Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-14

there is no DOUBT nut that the Th1rty-
fourth general assembly will enact in
to law the ideas that We're advanced
in the Thirty-third.
The greatest debate of the session
just closed was athe question OF the
establishment OF a public utilities
commission. This question will be in
the forefront for consideration by the
Thirty-lourth assembly. Public SER
vice corporations are demanding some.
thing along this line; the people are
demanding something along this line;
and city governments are making the
same demands, and thought on the
subject was pretty we'll crystallized
during the closing days OF the session.
BY the time two years have rolled by
the legislature will be ready to act.
and think to act favorably in the
way of legislation.
AS to the personnel Of the assem-.
bly,, It can be said that no leadership
developed in the house, and that fac.
tional politics and party politics were
almost unknown; but in the senate the
old leaders to remarkable extent
were deposed and new men took their
places"
Representative Harding has already
announced his candidacy to succeed
himself in the next session of the leg
islature, and has also made public
the fact that il elected he VIII be
candidate in the Republican caucus
for the position of speaker of the
house.
Senator'S Opinion of the Senate.
Senator Adams of Fayette believes
the one great development OF the Thir-
ty-third general assembly was the rec
ognition by the members, especially
by the senators, that there has been
too much arbitrary regulation of prop
erty rights in recent years. and that
the people have come 10 time where
they want their members to treat cap
ital and corporations fairly. This is
shown in the action of the assembly
In giving fair and earnest considera-
tion to both sides of every question
which came before it.
Speaking of the senate of the Thir.
ty-third general assembly alone,n said
Senator Adams, Il want to say that
the membership was of high class of
fair-minded men, They were believers
in honest and moderate dealing. They
wanted to be fair with all and to do
the best thing possible in all cases.
Questions were considered on their
merits and the membership voted its
real opinions on every one of them.
There was no lining up. The hardest
problem with which the senate had to
deal was the question of constitutional
prohibition. The great majority of
the members of the senate were favor
able to temperance legislation, but
they could not look with favor on. the
prohihitory resolution, remembering
as they did the effects of the prohibi.
tory amendment of q. generation ago.
They adopted many stringent regula-
tory laws, however, and hope and be-
lieve these will do more for real tenn
perance than the prohibitory amend
ment would do had 1t been favored"
With other members Senator Adams
is OF the opinion that the public util-
tiles question is bound to be the great
question of 1911. 1t came too late for
proper consideration this year, hut the
members who are to return Will give
1t serious study from now on. He also
is of the opinion that the question OF
good roads and improvement of the
public highways will be burning is.
sue two years hence, and that it is
not unlikely that the educational bill
which was reported at the opening of
the Thirty-third assembly will come
up again and will be enacted into law.
Session Eeocri Breaker.
The Thirty-third general assembly
considered more bills than has been
presented to a legislative body in
Iowa for many years and adopted into
law more measures than were ever be-.
fore enacted by any single assembly
in the state. The total number of bills
introduced In the two houses of the
assembly aggregated more than 1000,
and of these nearly 300 We're made in.
to laws
The future fame of the assembly
will rest upon its enactment of laws
along moral reformatory lines.
Governor Carroll has signed every
pill enacted into law by the general
assembly. with the exception of the
Moon bill regulating the giving of per-
mits by city council for the establish
ment of saloons, and providing that
councils shall allow only one saloon
l for nj, ;,,h, I, a.
where the mulct law is In operation.
The likelihood is that this bill will be
signed, also. but Governor Carroll has
promised the representatives of the
liquor interests a hearing on the ques-
lion. GEORGE GALLARfJO.
Isle of Wight.
The Isle of Wight Inhabitants are