The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11
A Large Number of Petitions Were
introduced in the House Favor
ing New Action on
Prohibition.
MR.. MILLER OF BREMER
Answered an Attack Made Upon Him
by the State Board of Health
The Charges to be
investigated.
IGate City Special Service. I

I
/ DES MONIES, Feb. 10.--In the
house today large number of peti-
| tions were introduced favoring enact
ment of resubmission resolution.
Several committee reports were
made and adopted. Representative
Meredith of Cass asked that his resolu-
called from the committee on consti-
| tutional amendment and referred to
committee on suppression. Request
granted.
| The following bills were introduced
lin the house:
I By Ritter: Making an appropriation
Ito compensate Rev. Jonas Smith as
chaplain at Camp Mckinley in 1898.
I BY Brandes: Relating to the sup
port of the school for the deaf at
/ Council Bluffs.
+ BY OConnor: Providing that
! charges on sleeping cars will not eX-
iceed S1.50 for lower berth, and s1.25
for an upper berth for ten hours.
/ By Kellog: Relating to the pur-
chase of waterworks gas works. heat
ing plants, OF electric plants and a
submission OF propositions for the pur-
iicbase to the voters.
/ BY Kellogg: Relating to granting
| of franchises: also to submission of
Questions to voters
/ BY Koontz: Appropriation for state
historical society.
l BY Koontz: Appropriation for fish
and game commission.
/ After the introduction of bills. Mill
/ or of Bremen arose to question of per
sonal privilege. He charged that he
I had been attacked by the state board
of health in their publications, copies
of which had been placed upon the
desks of members. He said he had
sat modestly in his seat, had created
no disturbance, and this is the first
time he had said anything to this body
concerning the board. He said it was
/ true he had written to his /, ,wspaper
and had told some truths therein. He
had claimed that the board of health
encouraged unprfncipled doctors of
whom he said there were many in
Iowa. He had said in his newspaper
that under their administration there
4 bad sprung up in Iowa what he called
! the small poX of commerce." This.
] he said. was simply chicken pox. but
the state board had quarrantined it
because some of the doctors coLldn' t
tell the difference between the two
4 diseases while in fact after three or
four DAYS the vesicle of small poX re
i sembled that of chicken poX about as
much as the kick of a mule resembles
the sting of bee. He spoke bitterly
of the doctors trust and said that in
their assault upon him the state board
of health had gone to Fort Dodge for
"a clean bill of health" He said Fort
Dodge was the place where medical
villainy and ignorance have obtained
full sway to greater extent than in
any other city in the state; where sur
gical science has reached such state
OF perfection that a man with the
belly ache and 5000 is not safe over
/ right He said he was not surprised
that the board had gone to Fort Dodge
for a clean bill of health, for in thai
town 'the life of one of the bravest
men in the state was sacrificed re-
! Gently because the physician treated
him for indigestion for a full week
before he found he was suffering from
another and much more serious dis
ease"
4 At the close of his remarks Repre-
sentative lN1llan OF flOSu OiSTeu a
current resolution for the appointment
Of the committee of three from the
house and two from the senate TO. in
vestigate the charges against the
state board of health. Resolution
went over under the rules.
The house passed bill by Ritter
/! Providing for equal division of the
mulct tax betwee,. the county and the
municipality or the township in which
the saloon was located House also
Ipased the committee bill, fixing the
time at which children may be adj
mitted to industrial schools.
A motion was filed for reconsider
alton of vote by which the house
passed the bill prohibiting baseball,
horse racing and other sports on Me-
mortal day.
In the senate this morning most of
the session was consumed in the dis
cussion of the Clarkson bill striking
from the present statute the require
iment that employees, knowing of de-
fects in machinery in which they are
working must give notice in writing
to employers. Senators Saunders Of
fered amendment providing that en-
iployes knowing such facts must give
some sort of notice. After long dis
! cussion the bill and amendment We're
Preferred to the committee on judi