Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-05
SCHOOL Bill UP
NE PRESENT WEEK
Committee Reportto Create Com
mission to Recodify Laws
Practically Agreed To
HUGHES PASS BILL MOT DEAD
Favorable Action by Committee Ex-
pected This Wese.k-Propo.ition is to
Strengthen the Present Anti Pass
LawGoes Further Than the Federal
Observation-Disclosures Tax Bill.

Statutes-Inheritance Tax Bill.
Special to Times Republican
Des Moines. March 5.-This week
will see a report of the house commits
tee ON schools and text books on the
bill providing for. commission TO re-
codify the school laws. 1t has been
sort of agreed that the house commits
tee will act first on the measure ana
then it will be taken up in the senate
on the house bill. The proposition is
to create commission of five, con-
sisting of three lawyers and two edu-
Gators, the educators to be appointed
by the state superintendent of public
instruction and lawyers by the governor
and to appropriate about $4,000 for the
work There are some who think that
a commission of two lawyers and one
educator could do the work Just as
well, and that it ought not to cost more
than $4,000, and one even wants to put
it down to $500. Some of the mem-
bers of the committee, however, are not
disposed to. be picayunneish about the
sum appropriated to SO important a
work. and believe that the legislature
should appropriate plenty and then ap-
point on the commission good men who
! lor ~ tho
properly. The name Of President Seer
ley, Of the state normal is frequently
mentioned as one OF the educators to
be appointed. The bill before the house
leaves the appointments to the COVER
nor and state silpertn tend ent. and there
has been no intimation from them as
to who would be a appointed II 1.-THE bill
passes. The mention Of Seerley's name
is Legislative gossip as ono etninently
fitted for the work.
& A direct inheritance tax bill Is being
prepared and is practically completed
now, and will be introduced in a few
days. The bin is along the lines.of the
recomme ndations of Governor Cum
Minis. The introduction Of this meas
Iures will leave but one measure of inn
,portance recommended by the governor
yet to be introduced. The one. re-
naming Is the state civil service bill,
and it is likely that one will be intro
duced soon.
One or two insurance bills of impor-
tancs will be introduced in. the house
within the next day or two "a
f 49, s Il q
The house appropriations committee
will this week take up the bills appro-
priating money for the support OF the
state institutions under the board of
control! There will be some hearings
on the bills, and following them there
will be hearings on the bills appropri-
ating money to the educational institu-
tons and the bill to- consolidate the
educational Institution under one
board. s33 u. 4
Representatives Nix OF Union coun-
ty has introduced a bill that has stirred
up the newspapers OF the state because
it amends the law SO that the town
ship trustees report on expenditures
and receipts from the road fund will
mot be published in the newspapers
as heretofore. The bill is an innocent
looking measure which strikes out all
after the second word "pubishedp in
the seventh lire OF section 1566-a OF the
supplement of the code and inserts in
lieu thereof the following: Sin the
financial report provided for by section
480-a supplement Of the code" The
effect is simply to stop the publication
Of the report in the newspapers The
law now requires that this report be
published with the January proceed
sings OF the boards Of supervisors.
The Hughes measure to make the
possession of pass in the pockets of a
person on the jury list, grounds for ex-
cusing for cause from jury service in
cases where a common carrier is in
terested either as plaintiff or defend
ant, is not dead il the house Judiciary
committee did vote to recommend in.
definite postponement. TheS house
committee has been induced to see the
error of its way and has reconsidered
its vote SO that the position of the
bill is just as it was before the COM
mittee voted. The house has passed
1t and 1t is now in the hands of the
house judiciary committee and Sena-
tor Hughes has been asked to appear
before the committee some time this
week to talk for 1t. Other lawyer mem
bers of the legislature will appear in
defense of the measure and 1t is like
ly that 1t will be reported out with the
recommendation that it pass.
d 4 .
The Hughes anti-pass bill is to be
reported out of committee soon. 1t is
expected the committee will act upon
it this week Senator Hughes is having
a new experience. For years he stood
almost if not quite alone on the anti
pass proposition and heard himself
called d crank because he wanted to
prohibit the pass business. When the
committees considered his bills it was
to kill them and finally when he did
get bill reported out he had hard
work keeping them from cutting all the
life out of it and accepted a very mild
measure finally. Now the trouble is
all the other way. Senator Hughes
this session introduced a measure con-