Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-16
BILL CALLING FOR FlREPRooF
HOTELS AND FOR SAFETY
APPLIANCES PASSED.
sTAE INSPECTOR TO
ENFORCE THE LAWS.
Senate Also Passes Bill Permitting
Courts to Sentence Men to Jail at
Hard Labor = Trick of Big Surety
Companies to Kill Off Smaller Con.
Germs Revealed.
Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, March 16.-The senate
today passed the bill for the protection
of travellers by requiring that hotels
be made fireproof and be provided with
fire escapes and safety appliances. and
also that state inspector Of hotels be
employed to enforce the law. The SEN
ate also passed the Frudden bill to
give Dubuque certain state land, the
Sammis hill legalizing the acts of COR
porations not having seals. the Smith
bill to authorize the organization of
road districts, Bowmans bill to permit
a court to sentence man OF any aga
to hard labor in Jail, and the Moon bill
to require shields on street car plat
forms.
The house spent the entire forenoon
on the bill to establish a board to IL
cense for optometry and defeated 1t.
4Ss to 4S. The senate held an execu-
tive session to consider the report of
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communication was read from Gov
ernor Carroll announcing the with
drawal of Young's name. Young spent
two days here in consultation with the
governor and the senators and then
concluded to withdraw.
In the debate on the saloon bills
Senator DeArmand, of Scott county
told the story of the man who was cu'-
ting off his dogs tail little at a time
so it wouldn't hurt and declared his
belief that in the process of cutting
off little at time of the privileges
Of the saloon men the legislature had
got pretty close up to the dog. He OPP
posed the plan to forbid all lunches,
free OF otherwise, and he fought the
plan to limit the number of saloons
to 1000 inhabitants, and all other re-
strictive measures !. The tendency of
the senate.s however. is to place upon
the liquor business. all possible re-
strictions and to limit the sales. The
fact that the amendment to the con-
stitution has been laid aside, at least
for the present, does not indicate that
the legislature is opposed to temper
ance, but on tho contrary the entire
legislature is strongly for temperance
measures, or at least for restrictive
measures.
The bill to require that surety COM
panies shall put up a deposit with the
auditor of state after the manner Of
the insurance companies is declared by
persons interested to have been. writ
ten in the office Of one Of the largest
surety and guaranty companies doing
business in the state and if passed its
effect would be to put all the smaller
companies out of business and leave a
monopoly with the two large compan-
les, one in New York and one in Bal
timore. This has been the effect in
South Dakota where a similar law is IN
force, with the result that the t,yo
companies divide up the business and
have raised rates for bonds. There ere
only two companies that could afford
to put up the business and have raised
rates for bonds. There are only two
companies that could afford to put up
the necessary deposit and continue in
business in the state and no local
company would ever be able to start
with the restrictions contemplated.
The bills to provide for the adoption
Of what is known as the Oregon plan
of primary elections as to United