Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-11
END Of The SESSION
Iowa General Assembly Winds
Up Business OF the Session
Today.
A Few Odds and Ends Disposed
OF Before the Final
Adjournment.
Deadlock on the Matter OF Expo.
sition Appropriation Not
Broken.

Broken.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, April 11.-At O'Clock
no agreement had yet been reached on
the st. Louis exposition appropriation
and it will be late before it is dis
posed of.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, April 1.-THE leglsla--
ture adjourned nominally at noon to-
day, but in feet remained in session un-
til late in the afternoon, that the com :
mittees might finish their work, the
clerks complete the enrolment OF b1lls
and that they might be signed by the
speaker and president and that all the
details of the closing hours might be
attended to. Both houses went to work
in business-like manner. There was
little important business that needed
attention. The sitting committee, with
Hubbard at the head, was complete
master in the senate, and Speaker
Eaton managed affairs in the house.
There were several incidents of pleas
ure during the day. Governor Cummins
was invited before the house and was
presented with a cane of wood from
the Philippines, the speech being by
Kendall. His response was eloquent.
The committee to purchase chair for
the president of the senate performed
that duty and there were more fine
speeches as the gift was turned over to
Mr. Herriott. Complimentary resolu-
tions of thanks of various kinds were
adopted. The hands of the clock were
stopped and recess taken from time to
time until all the business was done.
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The most important business of the
closing hours was in relation to the tax
levy for the current term. The appro-
priations committees figured up and
found that for this year the state would
need $2,300,000 and for next year ST.
100000. A bill was passed instructing
that a levy should be made sufficient
To secure this sum, which means practi-
cally 4-mill levy for the next year
for state purposes.
sss
s1'he senate refused to pass the Eor-
estry bill; the bill to reduce minimum
capital stock OF insurance companies
beaten; the Mats bill to not permit a
freeholder to take his name off petit
ton Of saloon consent was indefinitely
postponed; the house indefinitely post
poned the Molsberry bill without de-
bate. The following bills were finally
passed and sent to the governor today:
English bill. for more specific reports
from railroads. slightly amended to
simplify the same; appropriate $1,000
for purchase of oil painting of Senator
Harlan; appropriations for the three
state educational institutions; permit
ting health insurance; establishing dip
somania department at one of the in
sane hospitals; appropriating $4,000
for laundry building at Mount Pleas
ant. The senatorial redistricting bill as
districts now are.
The two houses deadlocked over the
question of the amount of the eXposi-
ton appropriation. The house stood
out for $150,000 and the senate for $685.
900 less. The senate by tie vote re-
fused to accept the house figures and
conferees We're appointed and these
conferees met at o'clock to try to
agree on the appropriation.
The closing days of the legislative
session have been days of very hard
wark among the great majority of the
members and among the employees of
the legislature. The work of enrolling
the bills in the closing days is no slight
task, as for instance the big bill on
negotiable instruments which reading
clerk would do we'll If he could read in
a half hour of steady words. The COM
mittee clerks were drafted in for help
on such work as this and all who could
write were put at work. The members
showed signs of WEAKNESS and a desire
to get away. The long hours and the
worry over bills and measures has a
telling effect on most of those who go
to the legislatures. 1t is therefore not
surprising that members indulge in a
great deal of "horse play in the clos
ing hours.
The bill to provide for an increase
of salary to the judges of the district
court had a narrow escape. When the
roll was called in the senate there We're
but "a votes for It, Bruce had opposed
the increase to quite such a high figure
and would not have voted for 1T but saw
that IL he did not 1T was gone. So
he voted and made 25. Just then Mar
dis turned up and made the 26 at the
same time that Hogue voted for it and
clinched the bargain. But there was
a hard fight on the bill in the senate
and many declarations against 1T. Some
of the members declare that at the next
session there will be a redistricting of
the state into judicial districts and a
number of the judges will be let out:
that several of the districts are too
small or have too little for the judges
to do, and that many changes ought to
be made.
The Molsberry bill was one of the
last to go. There were no mourners.
Like the railway assessment bill it he'd
been abandoned by it's friends long be-
fore the end came. Just why the Mols-
berry bill was desired nobody seemed
able to say Those who refused TO ac-
cept the explanations given by the rail-
road men had no other plausible reas-
on to give. But 1t is certain that the
bill was desired. When the railroad
committee of the house, the same which
killed off the Hogue bill and which it
was asserted was railroad committee