Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-23
REFORMATORY BILL
PASSED BY SENATE
Favorable Vote on Measure
Providing Indeterminate
Sentences Woman's
Suffrage Loses Out
Des Moines Bureau of
The Ottumwa Courier.
Das Moines March %

Several hundred women throng-
sS8 ed the senate to day to listen to
the discussion Of the woman suf-
W frage resolution, which was pre-.
sented by Senator Gale, Senator
jameson of Page and Senator ia
mison Of Clarke, and opposed by
Senator Gillilland. The resolution
was defeated 81 to 26.
The senate passed, by vote
q Of 46 to 2. the bill to establish the
indeterminate sentence and re
formatory law.
The house passed the senate
bill licensing peddlers, the house
resolution for commission to ex-
anime tax questions and the house
bill providing for the revoking Of
licenses of quack doctors.
The Iowa League Of Municipal
tiles bill which was passed by the
! senate yesterday, was made a spec
ial order In be hoase for Mon
day. IS Is
When the senate concurs in the
house amendments to the primary bill
\ today. the measure will go to the gov.
. ernor for his signature, and will be.
come a law, for the house. yesterday
passed it by vote Of "a to 18 against.
A large number of formal amend.
ments for correction of construction
we're added by the house, but the sen.
ate bill, as passed last Tuesday, is the
measure which the house indorsed; so
that friends of the legislation last
night were confident that primary elec.
+ ton pledges made to the people during
the last campaign are as good as re.
deemed.
OF the eighteen house members who
voted against the Legislation, five were
republic Greenwood of Mills, Nc
Allister of Linn, Dunn of Jackson, Dye
of Pottawattamie and Webster of Mus
catine. The other thirteen were demo
Gratis, twenty democrats voting for the
measure, though Chairman Miller of
the state committee said he. at least,
did so solely because the platform
pledged It, and not because he was for
the legislation.
Opposition Defeated.
No attempt was made in the house
to change the 35 per cent provision
adopted by the senate No one sug.
gested an amendment to this PROPOSE.
tion
The bill remains intact in this re-
spect and in the two other important
particulars-the test of party fealty
and the elimination of the judges from
its operation. Effort to cut out party
fealty was made repeatedly and defeat.
ed An attempt to restore the Judges
to the bill was fruitless.
Sparks on Party Affliation.
Sparks precipitated The question of
party affiliations he offered an amend
ment to section 6, cutting out, the
clause relating to party affiliation, ex-
planning that it was for the purpose of
raising the question, aud should the
amendment be adopted others would
be necessary; if it were lost there
would be no use making them He al
SO declared that party affiliations would
throw the independent vote and the
young vote into the majority. or the
republican party.
am sorry to see this amendment
come from a member of the minority
party said Mcdonald, one of the dem
ocrats that helped draw the bill eve
want the majority party to keep their
hands off our party and could see
where 1t would do the majority party
great harm to have us say who will be
their candidates"
81 am surprised that the gentleman
from WaDello failed to need the lesson
expounded by his party leader who
spoke here some time ago. said Mr.
Lee. Il cannot see why one party
should be allowed to foist candidates
upon anolher party.
4 7 should like to ask the gentleman
from Wapello if he is ashamed of be-
ing a democrat, how he attends his
party caueuses now does he sneak
down back alley and go in the back
dooF?'
Will Not Follow Bryan.
,sAs regards Mr.. Bryan's speech, the
democrats of Iowa are not going to be