Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-29
MAYTAG 5 GOOD WORK
Senator From Jasper County
Has Been One of Iowa's Best
Legislators
His Work For the Laboring Men in the
Legislature Entities Him to Their
Gratitude and Friendship-Factory
Law and Shot Firers' Bill-capital
Comment.
Special to Times-Republican.


Des Moines, May 29.-Perhaps there
is not in the whole legislature of Iowa
any man more useful than Senator
f: L. Maytag, of Jasper county. Sen
ator Maytag is one of the best work
ers in the body. He held a command
ing position on the appropriations
committee of the senate, being prac-
tically second to Chairman Garst and
his right hand man, and senators have
frequently commented that no man in
the whole senate was more familiar
with all the institutions of the state
do closer figuring that any other un-
less it be Hayward. Now that Garst
and Hayward are to retire from the
senate, this leaves Maytag in line for
the Craftsmanship of the all-important
committee on appropriations of the
senate and he is sure to be in that
position if he is sent back again.
Senator Maytag is one of the most
earnest and most practical friends of
the laboring men in the Iowa legis-
lature. Personally he is not concerned
with the question of whether or not
tons; but he does take deep inter-
est in laboring men, One of the best
laws of Iowa is the result of what
Senator Maytag has seen of the neces-
sity for advancement in Iowa. This
is the factory inspection law. Maytag
is manager of one of the most i'm
portant factories in Iowa and he en-
ploys. many men. Some years ago he
found that men remained at work in
one department only a few months and
l.tllat constant changes were going on.
He inquired and found that conditions
We're. such that the health of the works
men was endangered there. He set
about to remedy it, and investigated
to find out what is done elsewhere. He
corrected the evil in his own factory,
but found that in many states it had
been found necessary to pass laws to
prevent the great harm to workmen
of similar conditions. He collected the
laws Of other states and introduced
the factory inspection bill, which re-
suited in the present law. He did it
because of his conviction that in the
hundreds of factories of Iowa there
is need of some inspection to prevent
running the health of many persons.
In the last session a matter came
to his attention which showed the
feelings of the senator. The shot
firer's bill came over from the house
where it had been introduced by Ken
dali and passed. This is a bill like
the Illinois law requiring reform in
the method of firing the shots" or
blasts in coal mines, so as to minimize
the danger to human life. No more
meritorious bit of legislation has ever
been proposed in Iowa. The bill went
into the proper committee and in due
time the majority of the committee
reported out the bill for indefinite
postponement. -Four senators filed a
minority report. Three Of these were
progressives, and Maytag was one of
them. The bill was then thrown into
the hands Of the Herriott Sitting
committee" of standpatters and railroad
representatives. An effort was made
to get it out. The chairman would not
even let the committee vote whether
to bring it out or not. Finally on the
next to the last day Senator Warren,
of Marion, introduced in the senate
the following resolution intended to
force the committee to act, namely:
Whereas, house file No. SO, "a bill
for an act providing that operators Of
mines shall furnish shot examiners and
firers in mines where shooting and
blasting is done additional to chapter
nine title twelve Of the supplement to
the code, and to repeal section twenty
four hundred ninety-fve-b of the sup
ple1nent to the code, passed by the house
W referred to the committee on
mines and mining,
Whereas, the committee on mines
and mining filed It's report indefinitely
postponing the same;
Whereas, at the time of the filing
of the above report the following mi
nority report was fled as follows: We
the undersigned members of your COM
mittee on mines and mining to whom
was referred house file No. 36, beg
leave to report that we have had the
same under consideration and being in
the minority respectfully reserve our
rights to dissent from the views ex-
pressed by the report of said commit
tee recommending the indefinite post
ponement Of said bill and we therefore
recommend that the same do pass. j.
l.. Warren, R. A. Hasselquist, r. l..
Maytag, c. j. A. Ericsson
Whereas, before any opportunity
was given for the action Of the senate
upon either OF said recommendations
said bill was sent to the sitting COM
mittee and said committee, by formal
vote, has refused to return said bill to
the senate for action upon said rec
ommendation, and said report Of the
COMMITTEE on mines and mining"
Therefore. be it resolved by the
senate, that the sitting committee be
and it is hereby ordered and requested
to return without delay said house file
No So for action upon the reports filed
from the committee on mines and min
ing as provided by the rules Of the
senate"
A roll call was demanded on the mo-
ton to suspend the rules and pass the
resolution. with the following result:
Yeas-Bruce, Crawford Dowell, Ec
kles. Ericsson, Hasselquist. Harper.
Hughes, Jones. Lewis. Maytag, Stirton,
Turner. Warren Wilsoni of Clinton
WHINE. Young of Calhoun-17.
Nays-Bleahly, Brooks, Durham,
Elerick. Gale. Gillilland Hartshorn,
Hogue. Jamison. Molsberry. Newberry,
Spaulding. Stookey. Stuckslager. Wade,