Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-19
VOTERS MUST GIVE
PARTY AFF|L|AnON
Senate Passes Primary Bill in
Form as Agreed to on
Monday
DEMOCRATIC AMENDMENT FAILS
Effort to Have Party Affiliation Clause
Eliminated Turned Down by Friends
Of tho Measure - House Postpones
Consideration Until Wednesday -
Suffrage Bill Prepared.
Special to rimes-Republican

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, March 19.-The house
laid over the primary bill until to-
morrow and the senate spent the fore
noon on the bill, making only such
amendments as are necessary to har-
monize the bill with the amendments
adopted yesterday. All references TO
judicial nominations were taken out
of the bill and the senate again voted
down the democratic movement to have
party affiliations taken out. The bill
was passed at this afternoons ses-
sion.
Vote on the primary bill was 46 to 2.
sAs
The house passed bills as foil VS.:
The senate bill requiring yestibules
on the front platform on street cars to
be entirely enclosed.
The senate bill giving minority
stockholders OF insurance companies
representation.
The house bill limiting salaries OF
officers of mutual Insurance COM
paniea.
The house bill allowing cities land
towns to pay membership fees to the
League of Iowa Municipalities.
The house bill providing for val
uation of life insurance policies.
Meredith, Of Cass, has prepared and
will introduce a bill giving women a
right to vote at city and town elec-
tions.
Des Moines. March 19.-Who made
it possible to have primary bill? II
is certain there are in the senate about
twenty-five or twenty-three senators
who are first, last and all the time for
a primary bill. They needed the help
OF, five or six more. The first test vote
on the amendment showed thirty two
,oies. This included six democrats
and also five or six republicans who
might have been on the other side. The
vote was as follows:
Ayes-Allen, Burgess, Clark, Dear
mand, Dowell, Dunham Eckles, Eric
son, E'rudden, Gillilland, Hopkins,
Hughes, Jackson, Kimmel, McKlveen,
McManus, Mates, Maytag, Moon,
Newberry, Peterson, Saunders, Seeley,
Smith of Mitchell, Stirton, Stucksla-
ger, Turner, Warren, Whipple, Wilson
of Fayette, Wilson of Clinton, Young.
Nays-Bleakley Bruce. Elerick, Fol-
ey, Gale, Jameson of Page, Jamison
of Clarke, Jones, Lambert, Nichols
Smith of Des Moines, Stookey, Taylor,
Wade, Whiting.
A fair analysis of this vote, on a
basis not much in favor now, but which
would have been appropriate a year
ago, would show that of those who
voted for the bill there were eighteen
six democrats; of those who voted
against it there were eight standpat-
tiers and seven democrats. Everyone
is at liberty to draw his own conclu-
sions from this. The absent ones were
Crossley, Kline and DeWolf.
As a matter of fact the compromise
was arranged not between any GER
tain classes but in the various informal
conferences republicans and democrats
counseled without any regard to fac
tional lines. The compromises of the
senate were made by men who believed
that compromises are necessary, and
that it is the duty of the legislature to
get the best possible primary bill. The
radicals gave up their demand for a
majority primary and the conserva-
tives yielded in the matter of a straigh.
plurality. The democrats were con-
ceded the 35 per cent clause and the
elimination of the judges.
The temper of the senate while con-
sidering the primary bill was in such
marked contrast to that of year ago
that everyone was pleased There was
no pickering, no charging of bad faith
no fiery denunciation of those who ia
vor primaries, no repetition over and
over again of accusations against the
governor of the state, no insinuations
as to demagogery, no sneering at re-
form measures as such. The senator's
with the exception of a very few, came
together in honest endeavor to meet
the wishes of the people of the state
in the matter Of a primary law.
There is disposition on the part Of
the members of the house, and espec-
tally among those who are strongly fol
primary, to refuse to agree to the
compromise measure Of the senate
They say that they do not like the 8;
per cent clause and they prefer to pass
bill that will have provision only fol
a plurality nomination. 1t is regarded
as certain that there are sufficien
votes in the house to pass the bill JUS
as it came from the hands of the com
mittee. But even if this is done il
means that the bill will go into the
hands of a conference committee ane
in the end be about as the senate has
fixed it up.
The democrats made their party rec
ord on the measure. Senator DeArman6
offered the democratic amendments ir
a group, providing for no party dsclar-
alton in the primary, the exemption
of judicial nominations. the appHca-
ton of the law to cities Of the frs
class and giving permission to party
committees to hire party workers
These amendments were rejected in 9
group.
when the bin was taken up to be