. SPEAKER-Your committee on Public Health, to whom was referred House file No. 55, a bill for an act to amend section two thousand, five hundred sixty-four (2564) of the code, in relation to public health districts, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and have instructed me to report the same back to the House with substitute, and recommend that substitute do pass. Ordered passed on file. W. W. HAWK, Chairman. Mr. Baker, from the committee on Claims, submitted the following report: MR SPEAKER-Your committee on Claims, to whom was referred House file No. 162, a bill for an act to reimburse Fayette county, Iowa, for money paid to the Soldiers' Orphans' home at Davenport, in certain cases, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and have instructed me to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass. Ordered passed on file. M. N. BAKER. Mr. Byers called up concurrent resolution relative to adjournment. Resolution was read. Mr. Byers moved that the resolution be adopted. Mr. Byers demanded the yeas and nays. On the question, Shall the resolution be adopted? The yeas were: Messrs. Anderson of Lyon, Anderson of Warren, Ayers, Baker, Barkley, Barrett, Barringer, Bengston, Bennett, Black, Blake, Blakemore, Blume, Boysen, Buchanan, Byers, Campbell, Clark of Hamilton, Clarke of Dallas, Coburn, Cold, Conley, Cottrell, Crouse, Cruikshank, Davis, Dodds, Dows, Dunham, Eaton, Edwards, Furry, Gibson, Harbert, Hasselquist. Hawk, Hilsinger, Hinkle, Hurn, Jaeger, Jenks, Jones, Keck, Kendall, Kent, Kerr, Kimball, Kirkwood, Koontz, Letts, Lyman, McCurdy, McGinn, Miller of Cedar, Myers, Nicolaus, Overfield, Paiton, Payne, Prentis, Putnam, Roome, Santee, Sauer, Scott, Shambaugh, Sokcl, Stewart, Stratton, Stuckslager, Sweet, Temple, Theophilus, Thuenen, Towner, Townsend, Veneman, Warren, Way, Wilson of Adair, Wilson of Buena Vista, Wilson of Keokuk, Wilson of Washington, Wise, Wright, Mr. Speaker-85. The nays were: Messrs. Carter, Cowles, Hughes, Stallcop, Theophilus-5. Absent or not voting: Messrs. Carr, Downing, Eiker, Graff, Koto, McAleer, Marshall, Miller of Fayette-8. So the concurrent resolution was adopted. INTRODUCTION OF BILLS. By Mr. Stewart, House file No. 194, a bill for an act making appropriations for the State Industrial school, girls' department, at Mitchellville, Iowa. Read first and second time and referred to committee on Industrial Schools. By Mr. Stewart, House file No. 195, a bill for an act amending section 1 of chapter 81 of the laws of the Twenty-seventh General Assembly. Read first and second time and referred to committee on Industrial Schools. By Mr. Myers, House file No. 196, a bill for an act to amend section 5080 of the code, relative to the costs of criminal prosecutions in inferior courts. Read first and second time and referred to committee on Judiciary. By Mr. Prentis, House file No. 197, a bill for an act to provide for the organization, regulation and government of life insurance corporations or associations, transacting the business of life insurance on the stipulated premium plan. Read first and second time and referred to committee on Insurance. By Mr. Eaton, House file No. 198, a bill for an act to refund taxes and license fees paid to the treasurer of state when the law under which the same has been collected is held to be invalid, and to protect the state treasurer from individual liability therefrom. Read first and second time and referred to committee on Judiciary. By Mr. Boysen, House file No. 199, a bill for an act to increase the term of office of secretaries and treasurers of school townships from one to two years. Read first and second time and referred to committee on Schools and Text Books. By Mr. Clark of Hamilton, by request, House file No. 200, a bill for an act to prohibit the use of tobacco by minor persons |