Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-14
NO SPURTS MEMORIAL DAY
EOuse Passes Bill Putting Down the Lid on
that Day.
PROVIDES JAIL SENTENCE FOR VIOLATION
Mrs. Fred West, Proprietor of Baby
Farm, Held without HAIL on the
Charge of Numbering Babe
Left In Her Charge.


(Froin a STAFF Correspondent
DIES MONIES, Feb 1S.-(Special.) -McAl-
listers bill making horse racing, base ball
and other sports a dissertation of Memorial
day and punishable by fine and imprison-
ment was debated for an hour this morn
ing in the house, amended several times
and then the house adjourned till this
afternoon at 1880 to continue the discus
sion. The question before the house when
II adjourned at noon was on an amend
ment offered by Miller of Bremen that
the enactlng clause be stricken out. This
was defeated this afternoon and the bill
finally passed.
Several covert efforts were made to
kill the bill before Miller of Bremen came
into the open with his amendment TO strike
out the enacting clause An effort was
made to send 1t to the judiciary commit
tee on the ground that 1t was imperfectly
drawn. Lee of Emmett called attention to
the fact that there was no limit to the
term of Imprisonment that judge might
fix and offered an amendment limiting
it to thirty days in jail which carried. The
law as finally passed prohibits sports or
anything that interferes with the orderly
observance of the day and the penalty
is fine of IS to 800 or imprisonment in
the county jail not exceeding thirty days.
House Proceedings.
In the house today the bill providing
for the assessment of rural and farm tele-
phone lines was reported for passage.
House Bills Introduced-By Marston,
hunters license law; by Mason, fixing the
neVs IN comntes wheye court is held in
more than one city; by Fox a legalizing
act; by Bixby, .appropriating 5000 to the
benent of the Corn Growers association;
by Clary, amending the law as to new
trials on newly discovered evidence; by
Sullivan, providing for teachers retirement
fund associations; by Swift, amending the
law in appeals in civil cases.
Send Back Bills.
The Teter bill prohibiting national banks
offsetting the assessment of their capital
stock with their debts, after being debated.
was sent back to the judiciary committee
from which a minority report favoring It's
passage was made in the first instance and
Schoenenberger's bill relating to road
taxes was also sent back to the committee
to be corrected.
Want Constitutional Convention,
The senate passed, 10 to 8. the Smith
resolution calling upon congress to arrange
for a convention to revise the constitution
of the United States with special reference
to popular election of senators. The six
who went on record as opposed to the
change in method of electing senators were
Durham, Gillilland, Stookey Jones, Jami-
son of Clark and Bleakley.
There was no argument on the resolu
ton, the standpatters having exhausted
themselves on the subject a year ago; but
Durham filed protest with his vote in
which he declared himself opposed to the
proposition of changing the method of
al hat tel ad 30 ri all
vention in a time of unrest, and because
Iowa has always had honorable men in the
senate.
Senate bills BY Selley, appropriation
for agricultural extension by De Wolf on
adulteration of drugs; by Stookey, defining
a bona fide subscriber.
Check to Divorces.
The senate passed the Jones bill to for
bid the guilty party in divorce proceed
ing from marrying for year after decree
of divorce has been issued.
The Hughes bill to make possession of a
railroad pass by juror in a case involv-
ing corporations cause for peremptory
challenge. was passed.
The house bill fixing a greater penalty
for turning in a false fire alarm was
passed
More Farm Schools.
Senator Seeley introduced a bill in the
senate to appropriate $4,000 for agricultural
extension work under the college at Ames.
The bill makes special arrangements for
5000 a year for the farm school at Mt.
Pleasant and also the same for similar
schools in northern Iowa at two points.
Mrs. West Bound over.
Mrs. Fred West whose trial in justice
court on an information charging her with
numbering an infant born at her hospital
has been going on for week, was today
bound over to await the action of the
grand jury without bail. Her attorneys
may bring an action in habeas corpus to
get her release on the ground that there is
no grand jury in Polk county, and as there
can be none till the legislature acts to
relieve the county. They will allege that
she cannot be given a speedy trial, as re-
quired by law. This afternoon Miss Anna
Beattie, head nurse at the West hospital.
was arrested on a charge of murder also.
1t is charged that she gave the first dose
of laudanum to the infant and that Mrs.
West gave two or three otner doses later
that ended the child's life.
Lumbermen End Session.
The southeastern Iowa lumbermen ended
their session at the Elks club last evening
in a banquet at which about 200 people
were present. followed with an address by
Governor Cummins.
Ohicers for the year were elected as fol-
lows:
President, c. D. Streeter of Keokuk; vice
president, l.. H. Wallace of Washington;
secretary and treasurer, c, NJ. Porter of
| OskalooSa.
Rule Against Red Autos.
1.-THE automobile was painted a bright
red and made a putting noise, such as was
calculated to frighten horses" So said the
supreme court in considering an automobile
damage case from Plymouth county A
pair of bronchos became frightened in the
streets of LeMars and Fred Raber got a
judgment OF $S5 against o. H. Kinds be-
cause thereof The only question was