Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-15

DEMuRRAeE BILL TO BE FOUGHT
Probable That Railways Will Contest
in Court Legality of Reciprocal Bill
Fight on as to Who Will Enforce
Some of the Purity Measures to Be
Enacted Into Law.
special to Times Republican.

Special to Times- Republican.
! Des Moines, March 15.--There is
something of a fight under way as to
who will have tile enforcement of some
OF the purity bills that are before the
Legislature. The pure medicine bill
the pure stock fIood bill, the pure paint
bill and the pure seed bill have all by
their authors been attached to the state
food and dairy commissioners office
! for enforcement. The state pharmacy
commission rather thinks 1t should
have the enforcement of the pure drug
bill and the Suite Agricultural College
has figures to SHOW that In other states
| the, AGRICULTURAL college has the en-
lforcement of the pure stock food and
pure seeds bills. Champions OF the
measures, however. are saying that
with machinery of inspectors already
set in motion in the state food and
dairy commissioners office the work
can be done much more cheaply by
concentration Something Of a : fight
may result on these provisions.
In the meantime q little ginger was
injected into The bill for pure drugs
Iwhen Miller OIL Bremen got it amended
| SO that everj. doctors prescription
must be written out in red ink on the
label on the bOttle applying to the doc
tors, the same. provisions that the plll
would apply 10 the patent mediclne
concerns The bill tor a couple OF
weeks has lai;s dormant with little IN
terest in the subject because dts au-
thor. DR.. Clarke, has been SICK Whep
the proposition came up yesterday ON
the doctors rssturn, it was amended SO
as to make 1t apply to the doctors pc
fore the presrnce Of its friends In the
house could lie determined. The only
thing that could then be done to save
it was to send it back to the committee
and its frienls had this done They
say now thai they will have reported
out the national pure drug bill as near
ly verbatim us possible.
The pure stock food bill Is another
of the purity measures that is having
some hard shedding 1t Is in the hands
of the senate. and there Is opposition
to the provisions concerning the .condi-
mental stock foods that compels the
manufactures to print on the OUTSIDE
the list of the ingredients. TIE Dill IS
being delayed and 1t is feared that II
may be the plan to hold 1t with others
over till the, last of the session and
have 1t killed in the sitting commit
tee.
Reports that the railroads are active
in endeavoring to induce the president
to call a conference of governors OF
western states in an effort 10 mead
off hostile le,ytslation," has created con-
siderable discussion among the mem
hers OF the legislature. Several of the
leaders who have been instrumental 70
introducing and getting passed bills az
fecting the railroads discussed Freely
the legislation that has been proposed
thus far this session, and the claim is
made by all Of them that the legislation
is not hostile" and should not be
branded so by the railroads, but Is IN
the interests Of the public and only
such legislation as is needed to guar
antee the public their rights 1t is be-
lieved by many that the reciprocal de-
murrage bill probably is the most rad
ical legislation that is proposed, but 1t
only gives to the shipper the same IN
demnity if the railroad fails to furnish
a car that the railroad charges the
shipper if he fails to use the car after
it arrives or fails to unload 1t prompt
Wv when it reaches its place of destin-
alton. It ii. the claim. by the legislator
quite extensively that it is the arbi-,
trary conduct of the railroads them
selves that has made necessary the Leg
islation that is being enacted in many.
states and that the legislation is tardy
lis due, 1T is claimed, only TO the fact
that it has taken the people some time
ito get na1orities in the various legis-;
slatures. 4,
II is being anticipated by many
members of the legislature that the
railroads will fight the reciprocal de-
murrage bill in the courts and seek
to have II declared unconstitutional.
The bill provides that the roads must
furnishttc;ars when ordered, and in
failure to furnish cars must pay a de-
murrage Of 50 a day. If the bill passes
THE senate. Iowa will be the first state
Ito put such law on the statute books.
1t is anticipated that in the fight in
the, courts the railroads will bring up
a case where some shipper orders a
car from some small road of the Glass
B type. The road will fail to furnish
the car and in the suit that will fol-
low will advance proof to show that
Ii is unable to furnish cars and that,
therefore. the law is confiscatory. If
the law cannot be made to apply to the
smallest road in the state, it will be
argued to the courts that it is uncon-
stitutional and cannot apply to any of
the roads.
The visit of the Pioneer Lawmakers
Association to the legislative halls was
one of those picturesque events which
live lon!; in the memory. Here came
the men like Charles Aldrich. Judge
Cole. Alonzo Abernethy Isaac Brandt,
Warren DUNCAN, L. S. Coffin, Voltaire
Twombly. J. NJ. Davis and c. c..
Nourse, whose lives are a part of the
history of the state, and some of them
.f!k Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer