The conference committee report having received a constitutional majority was declared to have been adopted and concurred in by the Senate.

Senator Ethell moved that a committee, composed of Senators Brookhart, Campbell and Ethell be appointed to ascertain the conditions in counties affected by Senate File No. 302.

Senator Buser moved to amend the motion by adding that the committee ascertain the number of counties that deem this amendment necessary and the number that do not think it neces

sary.

The amendment was adopted.

The motion prevailed.

SENATE INSISTS ON AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE FILE NO. 236 Senator Reed moved that the Senate insist on its amendments to House File No. 236.

President pro tem. Price resumed the chair at 11:10 a. m. On the question "Shall the Senate insist?" the vote was:

The motion prevailed and the Senate insisted on its amend

ments.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE APPOINTED

President pro tem. Price appointed as a conference committee on House File No. 236, on the part of the Senate, Senators Dutcher, Mantz, Brookhart and Campbell.

SENATE FILE NO. 134 WITHDRAWN

By unanimous consent Senator Ethell withdrew Senate File No. 134 from further consideration, the companion bill having passed.

MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE

The following messages were received from the House:

MR. PRESIDENT: I am directed to inform your honorable body that the House has passed the following bill in which the concurrence of the Senate is asked:

House File No. 114, a bill for an act relating to the state libraryhistorical department.

Also: That the House has passed the following bill in which the concurrence of the House was asked:

Senate File No. 290, a bill for an act providing an appropriation to pay the expense of the Iowa Child Welfare Commission appointed by the Governor.

A. C. GUSTAFSON, Chief Clerk.

HOUSE MESSAGE CONSIDERED

House File No. 114, a bill for an act to amend, revise, and codify sections two thousand seven hundred twenty-eight (2728) to two thousand seven hundred forty-five (2745), inclusive, two thousand seven hundred forty-six (2746), two thousand seven hundred forty-seven (2747), two thousand seven hundred fortynine (2749) to two thousand seven hundred fifty-three (2753), inclusive, two thousand seven hundred fifty-six (2756) to two thousand seven hundred sixty-four (2764), inclusive, two thou

sand seven hundred sixty-seven (2767), and two thousand seven hundred sixty-eight (2768) of the compiled code of Iowa, and section two thousand seven hundred forty-eight (2748) of the supplement to said code, relating to education.

Read first and second times and referred to committee on educational institutions.

The Journal of March 26th corrected and approved.

Senator Caldwell moved that when the Senate adjourn it be until 10:00 a. m. Friday, and that it now recess until 4 p. m. today, which motion prevailed.

AFTERNOON SESSION

The Senate met pursuant to adjournment, President pro tem. Price presiding.

REPORT OF JOINT COMMITTEE ON ENROLLED BILLS

Senator Gilchrist, from the joint committee on enrolled bills, submitted' the following report, and moved its adoption:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your joint committee on enrolled bills respectfully reports that it has examined and finds correctly enrolled: House Files Nos. 126, 297, 300, 301.

F. C. GILCHRIST, Chairman Senate Committee.

C. F. LETTS, Chairman House Committee.

Report adopted.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES

Senator Mantz submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee on educational institutions to which was referred Senate File No. 115, a bill for an act to amend, revise, and codify chapter thirty-seven (37) of title ten (10) of the compiled code of Iowa, and of the supplement to said code, relating to education, begs leave to report it has had the same under consideration and recommends the same be indefinitely postponed.

Ordered passed on file.

