Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-04

Iowa City but everywhere else within
he state, who sold liquor to students.
The republicans OF the Second district
Who came here to protest against the
passage OF this bill, which they be-
lieved would make the Second district
democratic, We're accused of being rep
resentatives Of the saloons and brew
ers, but the fact is the saloons and the
brewers were not taking part in this
fight. They did not come to Des Moines
or send representatives here to oppose
the five-mile limit bill. Many prohibi-
ticnists opposed the bill, believing 1t 4
was not we'll for the cause Of temper
ance TO start an agitation OF this kind.
1T had been generally agreed that both
sides should refrain from 9neA aGusgs.si.
sions and anti -prun bitt0flisfs - wAlfF
as the prohibttionists. have sbeea JNetAxs
generally sticking to It.
Ex-speaker Funk in recent inter
view expressed the feeling OF many
;prohipitionsts and others in regard 10
the bill when he said:
II do not care to be quoted, but 1t is
true that 1 am not in sympathy with
the measure. do not believe it will
bring the results anticipated by its
friends. am as strong prohbitionist
as ever before. but do not believe that
this bill would further the cause. My
own town has not had a saloon for
Years, Yet the fellows who want the
stuff manage somehow TO get 1t. We
can not, by an act of the legislature.
provide one city with prohibition and
another with mulct saloons. The bet
ter way would be to compel an en-
forcement of the law in Iowa. City. tt
islands to reason that if the mulct law
can not be enforced there. no attention
would be paid to a five-mile limit law.
However. am not here to work for or
against the BILL
That was the main reason why the
bill failed to pass: the members of the;
house did not believe it would produce
4 the results claimed for 1t by those who
lswere advocating it. In fact, it is
generally believed that the bill would
do no good whatever but would pro-
4 duce situation in Iowa City worse
4 THAN the present one can possibly DE. A,
sllaw of this kind could not be enforced
4 without the aid Of state authority and
La good deal of it. The mulct law is not
i. strictly enforced in Iowa City, but the
d saloons and the people of Iowa City
who are Interested in the university
twill now see to it that the law Is better
enforced. The narrow escape they
q have had from the passage OF the pro-
lhibitory bill WHY be warning to them
y to behave better in the future. Iowa
Z City has been greatly maligned In this
), discussion. it has been painted in very
: dark colors by the reckless use OF a
!; black paint pot. when the fact is that
: Iowa City is a clean, respectable town
: equal to the average city Of its size in
; Iowa. But there is an element in the
population that is opposed to the clos
Ling OF the saloons and is strong
: enough to have its way in this particu-
lar.
The senate spent the entire morning
{ on the Ferret bill and did not finish it
n The house passed a number of small
!. appropriation bills. among them the
Benedict Home, Des Moines, $4,000
Womens' and Babies Home, Siou,
City, $1,000. and Rescue Home, Du
buque, $1,000. Bills passed by the hous,
!. We're: Senate bill, by Trewin, provid
), ing for a commission to revise specia
4 assessment laws; senate bill, by Tre
4 win. requiring state officers to file item
N lied statements of receipts and dis
! Dursements to be published; senate bill
!. by Trewin, authorizing the executiv
council to re-assess under valid law
tax held to be invalid; senate bill in
creasing the support fund at Mitchell
is Vile from $40 to $12 per month pc
,e capita: Benefits resolution reauirln
ii temperance regulations at state edu
n cational institutions.
tn Fishermen along the Mississippi n,
er brought sufficient influence TO bes
upon the senator's from their distric
j. to defeat the bill to prohibit seinlr
= and o,her Illegal methods Of taking Al
'r =. in the border rivers. 1t happened
y. this case. as in many others. that y
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