Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-22
FOUR N[N LAWS
HELD BY GOVERNOR
Consideration to Be Given Bills
Before They Receive Cum
Minis Approval
ANTl-sMokE AND INSURANCE
Also an Important Inebriate Bill Rec
commended by Board of Control =
GIenwood Water Problem to Be
Solved by Wells in Gravel Beds
Iowa Needs 100000 workmen.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines April 22.-Four laws re-
main in the hands of the governor un-
signed. They are the anti smoke
nuisance bill, the bill limiting the div
ldends of insurance companies, the bill
relating to the sale of accretions due
to the change of channel of the Des
Moines river and a bill providing that
judges of the district court may use
their discretion as to sending to the
inebriate asylum persons convicted of
being inebriates.
The latter bill is one that the board
of control recommended to the Thirty
first general assembly 1t has been
discovered thru the practical opera
tions Of the inebriate law that many
tramps and persons of character that
indicates very plainly that the inebriate
asylum or any other asylum willnot cure
them of being inebriates are sent to
the inebriate asylum by the district
courts just to get them out of the
community" Where inebriacy is due
to illness or worry that causes a de-
sire for liquor in undue quantities the
asylum can work a cure, but where the
liquor habit is due to laziness and the
vagrant habit the asylum is unable to
cure it,.
The bill that is before the governor
provides that the courts shall have dis
cretion in the matter of commitments
and Furthermore provides that on the
recommendation Of the superintendent
that an inmate shows no promise Of
being cured the board of control can
release the patient. This is intended
as a check on the district court judges.
When a tramp is sent to the asylum
to "get rid of him." the board can at
once release him instead of holding
him there for the term of his sentence
at state expense
state institution is to be abandoned
so far as the Glenwood institution is
concerned. In the appropriations of
the last legislature there is one OF
$4,000 for system of water works
to be built by running galleriesIout into
the gravel beds under the Missouri
river. The state has spent many thou
sands of dollars trying to get a water
supply at the Glenwood school for the
feeble minded. The wells have been
sunk almost to the limit without sue
cess and not only at Glenwood, but at
some of the other institutions the deep
well proposition has been a failure
and the water supply is very limited
A new plan will be tried at Glenwood
and if it is success something on the
same order may be tried at the other
institutions If possible. The gravel bed
fully adopted by the city of Marshall
town,
Every public service corporation IN
Des Moines thru some official, has
signed the petition for the commission
plan of government Recently these
officials decided to feel the pulse of the
people. 1t is learned from direct
sources that an eastern man was
brought here to make inquiries among
the people to ascertain what the SEN
timent was regarding the corporations
and more especially regarding the
street car company. 1t was desired to
have an outsider gather the inforna-
ton so that it would be unbiased. 1t
is learned that large per cent of the
people told them that the public serv-
ice corporation would be much better
N
veterate tax dodgers and were not
persistently opposing the popular trend
One citizen told the man that and he
frankly admitted that he had heard it
from many sources. Since then public
men in Des Moines think they see
change in the bearing of the officials
of the public service corporations to-
ward the public. 1t was just about this
time that the grand jury by a majority
OF one refused to indict a street car
official for bribery when reputable cit
izens testified to seeing the bribe mon
ev paid over. The force of the refusal
of the grand jury had its effect on the
public mind and thespublic mind was
divided tho there seemed to be pre-
ponderance one way. AS an evidence
of the changed attitude of the public
service corporations there is the sign
ing of the petition for change in the
form of government that is recognized
to be in the interest of reform and an
additional evidence in that each one of
the public service corporations has
consented to allow the assessor to
double it's assessment
According to Labor Commissioner E.
D. Brigham. Iowa could use 100000
workmen Governor Cummins recently
received a letter from a Webster City
citizen asking that something be done
to relieve the demand for farm labor
ers The governor turned it over to the
labor commissioner. who has been
forced to respond that the legislature
turned down a bill giving the commits
sion authority and power to open
state labor bureau and funds sufficient
for finding men for the work and