Also: MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred Senate file No. 175, a bill for an act for the permanent support and maintenance of the State University and to provide for the erection of necessary buildings therefor, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and have instructed me to report the same back to the Senate with the recommendation that the same be indefinitely postponed, and that the accompanying substitute be enacted in lieu thereof: COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR SENATE FILE NO. 175. A bill for an act to provide by special tax for the erection of necessary buildings for the State University. Be it Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. For the purpose of providing for the erection, improvement and equipment of such necessary buildings as shall be determined upon by the board of regents of the State University, there shall be levied upon the assessed value of the taxable property of the state a special tax of onetenth (1-10) of a mill for the erection of buildings for the State University, and the proceeds thereof shall be carried into the state treasury to the credit of said State University, said levy to commence with the first levy made after the passage of this bill, and the same levy shall be made annually thereafter for five years. Any amount in excess of the sum of fiftyfive thousand dollars raised by any one of such levies shall be held in the state treasury and constitute a part of the general revenue fund. SEC. 2. The money realized from such a levy shall be held by the treasurer of state and drawn as provided in chapter 31 of the acts of the Twentythird General Assembly. SEC. 3. The amounts so realized by said levies shall be in lieu of all appropriations for the erection of buildings for said State University during said period. A. B. FUNK, Chairman. Ordered passed on file. Senator Perrin, from the Committee on Suppression of Intemperance, submitted the following report: MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Suppression of Intemperance, to whom was referred Senate file No. 150, a bill for an act to authorize and regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors in counties, cities and incorporated towns upon the vote of the electors thereof, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and have instructed me to report the same back to the Senate without recommendation. Ordered passed on file. WM. B. PERRIN, Senator Ellis, from the Committee on Judiciary, submitted the following report: Mr. President-Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred Senate file No. 16, a bill for an act to provide for and regulate the adininistration of trusts by savings banks and trust companies, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and have instructed me to report the same back to the Senate with the recommendation that the accompanying substitute be adopted and that the title be amended to read as follows: "To authorize all banks organized under the laws of this state to act in a fiduciary capacity," and when these amendments are adopted the bill do pass. SUBSTITUTE FOR SENATE FILE NO. 16. A bill for an act to authorize all banks organized under the laws of this state to act in a judiciary capacity. Be it Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. All banks organized under the laws of this state shall have power to act as assignee, receiver, trustee, administrator, executor and guardian of the property of minors and other persons where guardianship of property is authorized by law, with the same powers and duties, and subject to the smae laws in force as to natural persons acting in the same capacity, and all oaths of qualification, or verification of reports, shall be by one of the executive officers of such bank; provided, that the stockholders of any such bank may determine whether the corporation shall exercise the corporate powers herein provided for. SEC. 2. This act being deemed of immediate importance, shall be in force from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register and Des Moines Leader, newspapers published at Des Moines, Iowa. Ordered passed on file. L. A. ELLIS, Chairman. MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred Senate file No. 260, a bill for an act to amend section 1132 of the Code of Iowa as amended by chapter 29 of the laws of the Twenty-fourth General Assembly, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration, and have instructed me to report the same back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do pass. Ordered passed on file. L. A. ELLIS, MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred Senate file No. 284, a bill for an act granting and releasing to the city of Dubuque title to certain lands, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and have instructed me to report the same back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do pass. Ordered passed on file. L. A. ELLIS, Chairman. Mr. President-Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred Senate file No. 290, a bill for an act to amend section 3179 of the Code of 1873, relating to transcripts on appeal to the supreme court, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and have instructed me to report the same back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be amended as follows: Insert after the word "form" in the fifth line of the printed bill the words, "in lieu of transcript thereof when a transcript is required." Also add at the close of section 1 the following words: "In all cases the cost of making such translation of the shorthand notes shall be paid by the losing party on such appeal, unless in case of modification and affirmance the supreme court make equitable apportionment of such costs." Also that the word "original" be stricken out and the word "original" be inserted before the word "notes" in the same line, and as so amended the bill do pass. Ordered passed on file. L. A. ELLIS, MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred Senate file No. 337, a bill for an act to legalize the