IOWA. 



411 



To protect and preserve the fish in the permanent 

 lakes and ponds within the State. 



To regulate mines and mining, and to repeal chapter 

 202 of the acts of the Eighteenth Genfiral Assembly. 



To exempt from judicial sale the pension money 

 paid to any person by the United States Government, 

 and certain of the proceeds and accumulation thereof. 

 To provide for the erection of and maintenance of 

 station-houses and connections at the points of inter- 

 section or crossing of two or more railroads. 



To repeal section 1621 of the Code and to enact a 

 substitute, relating to a course of study for the State 

 Agricultural College. 



To provide for the assessment and taxation of lands 

 granted to railroad companies or corporations which 

 Have become earned but not patented. 



To amend section 1384 ol the Code in relation to 

 the care of the insane. 



In relation to the protection of game. 



To provide for the levy of one half mill additional 

 State tax. 



To provide for selling, leasing, and patenting the 

 lands belonging to the Iowa State Agricultural Col- 

 lege and farm. 



To prohibit giving or selling fire-arms to minors. 



To amend chapter 147, laws of the Nineteenth Gen- 

 eral Assembly, relating to the bonding of county in- 

 debtedness. 



To prohibit the use of barb- wire in inclosing public 

 grounds. 



To protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights. 

 ^ To provide for the distribution of funds by the as- 

 signees of insolvents. 



To amend section 2578 of the Code in relation to 

 the foreclosure of liens on real estate. 



To prevent the spread of small-pox. 



Authorizing actions against railroad companies to 

 be brought in the name of the State on recommenda- 

 tion of the Board of Railway Commissioners. 



Providing additional penalties for the violation of 

 the law relating to the sale of intoxicating liquors. 



Authorizing the condemnation of grounds for union 

 depots, and authorizing the organization of companies 

 for the construction of such depots. 



Prohibiting the killing of quail for two years. 



Providing for the refunding of bonded indebtedness 

 of counties, at not more than 6 per cent. 



Requiring trains to stop before reaching the cross- 

 ing ol other tracks. 



To create a Bureau of Labor Statistics, and provid- 

 ing for the appointment of a commissioner of the 

 same at a salary of $1,500 per annum. 



Providing for the semi-annual collection of taxes. 



Amending sections 2086 and 2087 of the Code re- 

 lating to defenses on non-negotiable paper. 



Raising the standard for admission to the bar. 



Permitting townships that have voted tax in aid of 

 the construction of railroads to vote an additional five 

 mills for the same purpose. 



Providing for the inspection of coal-oil and the ap- 

 pointment of a State Inspector. 



Providing a system of drainage and for the reclaim- 

 ing of swamp and overflow lands. 



Establishing an additional Insane Hospital in south- 

 western Iowa } and appropriating $150,000 therefor. 



Appropriating $50,000 for land for the State Agri- 

 cultural Society for a permanent location. 



Appropriating $369,500 for completing the new 

 Capitol and improving the surrounding streets. 



Agreeing to amendments to the Constitution pro- 

 posed by the Nineteenth General Assemblv. 



The following are the amendments : 1. The general 

 election for State, district, county, and township of- 

 ficers shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first 

 Monday in November. 



2. At any regular session of the General Assembly 

 the State may be divided into the necessary judicial 

 districts for District Court purposes, or the said dis- 

 trict^ may be reorganized, and the number of the 

 districts and the judges of said courts increased or 



diminished ; but no reorganization of the districts or 

 diminution of the judges shall have the effect of re- 

 moving a judge from office. 



3. The grand jury may consist of any number of 

 members, not less than five nor more than fifteen, or 

 the General Assembly may provide for holding per- 

 sons to answer for any criminal offense without the 

 intervention of a grand jury. 



4. That section 13 of Article V of the Constitution 

 be stricken therefrom, and the following adopted as 

 such section : 



SECTION 13. The qualified electors of each county 

 shall at the general election in the year 1886 and every 

 two years thereafter elect a county attorney, who 

 shall be a resident of the county for which he is 

 elected, and who shall hold his office for two years, 

 "and until his successor shall have been elected and 

 qualified. 



The worn an -suffrage amendment passed the 

 Senate by a vote of 26 to 24, but was lost in 

 the House, on a motion to postpone indefinite- 

 ly, by a vote of 50 to 44. 



Prohibition. The prohibitory law passed at 

 this session took effect on the 4th of July. 

 Tbe following is its language : 



SEC. 1. That section 1555, chapter 6, title 11 of the 

 Code be and the same is hereby repealed, and the fol- 

 lowing is enacted in lieu thereof: 



SEC. 1555. Wherever the words intoxicating liquors 

 occur in this chapter the same shall be construed to 

 mean alcohol, ale, wine, beer, spirituous, vinous, and 

 malt liquors, and all intoxicating liquors whatever, 

 and no person shall manufacture for sale, or sell, or 

 keep for sale as a beverage any intoxicating liquors 

 whatever, including ale, wine, and beer ; and the same 

 provisions and penalties of law in force relating to in- 

 toxicating liquors shall in like manner be held and 

 construed to apply to violations of this act, and the 

 manufacture, sale, or keeping for sale, or keeping 

 with intent to sell, or keeping or establishing a place 

 for the sale of ale, wine, and beer, and all other intoxi- 

 cating liquors whatever. 



It passed the Senate by a vote of 35 to 13, 

 four Republicans voting against it and one 

 Democrat for it, and the House by a vote of 

 52 to 41, one Democrat voting for it. 



A State Temperance Convention met in Des 

 Moines on January 23, and passed, among oth- 

 ers, the following resolutions: 



That we fully trust and confidently expect that 

 our present Legislature will promptly meet the wishes 

 of the people in not only repealing the statute per- 

 mitting the sale of ale, wine, and beer as beverages, 

 but enact and provide suitable penalties to enforce the 

 law so that the citizens in any part of the State can 

 effectually close up and put a stop to all traffic in in- 

 toxicating beverages of whatever name or nature, 

 whether sold or given away in a saloon, hotel, club- 

 room, drug-store, private house, or any other place or 

 in any manner. 



That however wise, judicious, and stringent pro- 

 hibitory laws our General Assembly may pass (and 

 pass such it unavoidably will), it still will remain as 

 much the imperative duty of the friends of temper- 

 ance to keep up their several organizations for the 

 purpose of seeing that such laws shall be executed 

 and enforced, as it was for them to create the public 

 sentiment that brought these laws into being, and 

 upon the practical carrying out of this purpose de- 

 pends largely the success of the prohibition movement 

 in our State. 



On February 8, the "Women's Christian Tem- 

 perance Union presented a memorial to the 

 Legislature in favor of a prohibitory law. 



