Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-28
Measure to Require Sheritfs to
Be More Diligent in Ferret
ing Crime Opposed
FUT OVER DAY BY SENATE
Arney Secures Passage Of Bill to
Furnish Free Ice to Soldiers Home
officiaIs-nsurance Mems Measures
Presented in House by Harding
Legislative Proceedings.
Special to T,mes-Repubncan.

Special to imeS-RepuDIlCan.
4 Des Moines, Jan. Ex-senator Co.'S
sons bill to require sheriffs to ferret
out crime, and to file information
against law violators, and to give sher-
iffs authority to make investigation or
crime, and to receive pay for extra ser
vices rendered, met with some opposi-
ton in the senate, and after discussion
was laid over for a day. Gilliland
thought the bill was so comprehensive
that there would be nothing left for the
constables and policemen. and Frud-
not the provision for the payment of
expenses of detective services, did nos
open the way for graft
The senate passed the bill to limit
the time for appeals in criminal cases
to six months, also bill to increase
pay for the burial of soldiers to $50
DeWolf introduced a bill to change
the name of the state normal school to
State Teachers College"
The house today passed a bill by Ar
ney, to furnish ice to the soldiers
home officials, bill by koontz to au-
thorize the sale of certain church prop
erty in Iowa City. and the Hickenlooper
bill to require an annual inspection or
executive bonds.
Harding introduced bill to permit
representatives of insurance interests
to hold annual convention each year,
and agree upon uniform rates in Iowa
for fire insurance.
The Burgess bill to put newspaper
publishers in a class by themselves
in the matter of the collection OF news
paper accounts did not meet with the
approval of the lawyers Of the senate
Rad they killed it. They stated In COM
1nfttee that the bill would change the
rule of law in regard to newspaper ac-
counts and make it different from all
others, and would leave it so that while
the farmer or the frocer could collect
from the publisher their running ac-
counts the publisher would not be able
to reciprocate At any rate they did
not regard it as necessary to protect
the public by virtually compelling
newspaper business to be done on a
cash in advance basis.
The clarkson bill to change the
rule of law in regard to assumption OF
risks in a factory on the part of an
employe because Of defective machin-
ery, would leave the Iowa statute In
the following form, which has the ap-,
proval Of the labor leaders of the state:'
'In all cases where the property,
works, machinery or appliances Of an
employer are defective or out OF re-
pair, and when 1t is the duty of the
employer, from the character of the
place. work, machinery or appliances,
to furnish reasonably safe machinery,
appliances or place Of work. the en-
ploye shall not be deemed to have as
sumed the risk by continuing in the
prosecution Of the work, growing out
of any defect as aforesaid, of which
the employe may have had knowledge
when the employer had knowledge OF
such defect, or by the exercise of reas-
enable care and caution could have
known thereof for such reasonable time
to have repaired the same. Nor shall
the employe under such conditions be
deemed to have waived the defect un-
less the danger be imminent and to
such an extent that reasonably pru-
dent person would not have continued
in the prosecution of the work; but
this statute shall be construed so as
to include such other risks as are Incl
dent to the employment"
The first step in the direction of hav-
ing the state again take up the matter
of improving the great rivers Of the
state was taken in presentation of the
bill by Mr.. Moore, of Wapello, provid-
ing a commission of five persons at IS
per day to engage in survey of the
Des AIoines river from Fort Dodge to
the mouth. the Cedar river from Wa
terloo to the mouth and the Iowa riv-
er from Iowa City to the mouth, and to
make a report on the use of these riv-
ers for power purposes. There is a
very we'll organized movement with
headquarters in Des Moines to have
the state engage in special survey Of
these rivers to ascertain their useful
ness for running steamboats,.
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The effort of Senator Jameson to
get it into the records that the Iowa
legislature is a very costly affair did
not meet with much encouragement IN
the senate. The members of the legis-
lature are beginning to be resentful of
the continual insinuations that the
legislature is unduly extravagant Their
view is that while there are expenses
incurred that ought not to be incurred
vet no very sensible plan has as yet
been suggested for making any con-
siderable curtailment of these expenses
and that until this is done they are
not to be reckoned as extravagant be-
cause they go on in the old way. How
ever there can be no doubt that ser
ions effort will be made to hasten the
work and to secure an early adjourn
ment.