Also:

H. J. MANTZ, Chairman.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee on educational institutions to which was referred House File No. 90, a bill for an act to amend, revise, and codify sections two thousand three hundred eighteen (2318) to two thousand three hundred twenty-six (2326), inclusive, two thousand three hundred twenty-nine (2329) to two thousand three hundred forty-four (2344).

inclusive, two thousand three hundred forty-seven (2347), two thousand three hundred ninety-eight (2398) to two thousand four hundred fourteen (2414), inclusive, two thousand four hundred thirty-two (2432), two thousand four hundred thirty-six (2436), two thousand four hundred thirtyseven (2437), two thousand four hundred forty (2440) and two thousand four hundred forty-four (2444) of the compiled code of Iowa, and sections two thousand three hundred twenty-seven (2327) and two thousand three hundred twenty-eight (2328) of the supplement to said code, relating to education, begs leave to report it has had the same under consideration and recommends the same be amended as follows; and when so amended the bill do pass:

Strike out section 32 of said bill and insert in lieu thereof the following: "Sec. 32. Payment.

The contract for such instruction shall authorize the payment for such service furnished the school district or for such service furnished the state, the amount to be agreed upon by the state board of education and the board of the school district thus cooperating."

Ordered passed on file.

H. J. MANTZ, Chairman.

Senator Scott submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee on insurance to which was referred Senate File No. 207, a bill for an act relating to the insurance department; life insurance companies; insurance other than life, and assessment life insurance, begs leave to report it has had the same under consideration and recommends the same be amended as follows; and when so amended the bill do pass:

Amend by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

"That section five thousand four hundred sixty-three (5463) of the compiled code, and sections five thousand four hundred sixty-three-a one (5463-a1), five thousand four hundred sixty-three-a two (5463-a2) and five thousand four hundred sixty-three-a three (5463-a3), of the supplement to the compiled code, relating to the insurance department, are amended, revised, and codified to read as follows:

Section 1. Powers and duties of commissioner of insurance.

The commissioner of insurance shall be the head of the insurance department of Iowa, and shall have general control, supervision and direction over all insurance business transacted in the state of Iowa, and shall enforce all the laws of the state relating to such insurance. He shall supervise all transactions relating to the organization, reorganization, liquidation and dissolution of domestic insurance corporations, and all transactons leading up to the organization of such corporations. He shall also supervise the sale in the state of Iowa of all stock, certificates, or other evidences of interest, either by domestic or foreign insurance companies or organizations proposing to engage in any insurance business.

Sec. 2. No stock sold or members solicited without certificate.

Neither the stock in an insurance company nor the membership in an insurance association in process of organization shall be sold or solicited until ach company or association, and the promoters thereof, shall have first complied with all of the statutory provisions regulating the organization of such companies and associations, and also have secured from the commissioner of insurance a certificate indicating full compliance with the provisions of this section.

Sec. 3. Duties of commissioner-certificate.

Before the commissioner of insurance shall issue such certificate of compliance, he shall first be satisfied with the general plan of such organization and the character of the advertising to be used; he shall also fix the time within which such organization shall be completed; he shall also prescribe the method of keeping books and accounts of such corporation and those of fiscal agents.

Sec. 4. Promotion expense.

The maximum promotion expense which may be incurred, shall in no case exceed twelve and one-half (12%) per cent of the par value of said stock, and no portion of such amount shall be used in the payment of salaries for officers and directors before the issuance by the commissioner of insurance of authority to transact an insurance business.

Sec. 5. Regulation by commissioner.

The commissioner of insurance shall have power to regulate all other matters in connection with the organization of such domestic corporations, and the sale of stock or the issuing of certificates by all insurance corporations within the state of Iowa, to the end that fraud may be prevented in the organization of such companies and the sale of their stocks and securities.

Sec. 6.

Certain contracts with promoters prohibited.

No company shall enter into any contract with any promoter, officer, director or agent of the company, to pay him any commission or other compensation for his services, expenses or otherwise, in promoting such company, or for the sale of its stock, growing out of or in connection with the insurance which it may write, without the approval of the commissioner of insurance.

Sec. 7. Applicability to corporations organizing.

The five preceding sections shall apply to insurance corporations now organizing or offering their stocks, certificates of membership, or other evidence of interest for sale in the state of Iowa.

Any person who violates any of the provisions of the six preceding sections, or who violates any order of the commissioner of insurance made by authority thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1000.00), and by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed six months.

Sec. 9. Personal liability for sale of stock in violation of law.