The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-02-28
HOUSE CONCURS
IA.2-cENT FARE
VOTE UNANIMOUS IN FAVOR or
REDUCED PASSENGER RATES.
ANrITREATING is POSTPONED.
Appropriation For Southern Battlefield
Commissioners Declared Lost in
House - Afterward Reconsid-
cred and Passed 70 TO S.
(By Julian Ricnards.)


Des Moines, Feb. 81 Speaker Ken
dali this morning reversed his ruling
on the bill to reimburse members of
the battlefield monument commi ssion
which he yesterday declared lost for
lack of two-thirds vote He read an
opinion by the attorney general tnat
the appropriation carried by the bill
was not within the provisions of the
constitution requiring two-thirds
vote. The speaker then declared the
bin passed. Miller of Bremen ap-
pealed from this decision of the chair.
On roll call tine chair was sustained
by 20 ayes to nays
Des Moines, Ia, Feb. 27 The
House concurred in the amendments
to the two-cent fare bill made by the
senate.
The House also by vote of 10 to D
sustained the decision of Speaker
Kendall that the bill approprlating
money for the dedication of molu,
ments needed but majority vote.
The bill is declared passed.
The House committee on the sup.
preston of intemperance voted this
morning to in Indefinitely postpone
the anti-treating bill,
Des Moines, Feb. 27.--The House
committee on railroads gave near
ing on the joint rate bill yesterday ar
ternoon, but did not vote on the bill,
The subcommittee which mas had the
reciprocal demurrage bill in hand, is
ready to report to the full committee.
The subcommittee has somewhat
changed the bill from what it was
when introduced. They have added
a section provi-,ng penalty in case
any one shall order cars knowing tnatI
they cannot be furnished, in order to
get the demurage; also, providing for
penalizing the roads in case they
make use of the jemurrage to pay
shippers rebates. the requirement.
Is also a1dea that when q shipper or
ders cars, he shall put up forfeit OF
IS per car If ne desires the provis-
ions of the demurrage law to act with
regard TO ,..e roads. The rate OF
speed which the roads are to be re-
quired to move loaded cars is reduced
from 80 to 50 miles per day. 1t is not
known what action the full committee
will take on the bnl as amended by
the subcommittee.
Representative Miller, who made
4 hp fu i,
tion with the bill to reimburse Gov
ernor Cummins and party for the
amount spent in travelling expenses,
which called out the message from the
governor, says that he would use ev-
cry effort to defeat the passage of the
bill if the speaker attempted to de
clare it passed
Following bills introduced in House:
BY Teter, Relating to duties o.
township trustees.
By Shaffer, Providing for state uni
formity of school text books.
By Harding, Making appropriations
for the construction of tuberculosis
sanitarium, and to enable the board
OF control to make additional investl-
CATION of the treatment of tubercuio
sis.
By Feely, by request, Relating to
divorce and alimony.
House passed bills providing for
supplies and expenses of educational
board of examiners; designating place
of beginning actions against munich
palities in counties where there are
more than one place of holding court;
prohibiting life insurance companies
issuing false and exaggerated state
ments of the benefits to accrue from
their policies.
House committee on railroads gave
hearings this afternoon on the joint
rate bill. Senate committee on agri-
culture listened to Judge Deemer and
Profs. Kennedy and Holden, of the
State Agricultural college, on the bill
for the establishment of an agriculture
al high school at Red Oak.
House committee on constitutional
amendments by vote of 8 to 6, decld'
ed to report for indefinite postpone
ment the resolution proposing a con
stitutional amendment comforting the
right of suffrage upon women. A mi,
nority report from the committee is
expected.