Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-25
REFUSED O ADJOURN
Iowa Senate Rejects the Moffitt
Resolution to Adjourn Feb.
u to March 3.
Opponents OF the Proposition
Declare the Legislature Has
Been Dilatory.
The Assembly Up Against the
Admiralty Laws..Iowa Legis.
lative Gossip.
pecial to Times Republican.

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morning refused to go on record even
for short recess. Moffit called up his
resolution for adjournment from Feb.
q to March and insisted that so
many senators had business at home at
| that time that adjournment should be
taken. The resolution was opposed by
Healey, Junkin, Hayward and Lewis
and the latter stated that in his recol-
Election there had been no legislature so
Edilatory in it's work. The resolution was
lost Is to 10.
| In the house n resolution was intro
duced by MeClurkin memoriaiizing
congress not to change the case in re-
| gard to the rural mail carriers and ex-
pressing confidence in the civil service
system and condemning the proposed
contract system.
& The Cummings bill to increase the
tpay of the supreme court judges as
amended to give salary of $4,000 was
| passed. oV ~ Wi,liodI uebd.c. iiS
Barker bill to take the circle off the Off
| cial ballot was ordered engrossed.
Senator Young, of Washington. in
ktroduced Il bill TO provide that the
ladjutant quartermaster and surgeon
at the Soldiers Home shall be per-
| nlitted to occupy the houses heretofore
occupied by them with free light and
heat.
F. The bill to make q reformatory for
imen at Anamosa was passed by the
! senate without amendment, 80 to IL.
| The house today passed the bill to
provide for support of S22 month
| at the school for deaf and defeated.
/ sS TO 53, the bill to repeal the law to
require teaching music in the schools
| A report on the smallpox on Tama
preservation was presented by the gov
lezaor stating the present situation and
expense To which the state board of
health mad been, and Garst introduced
Il bill to appropriate $1,000 to pay for
goods belonging to Indians which have
been burned.
| The bill passed in the senate yester
day by Senator Classen in regard to
sheriff's fees and reports thereon re-
lates only to Marshall county. 1t places
| in the list of fees excluded from the re-
ports to the county those received from
lodging prisoners as we'll as those from
dieting In no other county SO it is
Iar hae
ton about this matter.
The bill passed by the senate to pre-
vent persons who are responsible for
the death of another from sharing in
the estate appears innocent enough,
but some of the lawyers who have eX-
amined the bill say it may lead to a
great deal of new litigation in the state.
For instance, it will force the insurance
companies to raise a question in most
every case of suspicious death, and 1t
will cause a great deal of controversy
between the heirs of murdered persons
or those who have disappeared in a
mysterious way.
The legislature ran plump into the
admiralty laws yesterday on the mat
ter of the law for the commencement of
actions on steamboats,. Senator Lam
bert asked Healey if there was anything
in the bills to conflict with the laws re-
lating to traffic on the national high
ways. and cited the fact that a mort
gage On steamboat must be recorded
in Washington, not in some county
along the river. Healey was unable to
,,-t,a ha l- in, tar
with any national laws. and so they
were passed. But there was grave sus-
picion in the minds of many of the SEN
ators as to whether or not the bills did
not trench on the realm of national leg
islation.
The hearing of the railroad interests
on the new assessment law before the
ways and means committee of tho SEN
ate was held this afternoon. a few
railroad attorneys We're present but
there was little interesting in the near
ing. The Herriott statement has not
been published as yet. 1t is learned that
Mr. Herriott imposed no injunction of
secrecy on the committee and has ex-
pressed a willingness to have the mat
ter made public. The members of the
committee are reluctant about giving
it out because il Is said to reflect on
some members of the executive council
in other years Mr.. Herriotts we'll
known views on this matter have been
restatad again very plainly and the
members of the committee feel that ii
would be reopening an old quarrel for
them to needlessy present this state
ment to the public at this time. The
bill will be reported to the senate in
few days and will soon come up for re-
There is little doubt in
the minds of anyone that it will be
passed by the senate. The persons who
spoke before the committee We're Mr.. |
Dudley, tax commissioner of the Mil |
waukee and w. w. Baldwin of the Bur- |
lington.
There is talk that the senate will let |
the railroad bills all slip thru without |
discussion and leave the house to
wrestle with them, but leading MEM
bers of the house do not like this pro-
gram and say the houses should take |
care of it's own bills.
The item on the appropriation DILL of
$4,000 for boring a deep well at the
insane hospital for the |
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