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 House with the recommendation that the same be referred to the Committee on Suppression of Intemperance. W. F. HARRIMAN, Chairman. Sawyer of Woodbury, moved to refer resolution to Committee on Constitutional Amendments. Carried. Ordered passed on file. Mr. W. F. Harriman, from the Committee on Judiciary, submitted. the following report: MR. SPEAKER-Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred House file No. 46, a bill for an act to regulate the satisfaction of record of mortgages and to provide a fee for the recorder of deeds therefor, 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. W. F. HARRIMAN, Chairman. Mr. Harriman, from the Committee on Judiciary, submitted the following report: MR. SPEAKER-Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred House file No. 24, a bill for an act for the protection of poor debtors in supplemental proceedings and repeal section 3137 of the Code and enact a substitute therefor, and amend section 3141 and 3144, 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 with the following amendments: All of section one after the word "receive" in the eighth line be stricken out. After the word "referee" in the seventh line, following words be inserted: "outside of the county of his residence." Ordered passed on file. W. F. HARRIMAN, Chairman. Mr. H. Young, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the following: MR. SPEAKER-Your Committee on Appropriations, to whom was referred House file No. 66, a bill for an act making appropriation for the Iowa Weather and Crop Service, beg leave report that they have had the same under consideration and have instructed me to report the same amended back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass. By adding after the word "annually," the words "for the Amendment: ensuing biennial period." Ordered passed on file. H. YOUNG, Chairman. Mr. Funk, from the Committee on Suppression of Intemperance, submitted the following report: MR. SPEAKER-Your Committee on Suppression of Intemperance, to whom was referred House file No. 135, a bill for an act to prohibit the sale or giving away of tobacco to minors under sixteen years of age, 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, with the following amendment: After the word "any " in line two, insert the words, cigars, cigarettes, or." J. H. FUNK, Chairman. Ordered passed on file. Mr. Funk, from the Committee on Suppression of Intemperance, submitted the following report: MR. SPEAKER-Your Committee on Suppression of Intemperance, to whom was referred House file No. 65, a bill for an act to prohibit the sale of cigars, cigarettes, or tobacco in any form, to minors under the age of sixteen years, 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, as the subject matter is covered by bill No. 135, which has been recommended for passage. Ordered passed on file. J. H. FUNK, Mr. Bitterman, from the Committee on Agriculture, submitted the following report: MR. SPEAKER-Your Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred House file No. 71, a bill for an act to amend chapter fifty-two (52), of the laws of the Twenty-rst (21) General Assembly, and to prevent deception in the use of imitation of butter and cheese, 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, with the following amendment: That line five (5) of section one (1), be amended by the insertion of the words "or lunch counter," immediately following the words "opposite each table." M. E. BITTERMAN, Ordered passed on file. Chairman. Mr. Young of Delaware, from the Committee on Roads and Highways, submitted the following report: MR. SPEAKER-Your Committee on Roads and Highways, to whom was referred House file No. 60, a bill for an act amending chapter 40 of the Acts of the Twenty-fourth General Assembly, with regard to Osage orange hedge fence, by adding in its proper place the words "willow and other growing," beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and have instructed me to report the same back to the IIouse with the recommendation that the same be amended by striking out of the fourth (4th) section of said bill the word “immediately" and that with such amendment we recommend that the same do pass. D. H. Young, Ordered passed on file. Chairman. Mr. Trewin, from the Committee on Municipal Corporations, submitted the following report: MR. SPEAKER-Your Committee on Municipal Corporations, to whom was referred House file No. 51, a bill for an act to legalize a resolution of the city council of the city of Oskaloosa, Mahaska county, Iowa, and all acts done in pursuance of said resolution, 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. J. H. TREWIN, Mr. Trewin from the Committee on Municipal Corporations, submitted the following report: MR. SPEAKER-Your Committee on Municipal Corporations to whom was referred House file No. 42, a bill for an act to amend sections 3 and 4, of Chapter 11 of the acts of the Twenty-second General Assembly, in relation to allowing cities and incorporate towns to vote bonds for water works, beg leave to report that they have Lad the same under consideration and have instructed me