Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-02
The House Amends the Child
Labor Bill So as to Include
Mercantile Houses
LIMITED TO LARGE STORES
Amendment Provides That Children
May Not be Employed in Stores
Where More Than Ten Persons ars
Employed - The Automobile Bill
Passed.
Special to Times-Repubiican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. March 2.-The house
took up the child labor bill today ard
considered it for an hour. The bill as
amended by the senate came before the
house and one of the first things done
was to reinstate In the bill the clause
including mercantile establishments us
one of the places where children should
not be employed and limiting it to as-
Establishments having ten or more per-
sons employed. This strikes at the de-
partment stores. An effort to exempt
quarries failed. The discussion WAS
not finished, but was made a special
order for tomorrow morning.
The house passed the bill regulating
the running of automobiles. The sen.
ate passed the bill to provide for early
trial of contested election cases, and
the bill to protect wage earners from
garnishnent across state lines; also
passed the appropriation for the de-
felt in the supreme court contingent
fund and the bill to appropriate for ex-
amining Of private and county insane
hospitals, the bill to require the coun.
ty clerks to give notice to the supreme
court of disbarn1ent and the resolution
defining the duties Of the labor com
missioner. A new garnishment exe,np-
tion bill was introduced by Weeks, pr,o-
viding for a fat exemption Of $40 from
wages subject to garnishment.
Hon. NJ e. Kendall. of Abba, in sup
porting the bill TO give preference In
adj public employment in Iowa TO the
soldiers and sailors OF the civil war
delivered the following eloquent ad-
dress:
"As understand this bill 1t is simple
in it's phraseology and In It's purpose.
1t proposes that in the administration
of the public Affairs preference be ex-
tended to honorably discharged soldiers
and sailors OF the civil war It is
scarcely necessary for me to say dn
this presence that this measure has
my cordial Endorsement. But permit
stood by an open grave wherein was
committed ITO eternal repose all that
was mortal OF faithful private SOL
dier in the historic war for the union.
The Grand Army OF the Republic, of
which he had been jealous member,
conducted the pathetic ceremonies ac-
cordiyrg to the beautiful ritual Of that
organization. He was left to his last
unbroken sliniher in his wIndowless
palace OF rest wearing Upon his coat
the bronze button Of honor, upon his
breast the badge of his hast regtrnental
reunion, while over all and embracing
all were the sacred folds of the stain
less flag which he loved so we'll. His
life had been very humble, but 1t had
been wholly honorable. He had not
made his career memorable by distin-
guishesl public servdce: burt he had rem
dered it resplendent by hts generosity
of heart, by his integrity OF purpose,
by his perfect fidelity to friends and
country. His closing days Were racked
with cruel pain; but thru 1t all he dis
played the philosophdc complacency,
the accomplishing patience, the heroic
fortitude. OF the true soldier. And when
the ultimate hour OF dissolution came,
when the inevitable messenger with the
inverted torch beckoned him to depart.
he did not resist he did NOT repine; but
calmly folding his wasted hands across
his weary breast, he lapsed into that
sweet and dreamless sleep which shall
be awakened only ait the Judgment day.
Thus. Mr.. Speaker, passed from this
earth, and from all it's activities, my
own father late OF Company C, Etgh-
teenth Iowa Volunteer infantry In
his life and in his death he was typ
ical Of more than seventy thousand of
her gallant sons, whom 'this splendid
commonwealth of ours contributed to
preserve this government of the people,
by the people and for the people, and
to adjudicate forever by the arbitra-
should not perish but have everlasting
life. 1t affords me infinite satisfaction
to remember, gentlemen, that in that
supreme crisis which Wrenehed and
almost wrecked the republic, our own
peerless Iowa sustained no inconspic-
uous part and achieved no ineonsider-
able renown. Her brave boys in blue
were on every tedious march, nm every
sweltering trench, on every bloody bat
tlsfeld; always the first to the front
and the last to the rear And they
did not sheathe their swords nor stack
their guns until the last armed enemy
OF the union had Internationally sur
rendered They conquered. Open
treason at the south, covert disloyalty
at the north--Without a precedent and
without a parallel was the insurrection
which they suppressed. And them when
the cause of freedom had finally tri
umphed, when the spirit Of rebellion
was completely vanquished. when the
irrdivisbility Of the states was ilrre
vocably established, they discarded the
uniform they had made Immortal, sub
stituted the implements of peace for
the arnfarnents Of war and modestly
returned to the employments of civil
citizenship, But the nearly four decades
which have interyened since Appona-