Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-15
BILLS
PASSED BY SENATE
IOWA LEGISLATURE AIMS AT
BETTER CONTROL OF LIQUOR
HOUSES
VAN LAW BILL BARS
SALOONS NEAR LIBRARIES
Moon Bill Restricts Number to One for
Every 1000 PopuIation-RennettB Bill
Would Bar Brewers and DstiI'ers
From Engaging in Retail Business
Proceedings in the House.
snecial to Times-Republican.


Des Moines, March 15.-The senate
passed three important anti-saloon bills
today. The Van Law bill includes pub
lie libraries in the list of places near
which saloons shall not be located, and
all forbid serving of lunches, either
free or otherwise, in saloons.
The Moon bill limits the number Of
saloons in cities and towns to one for
every 1000 of population, and also for
bids the issuing of a permit tc, any
one who has been within five years
enjoined from liquor sales.
The Bennett bill requires that no
person other than qualified elecsor
shall engage in selling liquors at re-
tail and forbids any corporation or firm
interested in any brewery or distillery
having any ownership of a saloon
The house appropriated $4,000 for a
hog cholera serum laboratory in Des
Moines the bill to permit complaints
against telegraph companies in six
months instead of sixty days, anG also
the bill to permit trial for murder of d
person already in the penitentiary.
The house and the senate have now
passed separate bills relating to pri-
maries, both with the same purpose.
and it is expected that in some way the
matter will be got into shape for Il
conference. Either bill would remove
the alphabetical advantage now en-
joyed by those whose names COM
mence with letters early on the list.
The manner In which the senate
treated Chapman's bill to regulate the
size of type in which newspapers shall
print news of deaths by suicide was a
distinct warning against freak leeisla-
ton of all kinds Chapman is deeply
in earnest in restricting The newspaper,
tho he is always against everything
that might affect his own profession,
but he managed to get only eight votes
for the bill. But for the fact that some
pledges had been made. the
men present would have cut
this number to two or three.
The state Of Iowa, in connection with
the federal government, is just COM
pleting one of the finest rifle ranges in
the whole country, and this year it will
be used by the guardsmen in their
state contest. The new appropriation
bill for the support of, the guard pro-
vides for four rige ranges and ap-
for them.A few years ago the
state had two and decided upon a
change of plan and the having OF one
good range. The bill increases the reg
ular annual allowance for the guard
from 100000 year to $153,600 a year,
and it will require that companies be
larger. The bill has passed the house.
The bill to transfer the insurance de-
partment and place it under the control
of Governor Carroll is likely to be
reached in the senate this week. Just
how hard the fight is to be nobody
seems to know A great deal of lobby
work against the bill has been done
around the hotels, but nobody seems to
be working very hard for the bill. 1t
is stated that some offer has been
made to secure a pledge as to the APP
pointment of the head of the depart
ment of some one who will be accepta-
able to the insurance interests, and it
is known that if such pledge could be
secured the bill! could be passed very
quickly. Negotiations have been, un-
der way the past week for settlement
that will be satisfactory all round.
"Turn out the senators. The women
If Iowa can prevent these men who
nave insulted us from returning to the
legislature two years from now"
With this declaration from the Rev.
Miss Gertrude Won Petzhold, war was
declared against the state senate for
the woman's suffrage bill on
when hundreds of angry
in mass meeting at \ the First
Baptist church yesterday pledged
themselves to fight for legislature
'avoring the ballot for women.
Iowa's senators were branded as
gnorant, undemocratic, insulting, rude
md unfair by the suffragettes who
adopted resolutions of protest against
suffrage bill.
These are the resolutions passed
without dissenting vote from the
great audience of women:
Believing that state legislatures are
created by the will Of the people to
honestly and justly all mat
ers pertaining to the common veal,
md also believing that all citizens
as we'll as men, have right
% demand a fair and impartial hear
ng of any question they choose to
oring before said legislature:
Be 1t Resolved, That we, the women
If Des Moines, do now and here enter
,ur protest against the fippant, rude
ind unfair treatment accorded the wo-
nan suffrage bills brought before the
.owa senate on Tuesday, March II,
909.
Resolved, That we renew our pledge
If loyalty and devotion to the cause
If woman's political enfranchisement
Ind pledge ourselves to use all 1egit-
mate and honest means to bring about
IN election of a state legislature that
hall favor granting the ballot to Iowa
women.
Chicken fanciers of the state, en-
yious of the public aid extended thru