Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-04
ALMOST ONE Bill
EVERY SESSION DAY
Legislature Making Good Rec
ord in Disposing OF Busi-
ness Before 1t
THIRTY. THREE BILLS PASSED
That Number Thru Both Houses in
Thirty. seven Working Days-About
a Hundred Measures Have Been
kined-Numerous Others Passed by
Ono Of Two Branches.
sn.o,a,to r,mes-Republican.

uuiry INTO what the legislature liHs
done up to the present recess discloses
that the session thus far has been q
profitable one. and that the time mas
been we'll occupied. The legislature
has been In session just thirty-seven
days actual time. and in that time
Ithirty-three bills have been passed py
both houses and sent to the governor,
and every one of them has been signed.
But in addition, forty-nine bills have
passed the house and are now pending
in the senate. and twenty-nine bills
have passed the senate and are now
pending in the house. About fifty or
sixty bills have been indefinitely post
poned In each house. Put in tabular
form. 1t is something like this:
House bills introduced .......s.. 3oS
Senate bills introduced .-........ 2o9
Bills passed and signed 33
Passed house, pending in senate. ~
Passed senate, pending IN house. %
+ In the thirty-three bills which nave
been passed by both houses and signed
by the governor there are some rev
legalizing acts and bills of only local
Importance to various communities,
but there are also the following bills
OF state Importance: The bill provid-,
ing for RAILROAD commissioners maps:
increasing he salary of insurance ac-
tuary; allowing fraternal accident as
sociations to do business in the state;
defining the term misbranded as ap-
piled to pure foods; prescribing the In
yestments of fraternal beneficiary In
surance companies; directing the prep
arations Of the supplement of the code;
allowing police matrons appointed In
special charter cities;A providing for the
d dead bodies; the 2
cent fare bill.
OF the important bills that have
passed the senate and are pending in
the house, there is the bill by Senator
Hughes providing that pass in
Jurors pocket is grounds for chal-
lenge for cause; providing for pure
paints and oils; prohibiting corpora
tions contributing to political cam
paigns; providing for the examining
and licensing of graduate nurses;
amending the juvenile court law SO as
to allow supervisors and cities to erect
detention homes; appropriating $4,000
for the railroad commission for extra
help for Investigating freight rates.
OF those that have passed the house
and are pending in the senate, there Is
the bill fixing minimum rates for fra
ternal insurance companies; the Doran
minimum speed limit stock train bill:
Marston's bill limiting the hours of
continuous employment OF railroad
trainmen; Offil's fire cracker bill; pro-
viding state aid for country agricul-
tural societies; providing "a means for
drawing juries in cases of emergency
when for any cause a legal jury can
not be drawn from the regular lists;
requiring employment offices to make
reports to the state labor commissions
er; increasing the amount of support
to the county teachers Institutes; pro-
viding for the investment of the funds
Of insurance companies other than life.
Anyone familiar with legislation
knows that the showing so far as the
number of bills passed is concerned
comes late in the session. The first
part of the session is taken up quite
largely in committee meeting hearings,
in visitations to the institutions, and
the first week practically is given over
to organizing and the Inauguration.
Following that for a time only bills of
minor Importance are passed because
the time is quite largely given up to
committee hearings in which the MEM
bers seek to study the various subjects
presented for legislation. Furthermore,
after bill has passed one house, with
it's committee hearings, 1t is nearly. al
ways necessary for it to go thru the
process of committee hearings in the
other house.
With twenty mine bills passed the
senate and pending on the house, and
forty-nine passed the house and pend
ing in the senate, the prospects are
bright for number of important bills
to meet their final test within the next
week or two.
On the house calendar, ready to be
acted upon as soon as the legislature
reconvenes, are twenty-nine bills. in
cluding the Smith wife desertion bill:
the Peterson bill prohibiting corpora
tions contributing to political cam
paigns; the bill to license graduate
nurses, and the bill providing for pure
drugs and oils On the senate calendar
are thirty-nine bills, including the bill
prohibiting combinations for control
ling the price of grain and the bill pro-
viding for pure seeds.