Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-01
SENATE VOTES DOWN MOTION TO
RECONSIDER TABLED REsoLu.
TioN SENT FROM HOUSE.
WAY is BLocKApEp
FOR FUTURE ATTEMPTS.
Prohibitory Amendment Campaign
Finally Ended for Present Session
Latest Move to Force Question to a
Vote Has Only Thirteen Supporters
Legislative News.
,necial to Tines-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines,N April las a last echo
of the constitutional prohibitoiy
amendment campaign in the Iowa leg
islature. motion to instruct the COM
mittee on amendments to report the
house resolution was defeated today by
the senate by a vote of q to 13. 10
close the doors to similar motions, the
opponents of prohibition in the senate
presented a motion that from now on
until adjournment, April 9, nothing
shall be taken up by the senate except
those matters reported favorably by
committees.
Those voting to table were Adams.
Balkema, Brown, Bruce. Burgess.
Chapman. De4Armand, DeWolf, Fitch
patrick Foley, Francis, Frudden. Gates,
McManus. Mates. Moon, Nichols. Par
shall, Quigley, Ream, Sammis Saun-
ders, Smith of Des Moines. Stucksla-
ger, Van Law, White and Wilson.
Senator Van Law filed an explanation
of his vote on tablng the motion on
the amendment.
Il am opposed to resubmission of the
prohibltory amendment. and my votes
upon the motion to direct the action of
the committee on constitutional
amendments and suffrage may be 50
construed as being in direct opposition
to the proposed amendment"
The house failed to pass the Klay
bill to restore the circle to the ballot,
the vote being 53 to SO. The house
passed the bill to appropriate $4,000 a
year for encouragement of dairying.
In the senate DeArmand introduced
the resolution. which was laid over. to
have the senate hereafter consider only
bills that have been favorably reported
from committees.
The bill to require that in the future
the custodian of the capitol shall keep
in his office a complete inventory Of
public property and make report COW
ering many matters not now included
in his reports, was carefully consid-
Tered by the committee on retrench-
I rment and reform, and it probably will
be passed. There is some doubt about
the passage of the bill Immediately
increasing the salary of the CUSTODIAN.
T. e. McCurdy. whose record in the Of
fee is most excellent, retired today and
he will go to his home at Hazletoh,
Iowa where he owns q bank and Other
property He has had several fine Of
fers to go into business in Des Moines.
but Mrs McCurdy prefers to return %
Buchanan county. The new custodian
took charge. No other changes were
announced. and it is Pre- bic most Of
the force will remain, as hey nearly
all supported the present administra-
ton Some of the old soldiers are y
little perturbed over the fact that Mr..
Boutn has a record of not doing just
as the veterans would like in the mat
ter of the soldier preference law, in
fact is said to have refused to keep a
soldier in office on that account and
nothing else, AS most of the employees
under McCurdy We're soldiers this Is
important Governor Carroll has also
taken different tack from his pre-
decessor, as one of his first acts vas
to remove from the executive office an
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protection of the preference act, but
chose not to do so. However. changes
are inevitable In large force such rs
that which the custodian must handle
Custodian Boutin has made an excel
lent impression and has been welcomed
to the state house By all.
There was much surprise over the
n.
sales bill which had been sent over
from the senate some time ago. 1t
was regarded at least in the senate
that the bill was in such form as to be
generally acceptable to all persons in
terested. But house members found
fault with many of the provisions.
| The senate will probably reconsider
the vote by which the Frudden bill was
defeated. The bill provides for a non
partisan nomination of candidates for
city offices at a primary election. The
bill was defeated at a time when The
senate was in a decidedly ugly mood
over the wrangle over the amendment
and many Of the senators did not un-
! d.cc:::-t.ana what was going on Tho hill
provides for primary at which all
| officials elected by an entire city must
be nominated.
The present educational boards will
not be permitted to forestall the new
board of education in the matter OF
deciding what shall be done with the
millage taxes for a series Of years
1t is recognized that the present
boards might, If so disposed before
they go out of existence July next
adopt plans for various buildings and
let contracts covering a large part o1
the income from the millage taxes fol
several years. But the legislature viii
not leave this door open The expert
ence with the building OF the presi.
dents residence has shown the danger
Of not specifically forbidding anything
of the sort. So the legislature will, in
making It's approval Of the building
work to be carried on under the pres.
ent boards. specifically declare tha
plans shall not be made for any Other