Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-31
SENATE PUTS QUESTION BEYOND
RECALL BY ADOPTING
RESOLUTION.
PUBLICITY MEASURE
FAILS OF PASSAGE.
Defeated Following the Killing of the
sammis and Smith Public Utilities
BilIs-Board of Education May Be
Given Enlarged Powers-Resubmis
sion Buried by Committee.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, March 31.-Final ad-
journment OF the legislature will be on
April 9. The senate cinched the matter
this morning by accepting the house
resolution to that effect. and placing
it beyond recall.
The committee on retrenchment and
reform introduced bill to give the new
board of education full control over
the state library. historical department,
historical, society. geological survey,
library commission and archives of the
department.
The senate failed to pass the Van
Law publicity bill for public service
corporations by vote Of 16 to 81.
sas
The house passed the bill to increase
the state allowance for normal instt-
tutes and abolish the fees for attend
ing, and defeated the bill to abolish
school treasurers
The senate reconsidered and passed
the bill requiring annual reports from
corporations, amending it so the fee Is
but 81 a year, and passed the bill In
creasing the salary Of the adjutant
general and revising the military code.
Governor Carroll today sent both
houses a special message recommend
ing the passage Of a bill that will give
him power of removal of appointive
officials, having special reference to the
pharmacy commissioners.
The bull sales bill met defeat in the
house, by a vote of 40 to 81.
The senate laid on the table, Is to
81, a motion to recall the constitutional
amendment from the committee.
80
BY invitation q number Of persons
from southern Iowa appeared before
the pardons committees yesterday to
plead for a pardon Endorsement for c.
III. woodward, of Decatur county. 1t
is a plea based on the claim of inno-
cence Of the convict. 1t appears that
in 1891 woodward furnished the Off
Gals their first clue as to identity of
certain thieves, which resulted in con-
viction of members of family living
near him, and later he gave testimony
in another notable criminal case. A few
years ago Woodward's wife died sud-
denly and he was accused of poisoning
her. The two families furnished the
evidence upon which woodward was
convicted, and now the court, the jur-
ors and friends all unite in saying that
Woodward was in fact railroaded to
the pen, and instead of a life sentence
he ought to have been released.
The house committee on lallucina-
lions is still at work. The other day 1t
had before it group of persons ac-
companied by an attendant to give tes-
timony as to what is supposed to have
occurred at one Of the state hospitals.
The witnesses desired are all either
those who have been inmates because
of mental disorders, or former en-
ployes who have been discharged be-
cause of incompetency or otherwise.
The committee is making the discov-
cry, not entirely new according to the
doctors, that in practically every case
where an inmate of hospital is dis
charged as cured there remains with
the patient the reconection of the imag-
mary wrongs and mistreatment Of the
insane people. Friends of patients IN
the state hospitals are protesting
against the circulation by the commit
tee of some of the most improbable of
these stories related by persons of af-
fected mentality, not only because of
the harm it will do to the hospitals and
the bad name it will give the state, but
largely because it will cause so much
worry and distress to friends Of the
patients all over the state.
At the conclusion of the four days
discussion on public utilities, the sem
ate laid both bills-the Sammis bill
and he Smith billion the table by a
vote of 26 to 20. BY making the motion
to table, it virtually forced together all
those who opposed either bill, and thus
made sure that neither one would stand
any show. The Sammis bill would
have received about 10 to is votes had
it come to test of that bill alone.
sanlmis then introduced an appropria-
ton resolution calling for a committee
to investigate and report on the need
of a public utilities measure of some
kind Here the matter comes to an
end for the session.
Somebody put it into the heads of
some of the legislators at the beginning
of the session that the right way to
amend the code is to repeal and re-en-
act whole chapter or section, with
the amendment buried in the body of
the bill, and some of the bills have
been prepared that way. One bill was
passed by the house that would take
up three or four pages Of the session
laws but it made a change of only
two words Yesterday an illustration of
the awkwardness of this way of hand
ling the business came to light, when
the senate had to recall from the gov
ernor a bill because the clerk in copy
ing a page or two of the code had
omitted a line. 1t was in relation to
insurance and if it had not been dis
covered middle would have followed.
No estimate has been made as to the
amount 1t will cost the state to pay the