Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-24

held them back purposely to await the
sitting committee. The resolution for
the appointment of sitting committee
provides that all bills in the hands of
committees. with the exception of APP
preparations bills, be sent at once to
the Slfung committed If the resolu-
ton passes, as it is supposed it will,
the blils Will stream out of the COM
mlttee rooms to the sitting committee
| Inc senate committee on ways and
4 means held hearing yesterday after
noon on the exemption bill. While
/ members of the grocers organizations
We're present the principal amount of
time was taken up with hearing the
labor leaders in opposition to the bill.
The claim of the labor organizations
lis that under the present system where
| it is next to impossible to garnishee a
workingmans wages the credit system
is held down much to the advantage of
the poorer class of workmen who are
not good financiers and the grocers and
others are forced to withhold credit
and sell for cash only which prevents
| the laboring man from running up bills.
| Secretary Perry of the miners union,
| stated that his organization took care
| of these people when they We're in
need and could not get credit. Under
| a system. of garnishee these leaders
claim the stores will extend credit to
Tall and the poor financiers amount the
worlhingmen will soon be hopelessly
| in debt which will encourage them in
| quitting their jobs secretly and going
elsewhere and being generally shift
| less.
The senate yesterday devoted the
entire morning to minor bills deferring
the Saunders indeterminate sentence
law till afternoon because of the fall
ure to get copies of the bill. In the
afternoon Saunders in an able address
explained the purpose of the law ana
Molsberry took the floor in opposition
to it, the senate adjourning with Sena-
tor Molsberry on the floor and he open
ed the discussion this morning.
feature of the undertakers' bill
which caused much discussion in the
house Yesterday and which compelled
postponement of consideration, was one,
which forbids embalmers making use
of arsenic or other specified poisons
in the preparation of embalming fluids.
Attention was called to the fact that
IN numerous cases where it has been
necessary to hold an autopsy TO disclose
the cause of death the presence or pols-
ons administered in the emoalmins
fluid has prevented any fair examlna-
ton.
The committee on retrenchment ana
reform went to work yesterday. Inns
is a statutory joint committee COM
nosed of the chairman of three leadlns
committees in each house, ana the
committee is charged with the duty OF
preparing the resolution winch Is pass
ed each session, fixing the pay Oh var
ions clerks and subordinates In the OF
fees in the state house. The commit
tee visits each office and considers the
needs of each one and reports oiii
which fixes the pay of nifty or more
persons. The committee also recon-
mends as to any matters which require
legislation affecting the ordinary az
fairs of the state.
When Mr.. Wright called UP his bill
Yesterday to raise the pay of iesls-
iators from $3.50 per session TO Sion
he suggested that it was supposed
when the bill was introduced that the
anti-nass bin would have been by this
time LAW. This was more in jest
than otherwise, for he insisted mat .he
nav of legislators is too little and this
assembly is best fitted for deaills WIN
the question because OF so lew pian-
ming to come back. Temple took ms
cue from Wright's remarks ana OPP
posed the bill. He said he was glao
to learn even in this way, the legls-
lative estimate on the value OF the
passes the members get. Il 90 noe
see, he added, "how we can make
show of virtue by giving up the passes
we all, or most of us, have en]ovea
for so long, and then ask the state 10
paw us $4,000 in lieu thereof In ADDED |
nav" Doran said he could not SUD
scribe to the theory advanced by Tem-
pie that it is all right for members to
get part of their pay from the state anc I
part from the railroads, for he had re-
Gently witnessed the effect of thus d.
viding responsibility. He cited case
in which a bill had been agreed upon
nv one member and two railroad at
torneys and was Immediately passed,
the other 149 members of the assembly
having nothing to do with
IT. Only six voted that legislators are
underpaid. If the bill had called for
81 900 per session, as many have desired
and all agree would be fair, it would
have received more votes.
The officers of the State Horticul-
tural Society have made an effort to
have set off to them and for their use
by legislation the room which the So
ciety now occupies and also the small
room which has been for few years
used as the office of the custodian and
of the capitol commission. The bill mas,
however. been recommended for killing.
The disposition of members is to not 3
nut II into the statute books that
these rooms shall be reserved Tor the
horticulturists; but the latter fear that
ait any time they may have to give UP
the. rooms, as they did for several
years. Already there is pressing de-
mand that room be set apart some
where for the insurance department OF
the state auditors office, and this is
certainly much needed. At one time
an effort was made to get the horti-
cultural room for the attorney general,
but he with his assistant and two stem
I,