Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-16
REPORTS FIRST GR|ST
Of RAILWAY BILLS
House Committee Sends Three
Important Measures Out
For Passage
ONE REMOVES a HANDICAP
aE REMOVES A HANDICAP
Empowers State Commission to Bring
Action Before Interstate Board-Lit-
tie Opposition Anticipa tsd-Teter
Bill kilIsd-Prospeots for Passage
of Regents BilI--Lesislative News.
Special to Times, Republican.

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Special to Timesy Republican.
| Des Moines, March 16.-The first
round in the cleaning UP by the rail-
road committee of the house was made
yesterday when the joint freight rate
bill, the bill giving the railroad COM
| mission power to prosecute interstate
Determinations against Iowa before the
] interstate commerce commission, and
| the bill giving the commission author
| ity over express companies, We're re-
ported for passage. All three Of the
bills are important and now that the
house has passed the two-cent fare.
reciprocal demurrage and anti-pass
bills; these three are perhaps the most
important railroad bills left to- act
upon.
When the committee acted upon
these it also acted in favor OF the
Flugum bill requiring railroads to kill
| the weeds along their tracks and the
Weeks bucket shop bill, and killed the
Teter bill requiring railrpads to furnish
information to telephone exchanges as
to whether or not trains are on time
and several other minor measures. It
is expected that by today or Monday
the committee will have acted on all
the remaining bills in Its hands.
One of the handicaps on the Iowa
railroad commission base been the fact
that it could do nothing in relation to
interstate rates. 1t could recommend
to railroad but its recommendation
body else recommendation. II it finds
that Iowa is Disseminated against In
the future on Interstate rates, II the
bill has been recommended for passage
becomes a law, it can institute suit be-
fore the interstate commerce commits,
sion in the name Of the state Of Iowa
and the attorney general must prose-
cute the suit. 1t is believed that the
bill will have no difficulty in passing
both houses at this session.
The bill appropriating money to-
place a statue Of Senator Harlan in the
hall Of fame at Washington has been
made special order in the house, for
Monday at 10 o'clock.
DR.. Elliott in the house has intro
duced bill making it punishable Of
tense to distribute samples Of medi-
cine on doorsteps where children can
get hold Of them.
$50
Z While it is true that Senator Hughes
who represents the university district
in the senate, voted for the board Of
regents bill, Representative Koontz,
who represents the university district
in the house, is bending every energy
to effect defeat OF the bill in the house,
and he has every reason to believe
that he will be successful. OF course
he is assisted in every way by Rep
resentatives White and Feeley, whose
constituents are also interested. But
Mr.. Koontz, as oldest member of the
house, a man of few words but of
great resources in matters OF 1egisla-
ton, must have the chief burden Of
handling the regents bill The adj
vocates. OF the bill claim that they
have upwards OF seventy votes in the
house for the measure, and If this is
true, it will become a law and there
will be one board instead of three to
handle these institutions.
There is ITO be an excursion from
along the lines OF the Minneapolis &
st. Louis railroad, from as far as AL
bert Lea, to the legislature on March
%, and several hundred school child
rem will be brought here. Excursions
of this character have not been as fire.
quent this year as in the past, but the
Minneapolis is quite active in the ex-
cursion business in this state and in |
Minnesota.
The senate committee on appro-
priations has approved and recon-
mended the appropriation for the
bronze statue OF James Harlan to be
placed In the hall Of statuary at Wash
ington.
The pure seeds bill, which also In
cludes pure stock foods, has been re-
turned to the senate from the appro-
priations COMMITTEES with a favorable |
The friends of this
bill charge bad faith and deceit on the
part OF the men who manufacture
stock foods. It is stated there was a 4
fair and square agreement between
the agricultural interests and the
stock food people, and the bill as in
troduced conformed in every respect
to that which the stock food people
said they would accept; but the stock
food people have been here fighting
all legislation Of this kind.
The appointment of T. 3. McCurdy, |
Of Buchanan county, to be custodian of
the state capitol and public grounds,
was sent to the senate by the governor,
and it is now in the hands of a COM
nittee of the senate consisting Of Pc
.erson, Smith, Durham, Maytag and
Stirton. This Is the usual proceeding
The nomination will be confirmed.
Some effort has been made to start
light against McCurdy. but it appears
20 have lost force with the f1asco of the
Miller attack on the old soldiers. Nc
yurdy was former member OF the
legislature and he is an old soldier with
| fine record. He also was one of those
Who went upon the southern trip to
ledicate the monuments, and it was
while on this trip that he stopped off
1t the battlefield where he was
and found his way to the
arm house where he was carried ON
'tretcher and lay on the porch until
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