Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-20
Governor Places Stamp of APP
prevail on the Measure as
Passed By the Senate
PLURALITY CLAUSE
Believes, However. That IS Per Cent
Clause Will Nominate Nineteen of
Twenty candidates-House Kindly
Disposed to the BilI-Warehouse Re-
ceipts Bill Permanently Referred.
Special to Times-Republican.

DeS MoineS, March 2U.0doVerHoi
Cummins was in the senate yesterday
when the vote was taken on the pri-
mary bill He had watched the pro-
gress Of the debate with keen interest
and in general he approved what was
done to make possible the passage tf
good primary bill. Everybody felt bet
ter when the vote was taken-46 to
Governor Cummins said soon after:
"The bill is good. It will fairly NEE.
the desires of the people. or course !
should have preferred plurality pei
mary system, but under the S5 per cent
clause / believe it will nominate 19 out
OF 20 of the candidates. hope the bill
will pass and believe 1t will.
1t was the irony Of fate that Senator
Crossley, the hardest and most ose-
sisgent fighter for a primary law, could
not he present to speak for the blu or
to vote for it, he being under quaran-
tine Jones, of Mahaska, was the only
other one who did not go on record.
and Jones had denounced the bill biz
terly and branded it as fraud. Nichols
and De Armand voted against the otif
The latter probably expressed the
democratic view when he placed the
following in the record as his reason.
II vote no on this bill for the reason
that its main provisions are IN dlrecl,
violation of democratic principles ana
it agrees with the democratic idea Of
primary only in name"
There was some surprise that the
vote was so nearly unanimous as 1t was;
supposed several who had shown dis,
position to treat the whole primary
matter as dishonest would stand CUE
to the end. But before the end came
they were as tame as kittens and would
take medicine right out of the hand.
The changes in the bill from the com
mittee draft were:
Plurality with IS per cent clause.
Applying the law to cities of first
class.
Elimination Of the judges.
1t is no secret that the democrats
might have secured the concession as
to party declaration had they worked
1t right, but they did not play the game
very well at the end The proposal of
Gale to have the primary passed upon
at the first election and before 1t hal
ever been tried was too ridiculous So-
anyone to consider.
The house members are taking a
different view of the matter since
Monday and there is now but little
doubt the bill will go thru that body
substantially as it passed the senate.
mr.. - <+;o.. re tha indiniorv commit
tee Of the house in voting to report
for indefinite postponement the ware
house receipts bill has never been re-
ported to the house and the indications
are that it will not be. The bill had
more gilt edge endorsements than any
other bill that was before the legisla-
ture. The National Bar Association,
National Bankers Association and Ma
tional Warehouse Association all en-
dorsed the bill and asked Iowa and all
the other states to pass it. Conse-
quently when the committee voted to
kill 1t its friends made some inquiries.
They discovered that the opposition to
the bill came from Sioux City and was
the result of confusion In the minds OF
the intelligent business men of that
place IN WHICH lHey got lie Warehouse
bill mixed UP with some other meas
ures. AS result Harding of Wood
bury, opposed the bill in the judiciary
committee. The bill makes several
pagessof printed matter and the sub
ject matter Is not as Interesting read
ing as, a dime novel and hence the ju-
dietary committee rather than take any
chances voted against it. Mr.. Harding
left last night for Sioux City where
the matter viii be laid before the Conn
mercial club and when he returns the
judiciary committee will likely report
the bill for. passage. .