Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-06
ISSUES ARE NOT
FORMED As YET
Leading Politicians Say There
Is No Political Talk of
Serious Moment
POSSIBLE LAWS SUGGESTED
General Assembly Of Iowa Will Find
Ample Material to Make the Session
Of the Usual Length, Despite Talk
Of Short Session for the Next legis-
lature-Other News.
POSSIBLE LAWS SUGGESTED
oecial to Times. Republican.

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Des Moines, May 6.-Newspapers
| that every now and then complain be-
cause there is political talk even tho
| the biennial election law is in force
are nlistaking the substance for the
real thing. According to well inform
ed men, who IL there was campaign
on would occupy the center of the
stage, there really is no political talk
of candidates to any extent that is OF
any serious moment. They admit
that there is a, little as for instance
when Fred N. Kretschmer was in the
city the other day and stated that he
was an avowed candidate for state
shaping of issues The next session
of the legislature Is eight months
away and considerably nearer than
| the campaign. 1t can be said of the
issues that they are only shaping
| themselves and are not formed as yet.
But although there has been talk of
~ SIiUIl SSSSlOll lOA liiS lSAt iCSis
ture IL the general assembly wishes
to do so, 1t will find ample material
to engage its attention to make the
session of the usual length. A large
number of possible laws have already
| been suggested and by the time the
| legislature is in session there will be
a great many times as many.
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| Here are q few bills that have al
ready been suggested: Primary cleo
| ton law, anti-pass law, law prohibit
1 ing bankers loaning themselves mon
| ey, new Incorporation laws, new tres
pass law for railroads, uniform In
surance policy law. law prohibiting in
! termarriage of races, additions to ju .
venile court law, bill to manufacture
! Irvine at the penftentiary. more legis-
lation on subject of vital statistics,
| Weeks liquor law, Rankin's mar
shals law, legislation suggested by
| the state bar on assessments and tax
alton, state issuance of policies to
| school teachers.
These are not all that have been
suggested thus far and are but the
lmore important ones suggested. Thels
will Of course be the usual hord OF
bills for all sorts OF minor matters
and the remedying of defects in bills
now in force and the recommendations
Of state officials. A great many of the
bills are Of very great Importance and
| will command a great deal of time to
get in shape for presenting to the two
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some legislation that will undoubtedly
be given great deal of attention at
the hands of the legislature and of
course the primary election Dill ard
| the anti-pass bills will be debated Wig
orollsly before finally passed.
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Martin May, who has been paroled
| after a service in the penitentiary VI
| eleven years and q half is said to have
presented the strongest petitions ard
| influence for parole of any man who
has asked for one. Judge John l. Ney
| of Iowa City who tried the case, ana
| Attorney Charles Il. Hanson, OF lnde-
pendence, who was county attorney at
the time, each said they would not
| object If full pardon were granted.
| The word and recommendation OF the
Judge and county attorney have al
ways the greatest weight in the mat
ter Of granting paroles. Martin May
killed his wife In Aurora on the de-
not platform of the Chicago, Great
Western, October 10, 1898. According
to the evidence in the possession OF
the governors office Mays wife was
in the habit of drinking heavily and
| going to Dubuque on long sprees. On
one or two occasions she took the ltt-
tie girl with her. May paid her fines
and got her out of trouble on numer=
GUS occasions and being Catholic
refused 10 get a divorce. He thought
there was no escape from living with
her and put up with her debauchery
till she took one of the girls to Du-
buuue. Then he told her that if she
ever did the like again he would kill
her and meeting her with the little
girl about to take the train again for
Dubuque he shot her dead.
May was foreman on the Great
Western. They lived at Aurora where
he was a hard working man. Rev.
Patrick S. O'Connor bearing the en-
dorsements of Governor Larrabee and
Senator A. G. Wilson interceded in
behalf OF May with the governor and
both of the daughters asked for his
parole. One of the daughters, Mrs.
Margaret Donahue, now lives in Oel-
vein.
There will be considerable worrying
in the state of Iowa on Saturday till
the governor returns from Chicago or
gets safely out of the strike district.
The governors address Saturday at
ternoon is to be delivered at the Aud
itorium during the afternoon. The
Auditorium is in the center Of the
| strike territory and 1t Is reported in
the accounts of the transfers strike
there that the strikers are in the hab-
| 1t of pulling people from their car
riages If they are suspicious that they
are sympathizers with the EMPLOYERS.
| There is of course only a bare posi-
bility that the governor will suffer vio-
| lenee in any way. Those whose guest
he will be on the occasion will un-
| doubtedly see that he reaches the Au-
ditorium in safety and as the address
| is to be delivered to a large audience