Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-20
CITY government
BILL Is PASSED
Senate Adopts Measure Central
izing Control Of Munich
pal Affairs
Ho,,sE PASSES FREIGHT BILL
HOUSE PASSES FREIGHT BILL
Joint Rate Measure Goes Thru With
Little opposition-RaiIway commis-
sion Sill Also Passed-House Puts
Primary Bill Over for Day-I7atent
Medicine Measure Killed.
Special to Times Republican.

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Des Moines, March 20.--The senate
today passed the bill to revise munt-
cipal government in Iowa and to sep
arate the executive and legislative
functions of the mayor and council
The bill reduces the number of wards
in cities of the second class and pro-
vfdes for appointments by the mayor
without reference to the council.
The state marshal bill was discusse
for an hour in the senate and the dis
cussion was continued this afternoon
Senator Durham presenting the merits
Of the bill
/, The senate considered in executive
session appointment of John T. Ham
ilton to succeed himself on the board
of control.
Offil, of Jasper, introduced a hill as
sessing every voter So who fails TO vote
at primary election.
The house ordered the senate pri-
mary bill printed in the Journal and
deferred consideration till tomorrow
The house defeated the patent med
icine bill
The house today, practically without
opposition, passed joint freight rate bill
and the bill giving the railroad. COM
mission authority to prosecute inter-
state determinations against Iowa pe-
fore the interstate commerce commits :
sion The house also passed the anti
bucket shop bill A bill giving the rail-
road commission authority over express
companies to fix rates, and the bill
prohibiting the throwing of patent
|,medicine samples about.
On motion of Miller, of Eremer,
K9ortz OF johnson, was escorted to
the speakers desk this afternoon and
represented with a red neck tie in honor
of his birthday.
Jobbers and wholesalers who are
boosting the bulk sales bill are claim
ing that politics has had something to
do with the minority report Of The ju-
dietary committee of the house against
the bulk sales bill. They do not make
the claim very strong, however, and
intimate that there will be no difficulty
in getting the bill passed. The bill
prohibits a retailer who has bought a
stock of goods on credit selling the
stock in bulk without the consent of
the wholesaler or joober from whom
it was purchased.
There will be $4,000 swine pavil-
ion but no new amphitheater at the
state fair next year. The appropria-
tions committee of the house today re-
ported substitute appropriation bill
appropriating the money for the. swine
pavilion, but none for the amphitheater
for which the original bill appropriated
another $4,000. This action is under
stood to be a compromise between the
two committees of the house ard SEN
ate.
Senator Mates square deal bill
passed the house yesterday and now
goes to the governor for his sigma
ture.
It gives minority stockholders i'm in
surance companies representation on
the board of directors
There was no opposition in the house
to the passage of this measure. In
supporting it Representative Paule B..
Stillman of Jefferson, in charge Of the
BILL said that when the bill was pend
ing in the senate. some one with great
felicity had dubbed it "the square deal
bill''