The bill having received a constitutional majority was declared to have passed the Senate and the title was agreed to. MOTION FILED MR. PRESIDENT: I move that the following rule be adopted: That all Senate bills now in the hands of standing committees be reported out and placed on the calendar by March 24th, and that after March 24th all House bills be reported out of committee within three days after date of reference. T. C. CESSNA. On motion of Senator Stoddard further action on the motion was deferred. The Journal of March 15th was corrected and approved. On motion of Senator Caldwell the Senate adjourned until 9:30 a. m. Tuesday. JOURNAL OF THE SENATE SENATE CHAMBER, DES MOINES, IOWA, MARCH 18, 1924. The Senate met in regular session, President John Hammill presiding. Prayer was offered by Rev. M. F. Campbell, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, of Yarmouth, Iowa. On motion of Senator Holdoegel rule 33 was suspended for the day. LEAVE OF ABSENCE Senator Banta for the day, Leave of absence was granted as follows: on request of Senator Abben. BILLS SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR A communication was received from the Governor announcing that on March 17, 1924, he had signed Senate Files Nos. 275, 117, $5, 33, 51 and 43. 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. 72, 82 and 144. Report adopted. F. C. GILCHRIST, Chairman Senate Committee. PROOF OF PUBLICATION OF HOUSE FILE NO. 288 I hereby certify, that as secretary of the Senate, I have received the proof of publication of House File No. 288, a proposed bill for an act to legalize the issuance of certain warrants of the city of Sioux City, Iowa, issued against the Police Equipment Fund of said city, and legalizing and validating said warrants as issued. L. W. AINSWORTH, Secretary of the Senate. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES Senator Adams submitted the following report: MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee on railroads to which was referred House File No. 196, a bill for an act relating to regulation of carriers and definition of terms, begs leave to report it has had the same under consideration and recommends the same do pass. Ordered passed on file. Also: H. C. ADAMS, Chairman. MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee on railroads to which was referred House File No. 190, a bill for an act relating to construction and operation of railways, begs leave to report it has had the same under consideration and recommends the same do, pass. Ordered passed on file. Also: H. C. ADAMS, Chairman. MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee on railroads to which was referred House File No. 200, a bill for an act relating to interurban railways, begs leave to report it has had the same under consideration and recommends the same do pass. Ordered passed on file. Also: H. C. ADAMS, Chairman. MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee on railroads to which was referred House File No. 192, a bill for an act relating to voting taxes in aid of railways, begs leave to report it has had the same under consideration and recommends the same do pass. Ordered passed on file. H. C. ADAMS, Chairman. Senator Newberry submitted the following report: MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee on public schools to which was referred House File No. 87, a bill for an act to amend, revise, and codify chapter three (3) of title ten (10) of the compiled code of Iowa, and the supplement to said code, relating to vocational education, begs leave to report it has had the same under consideration and recommends the same do pass. Ordered passed on file. Also: BYRON W. NEWBERRY, Chairman. MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee on public schools to which was referred Senate File No. 107, a bill for an act to amend, revise, and codify sections 2619, 2621 and 2625 of the compiled code, relating to school teachers, begs leave to report it has had the same under consideration and recommends the same be indefinitely postponed. BYRON W. NEWBERRY, Chairman. The report was adopted and the bill indefinitely postponed. Senator Cessna submitted the following report: MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee on departmental affairs, to which was referred Senate File No. 7, a bill for an act relating to a budget or financial statement for the state, to the duties of various officers in relation thereto, and to various existing appropriations, begs leave to report it has had the same under consideration and recommends that the Senate concur in the House amendment. Ordered passed on file. T. C. CESSNA, Chairman. Senator Brookhart submitted the following report: MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee on judiciary No. 2 to which was referred House File No. 288, a bill for an act to legalize the issuance of certain warrants of the city of Sioux City, Iowa, issued against the police equipment fund of said city and legalizing and validating said warrants as issued, begs leave to report it has had the same under consideration and recommends the same do pass. Ordered passed on file. J. L. BROOKHART, Chairman. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT MR. PRESIDENT: Your conference committee on Senate File No. 125 recommends that the differences now existing between House and Senate on said bill be adjusted by receding from all House and Senate amendments and by the adoption of the following amendments: First Amendment-Strike out section 1, and in lieu thereof insert the following: The provisions of this chapter shall be enforced: 1. By the board of supervisors as to all county and primary roads. 2. By the councils and commissioners of all cities and towns, irrespective of their local form of government, as to all roads, streets and other lands within said cities and towns. 3. By the township trustees as to all township roads and as to all other lands within the township not embraced in paragraphs one (1) and two (2) hereof. Second Amendment-Amend Sec. 2 by inserting after the comma following the last parenthesis in line eight the following: sow thistles (souchus arvensis). Third Amendment-Amend Sec. 3 by inserting after the word "thereon" in line three the words "or on the streets or highways adjoining the same"; also by inserting after the word "lands" in line six the words "and the streets or highways adjoining them,"; also by striking out all following line nine. Fourth Amendment-Strike out Sec. 5 and insert the following: Sec. 5. Order for destruction. The secretary of agriculture shall each year, by proper order, fix the time when and the manner in which all noxious weeds shall be destroyed. He may fix different times for different varieties of weeds or for different sections of the state. He shall, on or before April first of each year, notify the county auditor of each county of the date or dates and manner of destruction so fixed. Fifth Amendment-Strike out Sec. 6 and insert in lieu thereof the following: Sec. 6. Notice of order. The board of supervisors of each county shall at once give notice of aforesaid order by one publication in the official newspapers of the county, and said notice shall be directed to all property owners. Said notice shall state: 1. Time for destruction. 2. Manner of destruction if other than cutting above the surface of the ground. 3. That unless said order is complied with, the trustees (or council or commissioners, or board of supervisors, as the case may be) will cause said weeds to be destroyed and the cost thereof to be taxed to the owner of the property. Sixth Amendment-Strike out Sec. 6-a1 and insert in lieu thereof the following: Sec. 6-a1. Complaints-duty of road officer to make. It shall be the duty of all officers directly responsible for the care of public streets and highways, on or before the date fixed for destruction, to make reports to the proper board of the existence of noxious weeds upon lands, streets or highways within their jurisdiction. After such date such road officers shall, and any citizen may, at any time make complaint to the secretary of agriculture of the presence of noxious weeds either upon the public highways or upon private lands, and furnish the secretary with the location of such weeds and with the name of the owner, tenant or custodian of the land upon which said weeds exist. The name of such informant shall not be divulged. Seventh Amendment-Add Sec. 6-a2. Duty of secretary. The secretary of agriculture, upon receipt of the aforesaid notice, shall at once notify the owner, tenant or custodian by registered mail, advising: 1. That such weeds are alleged to be on the property described. 2. That if such complaint is true, the owner, tenant and occupant is violating the law in failing to destroy said weeds. 3. The best known methods of destroying such weeds. |