Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-16
IOWA FRA1ERNALS
ARE HARD HIT
House Passes Bill to Prevent
Selling Insurance at Less
Than Fixed Rate
MAY KEEP OUT NEW ORDERS
Senate Adopts Bill Compelling Brand :
ino Of Paints and to Prevent AduI.
teration-TeIephone Assessment Bill
psfsatsd-Number Of New Bills In
4 troducsd in Both House and Senate.
ecial to Times-R Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Feb. 16.--ln the senate
To-day the bill to compel the branding
of paints and oils with their proper
constituents and to forbid adulteration
and generally to bring the handling Of
paints under the same law as foods and
seeds, was Passed.
The house passed the bill, so to 4o,
requiring fraternal associations doing
business in Iowa to adopt rates not
lower than those ixed by the national
congress of fraternals. The opposition
to this was on the ground that the law
i would create monopoly and prevent
any further organization OF fraternals
/ in the state
The bill to provide that rural tele-
phones be assessed as a part or the
real estate on which they are situated
and not by the state as at present, was
defeated.
| The house passed in two bills giving
i
greater authority.
| A'bill providing for state supervision
| of employment offices, and a bill rails
ing the age limit Of admission to the
school for the deaf from 81 to 80, were
also passed.
| Clary introduced bill providing for
a state board Of examiners of opticians,
and Hambleton bill exempting life
Insurance policies from taxation.
| The house this afternoon tabled the
resolution OF the senate to adjourn
February % to March s.
| Representative Cottrell has intro
duced bill providing that there shall
be department Of legislative refer
| ence created In the state library with
| competent person in charge to gather
| information for the legislature. The
person in charge is to be under the
| state librarian and is to have funds
available for use in getting all infor-
nation needed The bill Is along the
lines Of the action of many other states
| in creating such departments The
legislative agent is supposed to work
| all the year around collecting data
| Of every conceivable kind that any
legislator may wish.
I& . .
| The house committee on banking
yesterday decided to report out the
| bills decided upon by the bankers as
| sociation committee and the state aud
/ ftor respecting bank officials borrow
| ing money and the bank statements.
An interesting hearing was given on
the Jackson bill to rearrange the law
with reference to taxation of mort
lgages. Several persons appeared be-
fore the senate ways and means COM
mittee and spoke for or against the bill.
| Among those for the bill were A. F.
Call. George C. Scott and Mr.. Hop
kins all of Sioux City. Marshall
Treynor. representing an insurance
company, spoke against the bill. Bob"
Haines. Of Grinnell, discussed the bill,
ltd show that all moneys and credits
should be exempt from taxation. The
purpose of the bill, as stated by Sem
ator Jackson. is to place the lenders
of money in Iowa on a par with those
lin other states, so they can lend their
| money at home and so that money
can be borrowed of home companies
and the mortgages be kept at home.
The bill provides for taxation OF the
mortgages with the mortgaged prop
erty, either together or, at the option
of the mortgagor, separately, but at
one taxation figure. Mr. Treynor
thought the bill would be In effect an
exemption of the mortgages from tax
alton. The commirree did not decide
the fate of the bill.
Five members of the appropriations
committee made a minority report in
the house yesterday in favor Of letting
the Des Moines citizens who bought the
seven acres south of the state fair
grounds and decided 1t over to the state
hold the sack The directors Of the fair
wanted to sell off thirty acres of the
back end of the fair grounds and buy
the seven acres. The Des Moines men
believed that the thirty acres was too
valuable to part with and that the
state should hold it. In order that the
fair might not lose the seven acres
which is so valuable to 1t and which 1t
must have in order to care for the
crowds they bought the land and paid
for it and decided it to the state and
are now trusting to the legislature to
reimburse them. They are ]. II. Cow
ME. Jr., F. M. Hubbell and George
McCutcheon. The land cost nearly $6,-
600. A minority of the appropriations
committee consisting of Miller of
! Bremer, Price, Swift. Moore and Heles
reported against allowing the appro-
priation to reimburse them.
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