Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-10

| ed every three years nave both been
/ placed on the calendar for special or
der for next week These two, with
the Lewis bill on quarterly statements
of state and savings banks. which
comes next Thursday, will make a full
| week of 1t.
The Brooks bill for cutting out
proxies In the election of the board of
directors of the department of agri-
culture has been reported for passage.
Two ex-members of the legislature
visited the house yesterday and both
were busy renewing old acquaintance.
IcXSpeaker Eaton was here to attend
the sessions of the supreme court
where he was Interested also in the
memorial services for the late Judge
| Ruddick. Mr.. Eaton occupied a chair
beside Speaker Clarke for portion
Of the time. w. G. Kerr, of Grundy,
was the other member. He served
two terms in the legislature and found
many warm friends among the present
| membership.
The bill for the assistance of Jacob
Sims, of Council Bluffs, was introduce
ed yesterday. Mr. Sims has been here
a good deal of the time buttonholing
MEMBERS The bill calls for an APP
preparation of $4,000 or so much as
may be necessary, to employ Mr.. Sims
as an aSsi,.n to the attorney gem
! eral in the matter of settling the old
! controversy as to who owns certain
/ land which belongs in loNa. but was
left over :n the Nebraska side in Oma-
ha. The state was induced to start
into this thing of recovering the land
for the benefit of certain wealthy
bankers of Council Bluffs on the as
surance that ii would never cost the
state anything.
Mr.. Cummings introduced the bill
to increase the maximum pay for the
commandant of the Soldiers Home
1 from $500 to $4,000 a year.
Mr.. Skinner of Union, is author of
a bin which seeks to establish state
classification or fire insurance risks to
4 take the place of the classification au-
thorized by the combine, and to forbid
determinations and rebates. 1t au-
thorizes the auditor to intake the class
|
classification in the state must be the
same all over the state.
The plan of having the state SUI
preme court reports copyrighted by
the clerk of the supreme court sas long
been discussed among lawyers of the
4 state A bill to effect this has been
! introduced. The clerk will copyright
all the reports and then issue weekly
a pamphlet containing the reports
4 and these to be sold to the LAWYERS.
At present the West Publishing Com
pany has a monopoly of the business
and takes the reports as fast as they
are issued without paying the state
anything.
The house promptly accepted an m
/ vitation on the part of the CONNER
4 cial club of Arnes to be their guests
I and to visit the state college ON Thurs
i day, February Is. The senate turned
it down. but probably will go at the
same time.
i Good-bye to the big firecrackers.
The house judiciary committee is
ready to vote for the Offil frecrackef
bill which limits the size of ire
cracker and prohibits certain and sun
i dry noise making inventions one
4 change was made in the bill, in that
dynamite canes We're taken out of the
list Of prohibited villanies and toy
cannons and toy pistols included.
There will be minority report to
| the house on the Wright bill to change
the rule of law in Iowa in regard to
! assumption of risk as between employ
err and employee in case of notice OF
defective machinery. The minority re-
port will be signed by Wright, Ken
j dali, Spaulding, Teter and others
which indicates that there will be a
hard fight made for the bill on the
floor of the house.
The committee on suppression of In
Temperance of the house yesterday
converted itself into a committee on
suppression of bills, and killed off sew
en- bills seriatum. Among these was
the Epperson bill to prevent placing 4
saloon within 200 feet of park, the
Bailey bill for license for G. o. d.
solicitors which bill has been declared
unconstitutional, and the Christensen
bill to do away with the nuisance OF
the 50-foot consent to the rear door
of the proposed saloon.
The Kennedy bill on tax penalties
has been acted on favoraby by a
house committee. 1t forbids any pen
alty or interest to be collected on
taxes or assessments remaining I'M
paid after four years or more from
the first day of the year in which the
tax books containing the same were
turned over to the collector or treas
urer, in special charter cities.
The house municipal corporations
committee has acted favorably on the
Cheney bill which gives city or town
council the option of having personal
notice served on resident property
owners instead of publication notice n
cases of contemplated street improve
| mentS.
FriehtfuIly burned.
/ Chas w. Moore, a machinist, of
Ford City. Pa, had his hand fright
fully burned in an electrical furnace.
He applied Bucklen's Arnica Salve
with the usual result: "a quick and
perfect cure" Greatest healer on
| earth for burns, wounds sores Ec-