People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1896 — TO REDUCE EXPENSES. [ARTICLE]

TO REDUCE EXPENSES.

Movement to Change the Censtitntion of lowa. Des' Moines, lowa, Feb. 12.—Senator Kilburn of Adair is preparing a bill to amend the constitution of lowa to do away with the holding of an election of selite officers every year. At present cue-half of the state officers are elected one year, and the other half the next. Several states have abandoned this old idea in the interest of economy. The senate committee on public health decided to recommend the passage of the bill, by Cheshire of Polk, which had grown out of the numerous grave robberies in this vicinity. Senator Cheshire's bill seeks to increase the supply by increasing the class of dead bodies at the disposal of medical faculties. It provides that all bodies, unless claimed by relatives or by friends who are willing to pay burial expenses, must be turned over to the nearest medical college. Now, anybody can be claimed by a friend of the deceased. The senate committee on woman suffrage decided to report favorably the passage of the woman suffrage amendment. The Reed bill, providing for free text books, occupied the time of the house. It was resubmitted to the committee, with instructions that a substitute be drawn up providing for books to be loaned free to needy pupils.