Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-07-29
Little to Be Undertaken in the
Way of Enacting New Re
form Measures
STRENGTH FOR PRESENT LAWS
Desired Amendments Will Be Added
to Primary and Other important
Statutes - Grain Men Of State Want
Repeal of Pure Seed Laws = Insur-
ance Department Again Proposed.
Special to imes-RepuDlcan.

| Special to Times -Repupncan.
| Des Moines, July 29.-Altho 1t is
some months before the legislature
smeets and altho the members of the
| legislature are not elected yet with the
exception of "a few senators who hold
over, 1t is as we'll known now as it will
be later on about the trend that legis-
! lation will take next January. There
4 will not be "a great deal of new pro-
| gressive legislation offered at the next
! session. For many years the people of
| Iowa wanted the anti-pass law and the
primary election law and other reform
measures but the majority of the legis-
/ lature was of the corporation leaning
and these measures were all defeated.
: Last session the people controlled the
legislature and as result lot Of
these reform measures were passed all
in bunch.
| For the coming session of the legis-
/ lature there is not great deal of that
sort of legislation left. There will be
SOlIle dI1euuIHeHtS 40 lIle oL-
fered both by the friends and enemies
! of the law The friends of the law will
tendeavor to strengthen it and probably
will endeavor if possible to amend 1t
so that the man who is unfortunate
enough to have his name begin with
| ~ will carry no more of handicap
| than the man whose name begins with
"A" The enemies of the bill will un
! doubtedly endeavor to amend the law
so as to defeat it's purpose entirely.
| But the main work OF the progress
ives of the next session of the legisla-
ture will be to guard against any re-
peals OF the progressive measures Of
the last session. Any movements to re-
peal the Peterson bill prohibiting the
corporations contributing to political
campaigns or to cripple the anti-pass
bill or the primary law will be fought
to the last ditch.
| On new legislation the things that
will attract the attention of the next
legislature will be the movement to
re-write the taxation laws of the state.
| If the friends of that movement sue
seed in getting the legislature to take
the matter up in real earnest there will
be enough work on that line alone to
take considerable amount of atten-
| ton.
Another thing that is quite sure to
take much attention is the report of
the school law revision commission
which will be completed by about the
first of September. so that the state
| will have four months in which to dis
cuss the report and criticize the re-
Communications.
The Anti-Saloon League will un-
doubtedly want some laws passed
holding the saloons down and the sa-
looms will undoubtedly have offered
some measures intended to make 1t
easier for the saloons. The State Mar
shals' club will probably have Rankin
! there during the session to lobby for
| the state marshals law.
The grain men of the state want the
pure agricultural seed law repealed as
does the association of seed men,
while the farmers organizations and
| the state food and dairy department
want the law strengthened.
There will likely be some measures
! offered looking toward ridding Iowa
of tuberculosis both in live stock and
humans. While the matter will be one
! of greatest Importance it may not. at
! tract great deal of attention.
1t is not known whether the prop
osition to put the educational institu-
tions of the state under a board Of
control will be offered again next ses-
sion or not. 1t was offered twice and
turned down both times. The friends
of the measure are insistent, however,
~, oty 1,ripor ~ forward a in E>I1r-
thermore they claim that the conduct
of the institutions is a living argument
in favor of the measure, and that SOON
er or later it is sure to be adopted.
1t is understood that the proposition
to create the department of insurance
to be separate from the state auditors
office will again be brought forward
at the next session of the legislature
and it is being predicted that it will
pass at the next session. Bleakley,
who is the republican nominee for
state auditor, was a member of the
insurance commission that recommend
ed the separate department.
There will be the usual number of
miscellaneous bills Of various kinds.
The newspaper reporters some times
gamble on how early in the session
bill will be introduced to change
the time of the meetings of the board
of supervisors or in some way amend
the law relating to supervisors. There
are at each session a host of laws OF
a miscellaneous character introduced.
Some are important. many of them of
no Importance and some of those of
no importance are passed, too. But
the character of the next session of the
legislature will be the work OF the
progressives to prevent any repeal or
injury of the progressive laws of the
last session and the important new
measures will be the taxation and
school law revisions and the insurance
department.
Farmers from all over the state OF