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The President appointed Senators Craig, Everall and Yeomans as as such committee.

Senator Funk submitted the following report from the committee

on rooms:

MR. PRESIDENT-Your committee appointed to assign the committee rooms for the various committees of the Senate, beg leave to report that the rooms assigned to committees by the last Senate be occupied by the same committees during this sessson. It is also recommended that the journal clerks be assigned to room No. 24, and that room No. 25 be assigned to the Secretary of the Senate.

A. B. FUNK,

N. V. BROWER,
M. J. KELLY,

Committee.

Report adopted.

The President announced that he had appointed Miss Ida Kittleman and Mrs. Ella Babcock as paper folders.

Miss Ida Kittleman and Mrs. Ella Babcock appeared at the bar of the Senate and were sworn in as paper folders.

The President sent to the Secretary's desk and had read the list of visiting committees as follows:

VISITING COMMITTEES.

Agricultural College-Senator Kilburn.
Benedict Home-Senator Rowen.
College for the Blind-Senator Mattoon.

Fish Hatching House-Senator Baldwin.

Hospital for the Insane at Mt. Pleasant-Senator Conaway.

Hospital for the Insane at Independence-Senator Riggen.

Hospital for the Insane at Clarinda-Senator Finn.

Reform School at Eldora-Senator Everall.
Reform School at Mitchellville-Senator Penrose.
Iowa School for the Deaf -Senator Perry.
Institution for the Feeble-Minded-Senator Eaton.
Penitentiary at Anamosa-Senator Ellis.
Penitentiary at Ft. Madison-Senator Waterman.
Soldiers' Home-Senator Phelps.

Orphans' Home at Davenport-Senator Hurst.
State Normal School-Senator Upton.

State University-Senator Funk.

The Industrial Home for the Blind-Senator Harper.

Yesterday's journal was read, corrected and approved.

Senator Boardman introduced the following resolution:

Resolved, That the President of the Senate appoint a committee to draft resotions of condolence on the death of Hon. T. C. McCall, of Nevada, Iowa, a former member of the Ninth, Nineteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-fourth General Assem

blies.

Adopted.

The President named as such committee Senators Boardman, Finn

and Perry.

Senator Andrews moved that hereafter the post-office be kept open from 10 o'clock A. M. until 12 o'clock M. on Sundays.

Carried.

Senator Finn moved that the per diem of the bill clerk be fixed at $4.00 per day.

Carried.

Senator Vale moved that a committee of five from the standing committees be appointed by the President to revise the schedule of time for holding committee meetings.

Senator Lewis moved to amend by inserting the words " rooms for meeting and time for meeting."

The amendment was carried.

The original motion as amended was carried.

The President appointed as such committee Senators Harsh, Harmon, Lewis, Funk and brower.

Senator Conaway moved that the Senate do now adjourn antil to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock.

Carried.

The Senate adjourned.

SENATE CHAMBER,

DES MOINES, Iowa, Tuesday, January 16, 1894.

Pursuant to adjournment, the Senate met at 10 o'clock A. M. President Dungan in the chair.

Prayer was offered by Rev. W. H. Patterson.

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.

By Senator Bishop, Senate file No. 28, a bill for an act to revise. and amend revenue and taxation laws of this State; amendatory of Code, Title 4, Chapter 9, relating to townships and township officers; Title 5, Chapter 5, relating to qualification for office; Title 6, Chapters 1 and 2, relating respectively to the assessment and to the collection of taxes; Title 10, Chapter 5, pertaining to railroads, and Title 23, Chapter 2, pertaining to the compensation of county and township officers, and Chapter 60 of the Acts of the Fifteenth General Assembly, relating to savings banks.

Read first and second times and referred to Committee on Ways and Means.

By Senator Everall, Senate file No. 29, a bill for an act to amend sections 969, 975, 981, 987 and 996 of the Code, relative to the meeting of township trustees for settlement with road supervisors.

Read first and second times and referred to Committee on Highways, By Senator Funk, Senate file No. 30, a bill for an act to amend Section 3275, Chapter 2, Title 20 of the Code of 1873.

Read first and second times and referred to Committee on Judiciary. By Senator Funk, Senate file No. 31, a bill for an act to provide. for the better protection of life and property by the inspection of all traction, portable and semi-portable steam boilers used in this State, for the purpose of threshing grain and grass seeds, shelling corn and grinding feed, sawing wood and lumber, and to provide for the licensing of engineers of such steam boilers.

Read first and second times and referred to Committee on Agriculture.

By Senator Garst, Senate file No. 32, a bill for an act to legalize

the ordinances passed by the incorporate town of Templeton, Carroll County, Iowa.

Read first and second times and referred to Committee on Cities and Towns.

By Senator Oleson, Senate file No. 33, a bill for an act to legalize the proceedings of the town council of the incorporated town of Lake City, Iowa, in establishing a system of water works, the issuing of bonds in payment thereof, and to legalize the ordinances and resolutions passed and adopted by the town council and to legalize the elections held to vote upon the question of establishing a system of water works in said town of Lake City, Iowa.

Read first and second times and referred to Committee on Judiciary. By Senator Palmer, Senate file No. 34, a bill for an act to amend section one of article two of the constitution of the State of Iowa and to provide for its reference and publication.

Read first and second times and referred to Committee on Constitutional Amendments and Suffrage.

By Senator Palmer, Senate file No. 35, a bill for an act conferring on women the right to vote at municipal elections.

Read first and second times and referred to Committee on Constitutional Amendments and Suffrage.

Senator Hipwell offered the following joint resolution:

JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 3.

Memorial and joint resolution, relative to the construction of a canal from Mississippi river to the Illinois river, at Hennepin, in the state of Illinois:

WHEREAS, Cheap transportation between Mississippi river and the Atlantic seaboard, is a question of vital interest to the people of the northwestern states, and especially the State of Iowa, and

WHEREAS, A waterway or canal from Hennepin, in the Illinois river to the Mississippi river at the mouth of Rock river, has been located, surveyed and partially constructed, now, therefore

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa:

That our Senators and Representatives in congress are requested to use their active influence to secure, and to vote for such appropriations as will insure the completion of said canal at the earliest posible date.

Resolved, That the Secretary of State be, and is hereby instructed to forthwith transmit a copy hereof to each of our Senators and Representatives in congress from lowa.

Read first and second times and referred to Committee on Federal Relations.

Senator Harsh, of the special committee on the assignment of rooms, submitted report.

Senator Finn moved that the reading of the report be dispensed with.

Carried.

Report of committee, with recommendation, is as follows:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee to fix times of meeting for standing committees report as follows:

ASSIGNMENT OF ROOMS FOR COMMITTEES AND TIME OF MEETINGS.

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