Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-09
BIG BATCH or UNFINISHED BusI.
NESS DISPOSED OF AT FINAL
DAY OF SESSION.
CONFIRMATION OF JONES
WITHHELD FOR PRESENT
Clocks Stopped Before Noon and ses-
sion May Continue Into Night
Again Resolves in Favor of Popular
Election of senators--The Closing
Business.
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Des 'Moines, April 9.--Some time to-
day the Thirty third general assembly
will close. The record will show that
both houses adjourned at noon. Neith-
er one will quit at noon. The chances
are good that neither one will cease to
do business at p. m. 1t may be later.
What was left of really important
matter to be cared for on the last day
was not long list. A few conference
committees were to report and there
were few appropriation matters on
hand. The fight to give the people Of
the state either a commerce counsel
or additional help in the legal depart
ment to be used in emergencies was
had before it the momentous question
of what to do about the management
of the state institutions. Judge Con-
ner's name had been duly ground thru
the hopper and come out with some
tarnish and the name of F. F.. Jones,
OF Montgomery county, had been sent
to the senate as second choice. AS
stated In these dispatches more than
month ago it had been definitely de-
cided that no matter what should hap
pen the farmer >member Of the board
would have to retire to his farm In
Iowa county. The board of education
was disposed Of easily and the new
board will be ready for business in
July. Senator Whipple is Immensely
pleased with the board and believes 1t
is fully equal to the task before 1t.
The two houses are in the hands Of
sitting committees. This has not hap
pened before for a long time. Usually
one house or the other leaves Its hands
united. The house was forced to take
action because 1t got behind with the
work. The senate would have been
better off II the sitting committee had
not been named.
President Clarke and Speaker Feeley
have done great work in pushing mat
ters to conclusion in the past few
weeks. Clarke is unquestionably the
finest presiding officer either house has
ever had and he has so welded the
gavel that every senator is his warm
friend and intense admirer. Speaker
Feeley. who started out somewhat
handicapped, because Of the manner In
which the house was organized in
which he was as much the victim as
the beneficiary. has made himself de-
cidedly popular by the fairness and
impartiality with which he has di-
reoted the business of the house.
With the clocks stopped business is
proceeding right along to the finish.
Here are some of the important bills
which yesterday or today received the
finishing touches:
The anti-cigaret bill which forbids
smoking cirgarets by any person under
u years unless on property owned by
the smoker or in the presence of his
parent Some of them thought 1t ought
to be those "over" 81 and not under"
Forbidding the drinking of intoXicat-
ing liquors on trains and making train
men peace officers for the enforcement
Of this law and with authority as peace
officers in depots and railroad yards
This bill underwent many changes but
is said to be in very good condition
for curbing common evil.
The Clarkson employers liability bill
which undertakes to relieve worlmen
of their assumption of liability on ac-
count of defective or broken machin-
cry. Like the Peterson bill on the as
sumption of risk it runs to the uues-
ton Of the application of common law
principles in damage suits and Is in
tended to relieve workmen.
A somewhat comprehensive bill re-
lating to a new crime called contrbu-
tory dependency or the fact of parents
neglecting children so that the children
become dependent upon charity, the
bill planning to cause the punishment
Of the parents where 1t shown that
their condition is due TO neglect
A law to permit the executive coun-
ell to take into account the deprecia-
ton II value Of bonds and stock sold
In the organization of big corporations
so that the rigid rule of bonding a rail-
road for small amount per mile will
not be adhered to. This is to make
possible the use of stock in promotion
or the sale OF stock at less than par
In the work of promotion.
Giving superior courts jurisdiction
over inehr!se.- cases
The two big appropriation bills were
finished up yesterday. The bill relat-
ing to the colleges carries about $780,
600 and the one for the institution
about s50s,000.
The debate on the salary resolution
In the senate which fixes the salaries
of clerks and assistants in the various
offices in the state house. turned, like
the debate on the corporation counsel
bill. on whether or not Attorney Cen
eral Byers has made a good official.
Gillilland returned to the attack on
Byers and delivered himself of some
fierce invectives and virtually left the
impression that the state would get
along just about as we'll If the present
attorney general was out of Office.
There was abundance of defense for
the attorney general and the effort to
cut OF the bill that which gives the
attorney general a. contingent fund
which can be used in case there is no
special provision for q commerce
counsel failed.
The board Of control hled with the