Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-02

passed the senate was recommended for
| postponement In the house.
| In January a resolution was passed
authorizing committee of the senate
H.. 2rarare men, )rial resolution N re-
lation to the late Senator John III. Gear.
The committee has never made a report
as yet and the matter has evidently
been forgotten by all. A great many
memorial resolutions have been passed.
| It has been proposed, and the proposal
meets with much favor, that all the
memorial resolutions and speeches be
held out of the house journals and be
| printed in separate volume at the
end of the session. This would be much
better and reduce the size of the house
land senate journals materially.
| The senate judiciary committee today
reported several bills to the senate for
passage. Two of them were by Whip
pie which were asked by the board of
| control, relating to escape of prisoners
| from the penitentiaries. They pro-
vide that escape from the stone quarry
/ at Anamosa or the machine shops at
| Fort Madison or similar cases shall be
punishable by five years imprisonment.
| These bills are to meet some flaws In
| the present law discovered by the su-
preme court. The house tax ferret bill
was recommended for passage with
some amendments. In its present form
| the bill is merely an attempt to improve
and strengthen the tax ferret law.
| bill from the house in relation to the
recording of wills was reported favor
ably with an amendment. The bill by
Temple to correct an error in the code
in the matter of bonds for persons con-
commended for indefinite postponement.
This was supposed to merely fill out the
original intentions of the law but the
committee seemed to think it unneces-
sary.
The Sweeley bill to tax telephone
| franchises in the cities where they are
granted has been killed by the ways
and means committee of the house.
I Mr.. Sweeley had made a hard fight for
/ this bill He stated to the committee
that it's purpose was to secure the tax
alton of franchises where they are
tgranted instead of having the taxes
/ spread out over the several hundred
miles where the connections go. or
rather to get taxes where none are Sc
I cured now. In fact so it is claimed. the
| franchises are not taxed at all by the
state executive council but they should
be taxed locally. Mr. Cowles, a member
of the committee, said in reference to
the bill: 1T is one of the most meri-
| torious of the bills for revenue. 1t
would raise taxes on values which are
not taxed at all under the present law.
A franchise when granted has value
whether there are any wires strung or
not" But thus far practically all bills
1 to increase revenues have failed.
The old original mortgage measu e,
introduced by Mr.. Cassell, was defeated
| in the house ways and means com
mittee. This proposes to divide up the
taxes and enforce collection by max
ing the land owner collect, etc. The
members of the committee were almost
one that something should be done to
tax mortgages but they feared this bill
and were against it.
The bill to reduce the rate OF inter-
est on foreign insurance companies do
ing business in Iowa to the rate paid by
j the domestic companies outside of the
state was today recommended for pas
sage in the house. 1t has passed the
house. 1t will reduce the revenues of
the state several thousand dollars an
nually.
/ The house ways and means commit
tee voted 6 to to give towns the right
to levy tax up to 5 per cent to build
any public building, library, town hall,
auditorium, etc.
The csteopathy bill which passed the
senate is the same as the house bill and
| 1t will become law. The bill was
i compromise prepared by the commit
tees on public health of both houses to
meet the wishes of both the osteopaths
and the doctors. The state board of
health was willing to have the bill
passed because 1t will relieve them of
much trouble by stating just what the
osteopaths must do to be admitted to
practice. The osteopaths were willing
the bill should become a law because
it gives certificates to all who are en-
gagged in osteopathy. When the medi-
cal practice act went into effect all doc
tors who had been in the practice of
medicine for five years We're given GER
tificates. An effort was made to change
this bill to meet that requirement, but
lit was pointed out such amendment
would be fatal to the bill, as none of
the o.teapaths have been in the prac.
tice that long in Iowa. During the
discussion Col Ben Shaw, head of the
osteopath school in Des Moines which
turns them out by the scores on short
order, sat next to Senator Athaud and
assisted in the pushing of the bill, and
at the same time Dr. Bachman, sena-
| tor from Pocahontas, was urging that
the bill be not amended. 1t was sight
to have doctor and an osteopath
working for the same thing for once.
But the sarcasm of Senator Trewin
when it was turned SHARPLY against the
osteopaths was at times embarrassing
to the genial Col. Shaw and his face
colored under the wordy thrusts.
The bill by Sweeley to require that
members of the board of supervisors
shall give bonds was reported out for
passage in the senate and 1t is one of
the bills most certain to be considered
| i'm the end 1t provides that the amount