Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-12
Judiciary Committee of the
Senate Turns Down Measure
Passed by House
THE SUBSTITUTE is SIMILAR
New Bill Does Away With Some of
the Red Tape in Gases Where It is
Permissible to Employ Children in
Factories-No Divorce Reform Lesis-
lation Is Likely.
[By Ora williams.l
. Times-Republican.

Special to Times-fsepublican.
Des Moines, March 12-The judiciary
committee of the senate has reported
for indefinite postponelnent the child
reported for passage in its place a
substitute bill which has been made
special order for March 13, tomorrow,
at 10 o'clock The bill passed the
house by good majority. The senate
substitute is in every way similar to
the house bill with the exception that
the red tape as to the reports of manu-
facturers and others employing chill
dren is simplified and to some extent
eliminated.
The senate has passed a bill to clear
up the titles to property over the state.
The bill was offered by Jamison and
provides in brief that We're the deed to
property had only the signature of the
husband and where the deed was issu-
ed prior to 1885, unless the wife files
within the next two years claim to a
dover interest in the property the title
will become clear by operation OF law
without action in court.
This general assembly seems to be
uncompromisingly opposed to any d.
vorce reform legislation and some peo-
pie are ungrateful enough to say that
it is due to the fact that the Judiciary
committees are composed OF lawyers
and then add: enough said" Two
years ago Senator Taylor had in bill
providing that the divorce decree should
not be signed and issued until year
after the granting of the divorce, thus
preventing divorce persons from re-
inside the state or outside
either within year. This year there
were bills introduced preventing the
persons divorced marrying within a
year unless they remarked each other.
Gilliland and Jones are advocates of
such a bill, but tho the bills are not
killed and are still in the hands of the
judiciary committee in the senate they
are confident they cannot be reported
out. When this became apparent Tay-
lor introduced his bill of two years
ago providing that the decree shall not
be signed till a year after the divorce,
thus in effect holding up the divorce
till twelve months has elapsed. 1t is
claimed this is the best measure, be-
cause the Divorces cannot marry any
body. Under the other measures while
they could not marry inside this state
unless they married each other they
would he divorced and could remarry
in other states. The committee the
very first day reported the Taylor bill
this year for indefinite postponement.
Senator Taylor had it referred in the
first place to the committee on the sup
preston of intemperance thinking it
stood better shoy in the hands of
some other committee than that made
UP of lawyers, but the committee on
the suppression of intemperance asked
that it be referred to the judiciary
Unless the committee
should forget itself or the ministers
and christian people of the state get
ousy on the divorce proposition like
they did on the Sunday theatre and
base ball bills the divorce reform seems
l long ways off.
Senator S. H. Harper will not he a
candidate for congress from the Sixth
district When the committee from
hat district came to Des ,Moines and
allied to persuade Auditor Carroll to
become candidate it turned it's at
ention to Senator Harper. According
% the custom of that district Senator
Harper has another term as senator
lue him and intends to ask for the re-
lection. Representative Kendall is al
10 being talked Of