Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-20
Believed That 1t Will Pass in
Spite Of Large Increase in
Appropriation
1T MAKES DRASTIC CHANGES
Two Important General Officers, the
Inspector General and Assistant In
spector General Will Be Eliminated
-Abolishins of Two Offices Will
Save s1,7oo Yearly.
lBy Ora williams.l
Special to Times-Republlcan

the hands of the joint sub commit
tee of which Representative Hart is
chairman 1t will be reported out soon
and it is thought will pass and become
law in spite of the fact that it car
ries with it an appropriation of an
increase Of 100000 year for the sup
port of the guard. The bill as it will
come to the senate and house will
eliminate two officers from the guard,
namely: the inspector general and as
siStant inspector general and there has
been some opposition on the part Of
the friends of these two men to the
bill. The bill as originally drafted did
away with the governors staff as at
present made up and required that the
governors staff should be appointed
from members of the guard only. Rep
resentative Bealer and others opposed
this. The original bill also provided
for the office of inspector general
though abolishing the office of assist
ant but gave the inspector general no
work to do as it required that the re-
port of the inspection of the regular
army officer be accepted for the use
of the guard When opposition was
raised to abolishing the governors
staff appointed from civilians and re-
quiring that they be appointed from
the guard, old soldiers objected and
substitute for that section of the bill
was offered allowing the governor to
appoint his staff from either civilians
of guard men, but abolishing entirely
the inspector general AS the bill will
come from the committee it directly
makes the regular army officer sta
toned with the guard here the in
spector general of the guard. BY
abolishing these two officers the guard
is saved about $1,700 year. In its
new form the only two persons SER
iously affected are Inspector General
John r. Prime and Assistant Inspector
General Frank e. Lyman, whose Of
ficers under the new arrangement will
be abolished. They will be legislated
out of office literally.
The liveliest debate the senate has
when the Weeks resolution came up in
the senate on the report of the COM
mittee on federal relations 1t also
showed the deep feeling that exists in
the legislature over the important pub
lie questions. Jameson, of Clarke
county, moved to amend the resolution
by designating the Dolliver-H Hepburn
bill now before congress as the meas
ure to be endorsed on the rate ques-
ton in the resolution. Smith, of
Mitchell, was quickly on the floor with
an amendment to the amendment
specifically naming the ideas of Pres
ident Roosevelt on the rate question as
the idea to be endorsed. Then the de-
bate opened Molsberry, Jackson and
Jameson lead it for the standpatters
and Smith of Mitchell, Garst, Turner,
and Lewis lead for the progressives.
Senator Smith claimed that the
country thoroughly understood Presi
dent Reosevelts views on the situa-
ton and did not know or understand
what was the position of Dolliver and
Jameson attempted to defend,
Hepburn and told of his position far
voring the Panama canal. Senator
Turner at once called attention to the
fact that Hepburn had supported the
route for the canal
knowing that 1t was impractieable and
had kept the rate question on his desk
in congress for nine years and finally
supported measure only when forced
to do SO.
In the middle of the discussion Mols-
berry moved to table the whole BUSH
ness which was lost by 20 to 81, there
being nine absent or not voting. Then
the senate adjourned and the resolu-
ton was thus left the first order Of
business for this morning at $50.
The house Monday afternoon passed
the Wright bill in relation to assign
ment of wages. 1t requires that the
wife must join in the assignment of
wages to have the assignment legal and
no assignment is good unless the wages
are actually earned at the time. 1t is
put forth as measure looking to pro-
lection of the wage Garner from the
loan sharks.
The child labor bill was reached yes
terday on the calendar of the house, but
Mr. Hart, in charge of the measure
called attention to it's Importance and
asked that it be made special order
for today at 10 o'clock. He did not
care 10 put IL up " d 11OuoGs
Aside from legalizing acts the house
at the Monday afternoon session pass
ed the Christensen DILL to prevent re-
moval of safeguards from machinery
when they have once been placed there,
and the bill to permit the state college
to handle the Gait bequest.
An important bill was introduced by
Captain Hart on subject somewhat
new. 1t is bill to give boards Of sup
aryisors power to grant franchises for
the placing of poles and wires along
highways for carrying electric currents
for power purposes. The bill grew
out of a local situation. company
being now engaged in building dam
on the Little Iowa river. where it is
planned that power shall be furnished
for several towns in that vicinity, and
this power must be carried across the
Not until some recent inven-
tons was it possible to thus carry
electric currents across the country
.or power purposes. While the situa-
lion there is a new one. yet in the
opinion of Mr.. Hart it will not be long
until great deal of the power of the
small streams in northeastern Iowa will
be utilized in this manner, and the
proposed law is one to permit of the
pest use of the same.
The patent medicine makers are get