Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-20
IMPORTANT LEGISLATION
REMAINS TO BE PASSED.
Two Important Bills Set for Hearing
Before Senate - Conspicuous Lobby
Work in Behalf OF Public Utilities
Measure-Lesislative and Other Cap
itoI Gossip.

line Of bills for his signature the lis
Of those OF statewide Importance Is
very small Some of the recent ones
are:
Slight change In law as to manner OF
ievying taxes for libraries.
Permitting return to old road district
plan and working the roads.
Permitting fathers of soldiers to 60
to the soldiers, home.
Including "rooming houses in law as
to hotels.
Change in law as to numbers for
motor vehicles.
Defining the duties of sheriff.
A method Of taxation for support of
hospitals.
Permitting trial of a convict on muir
der charge.
Forbidding marriage of cousins.
Change in law as to guide boards.
This list fairly illustrates the some-
what scrappy and unimportant char
acter of the work now being ground
out. and out OF this in the next three
weeks will come some important legfs-
quarantine regulations has just gone
to a conference committee to be worked
out.
The senate yesterday set two
special orders which will bring UP inn
portant bills. The kirkpatrick bill to
require annual reports from all COR
porations and a small fee graduated ac-
cording to the size Of the company will
be passed then. II it becomes a law it
will enable the state to keep track of
all corporations and to know whether
a corporation has gone out of business.
AT present nobody has any information
as to what corporations are doing bus
mess in Iowa. The other special or
der Is the Saunders bill for terminal
taxation of railroad property so that
in the. cities where valuable terminals
are owned the assessment will be made
locally. This comes up Thursday morn
ing.
department from the auditors office
to- that of the governor was given up
by Senator Dowell yesterday. A deal
was made by which the other two
transfer bills are to be passed, sending
the banking department to the state
treasurer and the accounting depart
ment to the secretary. Early in the Ses-
sion the representatives of the insur-
ance interests announced that while
they formerly favored the removal
they would never permit the bill to be
passed as long as it was possible that
Ole Roe could become head of the de-
partment. They were willing to permit
Carroll to again take over the depart
ment, buy they would not stand for
Roe. This week Roe wrote a letter max
Ing it plain he would not under any
be a candidate for the
place, but it was too late to save the
bill, and besides Governor Carroll had
ceased to give the bill the support
which he did in former times. The bill
was therefore dropped without a re-
cord being made.
The most conspicuous lobby work Of
the session has been done in behalf
Of what is known as the public utili-
ties measure. This has been done to
= large extent without expense to the
that are interested, since
they have been able to gather vast
amount of information at state expense
thru clerks and professors, but this
week the fact is disclosed that some
body is readysto spend some money fer
his particular bill. Yesterday there
vas placed upon the desks of members
l printed pamphlet in defense of state
control of utilities and taking all con-
rol away from the local officials. This
circular states that "the arguments for
Ind against the bill can be corroborated
~ reference to the legislative reference
bureau created by your own body and
he best information that can be got
will be from a perusal of the records
,nce the nature Of the work that was
'eing done when the state officials put
i stop to the further use of stamps
furnished to the lobby. AS a matter
# fact the Legislative reference
has not been engaged in the
york. but another bureau which as
umed this title has been. Most Of the
members We're surprised at the APP
,earance of the printed pamphlet be-
ause they had supposed that all eff
orts to pass the bill had been aban-
Ioned.
The house has received bill intro
uced by Representative Inman which
would permit radical change in the
manner of handling the business of
he schools in cities of over %, 600 in
abitants The bill undertakes to ap-