Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-18
Next Legislature Will Be Re.
quested to Insert Clause For
Publishing Names
MUST BE LISTED AS. EMPLOYEES
Those Who Receive Passes from Rail-
way. as Such Will Have Their
Names Published in the List of
Railroad Men Receiving Favors from
the Companies.

Des Motntas, July lS.--Wlen the
anti-pass bill is offered in the next leg
islature 1t will have attached to it q
provision requiring the publication of
the names of those who apply to the
railroads to be listed as employed in
order to secure free transportation.
The railroads will be required by this
provision to report to the executive
council or the state railroad commits
sion the names Of all persons to whom
passes have been issued during the
preceding year. The bill as proposed
now will provide that the issuance OIL
all passes shall be prohibited. excep':
that railroad employees and their fam.
lilies may ride free. No one has any
disposition to prevent railroad en-.
ployes and their families from receiv..
ing passes.
But fearing that members Of the Leg
islature ana other public officers may
find it easy to class themselves as
railway employes-by becoming attor-
neys for companies, for instance-it
now is proposed to add section which
will compel publicity as to those. VIII,
do receive passes, and which publicity,
of course, will uncover all unhoiy al
liances Of the character mentioned.
The. state of washington recently
passed a law creating state railroad
commission, and tax commission,
which is empowered to pass on tie
railroad assessment of the state, and
as part of the railroad commission
bill an anti-pass bill was adopted. This
utterly prohibits the use OF free trans-
portation except as to employees of rail-
roads and their families.
John G. Lawrence, one OF the new
ly appointed members of the new COM
mission. of Washington, was in Dss
Moines yesterday and said that 1t is
proposed by the board of which he is
a, member to enforce this anti-pa IS
law stringently. ITO avoid public Off
GERS acting as employees of railroa Is
and therefore entitled to passes, said
Mr. Lawrence. I'VE shall require the
roads to report to US the names Of all
persons to whom free transportation Is
issued under this head and we will
publish their names. We believe that
it will remedy the evil which otherwise
might arise. f
Receives Discussion.
1t is learned from a member Of the
legislature that it is proposed to att
tach al provision of this kind to the
anti-pass bill which it is more than
likely will be passed by the coming
legislature in Iowa. The idea has been
discussed widely in Iowa among those
who have seen the loophole which has
been plain in every anti-pass bill SO
far offered in the assembly.
1t is also said that members of the
legislature, acting on the suggestion, in
part of the railroads, propose to intro
duce an amendment, also, specifically
prohibiting the issuance Of railr Dad
mileage to newspapers, on the theory
that the issuance of this mileage has
a, far greater effect on public seiati-
ment and in influencing members of
the legislature and other public officers
than does the direct issuance of pass
es.
Perhaps the evil OF. the pass is not
so great in ITSELF" said Mr.. Lawrence
yesterday to a group of public Off
GERS and members of the assembly at
the state house, 'but the evil comes
thru the acceptance OF the pass by the
Of the legislature, for instance,
and then his charging the. state for
ting money from the railroads for in
fuence and votes for them, but what
else IS the money that he collects for
in view of the free transpor-
tation on which he has ridden?"