Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-08
HEAP MUCH TALK
ON regents Bill
Iowa Senate Using Much Time
When Alignment is Already
Known
elLLlLLAND BREAKS LOOSE
Processes to Oppose Bill Because It
Gives Governor Power to Appoint
Overwhelmingly Bill Unani-
mously Reported by Judiciary Com
mittee-Printsr and Binder Bill.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines March S.-Debate with
out expectation of changing a vote is
the order of the day In the senate on
the board of regents bill. Senator Gil
lilland. who yesterday shook OIL the
letharey which came over him and his
band last November and emerging
from the retreat spoke with old-tlmc
yigor and merriment, admitted as
much. He indicated that probably not
n vote would be changed by anything
said in the debate. He opposed Nhe
board of regents bill; he denounced II
as having been born In malice; ne at
tackled it as having for its purpose the
injection of politics into the manage
ment of the institutions; he raised the
question of building up machine by
permitting governors to name the re-
gents rather than having it done by
the legislature Incidentally Giillilanu
made it known. as part of his argu-
ment something we'll known already
nv the voters in every county where
these institutions are located, that
Governor Cummins has been all along
opposed to the board of regents plan
for the colleges. But Gillilland let 1t
be known that his chief objection to
the bill Is that 1T will permit Governor
Cummins to name the first board OF
regents, and therefore that 1t will be
got into politics.
The bill as introduced contained the
provision that the board should nave
den-year terms, so that no one governor
could ever have the appointment OF
more than half Of the board. On mo-
ton Of Crossley this was changed to
six year terms. one-third of the board
to be named every two years.
The argument of Senator Whipple in
presenting the bill followed much the
lines of last year. He spoke OF the du-
plication Of work in the various insti-
tutions, the increasing cost because of
this fact. and declared his firm convic-.
ton that the system proposed would
be beneficial for all the colleges. In re-
ply to the assertions of DR.. Storms in
the letters; being sent out asking for
opposition to the BILL he showed that
educators elsewhere regard the system
as good, and he insisted that there was
nothing in the bNl, and could be moth
ing in the contemplated system especi-
ally directed at the college at Ames.
Whipple was sarcastic and somewhat
severe on the college president, and
resented the interference which his let
| out troa to1 "
that nothing is being done either for
or against the bill by persons connect
ed with either of the other colleges.
So
The senate today continued the de-
bate on the board Of regents bill, Smith
of Mitchell speaking for it, and Allen
in opposition. The debate was not fin
ished at noon.
The senate recommended the New
berry pure stock food bill to the ap-
propriations committee, to report in
three days.
The house passed the bill increasing
the salaries of deputy state officers to
$4,000 year, and defeated the bill to
exempt farm telephones from taxation.
The bill passed requiring mine owners
and operators to furnish shot fires.
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The reformatory bill of Senator
Saunders came to the floor of the sem
ate today with the unanimous recon-
mendation of the judiciary committee
chat it pass This means that it will
go over to the house very soon. The
committee will offer some amendments
at the suggestion of Saunders, the chief
one being that the age limit be re-
duced from 80 to 25 years. The ar
guments put up in behalf Of the con-
vict labor contractors against the bill
availed nothing in the committee, but
the representatives of these compan-
les are still here laboring to defeat re-
form.
The Peterson bill to forbid campaign
contributions for and on behalf of cor
porations, passed; the house. The bill
has been criticised by many who are
in sympathy with it's purposes because
of fear that it may cause trouble to
some persons who are officers or en-
ployes of corporations and who are ac-
tive in politics. But it has been shown
to the satisfaction of nearly every one
that the only kind of political activity
aimed at is that which concerns the
corporation as such. An effort was
made to amend the bill SO as to apply
only to railroad companies, but this
failed
The bill to have the state go on con-
tract system for the state printing and
binding will be killed by the commit
the committee feel
that the whole thing was a farce. 1t
was gotten up in the first place as a
part of a general program of mischief
making. Of which the Miller attack on
the soldier monument commissions
was a part. and for the same purpose.
and the hearings before the committee
have shown that there was really
nothing to the movement.
The senate judiciary committee has
recommended for passage the Allen bill
requiring that suit on notes taken by