Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-03-17

VI WEaI svlAnOV1iL
Prohibition Resolution in Hands
| Of Adverse Committee.
| DEMOCRATS OPPOSED THE Bill
Liquor interests Encouraged by Ref
| ference to Committee on constitu
ticna! endments-Senate Deals
Death Blow to Woman Suffrage.
Des Moines, Ia, March 16.-In the
hands of eleven men in the Iowa sen
| ate practically rests the fate of the
movement in the state for resubUl:s
sion to the people of the question rs
to whether or not Iowa shall asuia
have constitutional prohibition OF the
liquor traffic. AS loreshadowed in
these letters three weeks ago, the re-.
submission resolution went through
the lower house OF the legislature vita
| whoop and hurrah, and those VINO
were fathering the movement looked
on the vote and prophesied that the
senate could do nothing else than fol-
low suit. But the grave and reverend
senators slept over night on the INST
ter alter il was placed in their hanGs
and then, despite opposition OF the
| prohibition element OF the body, re
fused TO place the resolution in tnc
keeping OF the committee on suppress
sion of intemperance, but by u vote CT
| 81 TO Is consigned ii to the coEstitu-
| tional amendments committee. On tGe
face of things the bill is apparent.
! safe in this committee, that is, SAL
| from the danger of Introduction on the
floor of the senate. The committee
is composed of six Republicans and q. e
Democrats. The Democrats are unani-
mously opposed to the resolution as
being i'll opposition to their party deg
trines and portion OF the Republicans
are as earnestly opposed to it for 10
litical reasons The friends of tAe
| resolution may endeavor to force it
onto the floor for consideration re
CARELESS of the action OF the senate.
If they should succeed in doing 50
there is no guessing with any degree
of certainty as TO what the result
would be- Several members of the
| body who are opposed to the reso!u
tion will feel compelled to vote in its
favor ii it comes before them on
roll call on its merits. For this rea
son the effort in the senate will be TO
hold the resolution in committee until
too late in the session for it to bo
acted upon.
Woman Suffrage Is Killed.
1t took the senate Just three minutes
TO kill a resolution charging the rights
and also the resolution calling for sub
mission OF constitutional amendment
giving women the right to vote on all
questions. Many women had gathered
in the legislative chamber to witness
the vote by the senate on the Two
questions. They expected q long and
bitter fight with numerous bursts of
oratory. They were doomed to dis
appointment, however, because beth
measures We're put to death by the
lawmakers before their gallery frienas
had fairly adjusted themselves in their
seats. Senator Saunders OF Council
Bluffs was the eXecutioner of the reso
luton enlarsing the rights of women
as voters, and he performed the act
by moving that the enacting clause
of the resolution be stricken out
Does that motion have any effec;
on the question:" asked woman audi
tor of Senator Gillilland of Mills, whel
the vote showed the motion had bees
carried. ooh, no" replied the polite
senator. sit just kills it; that's ALL
Then Senator Gillilland himself pul
the second resolution out of the run
| ming by recommending its indefinite
postponenent The women departed
from the senate chamber with many
agry shakings of heads and avowed
their intention of renewing at once
licampaign for taking the question be
fore the general assembly of 1911
Senator Bruce has secured the adop
| ton by the upper house of the Assem-
bly, of his bill to prevent the drinking
of alcoholic stimulants on railway
trains or street cars in the state
School Bill Is Dead.
The big school bill is dead and no
effort will be made to resurrect it dur.
! tpo tho precapt cocs;op of th. loo;.,
lature. Its death came in the commit
tee of the house, and SO well con.
WINGED were the friends and sponsors
for the measure that general vote of
the membership of the legislature
would only ratify the action OF the
committee that they desisted from
making any further attempt to secure.
consideration for it. In its place has
come forth a measure by Paul Stii!
man, representative from Greene
county, which does away with the dis
trict school treasurers entirely and
concentrates their efforts and duties in
the offices of the county treasurers.
He would have the school funds OF the
state put at work drawing interest ana
thus have the state derive some bene.
! fit from the amount unused. Mr.. Still
man says now it costs the taxpayers
4 Of the state about $4,000 year to
/ administer the school funds, and not
cent is returned from the banks for
the use of these funds. He says there
are at times as high as s15,OOO,O0O of
this money lying idle. The total fund
is never below S5.OO0,oOO in the state.
This concentration of the funds, as
prescribed by the Stillman bill, will,
its author believes, bring the state in,
terest to the amount Of 100000 a
year. The big bill which was dis
carded provided this feature, and