The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-03-11
THE HOUSE VOTES
FOR PROHIBITION.
|FAvoRs RE-su5MlssIoN or CON-
sTiTuTIoNAL AMENDMENT.
osTEoPATHs GAIN VICTORY
Committee Would Let Them Practice
in County Hospitals - Other
News Of the iowa General
Assembly.

State House, Des Moines, la, March
Hottie resolution providing for re-
submission of the Prohibition Amend
jment to the Constitution of Iowa pass
ed the house this afternoon by vote
of 6s to 81. Three members were abb
Isent when the vote was taken.
The resolution was discussed by the
house all forenoon. Baluff OF Scott
Offered an amendment to instruct the
next legislature, before passing the
Resolution to make an appropriation to
buy all the breweries. This was yot-
ed down % to IS. Harding offered an
amendment to strike from the resolu-
Ition words he claimed were surplus
Usage. This passed SO to 50, three abb
Isent or not voting. An adjournment
was then taken until afternoon when
the resolution went through.
The amendment won the first Skin
mish in the legislative fight yesterday
when it withstood the attempt to send
it back to committee where it might
he quietly, and politely starved to
death or knocked in the head SO its
best friends would ont know it again.
After an all morning debate the mo-
ton to recommit it was defeated and
the house adjourned with the amend
ment a special order of business for
today at o'clock, when a vote was
taken on the main question.
Vigorous efforts to amend the reso-
luton as drawn were made by those
interested in its defeat and it was only
after ah ard fight that the final lineup
on the question OF sending it back to
committee was secured.
RsE
Osteopaths were victorious yester-
day before the health committee of
the lower house of the Iowa legisla-
ture. After Or. Still Of Des Molnes
and DR. Thompsono of the faculty OF the
Still College Of Osteopathy had defend
ed their school of healing and answer
ed criticism directed against them by
Dr. e. E. Munger of Spencer, the COM
mittee went into executive session and
by a vote of seven to five decided that
osteopaths should be permitted to
practice in the proposed county hos
pitfalls.
The legislator who isn't big enough
to hear expert information upon Inn
portant bills from men representing
the big concerns engaged in serving
the public of the cities OF Iowa, is too
little man to be entrusted with the
duties of making laws declared Sena-
tor Gillilland yesterday in character
istic speech in which he defended pub
lie utility company attorneys who APP
pear before Legislative committees in
opposition to measures which affect
their companies.
Senator Cosson having concluded his
obligation to the office of the attorney
general by getting through the senate
in some form,mangled though they may
have been, therbills promoted by At
torney General Byers, has now taken
up the cause of the women and will
have charge of the woTnan's suffrage
resolution and bill, which were intro
duced by Senator Jameson. The res
ignation of Jameson made it neces-
sary to seek some person to take fur
Their responsibility in connection with
these measures.
A second hearing is to be given on
Friday on the bill to require the label |
ing of package foodstuffs with the ac-
tual net weight, II is understood that |
the creameries are to be represented
in protest against the contemplated |
legislation. The bill has aroused a
storm of protests and while members |
do not question that the bill was
framed with the intent OF doing good |
and proving protection, yet they in
sist that in its operation 1t is going |
to be hampering to business,
1ap
The bill to remove part OF the ex
emption OF wages OF laborlng men is
likely to have as hard shedding in the
legislature this year as at any time
in the past. When the bill was reach
cd In regular order in the house on
Monday II was immediately set upon
and denounced with good deal OF
yigor and earnestness and its weak
ness was pointed out The strongest
argument against it was that it was
making an exception in the case OF one
class OF persons while leaving the to-
tai exemption on all others. On mo-
ton to refer to the judiciary commit
tee the vote was AZ to "A.