Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-14
TALK OF WORK
FOR next SESSION
Public Utilities Bill to Be Issue
in Primary Campaign.
GILLILLAAD TO PUSH MEASURE

GILL|LLAND TO PUSH MEASURE
Plans Establishment of Agricultural
Schools In Various Sections of State.
Opinions as to Work of Thirty-third
General Assembly.
Des Moines, April 13.-What of the
Thirty-fourth general assembly oil
Iowa? The meeting of the legislature
is two years in the distance, and the
membership of the body is question
of doubt, but these facts do not deter
talk of what will be considered by the
body and of the probable legislation
which Will be brought forth.
The one question which has already
turned UP and which it is sure will be
before the people during the next two
years is that Of regulation of public
utilities. Talks with various mem.
beers of the Thirty-third assembly since
adjournment give assurance that they
believe the people are in temper to
give this question serious considera,
ton and that 1t will be u live Issue
during the primary campaign next
year. Senator Shirley Gillillanu OF
Mills Montgomery counties district
left the state house after adjournment
of the Thirty-third general assembly
with the expressed intention of at
once beginning work on the drafting
of a new public utilities measure to be
presented at the opening of the next
session of the legislature. The founda,
ton of his proposed bill is laid in The
Sammis, Smith and Van Law bills.
which were up to the past legis.
lature, but all of which were
killed In the senate. Besides
these there were two house
bills on the same subject, one com
binatfon measure worked out by Rep.
8resentatives Grier, White and LARA.
bee, and the other proposed compro.
mise prepared and presented by Rep
resentative Lee. Both these bills
were killed in the house committee,
largely because the authors insisted
each on the bringing out OF his own
bill. The legislators all realize that
the question is important and that
where SO many interests are con.
scerned II will be hard to work out a
bill which will be satisfactory OF
which will stand a reasonable show OF
adoption.
Agricultural Schools.
Another matter which Senator Gil
lIlland will push before the assembly,
Two years hence viii be that of Ii,
establishment of a number of agricu!-
tural schools in various sections OF
the state. The agitation fer this leg.
islation dates back as far as the Thir.
tieth general assembly, as it was about
that time the people of Iowa awoke to
the Importance of the work being done
ut the state agricultural college ct
Ames. Nothing was accomplished ths1
however, but in the Thirty-first assem-.
bly, number of bills tending to estab.
lish district schools were introduced.
During the Thirty-second assembly
bills were again introduced and the
ilpropect for legislation looked bright
NOR a time, but too many sections OF
ghe state We're clamoring for the
1xchools, and the matter was finally
dropped. The legislators recognize
1hat TIE additional! schools or some
method of teachinp apricuftrrn II, thu
common schools OF the state will have
TO be provided and the chances are
that one OF the great works of the
next legislature will be the solving OF
this problem.
Hardine's Views of Legislation.
AS to the work of the assembly
;jua closed, there are various opinions
,exmessed. Representative Harding
of Sioux City is OF the opinion that
rhine will place the work of the as.
sepably IN history as of great value to
the state. He says:
! at is quite natural in arriving at a
ccaclusion as to the work of the as.
sembly just closed to compare it with
former sessions of the legislature. No,
as much has been said in the press
about the distinctive work of the Thir.
.ty-third assembly as was said about
the Thirty but it should be re
.membereu that the two or three great
questions around which all the thought
sof the Thirty-second general assembly
was centered had been agitated for
years upon the stump aud through the
vl,.Ss. When the Thirty-third Assem-.
bly, convened it was predicted that
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