Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-07
SMITH Bill MAY FAIL
Theft of the Bill From House
Committee May Be Cause
of Its Death
SENATE TO RECONSIDER 1T
Temperance Forces Fear Senate May
Reverse Its Position on the Second
Trial-Sunday Base Ball Not Like
Iy to Be outIawed-News of LesisIa-
ture.
SENATE TO RECONSIDER i
[By Ora willlams.l
Special to Times-Republicar.

[By Ora W1lliamS.l
Special to Times Republican
Des Moines, March Just what the
senate will do with the Smith bill, re-
curing the circulation of petitions of
consent in all cities of the state every
five years. is a question that is being
asked. 1t will be remembered that the
bill passed the senate and went over
to the house, where the committee
recommended the bill for passage and
then discovered that the real bill was
lost and one of the substitute bills that
was defeated was in its place. 1t then
der to keep the record straight to move
reconsideration of the bill in order to
get correct copy before the house, as
The first bill could not be found. SEN
ator Smith, of Mitchell, the author of
the BILL moved the recall of the bill.
Senator Smith fears that the bill, when
it comes to be resubmitted to the sem
ate for a vote, will be defeated DR..
McCash, secretary of the Anti-Saloon
League, believes that the bill will pass.
He believes the saloon forces purloined
the bill in order to hinder it's enact
ment, but says that the senate cannot
refuse to pass the same measure, for
the reason that If any vote against it
now who voted for it before, they be-
come parties criminal to the first act
of purloining. Some of the friends of
the measure, however, have grave
fears that the bill will be killed in the
senate this time.
Baseball Bill Doomed.
The Sunday baseball bill is doomed.
While the members of the judiciary
committee slept and while the senate
was paying little attention, the bill
got thru the committee with a favor
able recommendation and even passed
the senate. Then the league baseball
teams got busy. 1t was discovered in
addition that the exercises on Sunday
and entertainments of the German
Turner's Societies of Davenport and
elsewhere were affected by the bill All
the cities where there are league base
ball teams are anxious Under the
guise that the bill needed amending, the
bill was recalled and all the votes by
which it was passed were reconsidered.
The senators have heard from home"
on the measure, which was passed in
such hurry the first time, and they
were glad to reconsider the bill. Some
were opposed. Senator Dowell, who
has a team of the Western League in
his own town, was very anxious for
time and feared that there would not
be the reconsideration. 1t became Sc
rious. During the debate to recon-
slider, Bleaikly strongly opposed the
move, saying that the bill had been
passed with cool deliberation and was
a good measure, protecting the people
who liked Sunday quiet. He spoke of
the petitions that had poured into the
senate favoring the measure, and then
Dowell called his attention to the fact
that he had introduced some other Pc
titions during the session. but had re-
pudiated the petitioners. He, Of course,
referred to the primary matter, and
Bleal1ly, so understanding it, answered.
He said the other petition referred to
five federal matters concerning which
he had no control: to one matter, the
anti-pass bill, which he favored and
which he had made special order
and would vote for, and to the pri
mary bill, and on that he had voted for
the best primary bill that had been
offered this session.
Senator Smith. Of Mitchell, yesterday
got the reconsideration Of the bill linn
iting the admittance Of patients to the
Knoxville inebriate asylum which. was
defeated some days ago. and got the
bill passed with the second clause
omitted. The second clause gave dis
trict court Judges discretion to send
only those Of whom there was hopes
Of cure The law now merely holds
up the warrants Of commitment after
the place is filled until there is room
for more, when they are admitted in
the order Of their commitment.
Salary Raised.
The senate yesterday passed the bill
raising the salary Of Superintendent
Fitzgerald, at Mitchellville, to $1,000;
passed the concurrent resolution for
joint session Of the houses Thursday
for memorial exercises in honor Of ex-
Speaker Henderson; passed the Rob-
inson bill relating to investment by in
surance companies of funds outside the
state; passed the bill paying a higher
rate for publication Of the session laws;
passed a law ordering 1000 copies of
the supreme court docket printed in
stead of 1000; passed the law fixing
penalty for misleading the test of
milk and cream; appropriated $50 for
repairing the orphans monument at
Cedar Falls.
College Railway.
Senator Jamison yesterday intro
duced a bill permitting the trustees of
the state college to grant permission
to the Iowa Central Railway to run its
line thru the college grounds; Saun-
ders introduced bill prohibiting per-
sons from wearing the insignia of Sc
cret societies Of which they are not
members or to which they are not
entitled; Taylor has introduced in the
senate bill providing that if a judge
grants divorce the decree cannot be
entered till one year after the hearing
of the case. II the divorce is refused
the decree can be entered at once;
Lewis has introduced bill giving the
state auditor supervision over private
banks.