Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1903 — LEGISLATIVE NOTES. [ARTICLE]

LEGISLATIVE NOTES.

Sayre’s bill giving blacksmiths the right to file a lien on an animal for the cost of shoeing, passed in the House. Senator Wolcott’s grain dealers’ bill, requiring landlords who hold lien on a tenant’s crops to have same recorded, was killed in the House after having passed the Senate. The bill to increase the pay of township assessors to $3 per day has also passed, and we understand the bill to allow assessors 75 days —from March 1 to May 15—to do the assessing in, has become a law. The bill to raise the governor’s salary to SB,OOO per y«ar was passed in the house, but Representative Wilson’s bill to kierease the pay of ditch viewers from $2 to $3 a day, where ditches are five miles or more in length, was killed by a vote of 52 to 36. Senate bill 58, providing a salary of $2 per day for members of the county council was killed in the House by precisely the same vote. The above is a fair sample of the attitude of this legislature toward worthy measures.