Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-19
PURE FOOD LAW UNDER FIRE
Assertion kad' That It Shuts Outside
Wholesalers Out Of Iowa
LAWYERS ATTACK THE Jury LAW
n Contention IL Held Good IL VIII In
validate Large Amount Of
work Performed by
the Courts.


DDS MONIES Dec. 1S-(Special)-An ef-
fort will be made to have the pure food
law repealed at the next session OF the leg
stature OF at least to have it radically
amended. 1t Is asserted by agents OF
grocery houses outside the state that the
operation Of the law Is such as to force
the grocery retailer to buy all his goods
from an Iowa wholesaler. The law provides
that a grocer can require of a wholesaler,
inside the state, a written guarantee that
the goods are according to the pure food
law and holding the wholesaler liable to
ull fines and penalties that may be visited
on the retailer If they are not. This pro-
vision can be made to apply only to Iowa
wholesalers. and hence the tendency Of the
Iowa retailer to buy of the Iowa whole
saler. Omaha and Rock Island wholesalers
md others think this Is discrimination. II
s believed by some that the Iowa law and
similar laws from other states is respou-
sble for the fact that Sears Roebuck d Co.
Of Chicago, a mail order house. has an
nounced that it will go out Of the grocery
business January l.
Lawyers Want RetrinI
In an effort to get rehearings in a num-
Der of important suits. Polk county lawyers
will bring an action to test the validity
of the methods that have been used in
drawing juries and grand juries. Recently
Alderman J. l. Hamery went to the court
house, and, placing the names Of the
grand jurors in the box, drew the names
out in the same order five times in sue
ccssiou. Witnesses saw him do it, and
these will be dragged into court to show
how It was done. The lawyers will also
attempt to prove that the names Of the
jury panel are not sealed, as required by
law, and that it is possible for anyone
gaining access to the box where the jury
panel ballots are kept to doctor them as
they please, substituting other names for
those in the box. If the court decides
with the attorneys 1t may invaldate law
cases for years back. Lawyers who have
lost important suits are anxious to have
the court decide in their favor in order
to get new trials.
RequIsItIon for DuTy.
Governor Cummins today on the applica-
! ton of the authorities of Winneshiek
county made a requistion on the governor
! Of Illinois for Ambrose Duffy, now under
arrest at Moline, Ill, and wanted in Win
| neshiek county for breaking and entering
the Catholic parsonage in DEBORAH and as
] saulting Mrs. II. S. Bulls. The assault
| is alleged to have taken place September
80, 1906.
Commissioners Not Here.
| The insurance legislative commission has
not reached the city and no word has
/ been had from the chairman, Senator
Jamlson, as TO the date of the next meet
| ing. The report has not yet been filed
with the state auditor and the law, which
| has been interpreted as being dlrectorial
| says 1t must be filed December / at the
| latest Senator Jamson has been one OF
| the attorneys in the Dunning case at
| Mount Ayr and his time has been taken
! with that case. 1t is expected by Secre-
tary Byrkit that the commission will meet
tomorrow or the day after and conclude
and file the report in day or two Tho
only question at issue practically now Is
that of deferred dividends.
Richards Want Parole.
! w. S. Richards, ex-deputy United States
marshal for southern Iowa, now serving
an eighteen-year sentence in the peniten-
tiary for robbery at Hamilton, Ia, will
ask Governor Cummins for a pardon. The
petition has not yet reached the governor
but 1t is understood that efforts will be