Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-20
IMPORTANT BILL OP
House Discusses the Measure to
Codify Laws Relative to Ne
gotiable Paper.
The Bill Regarded as One Of
the Most Important
Considered.
Bill to Prohibit Ball Playing on
Sunday Passes House...To.
days Proceedings.
Special to Times-Republican.


morning being the American Bar AS
sociation bill for the codificatloh OF
the laws relating to negotiable instru-
ments. This is long bill, covering
the entire ground, was Prepared py Il
committee of the bar association and
hes already been adopted in nineteen
other states. 1t makes no material
change in the Iowa law. but puts the
state on the same basis as others.
The house passed the bill to pro-
hibit playing base ball on Sunday, a9
to 16. The bill to classify cat hsh
as game fish was passed.
The senate plunged into politics
when the house amendment to the Des
Moines police commission bill was con-
CURED in. The publication clause had
been stricken out and the democrats
protested against this, because 1t would
place the appointments in the hands OF
the next mayor instead OF the present
one. Appropriation bill for $4,000 Tor
the state fair pavilion was sent TO the
committee on appropriations a1ter d
sharp debate because of desire 70
consider all such bills together. Ihe
bill to require tlephone and telegraph
companies to file platS Was defeated
by the senate.
The committee on mining has recon-
mended out "a substitute bill which pro-
yjdes for disposing of the troublesome
question of employment OF special shol
firers in the coal mines of Iowa, a SUP
iect which is just now threatening the
peace of the coal mining districts. Inc
bill was in fact drawn by Representa-
tive Nate Kendall. of Monroe, chair
man of the committee, and 1T provides
that the operator shall keep the road
Ways free from conbustibles, sprinkle
the roadways and 'in all mines where
coal is blasted from the solid he shall
employ competent. capable and expert
enced men to examine all shots and to
fire the same after all persons connect
ed with said mine, except shot hrers'
have retired to a safe distance from
the vicinity of such shots. Inc oD-
lection which the operators make to
this is that 1t is needless expense and
that it Will cause great inconvenience.
In some mines the shots are fired at the
noon hour and the men do not retire
to safe distance and could not leave
the mine. But the miners are now in
sisting on just such a law or agreement
and they may get one or both.
The committee on telegraphs and tel
ephones is hopelessly devoted to the
telephone interests of the state. The
committee killed off another bill in
tended to compel telephone companies
under the reasonable regulation of the
railroad commissioners. The telephone
people employed N. t. Guernsey, of this
city, a we'll known lobbyist, to appear
for them.
The committee on public health to-
day reported to the house substitute
for the osteopathy bill, which will not
please the osteopaths in the least. This
bill would give them just what they do
not want. 1t requires that they shall
show competency in the practice of os-
teopathy, and also that they shall have
attended a school of medicine for at
least four years and shall have studied
all branches of the science of medicine.
They asked for a bill that would create
q board of osteopaths to pass on osteo-
paths and grant them certificates as
healing art The committee on public
health is not disposed to favor them
in the least, and the bill just reported
favorably would give them no real re-
lief.
Representative Willett has intro
duced resolution to provide that each
member OF the present legislature shall
have a copy of the completed and re-
vised code when it is printed. The res
olution will probably pass. 1t is the
plan of the code committee to not only
prepare a code supplement but to in
clude in the index to the supplement a
complete index to the code and the sup
plement, so that there will be on the
market what is in reality two-volume
edition of the code of Iowa. This will be
appreciated by all the lawyers of the
state.
uc lltW PlttIt lOI llIS
state into representative districts will
not suit the democrats very we'll. 1t is
the work of Mr.. Cowles, of Kossuth
county. The counties of Lee and Des
Moines. both democrats, will lose each
a representative. Seven other counties
will have two each. The following will
be the districts having two counties
each: Monona-Ida, Lyon Osceola,
Dickinson -Emmet. Clay-Palo Alto,
Humboldt Hancock, and Winnebago-
Worth There is an understanding be-
tween the two houses that each one
will pass the bill to redistrict the other
without argument or objection. The
senatorial bill is being changed about
and will be amended before it Is passed.
The railroad commissioners of Iowa
have rate hearing assigned for the
22d of the month. 1t is customary for
the commissioners to have five or six
of these hearings during the year and
to take up at such meetings the COM
plants of shippers and railroad men in
regard to rates. The result af this pol
icy has been that while the cost of
railroads and the cost of operation of
railroads has increased steadily for a
number of years the distance tariff in