The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-02-07
TREATING MAY Be
MADE A CRIME
DOCTORS INSCRIPTIONS MAY
ALSO BE REGULATED.
LIQUOR LEGISLATION IN SIGHT.
Representative Dye of Decatur coun'
ty Springs New Bill In the
House Today - Various
Other Measures.

Des Moines. Ia. Feb. 2.-Represent
alive Dye of Decatur county today in
troiuced a bill in thu house prohibit
ing treating TO liquor in saloons OF
out, and restricts the proportion OF
liquor in doctors prescriptions.
To Enlarge Railway Commission.
There has been well defined rum
or In circulation for couple OF days
that an attempt will be made to tenn
porarily enlarge the membership OF
the railroad commission for the pur-
pose of conducting an investigation
OF the freight rates now in force in
this state.
Report has it that the bill will pro
pose the appointing OF from two to
four additional members Of the com
mission to serve for a short period
and for the purpose of aiding in the
Investigation of the rates which was
urged by the governor in his mes
sage to the legislature. This rumor
while it has grown rapidly in the
past 4S hours. seems exceedingly dif
ficult to trace to any definite source
The chairmen of the two railroad
are III a. ~
where the bill making this proposed
change will come from and no one
seems to know when it will be intro
duced except that it is expected any
day.
The matter was given some consid-
Grafton by the retail dealers associa-
ton a short time ago, but no definite
action was taken upon it. 1t was
stated today by gentleman who
declined TO give the source Of his in,
formation that in his opinion the bill
would be introduced in the House
early next week.
81 can't say just who will father
the measure" he said, "but / am OF
the opinion that such a bill is pre-
pared and only awaits a conference
with certain individuals before it
will be introduced"
Asked in regard to the provision of
the bill, he said: 81 understand 1t
will provide for the temporary APP
pointment of two additional members
of the Railroad Commission whose
duty il will be to at once enter into
a thorough investigation Of the
freight rates in force on the Iowa
roads. The whole commission will be
required to make this investigation,
but the new men are to give their at
tention to that subject alone, as I'M
derstand it. It Is probable, believe,
that the commission will also be in
structed, in case they find that the
rates are excessive, to put in new
rates"
The gentleman who made the above
-4o &, y1yntl fnfnFraed
but he would not state the source of
his information nor has anyone
been able to verify IT. It is possible
there may be such a bill in prepare
ton but the wise ones are-not ready
to accept or reject the rumor. One
thing is certain, however that an at
tempt will be made in some way to
have an investigation of the freight
rates during this session. either Nv a
legislative commission or by the rail-
road commission. The later course
IS believed to be more satisfactory to
the shippers, because the commission
would have the right to put in new
rates If the old ones were found to
be excessive, A right which could not
be delegated to a legislative commits
sion.
Let No Guilty Man Escape.
The Hughes AntiPass bill which
was introduced yesterday seems to
have been built on the plan of "let
no guilty man escape" II contains
a section which goes into the minut-
est detail regarding the exceptions to
the list of people to whom the rail-
roads are forbidden to issue trans
30 Tpaalrn dicnrfrn In
tive reduced rates. The bill applies
to common carriers OF passengers
operating steam cars, interurbans,
street railways, or sleeping cars and
1t provides that no such carriers may
directly or indirectly give any free
ticket, free pass or free transporta-
ton between points in this state to
any person except such as are spec
tally exempted by the law; nor shall
such carriers make any discrimina-
ton between persons purchasing
tickets at reduced rates. The list of
exceptions which includes persons to
whom free transportation may be is
sued, includes the officers, agents or
employees of the railroads and also
persons engaged in religious, charit-
able and eleemosynary work, togeth-
er with INDECENT and homeless per-
sons transported by charitable socie-
ties. Exemptions are also made in
favor of caretakers of live stock,
poultry and fruit. The list of excep-
tons is long one but there are no
provisions for any political mile
age" whatever. The punishment for
violating the provisions of the bill is
fixed at fine of from to 100 dol
lars and the giver and receiver are
made alike liable to such fines. The
common carriers are required to file
with the Executive Council on Feb
ruary LIST OF each year a statement OF
the persons who have been granted
transportation favors during the year
in order that the Executive Council
may be certain that none Of the par
ties not entitled to such favors have
received them.
Grist Of New Bills.
Among the important bills in the
house yesterday were the following:
By nberger-Amending the
law relative to exemptions TO Union
soldiers and sailors and their wild.