Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-17
Republican,, 5uara1Ttnu 9mua, Frhr>arp II 1906

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person, transmit a statement contain
| ing all of the above information upor
a blank furnished by the commissions
of bureau of labor, statistics, by
mail, to said commissioner at his office
| at Des Moines."
A bill by MIR. Calderwood is of gen.
eral interest to the veterans of the
state and their wives. 1t provides that
any dependent wife of an honorably
discharged union soldier if married
prior to the year 1885 may be admitted
| to the Soldiers Home at Marshalltown
without her husband when he joins in
the application for her admission or
when she has been deserted by him
without fault on her part"
The house had delicate question of
parliamentary practice before it yes
terday. On the Wright assumption of
| risk bill the judiciary committee had
reported adversely and with it went a
! favorable report. A motion was made
| to lay the report of the minority on
the table and about the same time a
motion was made to fix special order
for considerable of the bill. The mo-
ton to lay on the table carried and the
opponents of the measure felt they had
finished the bill but the speaker held
that laying the minority report on the
table did not dispose of the bill at all,
and entertained the motion to fix a
special order. There was some protest
of ha r.111ino hnf if stood
He held that motion to lay on the
table carries with it all things per-
tanning to that which was laid on the
in this way. After dinned motion to
lay the bill on the table was carried.
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Warden Hunter of the Anamosa
penitentiary who stopped off here on
his way home from the south is heart
lily in favor of an indeterminate SEN
tence law and some years ago present.
ed to a state conference of the super
intendents very able and exhaustive
paper on the subject. He believes
however, in going the whole length
and providing that prisoner may be
kept in prison all his life if he proves
refractory and intractable.
The house judiciary committee today
placed upon the calendar with favor
substitutes for two good bills. One is
in relation to the assignment of wages,
and provides that wages not earned
cannot be assigned and also that as
signment and garnishment shall take
precedence in the order of written no.
tice on the employer. There is also a
provision in regard to the wife joining
in the assignment to make it valid.
The other is in regard to limit in
debtedness of cities for public inn
provements.
The wide tire bill will go to the
governor for his signature. There was
an interesting little discussion in the
house. Jones supported the bill in the
interest of good roads. McAllister in
sisted that if the farmers want wide
tired wagons they will get them with
out any law, and that where wide tires
are used with narrow ones there is
trouble. Efforts were made to amend
tie bill without effect. Mates said
that around Odebolt IS per cent of the
wagons have wide tires and their use
has improved the roads The bill pass
ed with SO votes.
The committee on public health has
recommended that the pay of the sec
rotary of the state board of health be
raised to s1,S00 a year.
The Offil firecracker bill as it has
finally passed the house and goes to
the senate provides that no person
shall manufacture, use, sell or keep for
sale within this state any toy pistol,
toy revolver or other toy f1rearm /,
caps containing dynamite, fire crack
ers, containing any explosive other
than black gunpowder, and exceeding
three and one-half inches in length
and three eighths of an inch in di-
ameter.'' The offense is that of mis-
demeanop.
BY request Mr.. McAllister introduce
ed in the house a bill requiring that
the local assessors assess the rural or
farmers telephone lines where they
are wholly within one county and no
toll is charged.
A bill introduced by Mr.. Wright in
geological survey to $4,000 year and
broadens the scope of the work SO as
to include conferences with members
of the national survey and work in
cooperation with this survey and with
the surveys of neighboring states
The house has passed the appro-
priation for railroad commissioners
maps This will pay for $4,000 of
these justly popular maps. The cost
will be $4,000. Some members favor
having a new map made, as the old
one is much out of date in many re-
spects, and an entire new map could
be made without great cost.
A bill by Mr.. Cummings gives cities
and towns power to condemn property
for dams in water courses and for sup
plying water for municipal use.
The concurrent resolution in regard
to Improvement Of the Upper Mississ-
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