Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-07

plan to leave off the board OF control
the farmer member. The state OF Iowa
is the greatest farmer In the state and
the board of control has more to do
with farming than any single individ-
ual. The state has taken pride In
having these farms admirably man.
aged that they may be model farms for
the various sections OF the state. This
work has been done by Mr.. Cownie
prominent business man OF Des
Moines stated this week that in his
estimation Mr.. Cownie In his handling
of the farms and in the care with
which he has looked after the business
matters of the board, is worth $4,000
year to the state in his present
place.
The senate passed the jeint resolu-
ton giving to the speaker and presi-
dent of the senate the chairs and
gavels they have used. President
Clark excused himself while this was
done so as not to embarrass Glllilland
when he repeated his speech In oppo-
sition to this procedure. Clarke IS and
always has been opposed to doing this
He received q chair and gavel he
used when he was first speaker He
compelled them to leave 1t out the
second time he was speaker but some
body pushed thru a resolution giving
him his desk. He instructed the GUS
todian to leave the desk In the speak
er's room and II is there yet At the
same time the house voted that each
member should take home his chair
but this was never done.
The bill to forbid dlscriminations in
cream. poultry and grain has gone to
the enrolling clerk by action of the
house In receding from It's amend
ment The fight on the bin was start
ed too late.
Once more the fight has been made
for sitting committee In the senate
and Saunders has been turned down.
A small but determined group In the
senate wants to stand by tho presi-
dent in clearing the calendar and fn-
ishing up without sitting committee
Those who are afraid to vote on some
measures want sitting committee to
act as a graveyard.
In the senate arpropriations COM
mittee a serious effort was made to
prevent the passage of the bill to an
propriate $231 for the exuenses OF
the house committee looking into the
hospitals for the insane Members
felt that 1t was not Just right to get
the appropriation thru while the com
mittee was not Yet ready to report.
and they also felt that the senate
should have been consulted as 10 the
necessity for tho COMMITTEES In the
first place. But in view of the fact
that the money has been spent for the
investigation the committee did nor
defeat the bill.
The bill appropriatiny $4,000 for a
laboratory at Dcs Moines for the man
ufacture Of serum for the cure of hog
cholera has passed both houses. which
insures the state going into the busi-
ness.
After leading dogs life for more
than two months the Peterson bill to
increas the pay OF court reporters
yesterday passed the house and will
become a law as soon as 1t IS signed
by the governor.
Amendments by the house commit
tee of which Representative Drury Is
chairman were voted down on the
floor of the house and the bill passed
with 81 votes including that OF Mr..
Drury, who had insisted that the min
imum guarantee of $1,000 should not
apply to reporters who work less than
100 days.
The bill, as It finally passed, Inc
creases the per diem from SIS to ss,
with a guarantee OF $1,000 for report
ers who work 125 days or less and a
guarantee OF $500 for reporters who
work more than 1s5 daw