Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-06
LATE LEGISLATURES
PROLF'C Of LAWS
New Code Supplement, in Course
OF Being Edited, Contains
About 1900 Page
RECENT LAWS ARE LENGTHY
Warehouse Receipt Bill Breaks the
Reeord-ketchum Favors Prohibit
ing Drunken Men on Trains and
Street cars-TaIks of Abolishins the
Jury System.
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Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Nov. Elk -Represellta
. tive Jepson of Woodbury. county is To-
Gated in the lieutenant governors Of
| fees in the state house hard at work
! on the editing Of the code supplement-
and has progressed SO far that 1t is
evident that the task is to be much
more stupendous than at first expected.
The new code supplement will con-
tain about 1900 pages. The old sup
plement contains only little over 500
pages and the code itself contains o.
400 pages. The recent legislatures have
been prolific of laws with the result
that there is much material to work
upon. The work Of the code editor is
: to take the laws in the code supplement
and those in the session laws and
classify and arrange them in order for
one volume.
There are several laws that add
enormously to the pages in the new
volume that have been but recently
passed At the last session the legis-
lature passed q warehouse receipt bill
. which takes more pages than any other
one law in the entire code and sup
plemenr. The primary election law,
the Des Moines plan OF government
law and the insurance laws are close
{ rivals, however. 1t is believed by law
yers that the state Is in a reconstruc-
tive period so far as its laws are con-.
cerned, and if it keeps up the present
pace 1t will be many sessions before
there will have to be code revision
session.
Horticulurists Of the four quar-
ters of Iowa are just now engaged In
holding their annual district conven-
tons and following these there will be
the state convention in this city dur
ing the same week when the state
farmers institute is held. The first
convention to be called is that of the
Southeastern Iowa Horticultural So
ciety which will meet at Fairfield Nov.
20, Il and 20.
C. G. Blodgett of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa,
ton to order in the library hall at 1880
Wednesday morning. Nov. 20. The
addresses are all by horticulturalists.
Chairman N. S. Ketchum, of the state
railroad commission, believes that a
law should be enacted prohibiting the
presence Of drunken man on street
car or passenger train or freight train.
He believes this should be done for
the benefit of the travelling public and
the safety of the drunken man.
IT am Of the opinion that railroads
should refuse admittance to intoxicated
persons on their trains" said Mr..
Ketchum today. II would go further
and say the same Of street and inter-
urban cars. I believe 1t would elm
mate many serious accidents and am
sure it would do away with great
nuisance. ~
"The travelling public is entitled to
ride in peace and not be subject to
annoyance by a drunken crowd COM
mitting scenes unbecoming gentlemen.
Such intoxicated persons should not be
admitted to a car and when found
there should be at once elected from
the car and their tickets returned to
them."
John G. Simpson, secretary of the
department of agriculture, Is back
from a trip to Texas during which he
attended the state fair in that state at
Dallas and went down as far as Cor
pus Christi to see the country. At
Corpus Christi he found a former pro-
fessor of the Iowa State Agricultural
College. Mr.. Simpson declares that
Texas is the greatest state for health
and seabreeze that he ever knew hut
as an agricultural proposition he is
not so enthusiastic. He declares thar
the southern part Of Texas is a garden
truck country essentially. They have
some good horses in Texas but not the
big draft horses that are to be found
in Iowa. They have some good cattle
too, but of course Mr.. Simpson thinks
there are no cattle like those in Iowa.
Not being taken with the truck garden
idea Mr. Simpson saw much more
promise in Oklahoma and Indian Ter
ritory where they raise cattle, corn
and hogs.
A Des Moines lawyer is authority
for the statement that there is a
scheme on foot to abolish the jury
system in this country He docs not
give the source of his Information hut
declares that the plans are about laid
and that the scheme is to attack the
System" The claim will he made
that jutice is as highly priced in Am
erica and Iowa as anywhere but that
tho Hcvcto,,oo does NOT work vel. This
attorney believes that the campaign
will be something Of Importance and
that it will be up to the people to de-
eide the matt er He views The CAM
paign with ,oElething OF alarm and
feels that there is some danger. 1t
will be rememb bered that AT the meet
ing of the State Bar Association in
1904 Judge J. NJ. Wade Of Iowa City.
proposed for discussion at the subse-