Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-02-23
Bill
UP FOR DEBATE
Warm Discussion of the Meas
ure Asked For BY the
Retail Merchants
MEErs wIrH MUCH DEPOSITION
A Number of Members Severely Score
tho Bill as Monaco to the Wage
s:arner-state MarshaIs Bill Given a
Hearing in Committee Today-othor
Legislative News.

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/ Special to Times Rel publican.
Des Moines. Feb. 23-The exemption
bill asked for by the retail merchants
/ was discussed in the house this morn
! ing and brought out the hottest debate
| OF the session. The opposition to the
bill had its innings Mr.. Jepson de-
1 nounced the bill as the most infamous
and damnable measure yet introduced
and step backward toward the dark
ages and most dangerous. Wright de-
nounccd the bin as class legislation and
/ dishonest. in that it would take par.
( OF laborer's earnings by direction and
/ part indirectly. Kendall declared II to
/ be the lnsidious beginning of an attack
on all that Iowa has guaranteed to the
wage earners. He also read from u
| trade journal the threats of the asso-
citation back of the bill as TO the ce-
| feat of all who opposed the measure.
| 11tttt 0GSldlCN Nudl itOl u COuIu
| be collected under the bill by Legitimate
methods. Green, the author, defended
| the bill and said it was for It's moraa
effect and 1t was not to be put In oper-
alton except In rare cases. Weeks said
II was not objected to by any honest
laboring man. The debate was not
completed at noon and was resumed at
1880 p. m.
In the senate Courtright's bill to
permit the Waterloo city council to
create new ward was passed. The
Brooks bill to forbid the discharge OF
firearms on public highways was
taken UP.
The house committee on suppression
OF intemperance gave a hearing today
on the bill to establish a system of dis
trict marshals for the especial duty OF
enforcing the prohibition law OF the
state. The hearing was arranged
for the ministers OF the gospel
who desired to speak on the
measure A large number of them ar
rived in tine city to appear before the
committee, tho only a few could speak
because OF the limited time given to
committee work a. c. Rankin. the
father OF the movement. engineered the
argument to the committee. and he is
more able than anyone else to talk in
persuasive manner on the merits Of the
scheme. He Is not confident OF the
passage Of the bill but insists on agi
tating the matter as much as possible
for its effect later. 1t appears that the
entire hope OF getting the bill out on
the floor OF the house is by the votes Of
four democratic members OF the COM
nrittee. who will only vote to recon-
mend the bill for passage as a partisan
trick to embarass republican members
of the house. AS the democratic
members are not disposed to do very
much OF this kind OF work 1t Is re-
garded as doubtful II the bill gets to
the floor Of the house. The advocates
OF the bill are almost openly urging II
upon some members as means to
create political complications in the
state. The bill is not urged. however.
by the temperance interests OF the
state nor those back of the prohibition
movement so much as by few who
have gone into this one movement and
have formed clubs.
s>ss
The bill to appropriate for monu-
nrent to be erected to the memory OF
Gen. Joseph NJ Stree, and Chief Wa
pello is pending in the senate. 1t is
proposed that the state erect a monu-
ment or two OF them. and that private
contributions purchase the site of the
old agency building near the town OF
agency where Gen. Street had head
quarters. The graves of the two are
very close to the main line OF the Bur-
linrton railroad, and the company
owns a plot Of ground near the graves.
/, is believed that If the state would
erect monuments and acquire the old
agency building. provision would be
made locally fer caring for the prop
erty. Gen. Street was great friend
of the Indians and it was the last re-
quest OF Chief Wapello. the last OF the
chiefs OF Iowa, that he be buried be-
side Gen. Street AT that time head
quarters were In southeastern Iowa
and Agency was an important town in
the new state.
The state board of control finds that
the experiment of making use OF fe-
male nurses in the state hospitals al |
most to the exclusion of male nurses is
quite success. Formerly it was sup
posed that woman had no business st |
all in or around a state hospital where
insane men are kept and that only |
male attendants and nurses were
available for this work. DIR. Crum
the new superintendent at In
dependence. is a progressive man and |
has been quietly effecting a number of
reforms. There is what ts called |
Grove hall" at Independence hospital I
where there are 100 men kept. They /
are the old men and feeble insane and |
those who are perfectly harmless but
generally incurable. While this was
for many years in charge of male at I
tendants there are now eight or ten |
female nurses in full charge. A re-
cent visitor there states that the whole
place has been changed by these wo- !