Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-21
May MODIFY THE MULCT LAW
Manufactures Bill Has a Chance to Pass
the Iowa House.
FIRST TEST VOTE SHOWS ITS STRENGTH
Members Indicate Their sympnthies
on II Motion to Make the Meas
urc n Special order, which
isnv Lost.

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DIES MONIES. March 2O.-(Special)-The
first test vote on the manufactures bill.
which was taken today in the house, in
dicates that the measure, II reached in
regular order, may pass by a very close
vote. When the bill was reported from the
committee on suppression Of intemperance
this morning Mr.. McNulty of Woodbury.
moved thet the bill be made a special order.
Funk objected and on the roll call being
ordered the motion was lost: Yeas, 43;
nays, 46; scventy-one members not voting.
Among these were Dowell, Early, Brady
and Good, who will vote for this measure
on final passage. The bill will now go to
the calendar, where, under the rulings of
the speaker, 1t can be called up at any
time by a majority vote.
The railroad laws will not be impaired
by this general assembly. This statement,
perhaps, may tend 20 allay the feverish
excitement that exists throughout the state
over this matter, Should the sections of
the new code relating to common carriers
be taken up and passed, which is now pos
sible, the lower house will insist upon
substituting the existing statutes line by
line and section by section for the provi-
sions of the revised code. 1t is doubtful
IL a single recommendation changing the
present law in the most minute particular
will be accepted by the house. This deci-
sion has not been reached in any formal
caucus. but Is the result of some quiet con-
ferences among leading anti-monopoly mem
bers like Finch, Spaulding, Van Houten
and Human.
The letter of the general solicitor of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railway,
which was sent to many Iowa attorneys,
asking them to write members of the leg
iglntnrA and nrun fhnnn IN rnnnnlpfn tho
new code at this session, is provoking no
small amount of comment, especially among
the anti-monopoly members.
The senate passed by A to 0 the substitute
bill governing building and loan associations
prepared by the joint committee of the two
houses.
In the afternoon session in the senate
several bills were passed, among them the
following:
BY Carpenter-Providing that no member
of the faculty of a medical college can be
eligible to a position on the state board of
health.
By Fredericksburg a 2 per cent tax on all
gross receipts of express companies collected
Wy agents within the state over and above the
amount actually paid railroad companies for
transportation services within the state.
BILL TO SUPPRESS UNIONS.
In the house the Spaulding bill to "pro-
tect laborers in their right to work" was
taken up. The bill provides that any per-
son or association of persons who shall by
threat, intimidation or any act of violence
interfere in any manner with employees who
are engaged in running any railroad train,
or operating or working any coal mine, or
engaged in any manufacturing establishment,
or in any other lawful occupation, shall be
deemed guilty of a felony punishable by i'm
priscnment at hard labor in the county Jail
not less than one year or a fine not to ex-
coed $500, at the discretion of the court.
Mr.. Spaulding said the purpose of the bill
was to prevent irresponsible persons from in
terfering with the running Of trains. In his
own county many farmers were unable to
ship their grain because of a boycott against
the railroads. 30,
. Mr.. Dowell of Polk thought this was the
most dangerous and vicious bill introduced
at this session. If. enacted into law it would
enable the railroads and other corporations
to so intimidate their employees that no or
ganiZation among them for their own inter
ests or protection could exist
Mr.. Temple was heartily in sympathy with
the evident purpose of the bill, yet by its
very terms it was so far-reaching in its eff
feet that it required the most careful atten-
ton of the house, and on his motion the bill
was referred to the committee On judiciary.
The chapters and sections of the revised
code relating to attachment garnishment, ex-
~ecutions and supplementary proceedings were
under consideration In the house. The bill
was read line by line, many amendments be-
ing proposed and adopted mainly for the pur-
pose of removing doubts, preventing double
construction and more clearly specifying the
duties of the clerk and sheriff in satisfying
judgments and making proper records. The
section was finally passed. The afternoon
session was mainly devoted to clearing the
calendar of bills rejected by the committees,
The bills by Wood approprlating Sc, 900 for
a silver service for the battleship Iowa and
the Weaver bill appropriating 1925, 900 to aid
in the Transmiseissippi and International ex-
position at Omaha in 1898 will both likely
come before the house committee on APP
propriations at it's meeting next Monday,
Both bills have strong friends ard will prob-
ably be recommended favorably.