People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1896 — THE IOWA MONUMENT." [ARTICLE]

THE IOWA MONUMENT."

Legislature Has a Never-Falling Topic— Business Transacted In the House. Des Moines, Towa, March 18.—The debate on the soldiers’ monument consumed two hours and a half Tuesday and was not finished. Speaker Byers took the floor in the house in the morning to discuss the consideration of the code. He advocated going ahead with the regular work and leaving the code to get along as best it could. The motions to fix the time for adjournment were all voted down. A resolution passed instructing the appropriations committee to make no appropriations in excess of the revenue to be derived from a two and a half mill levy. A meeting of the ways and means committees of both houses was held for the purpose of considering a proper basis of valuation for raising revenue. The bill providing for state control of private banks was defeated in the house by a vote of 50 to 31.