Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-27
TWO.CENT FARE BILL PASSED
Net Vote Against the Measure when Il
Comes Up in sshsts.
woMAws Suffrage BILL sMoTHERED
Rankin state Marshal Measure Re
ported Out in the senate-Bnl
20 shut Out Advertising
Doctors.
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DIES MONIES. Feb. 2e.--(speciaL)-In the
senate today the maximum passenger fare
bill passed unanimously, forty-eight voting
for the bill and the other two senators being
absent The bill passed the house unani-
mously and without debate. There was
practically no debate in the senate, but
Turner of Adams in calling the bill up ex-
planned It in some detail and Smith OF
Mitchell made a more extended argument
in favor of its passage. There were no
arguments against the bill and no attempts
to amend IT..
The bill provides that the larger and
more important roads, those whose gross
earnings annually per mile are over $780,
shall charge passenger fare not to exceed
cents per mile. Those roads known as
class b roads and whose gross earnings
are over 1900 mile, but not greater than
5000 per mile. shall charge not to exceed
21A cents and those whose gross earnings
are not to exceed 5000 per mile can charge
not to exceed 8 cents per mile.
The bill has no publication clause. II was
passed Just as II came from the house but
for an amendment providing that the min
imum fare charged for any trip can be
10 cents. This probably will be accepted by
the house and the bill win then go to the
governor. II signed by the governor It will
go into effect July 4. this year
Suffrage Bill smothered.
Woman suffrage was knocked out again
by the house committee by vote of .
to 4, but a minority report will be filed
which will force the resolution TO a vote in
the house.
Deemer Explains school.
Before the joint agriculture committees
of the legislature which met in the senate
chamber this afternoon to accommodate
the crowd, Judge Horace Deemer OF the
supreme court explained the purposes Of
the Agricultural high school. which bill
drawn by him provides shall be erected at
Red Oak. Judge Deemer talked at some
length on the bill and declared It should
not be a question of how many schools
or where located. There should be many
and he thought the farmers had long suf-
fered their sons to be taught other things
than agriculture and thus to be lead away
from the farms
Rankin Bill IL Out.
For the first time in many sessions that
the Rankin state marshals bill has been
before the legislature, It has gotten past
the committee and will come on the floor OF
one OF the houses 1t was reported out in
the senate this morning by the temperance
committee with the recommendation that
It pass. The bill provides marshals and
deputy marshals over the state to enforce
the liquor laws of the state.
Good Butter Special.
A " Good Butter Special left Dies Moines
over the Great Western this morning at
7:S0 and made it's first stop at Bondurant.
Waterloo was expected to. be reached by
-
tween. At each stop State Dairy and Food
Commissioner H. R. Wright and Prof. @.
N. Mckay of the State Agricultural col
lege delivered addresses to the farmers
and the creamery men on the fundamentals
in making good butter.
KidnapinE Case Settled.
The KIDNAPPING case from Chesterfield was
settled in police court IN this city today.
Miss Hoke eloped with Samuel speck. who
was accused of kidnapping the girl by her
parents. While the case was waiting trial
the parents kidnapped the girl back and to-
day in police court all shook hands all
around and dropped the case.
ODD Fellows Vote Money.
Judge ]. H. Henderson, grand master Of
the Independent Order OF Odd Fellows
grand lodge of Iowa, today called to order
the special meeting of the lodge and stated
the purpose to be the appropriation OF
money to complete the orphanas' home at
Mason City. The money is in the lodge
treasury for the purpose.
Doctors object to Advertising.
A bill for an act to repeal section 257s
OF the code and 20 enact a substitute there
for relating to the revocation Of physicians
certificates" introduced In the house by