Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-15
HURRY UP BILL IS PASSED
House Says Live Stock Must Be Moved at
the Rate Of Eighteen Miles Per Hour
BRYAN SPIKES SOME DEMOCRATIC PLANS
Declaration for Party Declaration on
Primary Election SpOns Scheme
of the Politicians to Play
False on Primary Bill.
(From a Stan correspondent.)

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DIES MONIES. Feb. 4.-CSpecial. AFTER
spirited debate today the house passed
the substitute for the Dorian bill. fixing
minimum speed TO the running OF live
stock trains. The vote was IS for the bill
and against. The only opposition TO
the measure was on the ground that Il
affected chiefly, IL not entirely. interstate
commerce, which It is claimed makes the
bill Illegal. This idea was expressed on
the floor by Weeks Of Guthrie and in the
explanation OF his vote by Jones of Mont
gomery. The bill provides a penalty with
damages II a railroad moves a train In
which there Is live stock and which is
made up of twenty cars or less at less
than twelve miles an hour and in larger
trains II moved at less than eighteen miles
an hour the provision being that on
branch lines the slower time can be made,
but on the main lines the fast time must
he made. It was claimed by Weeks that
only 81 per cent Of the live stock ship
ments originate and terminate within the
state of Iowa. Doran claimed that the
bill did not require anything that was
not done voluntarily by the railroads prior
to 1903. and answered the argument of
Attorney J. c. Davis of the Northwestern,
who claimed II is a physical impossibility
to move trains fast as required by the
bill by exhibiting the time card of the
Northwestern and showing that other
trains carrying dead freight move as fast
as twenty-one miles an hour.
Teaching Agriculture In Schools.
Paul of Jones county introduced a bill
today that provides way in which agri-
culture can be taught in the rural schools
The bill provides that school directors can
purchase and hold for school sites and for
agricultural experiment stations not ex-
ceeding five acres or in towns and cities
not exceeding one block.
Geneva today introduced a bill exempting
from taxation ali rural and farm telephone
lines that are not organized for profit and
which do not pay dividends.
House Bills Passed.
The house today passed the bill by Arney
providing for preserving the record so that
when inmates OF the Soldiers home be-
come insane the cost of their maintenance
can be charged to the county from which
they come.
Senate Proceedings.
The senate passed a bill by Turner to
| authorize the State Board Of Educational
Examiners to validate the certificates of
persons coming from other states where
the professional requirements are up to
the standard in Iowa. The senate also
passed two bills relating to proceedings
in court in mandamus cases.
Senator Gillilland introduced two bills
having relation to the c. o. d. liquor
business of the state, one placing the COM
panies handling the business under re-
quirement to observe the mulct law and
the other applying the same law to all
persons handling G. o. D. liquors.
| Senator Durham offered n hill reouirinv
that in counties having a population above
5000 the Board of Supervisors be required
to maintain place other than in con-
nection with any Jail or other similar place
to be known as a home and school for
defective. delinquent and dependent chill
dren.
Farm Goes to Nephew,
| The supreme court decided in a somewhat
famous case involving a fine 2OO-acre farm
in Adair county, that the farm belongs Il
Peter A. Bevington, nephew of the late
DR.. c. D. Bevington of Winterset, and tina,
II was given to the nephew in fact. There
had been no legal conveyance of the farm
ana nothing in the will to indicate the
GIT, but the nephew had long occupied the
land and by common knowledge It was
a gift to him from his uncle The lower
court decided 1t to be not a gift, but the
supreme court decides in favor OF this
nephew.
Bryan Spells Plans.
II appears from what happened here or
Tuesday that William ]. Bryan put Grimm
In one plan which had been worked out b,
small coterie of the democrats in tn,
legislature for repaying in part their per
sonal obligations of the lasr campaign.
The distinguished Nebraskan at the it'll,
banquet given him by the democratic mem
J bers of the legislature expressed himself
freely on the details of the primary biI
the democrats as such should support. ant
he came squarely into conflict with tn,
view held by some of the members tina
there should be no separation Of those o.
different parties in the primary election
He was asked as to whether It was demo
cratic to provide for a party declaration
In the primary law. He replied most EN-
phatically that 1t was good democrati,
doctrine and in his opinion a bin without ,
provision for party declaration was no
good.
But under the leadership of Chairna,
Miller and some others the democrats O
the legislature have been getting ready I,
hnd fault with the committee bill that Il
being prepared and to make an excuse IN
being for primary bill, but not for IN,
primary bill reported. and they have bee,
engaged In working up a demand on thei
part FOR a wide open primary, with no part,
declaration. But the attitude Of Mr. Bryai
has spoiled all this.
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