Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-21
Proposal to Consolidate Con-
troll Of Three Institutions
Has Support
AMEs' FRIENDS WILL OPPOSE
Strongest Opposition Will Come From
Agricultural College - Hamblston's
Anti-Tippins Bill Far Reachins in
lite Effects-other Important Lesis-
lative Gossip.
pecial to Times-Republican.

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Des Moines, Jan. INSTRUMENTATION
Of the governing boards Of the state
educational institutions is bound to
come to the front at the present SEES
sion Of the legislature, and altho II is
q subject which has been but little
discussed lately and the agitation mas
apparently died out, 1t is likely to make
a strong showing before the general
assembly. The report of the joint com
mittee OF the Thirtieth general assem-
bly, will be in the hands of the mem
bers of the. Thirty second, and It VIII
for,nSthe baAts .of the support for the
measure. -Four of the men who made
that report are members Of this legis-
lature-Messrs. whipple, Teter. Turn
er and Lambert. Every one of these
men is In favor of the consolidation
They gave loyal support to the meas
ure for board Of regents to handle
the business of the institutions at Iowa
City, Ames and Cedar Falls, In the
last legislature, and at an early date
they will meet and decide upon plan
of campaign to, push the matter thru
the present session. 1t Will not ps
urged, however, until the primary cleo
ton and railroad reform measures are
well out Of the way. This is likely to
be very early in the session. Then the
board of regents bill will be brought TO
the front.
1t has been known all along thai
Governor Cummins IS opposed TO the
consolidation idea. But as ne Is
member of each one of the boards
which it is proposed to abolish he has
never taken any part In trying TO pre-
vent fair discussion Of the measure.
This fact of his opposition was Wen
known during the last campaign; out
the fact that such large number OF
the voters, especially in Johnson ana
Black Hawk counties, voted condem-
nation OF the governor, may form tne
basis Of convincing argument that
the people Of those counties. at least,
are not in favor Of the present system.
They knew that the governor was IN
favor of continuing the present system
but voted against him In large num-
bers. They will thus be estopped from
fighting the board of regents measure.
1t is stated that the strongest oppo-
sition to the proposed consolidation OF
the boards will come from the friends
OF the Agricultural college. In some
way 1t is believed, especially by the
agricultural interests, that consolida-
ton of the boards would be harmful to
the college at Ames more than to the
others.
Those who are preparing to take up
the board of regents bill give assur-
ance that they plan nothing that WILL
in any way, do injustice to either one
of the three state institutions.
$50
The bill by Hambleton, Of Mahaska,
that will be known as the anti-tip bill,
goes far deeper than tips" tho 1t
makes tips illegal and hxes a penalty
ranging from $40 to $500 and impris-
onment UP to one year as the penalty.
The bill is designated officially one to
prohibit corrupt practices on the part
of agents. 1t is designed to make H.
legal any action of an agent accepting
commissions in addition to his regular
salary from his employer when the
Commission comes from some person
other than his employer. Representa-
tive Hambleton is endeavoring to cut
off and make illegal an endless amount
OF petty graft For instance. agents Of
contractors are said to get a commits
sion wherever they can get certain
kinds Of stone used in work. Travel
ing men are alleged to be paid spe-
cial commission by manufacturers for
pushing the sales of certain goods even
when the employer of the travelling
man may be handling other goods OF
the same kind as we'll. and it may be
to his disadvantage to have travel
ing salesman push one brand to the
detriment Of others. The bill is far
reaching in that direction. Mr.. Ham
bleton has fortified himself with some
interesting figures on the subject. and
when his bill is called up will be able
to furnish the house with some infor-
nation on the subject. He has ascer-
tanned that 100000 is spent in the
United States in tipping Pullman por-
tiers and restaurant employees, and that
class Of persons. He has furthermore
ascertained that q standard Pullman
porter gets smaller salary than a
tourist porter because the latter gets
few IL any tips, which shows that the