Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-19
DEMANDFOR DEMURRACE BILL
Iowa House of Representatives to Be Bonn
barded with Petitions This Week.
TODAY WILL Be A BUSY DAY IN HoUsI
Committee Ordered to Report by
p. VI. ON All Bills
Introduced Before
March ..
(From a Stan Correspondent

Nhrom stan correspondent
DIES MONIES, March 1s-(Special.)-It
is learned that the house the coming week
is to be bombarded with petitions from the
farmers and cooperative elevator men from
the northern part of the state in favor of
the reciprocal demurrage bill, and the
measure is far from being dead for this
session. The demand for the law is the
difficulty the farmers and elevator men ex-
perience in getting cars. The bin has been
in the hands OF a subcommittee. which sat
urday reported to the full committee sub
stitute measure which is little less OBJ
jectionable to the railroads. The changes
are not opposed by the friends of the
measure, they consist largely in shaping
up the bill requiring written notice, of de-
mand for a car and such changes. The
elevator men claim they have been losing
from $500 TO $1,000 a year per elevator bv
the failure to get cars. The railroads have
| fought the measure at every point. Sat
| urday the first of lot of petitions reached
| the house. 1t was on a printed form and
! this lead to the discovery that these
| printed form petitions" have been cir
| culated all over the northern part of the
state. The one introduced Saturday was
| presented by Representative Wright and
was signed by 2S5 farmers and elevator
men OF Webster county. The statement
| of the petitions which the farmers are
signing is significant in itself. The one
presented Saturday was partly follows:
AT the hearing OF the railroads before
your committee March 6 we believe they
utterly failed to show good cause why
| this bill should not pass. Their attempt
| TO create the impression in that hearing
| that there is no great demand for the pas
| 10 n hot .as,lxr FauF t..
experienced farmers are calling for its pas
/ sage and that this shortage Of equipment
| only comes once in a period Of years re-
| fleets on the intelligence OF your honorable
| body. Their evident desire to have us
take our complaints to them rather than
/ to have legislation is proof positive that
| they know these evils exist and that the
car famine is of annual occurrence"
] Big work for Monday.
! According to Il resolution passed by the
house some days ago. every bill intro
duced I'm the house before March must
be reported from committee by o'clock
Monday afternoon. The house is dis
posed to force legislation through, and in
the list of bills that under this resolution
must be reported out tomorrow afternoon
are some of the most important before the
4 body. The 2-cent fare bill and the re-
ciprocal demurrage bill are among the
number. The substitute for the primary
election bill by Flenniken went into the
journal OF Saturday, having been reported
out of the committee, and will be brought
up most likely Monday or the first OF
the week. Besides these measures the
house has down for special order for Tues
day the anti-discrmination bill, known as
the Standard oil bill, and prohibiting any
concern from selling It's products at a
lower price in one part Of the state thar
in another.
Awaits Death ia the House.
B ! The strong lobby maintained by the Stat
I Agricultural college for the defeat of tn
! board of regents bill has been combining -
attention quite largely to the house mem
bers and Il Is claimed that the bill win b.
killed in that body. Opponents of the bill
| in the senate say chat It will pass there
. one Of the trustees OF the Agricultural col
lege is authority for the statement tina
: there will be at least thirty votes for It 4
the senate: twenty-slx is necessary 20 It
passage Some claim It viii get thirty-fiv
in the senate. But in the house the Stat
college people are confident that they wi
/ succeed in getting the bill killed. The at
Q tack ON the lobby is having no effect on IN
3 lobby itself and is having divided effect o
o the members. One member Of the hous
Q claims he will vote 70 kill the bill becaus
!, OF the attack. The lobbyists and thei
+ friends claim that while they are talSin
s their time from teaching for which the
n we're engaged. Il is necessary TO do so 1
2 the interests OF the institution. as there
j no one else to take up the task The lobb
is succeeding in getting the impressio
4 firmly rooted in the minds Of the hous
+ members that II the single board r. create
for the state nuhools the State Agriculture