Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-23
STATE MARSHAL
BILL DEFEATED
Senate Votes Down Measure
Fathered by Temperance
Factions-House is Busy.
Des Moines Bureau
OF the Ottumwa Courier

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The state marshal bill got 1S votes
In the senate. Some of the friends OF
the measure expected at least twenty
votes and probably could have got
them on chance to pass the bill. a.
G. Rankin put on his overcoat and
left the state house ready to begin the
next two-year campaign. The votes
for the bill was as follows:
Allen. Bleakley, Burgess Clark, Dun
ham, Ericsson Gale. Gillilland, jamie
son of Page, Kimmel, Kline, NC
Klveen. Nichols, Peterson, seeley,
Stuckslager, Turner, Whiting.
In the debate Durham made an i'm
| FASHIONED address, reviewing the work
done and the necessity for some ac-
ton to secure enforcement Of the
laws. He declared that SO per cent OF
the cost of crime comes indirectly
from the liquor traffic and it should be
made to bear the cost of enforcement
| He referred to the fact that the petit
tons sent here by thousands have re-
ceived no attention, and he warned
| the senators that the time has come
for the temperance people to get into
politics and see that their views are
recognized
Cost Objected To.
The most effective address in oppo-
sition came from DeArmand, who dis
sected the bill as business PROPOSE
ton. 1t eentemplates five marshals at
| $1,000 year and 80 deputies, and he
figured out that the lowest cost would
be $4,000 and the possible cost $780,
600 every two years. This enormous
expense would come out of the coun-
| ties that do enforse the law for the
benefit of enforcement In counties
where there is violation of the law
The bill contemplates diverting 500
year from funds received from saloon
| licenses, so that Scott county, for IN
stance would have to pay for the sup
port of this. law $4,000 year, not to
enforce laws in that county, but to be
used in other counties The senate
was celebrating on advancing 20
$4,000 year the pay of worthy and
competent men in the service OF the
state yet here 1t was proposed to pay
1 $1,000 a year to men of doubtful use
| fulness to the state.
Moon on MuIct Law.
Senator Moon opposed tie bill, but
doubted If the county attorneys would
cease doing their duty as to other law
or If the liquor interests would take a
larger interest in politics. If the bill
were passed. The senator alluded to
the contradiction of the mulct law, and
spoke of it as the offspring of parent
suffering from brain storm. 'But the
law is not devoid of means of enforce
|ment," he continued. Indeed. 1T ex-
4 tends an invitation to everybody to
help enforce 1.-THE good, the bad and
the Indifferent. Handles for enforce
ment bristie all over it. Now a special
law for it's enforcement, and an expen
sive law, too, Is proposed. II means
, for instance, that Wapello county
which enforces the law, must pay $40,
, 900 to enforce the law in dry counties
, where when the McManus bill was Up
the senate was told, 1t was shame t.
, allow liquor to be shipped in from
, Iowa manufactures"
!; Senator Moon Calculated the provis
ions of the present law. calculated II
aid in it's easy enforcement.
There was large attendance o
; outsiders present when the bill wa
!. considered. The bill was supported b;
petitions from many parts Of the stat
!. and by the State Marshal league. !
! had been reported by two committee
+ OF the senate.
J, House Busy.
That the house proposes not to b
:. behind on the final showing Is evi
:, denced by its action yesterday, Whe
it passed twenty house bills. By actio
Of the house in the morning 1t wa
agreed that house bills which hav
q been neglected some days would b
considered through the entire da!
There were SO measures on the nous
calendar when 1t started in in tn
morning. Twenty measures were pass
ed and three killed and one referre
IF to the Judiciary committee making Z
bills in all that were acted upon =
the house yesterday. But few ne
/ @oI f~oY onY
and so the size of the calendar we
:. materia :iy reduced.
Among the bills acted upon wei
A. some of the most important up tn
"a session Among other things the hou
&c went on record as opposed to the or
xe alton Of department of insurant
al separate from the auditors office al
in favor of changing the banking d
al partment to the state treasurer's offie
90 the municipal accountant DEPARTING
a. to the secretary of states Office al
~, the notary public business entirely
the governors office.
IL Many Bills Passed.
ne The bills passed by the house We
~ terday were:
Joint freight rate bill. Bill enlar
q ing powers of railroad commissio
giving commission authority to fix e
Up, press rates; switching banking d
ler partment to treasurer's Office and OF
er changes; antibuc et-shop bill
1,. compelling railroads to kill wee
TN along their right o. way; permitti
cities of $500 to build hospitals; pr
I. hibiting distribution of samples
10 medicine; allowing damages for ia
ure to deliver baggage; amending
81 law as to cattle guards; protect
pheasants till 1915; amending the Il
as to compensation of assessors; pi
tecting fish; amending the law as
ne ne requirements of kindergarten teachel
" changing the law as to filling vaca
cies on high school boards: restrict
certain institutions to 500 feet of
public school,
Making an appropriation for
In heirs of James Seby Parsons.
The bills killed were:
- The pure drug and anti patent me
nv. cine bill; the bill fixing salaries
~ county supervisors: the bill raising
~ salaries Of county recorders and tn
IS deputies; the bill which limits
hours Of employment of telegraph I
orators was sent to the Judiciary co