Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-15
Third House" of the Iowa Legis-
lature Will Contain Many
Members This Winter
A WARM INSURANCE FIGHT
Proposed Change in the Life, Fire and
FraternaI Laws Will Bring Strong
Lobby = Railroads Will Fight Two
Cent Fare Bill = Rankin and sut-
frasists Will Be on Duty.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Dec 15.-Insurance
lobbyists and railroad lobbyists as
never before in many years. will flock
to Des Moines just prior to the open
ing of the legislature January IA. and
Will remain till the last hour Of the
bills that are now being prepared for
introduction at the opening session. I'm
addition to these there are measures
that will bring a hundred or more 9TH
er lobbyists of lesser light.
The insurance lobbyists will be
brought by the fact that an insurance
commission has been in session most
of the summer is about to file a re-,
port covering 400 or 500 pages and in
which will be recommended bills COW
er1ng many of the most important
phases of the insurance business life.
fraternal and fire. The proposition to
prohiblt deferred dividend policies
alone will bring every life insurance
lobbyist. One such has been in the
city all summer watching the action of
the commission. The proposition to
require a uniform fire insurance no,icv
will bring the fire men and the promo
sftlon to force the fraternals to raise
uheir rates VIII bring a swarm of fra
ternal men.
There are plenty of measures to
prong the railroad men. The two-cent
fare bill which is already partly drawn
and Is sure to be introduced. is enough,
In itself, but in addition to this there
Will be reciprocal demurrage bill. y
long and short haul BILL Joint rate
bill and an employers liability hin,
But little railroad legislation was I'M
for consideration at the last session
but there was a swarm of railroad
lobbyists here nevertheless This wear
the number will probably be doubled.
There was no insurance legislation of
magnitude at the last session and onlv
one or two lobbyists put in am appear
ance. They will all be here beginning
january IA or little before
A. c. Rankin, who wants the legis-
lature to enact law providing for
state marshals to enforce the LIQUOR
laws and who has been a disappointed
figure at the close of each session
Within the recollection of the present
generation, will be here next January
and it is safe to say will occupy the
same position at the close of the ses-
sion.
Along with Mr.. Rankin there will be
a host Of lesser lights that will swell
the membership of the "tl1ird house
There will be the same resolution to
submit to the people, the proposition
to allow women to vote, and it's adj
vocates will be here. A measure that
will bring politicians is the proposition
to redistrict the state, CON occasionally
and senatorially A tenure of office bill
providing for increasing the term of
office of all county officials from two
to four years, will also bring some
politicians in its favor.
1t is probable that the anti-fire
cracker bill introduced at the last ses-
sion by Representative Offill and which
he says he will introduce again at the
coming session will not bring any lob
byists. Some of the regular corpora
ton delegation brought here to look
after other matters will attend to the
fire cracker bill at the coming session.
1t is probably still unknown to Repre-
sentative Offill that Edward HI. Hunt
er, chief railroad and corporation lob
byists for iowa, is proprietor of the
New York Wall Paper Company of this
city "a company that does a large
wholesale business in fire crackers
Incidentally this may explain to some
the reasons for the anti-fire cracker
bill failing to pass at the last session
George B. Stewart. assistant United
States attorney for the southern dis
trict of Iowa, is expected to be present
to lobby against the passage of the in
determinate sentence law in the inter
ests of the factories of Fort Madison,
who object to the provisions of the bill
that will make Anamosa reformatory
and place all the better criminals there
and leave only the worst at Fort Madi-
son.
Experiment work in the stations
maintained by the state under the di-
rection and control of the State Hor-
ticultural Society will be continued
thru the coming year with renewed en-
ergy. The board of directors of she
society received and considered with
much pleasure the reports made on the
experiment work This is largely o.
technical nature and interests the nrc-
fessional fruit growers more than the
general public, but it is the belief OF
those in charge that the work is pro-
crossing in the direction of develop
ment of new varities of fruit of great
value. G. G. Patten, of Charles CITY,
was elected to succeed himself as
member of the supervising committee
ON experiment stations. C. L. Watrous,
of Des Moines, was elected an honor
arv or advisory member thereof. The
other members are NJ. G. Graham, Of
Adel: and Prof. S. A. Beach, of Ames.
The state now has five stations, name
ly the central station at the state coll
,ara and stations at Charles City,