Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-17
WHITE SLAVE EV|L
ATTACKED IN SENATE
Saunders Introduces Stringent
Measure tor Punishment
OF Procurers
HITTING AT THE PRIMARY
Scott County Representative Would
Have Convention Choose Electors
and Would Have Separate Party
BalIots-Fre Tax Bill Has Passed
Both Houses and Will Become Law.
Special tn Times-Republlcan.

| Special tn Times Republican,.
| Des Moines, Feb. 1.-THE white
slave traffic will be punished In Iowa
in the future if the bill introduced this
morning by Saunders, of Council
Bluffs, becomes law. This makes the
white slave traffic punishable by inn
prisonment Of from one to ten years.
1t provides that any person guilty of
OBTAINING q female by force, false
promises or agreement to remunerate.
shall be guilty.
The house passed the bill of Koontz
as amended by the senate, which now
permits cities of under 10000 to levy
a tax of mills and over 10000 a tax
of mills for fire protection purposes.
Dowel in the senate presented u
bill requiring air brakes on all street
cars by Jan. 1, 1910; Nichols a bill
permitting the use of voting machines
at the primary election, and DeWolfe
a bulk sales bill, The house bill was
passed by the senate requiring all
county clerks to be Immediately fur
nished copies of new laws as passed
The Clarkson employers liability
bill. which provides contributary negH-
gence shall not be a bar to the recov-
cry of damages but merely as. evidence
in fixing the amount, was passed by
the senate, 81 to s.
To amend the primary law by re-
moving from the ballot the names of
electors and leaving their selection to
the state Convention the same as the
selection of nominees for the supreme
court is the principal feature of bill,
introduced in the house this morning
by Balluff, of Scott. He also would
abolish the blanket ballot and have
party ballots printed on separate
sheets, giving the voter one of each
kind and requiring him to return the
unused ones.
Incidental to the fight for legisla-
ton that will put crimp in the ten
dency to monopoly in certain lines of
trade, members of the legislature have
information of pretty contest be-
tween the big and little shippers Of
produce which is being fought out be-
fore the rate committees and similar
bodies. It seems that nearly all the
business of shipping butter, eggs and
poultry has been concentrated in the
hands of a few large companies, chief
ly owned by the same people as the
packing houses and freight car lines,
and these people have made three dis
tinct moves to give them better grip
on the business. They first went to the
interstate commerce commission, later
to the classification committee of the
Trunk Line Association, and finally to
the Central Freight Association, all
asking or demanding a special carload
rate on produce from the western coun-
try to points east Of Chicago. The car
load shippers now have discriminary
rate Of 6 cents in their favor on this
business, but they demand a rate that,
SO the small shippers say, will give
them % cents hundred advantage
over the small shippers, which would
drive out of business every small ship
per who tries to rely on less than car
load shipments to the primary mar
kets. OF course the legislature can do
nothing in such a matter, but it all has
relation to the bills which contemplate
cutting out the advantage locally of
the large shippers and large makers of
butter, and the fact that 1t is proposed
to include poultry and eggs in the bill
All that the state can do is to pG. =
stop to unfair methods of killing off
competition. In the meantime the small
shippers Of produce all over the state
are getting ready to oppose the DIS
elimination demanded by the compan-
les that are now so nearly monopo-
lizing the business.
1t is probable that bill will be con-
sidered in the legislature to require
that all street cars in iowa shall be
equipped with air brakes. 1t is pointed
out that air brakes are the only sys-
tenn that insures safety of the cars on
hilly streets, and that as a matter of
fact there ought to be no company but
that should desire them.
John Briar, secretary to Senator
Cummins, returned to Washington last
night, after a week or two in the state
to private business. He
states that there is no question what
ever of the fact that the Iowa senator
has made a distinctly favorable i'm
preston at Washington and that he
stands exceedingly well for new
OF the senate. 1t is not cer
tain that ttummins will return for the
brief recess between the close of the
present congress and the converting Of
the next one in special session, but
he will come home if he feels he has
time 1t is expected there will bel
quite a large delegation of represent
ative Iowa republicans In Washington
for the inaugural. Several from Des
Mcines will go.
The house finds itself with quite a
large calendar on which to do work
this week. Yesterday there were