extension and enlargement of the incorporated town of Williamsburgh, in Iowa county, State of Iowa, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and have instructed me to report the same back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do pass. Ordered passed on file. L. A. ELLIS, Chairman. MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred Senate file No. 137, a bill for an act to provide for supervision of state institutions, and for reports of the General Assembly thereon, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and have instructed me to report the same back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be indefinitely postponed. Ordered passed on file. L. A. ELLIS, REPORTS OF COMMITTEE ON ENROLLED BILLS. Senator Gilbertson, from Committee on Enrolled Bills, submitted the following report: MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Enrolled Bills respectfully report that they have this day sent to the Governor for his approval: Senate file No. 199, a bill for an act appropriating money to defray expenses of Inaugural ceremonies. G. S. GILBERTSON, Chairman. REPORT OF JOINT COMMITTEE ON ENROLLED BILLS. Senator Gilbertson, from the Joint Committee on Enrolled Bills, submitted the following report: MR. PRESIDENT-Your Joint Committee on Enrolled Bills respectfully report that they have examined and find correctly enrolled, House file No. 161, a bill for an act to apply to cities of the first class the provisions of chapter 78 of the laws of the Twenty-first General Assembly, and chapter 15 of the laws of the Twenty-fourth General Assembly, and chapter 3 of the laws of the Twenty-fifth General Assembly, relating to indebtedness of cities and towns. G. S. GILBERTSON, Chairman. Senator Waterman, from the Joint Committee on Joint Resolution No. 11, submitted the following report: MR. PRESIDENT-Your Joint Committee of Conference to whom was referred Senate Joint Resolution No. 11, relative to railroad commissioners' maps, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and would recommend that in lieu thereof the following joint resolution be adopted, instructing the railroad commissioners to procure 15,000 of the railroad commissioners' official map of Iowa, enclosed in envelopes suitable for mailing, and to furnish each member of the Twenty-sixth General Assembly with seventy-five copies thereof for distribution. H. L. WATERMAN, L. C. BLANCHARD, W. F. HARRIMAN, Conferees on part of the Senate. E. C. SPAULDING, W. B. MARTIN, J. P. McDowell. Conferees on part of the House. JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 15. Be it Resolved by the Twenty-sixth General Assembly: That the railroad commissioners are hereby authorizes to procure, at the earliest practicable date, 15,000 copies of the railroad commissioners' official map of Iowa, with suitable envelopes therefor, and deliver seventyfive copies thereof to each member of the Twenty-sixth General Assembly. Senator Phelps, from the Committee on Constitutional Amendments and Suffrage, submitted the following report: MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Constitutional Amendments and Suffrage, to whom was referred Joint Resolution No. 4, a resolution agreeing to an amendment to the constitution of the State of Iowa prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage within this state, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration, and have instructed me to report the same back to the Senate with the recommendation that the same be amended as follows, and without recommendation as to passage: That the number of the resolution be changed from “4” to “5;” that the title be changed to read as follows: "Joint resolution to amend the constitution of the State of Iowa, relative to the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage; and that all after the word 'therefore' in the twenty-sixth line, on the first page, be stricken out," and the following be placed in lieu thereof: Be it Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: That the following amendment to the constitution of the State of Iowa be, and the same is hereby proposed, to add as section 26 to article 1 of said constitution, the following: beer. SEC. 26. No person shall manufacture for sale, or sell or keep for sale as a beverage, any intoxicating liquors whatever, including ale, wine and The general assembly shall by law prescribe regulations for the enforcement of the prohibition herein contained, and shall thereby provide suitable penalties for the violation of the provisions hereof. JULIAN PHELPS, Ordered passed on file. MINORITY REPORT. Chairman. MR. PRESIDENT-A minority of your Committee on Constitutional Amendments, to whom was referred Joint Resolution No. 4 (amended to No. 5), a resolution for resubmission, do not concur in the report of the majority of said committee, for the reason that the prohibition question is one as to which the majority of all our people should control. The will of the majority can only be determined by a submission of the proposition of this resolution to a vote of the people. A minority of said committee therefore recommend that this resolution be agreed to and do pass. Ordered passed on file. WILLIAM EATON. Senator Palmer asked that 300 copies of the substitute for Senate file 140 be printed. Senator Waterman moved that the rule be suspended and the joint resolution, as reported by Joint Committee of Conference, be read a third time now. Carried. Third reading of bill. On the question, "Shall the bill pass?" the yeas were: Senator Alexander, Allyn, Bell, Blanchard, Bonson, Byers, Carney, Carpenter, Carroll, Cheshire, Craig, Downey, Druet, Ellis, Ellison, Ericson, Everall, Funk, Garst, Gilbertson, Gorrell, Harper, Harriman, Healy, Henderson, Hotchkiss, Hurst, Junkin, Kilburn, Mitchell, Palmer, Penrose, Perrin, Phelps, Ranck, Riggen, Rowen, Sargent, Upton, Waterman, Young-41. The nays were: Senators Berry. Eaton, Hobart and Lothrop-4. Absent or not voting: Senators Hipwell, Hospers, Lehfeldt, Pusey, Trewin-5. So the joint resolution was declared to have passed the Senate. |