Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-07
Moderate Measure in all Feat
ures to Be Adopted By
Legislature
SUBSTITUTE FOR SAUNDERS BILL
Present Maximum and Minimum Sem
tences to Stand, But Board Will Be
Created to Fix Length Of Penal serv-
itude-EckIe. Presents Bill to In
crease Homo Support Fund.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
by Holmes of Kossuth, in conference
with Governor Cummins, Senator
Saunders. Judge Robinson, of the board
of control, and number of other lead
ing penalogists Of the state, was in
troduced in the house today. Saunders
will withdraw his senate bill and in
troduce the same measure there. The
new bill does not abolish the present
maximum and minimum years of SEN
tence, but creates a board of parole,
which determines the length of term
within the legal limitations of the
prison shall be a reformatory, and re-
moves from the legislature authority to
recommend pardons for first degree
murders. In all features it is q mod
crate measure
In the senate bill was introduced by
McKelven to provide that in each
one Of the eight health districts Of the
state, a sanitary convention, conducted
by two members of the state board OF
health and to be attended by all health
officers in the district, shall be held
These conventions are intended to be
educational in character. The senate
passed a bill to provide way to re-
siore lost certificates Of tax sales; also
bill to prohibit transportation OF
rowcer In mines while the men are al
work. Senator Eckles, of MARSHALL
town, introduced bill to increase the
Per capita allowance at the Soldiers
| Home from $14 to SIS a month.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Feb. 1.-THE interest
| ing fact was disclosed yesterday fol-
lowing the furry in the senate over the
question of increasing the number OF
clerks to committees that there exists
working arrangement between a part
of the membership Of the senate and
the democratic contingent somewhat
like that which existed all during the
last two sessions. This has frequently
been denied, and until yesterday Moth
ing had occurred to draw the lines.
But the demand was made that the
democrats show their hand in the
matter of adding to the pay roll, and
only two failed to come up to the
agreement. These were Stirton and
Moon who broke over the traces, and
afterwards democratic employe was
heard to denounce Stirton for having
failed to join in the extravaganza.
The senate has forty-nine clerks
already. and would have fifty but Sem
ator John Hughes, Jr., declined to APP
point a clerk for his personal use.
There are about a dozen committees
where there is much work to be done.
1t was brought out in debate that
there are in fact sixteen competent
stenographers who are senate clerks
and who are available for any extra
duty that might be required Of them.
Secretary Newman had asked that
these committees report to him so that
he could have just one each day to
do little extra work at the desk for
the few minutes the senate is in ses-
sion. This would require each clerk to
do some of the work about once in
enough, but the demand was voiced
thru Senator Jamison Of Clarke that
another clerk be added, and the senate
voted to do so. Attention was called
to the fact that the state auditor had
questioned whether clerk could be
added other than a clerk to COM
mittee, but the motion was to call this
extra clerk committee clerk.
The vote showed that of the twenty
five votes cast for the measure two
were from progressives and thirteen
were by those who class themselves as
standpatters. The ten others were
democrats. This did not include Stir
ton and Moon, who voted against in
creasing the pay roll, and DeWolf and
McManus, not present.
On all hands the vote was taken to
indicate plainly that there is a work.
ing arrangement between the demo-
Gratis as a whole and the standpatters
and that in due time it will show up
as affecting some Of the measures Of
politicaI character.
Another gathering Of the represen-
tatives Of the freight departments OF
the railroads came today by reason of
the hearing before the state railroad
commission on live stock rates and
cream rates. The ground gone over to-
day before the railroad commission
will probably be much the same as that
which will be gone over tomorrow be-
fore a legislative committee and later
in the houses of the general assem-
bly,.
The cream rate situation has be-
come very interesting. The Beatrice
Creamery Company, one OF the few
large corporations seeking to corral all
the business, asked for a readjustment
of rates on cream so that rates in Iowa.
will be like those on the Rock Island in
Nebraska The change would be on
anything thirty miles or less 15 cents
instead of 19, 20 and 21 cents as now
On 100 miles q change from 80 to 73;,