Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-10
In Face of Defeat He Makes
Strong Effort For Inspection
of Corporate Books
RE,NrRopucEs AMENDED BILL
Some Of tho Arguments for and
Against - Batch of New Bills Re-
ported 49, Bank Guaranty in Iowa
Killed of - WhippIe's Board Of
Education Bill, Before Senate.

Special to Times Republican,
Des Moines, March 10.-Senator van
Law made the stoutest fight OF the
session to down a big committee, wnsn
he fought practically all day to get
consideration of his bill to grant %
citv councils the right to make IN
ouirv into the affairs of public service
corporations as a preliminary 10 the
task of regulating them. The cities ana
towns committee had reported the Dill
for defeat. In the end the bill Went
down with twenty-seven votes to the
had but the Marshall senator tmme-
diately reintroduced the bill with some
4 new features and took it before the
judiciary committee. Van Law insist
ed that if the present law is to stand
then the city authorities should have
the right Of Investigation. He pleaded
for it on behalf Of all the cities and
towns of the state. 1t would go further
pubic service nti ff sstopp,ng nee *hese
else. At the conclusion it was developed
by Gillilland that what the public serv-
ice corporations want is not this bill
but the so-called utilities bill pending
in the house. ''There is so much of this
agitation on corporations now he
i said, that money for them must be
got outside Of the state. These attacks
the hands of the public utilities COM
1 Int
afraid to invest their money in Iowa
DeArnaand talked at length against the
Van Law bill and Dowell spoke for 1t
the latter declaring his faith in the
purposes Of the people ana the COM
potency Of their officials to properly
settle the questions if they are in
formed as to facts.
| Senator Chapman, who Is a doctor,
having reached the conclusion that as
senator he is not going to be able
to do very much for the doctors. has
started in on the newspapers. His lat
est bill would forbid the publication
of news story of suicide Sin type
larger than ten point longprimer or
smaller than six point nonpareil"' and
the foreman must not put the same ION
first page of any newspaper or In
conspicuous place in any periodical
One thing is pretty well settled al
ready and that is that the visiting
committee will not recommend that the
woman's dormitory at the state uni
versity or the similar building at
Ames be authorized at this time. There
has been q great deal of argument
adduced to the effect that at Iowa City,
especially the homes Of the people, are
not open to the young women who de-
sire to be students and therefore that
it is almost impossible to rightly locate
girl students there. The committee did
not find this to be the case, but the
members generally believe that accom-
modations can always be found in pri-
vate homes at Iowa City as we'll as
elsewhere for the students
The senate judiciary reported out
quite a batch of new business for the
senate including Cosson's bill to put a
stop to remarriage Of divorced persons
by making the living together in Iowa
the real offence; the Peterson bills re-
garding practice in the supreme court;
the Whiople bill to give the board OF
control the power to investigate county
insane hospitals; the Chapman bill to
forbid printing Of suicide information
in any but specified type; the Saund-
ers bill relating to immortality; Full
lam bill relating to marriage of cous-
ms; the Clarkson bill to require pri-
waite schools to permit colored persons
to attend. The Moore bill to require
guaranty companies to put up depos-
it was sent to the insurance committee,
also the sarnmis bill on the same SUBJ
ject.
The bank committee Of the house has
killed off all the bank guaranty bills
The democrats say a minority report
will be filed.
The senate has received a favorable
report on the bill to permit grocers to
sell fly paper, concentrated I've and
similar substances.
The house committee on railroads
has referred the two utilities COM
missions bills to subcommittee con-
sisting of AIessrs. White, Lee, Hanson,
Ripley and Harding. Consideration Of
the White Grier- Larrabee bill brought
out some facts regarding the Smith
Lee bill and one could not very we'll
be taken up without the other The
second bill was in fact introduced on
the superstition that the first was so
radical that it could not possibly be
passed.
Senator whipple presented his board