Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-05
COMMITTEES MAKE PROGRESS
Anti Pass Bills and the Primary EIec-
ton Law Will be Pushed to Compile
ton and May be- Reported-A Num-
Der of Important measures to Come
in Both Houses.
IBy Ora yvilliams.1

" SSNSASAA "
the front. This was clearly made APP
parent today by the action of some OF
the committees. There is every indi-
cation that there will be some hard
work done by the railroad committee
which has in hand the anti-pass bills
and that the elections committee of
the senate will get busy too on the
primary law. There is to be an effort
to get the Weeks resolution out OF
committee and in addition to this there
is likely to be the fight on the bill to
permit new trials in criminal cases
Where there is newly discovered evil
dence. The bill has gone on the call
endar and cannot help but come up and
Shirley Gilliland is cooked and prim-
ed to make a fight for it's passage,
while Saunders will fight with Dowell
to kill it. There is likely to be brought
up this week two new bills that will
arouse opposition. One is the bill to
| prohibit delivering samples to door
| steps and the other is a bill requiring
doctors who put up their own sub
scriptions to take an examination as
pharmacist.
Special Charter Cities.
Senator Crawford of Dubuque denies
that the railroads are in any way back
of his bill to make the section of the
code relative to the asSessible value of
property being 20 per cent of it's real
value applicable to special charter cit
les. In connection with the introduce
ton of the bill some Of the special
charter cities became worried and there
| is talk atloat that there is scheme
TO abolish special charters for cities
entirely. Senator Crawford let it slip
| that business men had told him the
Especial charters ought to be abolished.
| He denied, however, that the bill was
anything more than an attempt to
make the law clear. The railroads
fought the cities that assessed the
property at its full value" said Sena-
roads lost their case and in Cedar
Rapids they lost. Then in the appeal
to the supreme court the court was
equally divided on the case and both
lower courts We're affirmed. There
was no chance thru the courts of ever
getting the thing Strengthened out. Now
in these cities the bulk of the prop
erty is assessed at it's full value but
the railroad property at but one
fourth. This is unfair. My bill makes
the law relating to assessments appl1-
cable to these special charter cities.
The same thing could have been ac-
complished by making it not applicable
and one method would be about as
good as another. II the law We're not
applicable these cities could assess
railroads at the full value the same
as other property and the thing would
be equitable. Special charter cities 90
not have any advantages that other
cities do not particularly. They work
under a little different arrangements
but are no better off than regularly
incorporated cities. All this excite
ment about losing their charters is
groundless so far as I hi We known.
The wide tire bill that mas passed
the house has been reported out of
committee in the senate and so has
fair chance to pass.
Comforts for Jury.
The judiciary committee of the SEN
ate has reported favorably on the bill
giving petit jurors beds. The custom
of the past has been to keep jury up
till it decided case. Some times
this meant two or three days. The sup
position seemed to be that after case
had been given to jury it should be
allowed to do nothing but eat till it
decided. This bill provides that a dis
trict Judge can order beds for the jury
if he thinks advisable. If he takes a
notion that the Jury is soldering on
him and stringing out the matter of
coming to decision in order to get
the per diem and board he can refuse
the comforting bed.
Patent Medicine Lobby.
A lobby of patent medicine men will
likely now descend on the legislature.
Two bills are up, one In the senate
and one in the house providing that
patent medicine must tell on the out
side Of the bottle what is on the in
side. The senate bill is the work of
DR.. Young of Calhoun, who is the
chairman Of the committee on public
health. Besides this bill he has up his
sleeve a bill to prohibit the distribu
ton of sample medicines, salves and
the like on doorsteps where children
and pet animals are likely to get hold
Of them and poison themselves. The
Young bill is mostly in the first two
sections which are as follows:
Every proprietary drug or medicine
shall be clearly labeled in black, open,
Gothic letters on a white background.
showing the name and percentage of
the contained constituents and such
label shall be affixed to each and every
pactage. carton. box or bottle, con-
taining such drug or medicine. Methyl
alcohol shall be deemed a poison and
its sale shall be subject to the limita-
tons of the poisonous drugs placed
under schedule 3 of section 1893 chap
ter is, title - Of the code" The en-
fo-cement of the bill Is placed in the
hands Of the state pharmacy board.
The house bill IS somewhat more
drastic. 1t provides that each package
shall be clearly labeled In Gothic type
Of not less than eight point, and that
every medicine or drug containing
per cent of wood alcohol, per cent of
morphine herion cocaine, salts. chlor-
al hydrate. belladonna, cotton root, or
ergot shall be labeled in red letters
Poison" The enforcement Of this
bill IS placed with the state board Of
health.
United States Senators.
Governor Cummins has received a |
request from the Cleveland Press ask
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