Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-02
PRIMARY BILL ABOUT READY
selsctiOu Of Delegates to National cOnvsn-
tiou One Point Yet Unsettled
BRINGS PRIMARY TOO EARLY IN YtAF
Des Moines Corporations Agree to n
Raise IN Their Assessment and
the Annual Fight IL Thus
Disposed OF.
CFrom a SIAN Corresnondent.l

From Stan Correspondent
DIES MONIES, Ia. March i.--Cspecial.)-
Whether or not to provide for a primary
vote on delegates 10 the national party
conventions is the one remaining question
to be settled before the primary election
measure is reported by the committees to
the senate and house. The members Of
the subcommittee are quite agreed that
there shall be a primary selection of presi-
Dental electors Should 1t be determined
to have a primary election choice Of dele
gates to the national conventions 1t is
feared that for the election of 1908 this
would be impossible for the reason that the
proposed bill contemplates holding the pri-
mary In June or later and that Is about
the date on which It Is expected the ma
tional parties will hold their conventions.
This situation however, may only neces-
state some special arrangement for that
year. However, 1t was first proposed to
have the primary sregularly in August,
which would always be after the date Of
the national conventions. June, even, would
be too late for choosing delegates by pri-
mary to national conventions in some years
and to select the delegates two years in
advance is hardly thought practicable. The
idea Is that a late date for a primary is
n short campaign but to select national
convention delegates by primary vote
means an early primary date. Inasmuch
as Iowa may have presidential candi-
date the matter is of more than passing
Importance.
At the first primary election, which will
be in 1905 II the proposed bill passes. there
will be a party declaration at the primary,
but after that the party declaration will
be made at the general election preceding
the primary. Unless, however, voter
changes his place of residence the party
declaration once made stands, subject to
modification by the voter. The bill now
prepared makes the supervisors the can
wasting board for all but state Offices,
which will be canvassed by the executive
council. The committee. has been advised
that Il would be dangerous TO allow con-
tests to go directly to the courts. The bill
repeats the Polk county law and the new
law will apply to Polk county as well as
the rest of the state. Wilson and Darrah.
the chairmen of the senate and house sub
committees. win complete the bill probably
during the recess adjournment.
VIII Assess Corporations.
BY agreement the assessment of the vari-
Gus public corporations Of this city is, to be
increased. The agreement has been reached
the city assessor and the corpor-
atoms Annually the assessor has elevated
the assessment and the city council sitting
as a board of review, has lowered 1t. This
year compromise has been reached and
the corporations have agreed not TO ask
that the figures be lowered. 1t will add
several thousands to the city revenue.
Des Moiues Covered with sIeet.
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During the night the rain froze as fast as
1t fell and street car traffic was delayed for
several hours this morning till the ice could
be removed from the trolleys and the rails
Fight oyer Board Fence.
Nine candidates are In the field for po-
sitions OF member OF the Board of Eduea-
ton OF the Capital Park district of this
city and the entire contest is due to high
board fence dividing the playground. The
board built the fence in the back yard to
separate the boys and girls Fairgrounds
The back yard was full of cinders and the
parents objected to It and demanded that
1t be removed 10 the front of the school
yard where there is grass.
McEIroy Nominated Trustee.
Sixth district republican members Of the
at a caucus, nominated w. o.
AfcElroy of Newton TO succeed himself as
trustee Of the Agricultural college.
Passenger Bill signed.
Governor cummins today signed the last,
Of the bills that have been passed and
placed in his hands, and among the num-
Der was the maximum passenger fare BILL
known as the 2-cent fare bill. The gov
ernor has thus far signed thirty-three
bills.
HOOt IL at Liberty.
Jerome Hoot, convicted in Waterloo of
sending his wife an internal machine with
the intent Of killing her and sentenced to
eight years In the penitentiary, was re-
leased yesterday. The evidence at his trial
showed that he had the machine made in
Omaha, bought the dynamite in Des
Moines and expressed the box to her from
The express Office on receiving
the box was suspicious, and Mrs Hoot's
suspicious lead 20 an investigation by the
police and the box was allowed to explode
out in a vacant lot. Hoot was arrested In
New Orleans.
Watches Leg AmputatiOn.
]. w. Cliff of us Fifteenth street, in this
city. a patient at the Methodist hospital,
to take an anesthetie while the
doctors amputated his leg He watched
the operation and talked with the doctors
while the work was being done.
Library Broken Into.
The library of Des Molnes college was
scattered in confusion about the room
some time last night. The faculty is MAX
ing an effort 70 discover the guilty parties,
but without much hope of success. The
same trick was played several years ago
Boy IL Kidnapped.
Jesse Peterson, the 12-year-old son Of
Mrs. f. e. Sheriff. of this city. was kid
mapped on his way to school yesterday and
has not been found since. Two hundred
school children who are his playmates
helped the relatives in a search for the