Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-13
PRIMARY BILL GOES OVER
Not Thought 70 Indicate What Result win
Be When Il Comes 70 Vote
RECIPROCAL DEMURRAGE GOES THROUGH
House Passes n Stringent Anti-Pasu
Bill which Cuts Out = LOnE List
of Political PIuggers over
the state.
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DIES MONIES March 12-Cspeoial Tele-
gram.)-when the house reached the pri-
mary election bill, which was on for spe-
cial order for $50 today. a lengthy discus
sion was INDUCED IN on a motion Of Moore
OF Linn to postpone consideration TIL next
Tuesday at 10 o'clock. Action was finally
postponed. It IS not believed that the ac-
ton of the house and senate to postpone
consideration is any indication OF a pos
sibie defeat Of the measure.
The house today passed the Weeks bill
fixing the compensation of county attor-
neys amended to make the scale slightly
lower than reported by the committee, by a
vote OF 81 to 2; II passed the White recip-
rocal demurrage bill, considered one OF the
big measures Of the session, practically
without debate; passed the bill reimbursing
Des Moines citizens for money advanced
in buying land for the state fair; the
Mason bill, giving gpards at the peniten-
tiaries fifteen days vacation with pay;
passed the Hume bill. requiring railroads to
report all accidents to the commission and
governor, and the bill making the office of
document librarian under the secretary OF
state statutory ONCE.
The senate defeated the McManus bill to
permit liquors to be shipped into any
county, Dy q vote OF 10 10 %
stringent Anti-Pasa Bill.
The house passed an anti-pass bill by a
vote OF 81 to 20 The bill repeats the
Hughes bill Of the last session, which pro-
hIbited only state officials, delegates to
political conventions and members of
political committees from riding on passes.
The new law is patterned after the federal
statute, but is much more stringent It
prohibits all persons from riding on passes
with certain exceptions, including officers
and employees of the railroads. ministers
and others. 1t provides that no person
shall be held to be an ''oficer, agent, en-
ploye. attorney, physician or surgeon, unless
his time is wholly devoted to the service
of such common carrier of passengers"
This provision will prohibit local railroad
attorneys In the small towns OF the state
whose services to the railroads are limited
and whose chief compensation from the
railroads is their pass from riding on such
free transportation The bill provides as
a penalty a fine of 500 to $1,000 and In ad-
dillon imprisonment in the county Jail not
less than thirty or more than ninety days.
The bill also requires the railroads to re-
port to the executive council annually the
names and addresses of all persons riding
on passes or at less rates than those given
the general pubic.
Better Municipal Government.
Betterment OF municipal government in
Iowa appears to be In sight The senate
today received from the committee on cities
and towns a favorable report on the con-
sentative reform measure advocated by
the League OF Municipalities for all Iowa
cities. In one important particular the
committee today recommended a change.
that Of keeping the police court In the
hands OF the people and not having the
Judge appointed by the mayor. The bill is
also improved in the matter of giving de-
tailed instruction as TO the boards of pub
bill is likely to pass, and in the belief of
those who have been urging 1t the law will
give great deal Of relief as to much of
the controversy In cities as to authority
and responsibility.
The same committee will tomorrow act
on the bill to give Des Moines and other
cities the commission or Galveston plan OF
city government. consolidating all execu-
tive and legislative power into one board.
subcommittee has been at work revising
this bill. which was said to have been awk-
wardly drawn in the first place.
Statue of senator Harlan.
A delegation Of persons from Mount
Pleasant today called upon the legislators
in regard 20 the bill to appropriate for
bronze bust of Senator Harlan to be placed
in the hall OF fame in Washington.
No binding Irvine factory in an Iowa state
penltentiary. The bill for that purpose has
been killed.