Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1915 — House Passed W. L. Wood’s Subsidy Election Bill. [ARTICLE]

House Passed W. L. Wood’s Subsidy Election Bill.

By a vote of 72 to 2 the house Monday passed W. L. Wood’s bill amending the subsidy election law. The amendment requires that before a subsidy election can be held the petitioners shall satisfy the bounty commissioners of the route, the location of shops, depots, etc., and put up a bond with adequate freehold security for the cost ol! the election, provided it go against the appropriation. If the proposition is voted favorably then the cost of the election is deducted from the subsidy thus provided.