to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same be indefinately postponed. Ordered passed on file. J. H. TREWIN, Chairman. Mr. Trewin, from the Committee on Municipal Corporations, submitted the following report: MR. SPEAKER-Your Committee on Municipal Corporations, to whom was referred House file No. 61, a bill for an act to amend chapter 4 of the Acts of the Twenty-second General Assembly, and prescribing punishment for violation of the said act, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and bave instructed me to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same be indefinitely postponed. Ordered passed on file. J. H. TREWIN, Mr. Trewin, from the Committee on Municipal Corporations, submitted the following report: MR SPEAKER-Your Committee on Municipal Corporations, to whom was referred House file No. 67, a bill for an act to provide for the compensation of marshals of cities of the second class, and incorporated towns when performing duties of constables, 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 recommend ation that the same do pass. Ordered passed on file. J. H. TREWIN, Mr. Trewin, from the Committee on Municipal Corporations, submitted the following report: MR. SPEAKER-Your Committee on Municipal Corporations, to whom was referred House file No. 109, a bill for an act to legalize the incorporation of the town of Marble Rock, Floyd county, Iowa, and the election of its officers and all acts done and ordinances passed by the council of said town, 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 amended by inserting the words "Des Moines Leader of Des Moines, Iowa," after the word "Iowa" on the last line, and that the same do pass as amended. Ordered passed on file. 1. H. TREWIN, Chairman. Mr. Trewin, from the Committee on Municipal Corporations, submitted the following report: MR. SPEAKER-Your Committee on Municipal Corporations, to whom was referred House file No. 114, a bill for an act to cause the official printing of counties, in newspapers, to be done under contract, to be let to the lowest responsible bidder, 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. J. H. TREWIN, Mr. Trewin, from the Committee on Municipal Corporations, submitted the following report: MR. SPEAKER-Your Committee on Municipal Corporations, to whom was referred House file No. 115, a bill for an act to allow cities of special charter ot provide for the appointment of municipal officers by the votes of the qualified electors of said cities, 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. J. H. TREWIN, Mr. Trewin, from the Committee on Municipal Corporations, submitted the following report: MR. SPEAKER-Your Committee on Municipal Corporations, to whom was referred House file No. 124, a bill for an act amending sectious 421 and 422 of the Code, relating to organization of cities and towns, 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. J. H. TREWIN, Chairman. Ordered passed on file. Mr. Martin, from the Committee on Elections, submitted the following report: MR. SPEAKER-Your Committee on Elections, to whom was referred House file No. 74, a bill for an act to prevent and punish the improper use of money at Elections, 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 as amended, by inserting the words "and from" in the third (3) line of the third (3) section after the word "to." Ordered passed on file. W. B. MARTIN, Chairman. Mr. W. B. Martin, from the Committee on Elections, submitted the following report: MR. SPEAKER-Your Committee on Elections, to whom was referred House file No. 40, a bill for an act in relation to the election of county recorders, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration, and have instructed me to report the same back to the Honse, with the recommendation that the same be indefinitely postponed. Ordered passed on file. W. B. MARTIN, Chairman. Mr. Steen, from the Committee on Horticulture, submitted the following report: MR. SPEAKER-Your Committee on Horticulture, to whom was referred House file No. 142, a bill for an act for the repeal of chapter 62, of the acts of the Twentyfourth General Assembly, and to provide for the publication and distribution of the report of the lowa Academy of Sciences, 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 following amendn.ents: In section 1 of printed bill, in first line, after the word "published" to insert the following clause "and bound in boards in same form as the acts of the General Assembly are bound," and in second line of said bill to change the word "the" before "annual " to "its." In the third line of the same section and bill, to omit the words "of the Iowa Academy of Sciences," and when so amended we recommend that the same do pass. F. D. STEEN, Chairman. Ordered passed on file. Mr. McNeeley, from the Committee on Military, submitted the following report: MR. SPEAKER-Your Committee on Military, to whom was referred House file No. 140, a bill for an act to amend chapter 105, Acts of the Twenty-second General Assembly, allowing compensation for the Soldiers' Relief Commission, 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. GEO. NCNEELEY, Ordered passed on file. Chairman. |