Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-01-09
HUGHES NOT
CONFIDENT
ANTI-PAss PIONEER THINKS BILL
WILL FAIL AT PRESENT
SESSION
REFORM IDEA POPULAR
Many Of the Members Of Both Houses
Are in Favor Of Law Prohibiting
the Charging Of Mileage When
Passes Are Used - Movement for
Rate Legislation.

AAooAiSo VI VIVA SOuiiLy says IlldO LlOy
will have to show him. He may not
be from Missouri but he will have to
see the vote on the anti,pass bill be-
fore he will believe that the measure
will pass this legislature, even. Yet
the general impression is that the bill
will pass and that there will be foot
race to see who will vote for the meas
ure first. And there may be several
bills offered.
There are others who have some
doubt about the sincerity of many who
are now talking for the bill and they
believe that it is doubtful if the meas
ure will pass, though an inquirer
would conclude that the whole mem
bership was for the anti-pass bill to
hear the members talk.
The fear that these friends Of the
measure express as to the outcome of
the anti-pass bill. contest Is groundless.
Careful inquiry reveals the fact that
while there may be those who have
been opposed to the measure who now
express themselves in favor of it, it
is not for the purpose of misleading
people. And while many Of these will
support the measure because they
think it useless to oppose it rather
than because they actually are for it,
nevertheless there are enough who be-
lieve the time has come for the law to
insure it's passage
There are many men in the legislat-
ure who do not believe in charging
the state for mileage when they ride
on passes, and plainly there is a re-
form movement on, for in years not
very distant in the past it was con-
sidered quite the thing.
Doran on Rates.
Representative Doran of Boone coun-
ty disclosed fact here yesterday
which was not generally known at the
last session Of the legislature. AT
that time he carried during the latter
half of the session bill providing for
the establishment of very materially
reduced maximum freight rates in
Iowa which he would have introduced
in the assembly had not the. railroads
consented I, to the reasonable legisla-
ton which was adopted and became eff
fective regulating the stock shipping
business.
It was not generally known among
the members that Mr.. Doran proposed
such drastic measures to bring the
railroad men to time, but he was very
vigorous in his insistence on the rail
roads treating the farmers and stock
men Of Iowa right. Having secured
what was considered fair treatment
for them he was not disposed to go
into the field Of retaliation.
At this session of the legislature a
bill may be offered to reduce the max
imum rate on live stock shipped to
Iowa packing houses, and such a meas
ure Mr.. Doran is willing to support for
the sake of building up Iowa indus
tries He still believes that good legis-
lation might be passed affecting the
live stock shipments to the Chicago
markets. He was disappointed that 1t
seemed impossible to get the time lin.
it on shipments, which he proposed,
and would have insisted on this bill
had the railroad men not promised
that the farmers and stock men would
be taken care of In this matter. He
believes the Iowa railroad men did try
to keep the agreements as to time lin.
it on stock trains - getting them to
Chicago sooner than was the custom
two years ago. There has been i'm.
prcvement but still the service Is not
satisfactory. 1t is barely possible that
legislation may be offered in this as.
sembly affecting the time limit matter
yet.
Bill Passes IN Nebraska.
Mr.. Doran's brother is a member OF
the Nebraska Legislature and last year
got through the assembly there the
laws which his brother tried to get
through the Iowa legislature two years
ago-fxing time limit on the ship
ment of stock and compelling the rail
roads to give the stockmen a chance
to accompany their shipments to mar
ket.
OF all the Iowa legislators probably
Mr.. Doran was the one man whom the
railroads most feared in the last
session.
Leon Brown.
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