Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-12
AN|FnPP|NG BILL
MOST SWEEPING
Measure Recommended For Pas
sage Broader Than Wiscon-
sin Law
APPROPRIATIONS UP THIS WEEK
Railroad Committee Sets Pace for
Hearings on Several 1iIls-Prospeots
For the Passage of Measures Look
ing to Better Municipal Government
Sunday Theater Bill Killed.

i ing to Better Municipal Government
Sunday Theater Bill Killed.
Special to Times Republican.
j Des Moines. March 12.--The mar
| Who tips the waiter or the sleeping cal
portersw will be liable to a fine of sci
to $500, or a years Imprisonment II
the Hambleton Bill passes and be-
comes ID law as recommended by the
house committee on judiciary. Wis
4 consin has Just such law on Its stat
i ute books. The! bill, which is now or
the house calendar, with favorable
1 Recommendation from the committee
fmakes 1t unlawful for any agent. repre-
A sentative, enploye, officer or agent OF
any private corporation or public Off
fetal. to accept ANY. gift commission,
discount, bonus or gratuity, connected
with, relating to or growing out Of any
business transaction It also makes 1t
unlawful for any person to offer any
bonus. gift or gratuity. The penalty
Inscribed is not less than $25 nor more
than $500. or not to exceed one year
| In the county jail. The bill provides
| that no one shall be excused from tes..
)tifying on the ground of determination,
but further provides that no testi..
mony shall be turned against the per-.
son testifying to work his conviction.
While the bill is patterned somewhat
after the wisconsin law, 1t Is much
| broader. The wisconsin law strikes
only at tipping In restaurants, sleeping
cars and the like. while the Hambleton
lbill strikes at all kinds OF graft, boil,
in public and private. 1t Is claimed
that merchants complain in Iowa be-
cause their travelling statesmen accept
commissions from manufacturers to
push the sale Of one factory's products
| to the exclusion 81 others. and while
they can of course discharge sales
man for 1t IL 1t was illegal, they would
not be under. the necessity Of doing so.
The big appropriations are to be tax
en- up this week and put out of the
way. The committees have been con-
sidering the measures from time to
ttime. The house committee Monday
took up the board Of control bills, and
the state educational bills were taken
up today. There Is some difference, be-
tween the house and senate committees
as to these, appropriations, and the
matter in a day or,two will be referred
to sub committees for conference.
These bills must be gotten out of the
way this week, for according to reso-
luton, no appropriation bill can be in
troduced after March is without unan-
iinous consent Of both houses.
In the house the railroads committee
set a swift pace in hearings for this
afternoon, when eleven measures were
taken up, The committee will NOT this
afternoon act on any Of the measures,
the entire time being devoted to hear
ings, but it Is the intention at the next
meeting tomorrow to act on as many
as possible and make final disposition
as rapidly as possible. The bills up
for consideration this afternoon are:
Stewards bill ordering a reduction in
the rates on live stock; Clarke's bill
relating to freight rates and ordering
that on the discovery that any other
state has cheaper rate than Iowa
the commission here shall put in at
once. the cheaper rate; Grier's recipro-
Gal demurrage bill applying to all
freight but live stock; Paul's bill re-
lating to life preservers on boats:
Conn's bill putting express companies
under the railroad commission; Mere
dith' $ bill requiring street car COM
panies to allow all interurbans to use
their terminals; Holmes bill fixing
rates for sleeping car companies;
Swans bills providing that eight hours
shall constitute q days work for tel
egraph operators and providing for a
state examination Of telegraph oper-
ators having anything to do with the
operation of trains; Flugums bill re-
quiring railroads to cut the weeds on
their right of-way;; and Clarke's bill
relating to reconsignment Of goods
without extra cost. This makes quite
a program for one days hearings.
81 A reckoning taken by the chief clerk
of the house on the action on bills
thus far shows that the following:
House bills enrolled and sent to the
governor, 20: senate bills enrolled and
sent to the governor, 80; bills passed
by the house and pending in the SEN
ate, SO; bills passed by the senate and
pending in the house, 20; house bills
in hands; OF house committees. 216;
house bills on house calendar, Is; SEN
ate bills on house calendar, 9: house
bills killed in house, 81; senate bills
killed in house, 5; house bills with
drawn. 20.
The house insurance committee has
recommended for passage the Jones
bills requiring an annual accounting
to the policy holders of the earnings
on his policy in life insurance COM
panies; a bill prohibiting the reassign-
ment of life Insurance policy with
out the consent Of the beneficiary;
and bill regulating the use of proxies
at the meetings of stockholders Or
policy holders in insurance companies
and prohibiting solicitation of proxies.
Betterment OF municipal government
in Iowa appears to be in sight. The
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