Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-09
Senate, After Once Defeating 1t,
Reconsiders and Adopts Con-
ference Report
ADJOURNMENT LATE ToDA>
House Wins Out in Conference on An
ti-Pass Bill and Senate Adopts It by
Close Marsin-Day Spent on Measure
and in Presenting Chairs and GaveIs
to Presiding Officers.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. April 9.-Thei, anti-pass
bill, on reconsideration. passed the
serate and will become a law.
Des Moines. April 9.-The senate
adopted the house resolution TO ad-
journ today The house won out in the
conference committee on the anti-pass
bill. The report cuts out all doctors
and lawyers unless giving all their time
to the road. The report is now before
both houses for adoption
The larger part of the work today
was on the anti-pass BILL After the
conference committee recommends ed
leaving out of the list OF exemptions
the lawyers, doctors and eye special
lists. the house passed it over to the
senate. where a spirited debate was
had. Jamison of Clarke, Saunders and
jackson led in the opposition. Alien,
Turner Hughes, Young and Smith OF
Mitchell favored the bill
On roll call the committee report
had only twenty -four votes. Plans
were made for reconsideration ana II
may yet be passed this afternoon.
sss
The senate accepted the general sal
ary bill as 1T came from the house,
and Immediately the omnibus appro-
priation bill was prepared to be passed
before the legislature really quits. Dur
ing the forenoon the chairs and gaveis
were presented to the presiding officers,
and there was much speech making.
Ass
The senate yesterday did the re-
markaple thing of reversing itself ana
turning down a committee report nnan-
inlously. This was on The bill to have
the roster of Iowa soldiers printed.
The bill had passed the house and
was recommended for killing in the
senate The report was called up and
debated, and the motion to suspend the
rules and take up the bill was carried
unanimously. after which the bill was
passed without a dissenting vote. Sen
ators Bruce and Smith made the fight
for the bill. Governor Cummins was in
the senate at the time and followed the
discussion with keen interest, as he
had three times recommended in mes
sages the passage of this bill. The
committee had turned it down simply
on the score of expensiveness.
~
The fight to amend the law as to
furnishing cars was rnade by Senators
Allen. Peterson and Young, but it
finally failed. The Allen bill, which
was about the same as the Hogue bill
of a few years age, to remove the
clause in the law which shields the
companies in failing to comply with
their contract obligations as common
carriers, had twice before been before
the senate. Finally Allen had it passed
i'm the house and got report from the
sitting committee for it, The debate
showed that on this question, at least,
the majority of the senators had de-
termined there would be no legislation.
After the Gillilland amendment had
been adopted the bill was decently
buried.
A good deal of stir was created by
the bill to place telegraph companies
under regulation of the railroad COM
mission as to rates. 1t was found,
among other things, that the bill might
possibly prevent the giving to news
papers of the special rates wtnich en-
able them to give the news of the
world. and after the sitting committee
had once decided ON favoring the bill
hearing was had and the bill was
changed.
The members of the state legislature
before their departure from the city
will be given banquet by the citizens
of Des Moines, in recognition of their
effective legislation during the session
lust closing, if the plan of William
Zinsmaster of the Des Moines Bakery
Company meets with a favorable re-
ception. He said: 'Is my estimation,
the Peterson bill, preventing corpora =
ton stealing, and the primary election
laws stand out about all other legisla-
ton in years. Our city should be es-
pecially thankful for the enaction of a
law giving as chance to put our city
government on a business basis, in
place of the antiquated methods that
gave designing rnen an opportunity to
sell ours and our children's birthrights
without a power of redress"