Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-14
SENATE SEATS BRUCE.
The Election Contest Between
Bruce and Emmert Fin.
ally Settled.
Report Of the Committee Adopted
by Strict Party Vote,
81 to 9.
Telephone People Up Against a
Hard Proposition--Legis.
lative Comment.

this morning gave James e. Bruce his
seat in the senate by strict party vote
of "a to 8. Arguments were concluded
lat IL o'clock and the report of the com
and asked leave to file and have printed
in the journal statement that he
would have voted for Allison and Dolli-
YER for senators if he had been giver
! his seat before the senatorial election.
| In the house Larrabee introduced 9
resolution to amend the constitution OF
1.-THE state by striking out the clause To-
lcating the state university at Iowa Clty
hills passed: Crawford's bill making
1.-The water works law apply to charter
lcities; the Barkley bill on library re-
ports, Hurns bill to require city clerks
and treasurers to keep books showing
imoney on hand.
/ The senate spent the entire Afternoon
Iof yesterday on the Bruce-Emmer'
Icontest case. The arguments on botf
lsides were merely amplificatlons OF the
larguments presented in the reports OF
1.-THE democrats and republicans on the
Icommittee They were really the ables'
which have been in the SEN
late, but largely on a legal question pure
land simple. The speeches We're made
Iby Ball, Smith of Mitchell, MolsberrS
land Spaulding, all able lawyers.
! The house appropriations committee
Ihas favored bill to give the State Ag.
Iricultural Society $4,000 for the pro-
Eposed stock judging pavilion at the
state fair grounds. An interesting
story Is told in connection with this bill
and the one to grant representation lr
| the state agricultural conventions to
representatives of the farmers insti-
| tutes. The state fair people We're saio
| to be opposed to the bill allowing far
mers' Institutes to name persons TO &C
| to the agricultural conventions; but
| those who wanted this representation
| had influence in the appropriations
I.,,nmittee and the state fair inf1uenc
was coInpelled to yield on the institute
bill before the appropriation could be
got for the stock pavilion. This is the
way legislation is done.
| The bill to establish at Knoxville a
reformatory for women was killed by
the committee on industrial schools
There was nothing else to do. A bill
| is pending to make effective the law to
establish the reformatory at Anamosa,
and the representative from Warren
county appeared before the committee
and declared that the people of Knox
vile do not want a reformatory there
and will not have it. So the Knoxville
buildings will stand idle for many years
and there will not be any more normal
schools in the state.
The telephone people of Iowa are up
against hard proposition. The Swee-
ley telephone bill will come before the
house for action, and altho the commits
tee report shows that it is without rec
ommendation, 1t has many strong
friends in the house and it is likely to
get thru and become law. This bill
contemplates placing the long distance
telephone business under the same con-
troll and supervision as the railroad and
express and telegraph property of the
state. Thus far the telephone people
Iowa They have strung their wires
along the highways under sanction of
the law without the necessity of asking
the consent of any one. They have been
given by the legislature itself an abso-
lutte right in the highways. There is
nothing to regulate their conduct or
dictate what prices they shall make and
no power to require that they shall
serve the public in any particular way.
But the Sweeley bin provides that the
railroad commissioners of the state
shall have general supervision over the
long distance telephone business and all
matters relating to connections and
charges, and on petition the commits
sioners are empowered to prescribe the
terms and conditions on which the tel
ephone lines and systems nav be con-
nected and operated in connection with
telephone line or system operated
within cities or towns and make
schedule of reasonable maximum rates.
The members of the telephone associa-
ton, or rather committee of lobby
lists, appeared before the house COM
mlttee and pleaded that the telephone
business be left unhampered by laws
and unrestricted as to rates. Mr.. Swee-
ley met the arguments of the telephone
people and contended that there was no
reason Why the telephone people should
be allowed to go longer absolutely
without restraint or control, for such
control is inevitable. He will make a
fight for his bill on the floor of the
house. and unless the telephone lobby
is more powerful than appears now will
win out
The Representatives of labor unions
have satisfied themselves that they
have been able to harmonic the house
and senate on the resolution to indorse
the pending bill in congress to prevent
for violation of iniunc-
tions. The following carefully drawn
resolution was prepared by the conferees
to take the place of the drastic one
passed by the senate and the substitute
adopted in the house. 1t meets many of
the objections urged against both the
other resolutions. 1t couples the name
of Grosvenor with that of Hoar so as
not to arouse any antipathy because of
the active work of the venerable SEN
ator from Massachusetts. 1t Is as fol-
lows
Whereas, there is now pending in