Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-25
SENATE NAY KILL
JUNK[nNG SCHEME
Iowa House Takes Back Its
Resolution Providing for
Visiting Committees
"lowA" TO BECOME STATE SONG
Bill Presented to Provide for Transfer
Of Banking and Municipal Accoun
ing Departments From Audit q
Office - Primary Election =. '
Amendments.
Special to Times-Republican.
Amendments.

| Special to es-Republican.
Des Moines, Jan. 25.-The two
houses disagreed as to the necessity
for. visiting committees and this morn
| ing the house took back its resolution
| for All adjournment this week. and
naming visiting committees. Opposition
| had developed i'm the senate and the
members are waiting to see IL an
agreement can be reached. There may
be no visiting committees.
| In the senate today Gillilland offered
a concurrent resolution declaring the
song, Iowa, Beautiful Iowa." written
| by Tack Hussey, to be the state song
of Iowa.
| Tie senate passed bill by Proud
foot, to give courts the right to waive
having inventories made in estate set
| Elements
| The senate considered the Gillilland
bill to protect brick and cement cross
ings from traction engines, but did not
finish its consideration.
| New bills were offered as follows:
| BY Cosson, limiting the time for ap-
peak; in criminal cases to six months.
| BY Hunter, providing mill tax for
health purposes in cities; also to tax
the cost of sewer repairs ito property:
| also giving cities control of their road
| taxes.
| BY Burgess, to require all doors Of
public buildings to open outward; also
to relieve persons from liability for
newspapers not ordered or sent after
the time is up.
| b, Allen, for highway and weed
commission.
| BY Dodds, providing for 500 reward
for horse or cattle thieves.
| BY Schultz. making Insurance notes
not ,.ollectable unless the company has
complied with Iowa laws.
ylGrier, to transfer the banking and
municipal accounting departments from
the state auditors office.
| BY. White, a car service or denur-
rage bill.
| Senator Peterson is at work on bills
with a view to improving and better
! ing the primary law. AS was antici-
pated, it was not a perfect bill that
was passed at the last session and ma
terial changes will be needed. One Of
the most important of the improve
mems is that of securing uniformity in
size and general appearance of the pri-
!, mary ballots and reducing the cost Of
printing. The state executive council
found when auditing the bills-for the
state has to pay half of the total ex-
of
cost, some counties paying what seemed
to the council to be exorbitant prices.
It is believed a change can be made
that will lessen the cost 1t is probable,
also that the entire cost will be given
to the counties, so that the bills will
receive closer attention.
| It is not clear as yet whether any
plan can be worked out for so chang
ing the official ballot as to eliminate
the discrimination because of alpha
betical precedence. Some of the SEN
ators; estimated that this advantage,
especially on parts of the ticket. is
worth from 10 to 20 per cent of the vote
to the candidate who happens to be
first on the ballot If there is any rea-
sonable way of reducing this advantage
it will be done. The senator's are at
work on this matter now. There seems
! to be very little sentiment in favor OF
going back to the old style in the mat
ter of having circle on the ballot at
| the November election. 1t Is pointed
out that this would only add to the
confusion, because in June we would
vote in the squares only, then in No
vember with the circle. Senator Ben
nett, of Taylor, introduced the bill to
restore the circle. The chief argument
| for 1T relates to the trouble had this
!: year over the names of candidates for
president and vice president being
printed on the ballots-but some of the
members say there is no law for put
! ting the names Of candidates for pres
:dent on the ballots.
| A bill introduced by Brandes, Of Pot
! tawattamie would make more uniform
the rule as to when all public officials
shall take office Some of them now go
| into office the first day of the year,
others the first Monday and others
later He would have all official terms
commence the first secular day Of the
wear. This would mean on New Years
dav except when that day is Sunday,
In the case of some state officials there
is really no time set when they shall
take office.
| Senator Sammis is preparing a bill
to definitely require that the portion
| of the road taxes raised within cities
| shall be handled by the city authori-
rio. tu he lsed in road work within
1.-The municipality. When the road bill
was passed a few years ago this was
discussed and 1t was supposed to have
been fixed that way, but conflict has
followed and in some places the courts
have held that the county authorities
] can handle this fund. The senator from
| Plymouth also has a plan for bill to
authorize repairs on sewers, curbing,