Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-08
JEALOUS Of COSSON.
New Member Succeeds in Land
ing Five Bills So Far This
Session
ALL OF GREAT IMPORTANCE

LaW--"Pure Boot Bill" Similar IN US
Effects to othsr Protective Measures
Advertising BIZ! Probably Doomed to
Defeat.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, March S.--Some Of the
older senators are beginning to feel
little jealous Of the success and as
gressiveness OF Senator George Co.'S
son, Of Audubon, who with the passage
sthru the senate Saturday Of the cream
cry competition bill, has five big ei'as
10 his credit. These include the bill
10 provide way for securing the re-
,noyal Of officials who refuse to enforce
the laws, q bill better defining the dn-
ties and responsibilities Of county at
Horneys, a bill to require that sheriffs
shall be in fact law enforcing officers.
and a bill to limit the time for taking
appeals in criminal cases to six months
Instead Of q year. A mere statement
of the character Of these bills shows
they are OF great Importance. His bill
10 revise the law as to the Office CT
attorney general has not yet been
PASSED by the senate. OF course some
of these bills may fail in the senate,
but It is certain that no member If
either house has to his credit any list
= ~ hills than fhagH
Cosson used to be a telegraph operator
in Perry and along the line of the Mil
waukee, and as such commenced the
study OF law He Is a young and per-
sistent worker and has had the enter
prise TO go right after big things.
The Gillilland bill to establish the
department Of horticulture and forestry
would place that department on per-
n1anert footing while the nurserymen
OF the state feel that 1t Is and always
has been in q precarious position. In
tact there has been for several years
talk OF consolidating the department
with the department Of agriculture az
i measure Of economy. The Gillilland
bill would Sive the torticulturists per-
nlAnent occupancy Of the room now
used and also the room which the cap
dtol custodian has. It would place at
the disposal Of the State Horticultural
Society 5000 a year for publication .f
bulletins regarding horticultural and
forestry matters. The officers OF the
society shall have control Of the new
department. The society as such all
ready receives an annual allowance Cor
It's support and the publication of the
annual report.
1t IS understood that Iowa rnanufac-
tarers OF shoes viii present arguments
n support OF the Bruce ''pure boot
bill, which applies the principles of the
pure food, pure seed and pure paint
Inws to the making Of boots and shoes.
The bill provides that 1t shall be un-
lawful "for any person to sell any boot
or shoe with a counter, heel, insole,
niddle-sole or slip-solo made
IN whole or in part Of leather board.
leatheroid, fibre-board,
horn itber, pate, or. any substitute Tor
1egibly ana in the English language
stamping with q metal die in plain
view, upon the outside Of the 3ut-sole
De the boot or shoe, where and by
whom such boot or shoe was made and
what substitute for leather. if any, has
been used" The provision does not ex-
tend to rubber boots or q rubber heel,
nor to steel or wood fllers in the shank
or to cork so1es. The. same bill re-
quires stamping as convict-made the
shoes and boots made with prison la
Dor. This would affect a considerable
carried on in Iowa.
: Members Of the house COMMITTEES |
having in charge the Hansen bill to
prohibit certain advertising in news.
papers state that the showing in OPP
position to this bill is made by the
men Of the state before tho
committee was one Of the strongest |
ever made against any bill There liz
very little likelihood Of the bill be-
coming q law. That some OF the menu |
bers feel very deeply that the publi- |
cation OF some advertising matter is |
Ill wrong Is certain, but they have bean
Impressed with the declaration that II
would be an absolute impossibility to
prevent the most Objectionable Of the
advertising matter without at the same |
time interfering with perfectly legiti- |
mate business.
Persons who have it in mind to visit |
The legislature and want to. do SO at |
! time when there is som ething do
ing" would do well to come this week.
The calendars Of both houses are filled |
With interesting matter which they
ought to work out during the week.
The senate, and probably the house,
will hold afternoon as well as morning
sessions. The senate has on the cal
sndar for action, woman suffrage, in
mrance matters, primary elections,
BOARD Of education and other matters.
Efforts by the special state educa-
donal commission and State Superin-
tendent Riggs to Improve the rural
schools Of Iowa by legislation at this
session Of the legislature have resulted
Ia unqualified and absolute failure.
BY defeating compromise plan for
r,ral school improvement agreed upon
,y their subcommittee OF eight, a plan
which was Tar. less radical and revolu-
ionary than the commission bill, tho
schools committee OF the house Of rep
.e,sentatives Saturday afternoon sound |
,d the death knell OF any and all school |
egislation at this session.
Chairman Stillman Of the house