Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12
Old SOLDIERS
Bill OPPOSED
Measure to Give Veterans Pref
erence In Public Service
Proyokes Much Debate
MUCH OPPOSITION is SHOWN
Senate After Discussing the PROPOSE
ton Defers Final Action-Money
Appropriated for Inspection of Poor
Houses-Hll to Limit Hours of
Service on Railways.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, March 12.-The senate
spent much time today discussing the
bia to provide for preference for old
soldiers in the public service. An ef-
fort was made to amend it. but failed,
and then to refer ii. but the biH was
finally laid over, after sharp debate,
in which ut was disclosed there was
much opposition.
THE senate today passed the bill to
appropriate $4,000 for removing st.
Louis buildings when the fair Is over;
and appropriating $4,000 for inspection
of county poor houses. The house made
the road bills a special order for next
Wednesday, English introduced IN the
house a bill to limit the hours of con-
tinuous service on railroads. The house
passed only minor bills today
sss
1t was supposed by many that the
bill to abolish the railroad commits
sioners of Iowa was all joke an 4
that the bill would merely be consignei
to a committee where it would remain
in a pigeonhole. But the past few
days number Of persons have be-
come somewhat concerned over the
matter and are worried for fear thu
bill is going TO get out on the floor OF
the senate and be a matter of discus
sion. Ii is now expected that the bill
Will be reported out for passage ana
that while 1t may not be passed 1t VIII
call forth some of the spieiest discus
sion of the session. Ii Is said there
are persons we'll loaded with INFORMED
tion on the subject who are just ach-
ing for n chance 10 tell whole lot
of things about the enforcement oi
railroad laws in the state and this bill
viii give them the opportunity.
The discussion OF the road law in the
house was not as interesting as might
have been expected. 1t was remarke
by number that those who Were
speaking against the present roads law
We're, in some cases trying to invent
excuses for their attitude. The OBJ
jections to the present road law We're
declared to be, that it wouldn't work,
that it's trustees cannot find men to
take the contracts or for employment,
that in many places the farmers pre-
fer the working out" system, and
because no permanent good roads have
resulted from the law. On the othe.
hand it is pointed out that the new
law has not yet had its day and that
in a majority OF cases where II is vot-
ed failure the local authorities have
either not tried to make it succeed OF
boS Ia to "
of the opposition to the law came froul
new members.
The week just closed has not been ;.s
fruitful of results with the legislature
as some of the other weeks. The trip
TO Ames broke the week in two and
other things have interfered. AT ths
same time there are many of the mem-
bers who are suffering from the pre-
vailing form of the grip and fast work
is not being done.
Only three of the pardon cases re-
main to be heard by the two commit
tees having charge of this important
work; after which the committees will
begin to grind out their recommends
tions and decide what shall be done
With the fifteen who are asking re-
lease.
Students of parliamentary law might
set themselves to a study of the pro-
cesses by which the bill to appropriate
for the st. Louis exposition commits
sion has been got back where it may
be amended or changed, or where the
ins I.1fD if,ly ,,t tn
begin tinkering. The various steps in
the journey may be stated as follows:
report OF special joint committee Feb.
H. with bill introduced appropriating
10000; bill reported from committee
to senate Feb. "A. passed senate with
four votes against Feb. %; niassaged
to house; sent to appropriations COM
mittee; reported TO house; passed with
only one negative vote Feb. 81; sent TO
senate enrolling committee; report
properly enrolled: joint enrolling com
nittee reported thereon March 2. sign
ed by secretary of the senate; sent to
house and signed by clerk Of the house
and Speaker Clarke March 3 sent to
senate for signature of lieutenant gov
ernor; signature withheld by request
OF Il member: senate recalls bill for
further consideration March A fore
noon: motion in house to reconsider but
speaker held it out of order; in after
noon of same day motion to recall from
The senate carried; same day motion
10 reconsider was carried; bill return
ed to senate then 10 house and sent to
house committee on appropriations
March 10; senate voted to recall from
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