Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-06
GRAIN COMBINE
BILL STRINGENT
Proposed Iowa Law to BE Pat
termed After the Nebraska
Statute
is HELD AS CONSTITUTIONAL
Much Evidence Secured to Show Iowa
Grain Dealers Association Fixed
Prices - Board Of Pardons Bill in
House Different From the e--ate
Measure.
Special to Timcs-Republican.

Special to Times Republican,.
4 Des Moines Feb. 6.-All the evidence
taken by the interstate commerce COM
mission in it's recent hearing in this
city. when it disclosed the workings oil
! the Iowa Grain Dealers association
| will be laid before the committee OF
the house that has under consideration
the Stillman bin to prohibit combina-
grain. Representative Stillman has
gone to great pains to gather the data
on the subject, and will make a very
strong showing before the committee.
He has ascertained that the Nebraska
law. after which his was patterned, is
very much more drastic than his meas
ure, and that the supreme court in that
state has held the law to be constitu-
| tional The Nebraska bill was written
and fathered by Senator Junkin, an
Iowa boy, now secretary of state of
! Nebraska, and its enforcement was
made by Norris Brown. another Iowa
| boy, while. attorney general of Ne
braska, and now United States senator
| from that state.
Mr.. Stillman has ascertained furth-
ermore that since the law was held to
be constitutional in Nebraska it has
accomplished the purpose and is In full
force, and has put the grain trust of
that state out of business. Represent
tative Stillman is receiving letters
thought TO be inspired by the Iowa
Grain Dealers association, in which it
is sought to convince him that his bill
wilfebe a great hardship to the grain
interests of the state and In which the
benevolent purposes of the Iowa Grain
Dealers association are put forth in
bold relief
III will be remembered that at the
meeting of the interstate commerce
commission in Des Moines it was
shown that the Iowa Grain Dealers as
ISOLATION did meet and fix prices. 1t
was shown that this was done partly
thru the Cereal club of Des Moines,
which met at the Grant club. and wit
nesses testified that George Wells,
secretary of the Iowa Grain Dealers
association, put motions that were
made fixing prices on various grains.
1t was shown furthermore on the tes-
timony of witnesses. that cards were
sent out quoting prices, and
persons who sent these cards out tes-
titled that they understood they were
sent out for the Iowa Grain Dealers
association. 1t was Furthermore shown
on testimony that witnesses were So
licited to join the association, and 1t
was held out to them as an inducement
that they would receive the postal card
quotations Of prices.
Representative Stillman has fortified
himself with facts and will lay all the
printed evidence before the committees
of the legislature as we'll as all other
facts. He will seek to impress upon
the committees and upon the legisla-
ture when the bill is reported out that
the matter Is of greatest Importance. A
variance in price of cent or two on
corn alone in this state means a diff
ference. based on last years crop, of
$S,650,000. He holds that not only is
the price of corn and grain generally
that is shipped changed by combines,
but that the price of corn as paid by
the feeders Of the state is controlled too
loF IL Is SoHlIOllSu ny lIS prize pau
by the grain dealers.
A bill will be introduced in few
days that seeks to create a board of
parole which will be quite different
from the Saunders bill already intro
duced in the senate. Persons who have
seen the new bill are commencing it
highly and it will undoubtedly gain a
considerable support from members of
the legislature favorable to a parole
board, but opposed to making a reform
atory out Of the penitentiary at Ana"
mosa. The Saunders indeterminate
sentence law provides that the maxi
mum and minimum sentences as pro-
vided by all laws of the state fixing
penalties for their violation. shall be
abolished and that thereafter in SEN
fencing a criminal the Judge of the
district court can only sentence to the
penitentiary or by fine. A board of
parole is created by the Saunders bill
which has unlimited powers in fixing
the term Of the criminal after he
reaches the penitentiary. The Saund-
ers bill furthermore makes the pent
tertiary at Anamosa a reformatory.
The other bill that has been prepared
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