Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-31
FIVE-MILE LIMIT BILL DEAD
Senate Committee Reports Saloon
Measure for POstpOnement.
INTENDED FOR COLLEGE CITIES
WOuId Have shut Drinking Places
out of Them All In IOwa-HOuse
Kills Bill to stop Insurance
Rate Cutting.
CFrom a staff Correspondent

DDS MONIES, Ia, March 3O.-(Special
Telegram D-Quietus was put upon the
flve-mile limit bill by the senate commit
tee on suppression Of intemperance this
evening. The bill provided that no saloon
should be located or permitted within five
miles of the state university, which would
shut out all saloons at Iowa City. The
committee, having been directed by the
senate to report the bill in some FORM
amended IT 30 that it will apply to every
city having college and then reported 1t
out for indefinite postponement.
The senate today passed the house reso-
luton looking to having congress call a
convention to revise the United States con-
stitution 80 that senators may be elected
direct.
The senate passed the bill for a COM
merce counsel, fixing the salary at 5000
year, and defeated the bill to permit at
tachment for debt of 10 per cent of the
wages OF the head of a family.
The house voted down a bill to forbid
rate cutting in insurance and virtually au-
thOrizing that the anti-compact law be
ignored. the bill receiving only thirty-five
votes. The house defeated bill to permit
voting on saloon consent matters instead
of settling them by petition.
The senate passed resolution for joint
session next week to elect a printer and
binder.
Moneys and Credits Tax.
The house has passed without amend
ment the senate bill to change the law as
TO taxation OF moneys and credits the
vote being 30 to 8 for the change.
The bill as passed and now goes to the
governor, taxes all moneys and cPedits at
mills on the dollar and fixes the assess
ment OF hank stock OF every kind at 50
per cent of the actual value
Must Bulletin Trains.
The senate today received from the rail
road committee a favorable report on the
bill by White of Iowa TO require that
bulletins be posted at all stations showing
what trains are late and how late and TO
have these bulletins correct, The same
committee killed a bill for semi-monthly
pay days for railroad employees also a
bill for additional information in railroad
reports.
Bushels VIII Not he Lighter.
The Fletcher bill for the reduction In
weight of a bushel Of potatoes and a
bushel Of onions was reported to the house
today with accommodation that it be
killed
The bill by Representative Miller to pro
vide for inspection Of weights and meas
ures by the state dairy commissioner wa,
recommended today for passage
salary increases Favored.
The senate received reports today favor,
/ able 10 the bill to permit the state board
Of agriculture to raise the salary Of the
| secretary TO not to exceed 81, 900 a year
| The committee recommended that the pay
Of the secretary OF the state board Of
| health be fixed at S2,4OO. and in favor Of
removing the limit on the total Of the pei
diem paid the members Of the parole
board.
Tax CommissiOn Bill Beaten.
The spaulding bill for permanent tax
commission to handle all matters with re-
gard TO assessment and taxation through
out the state was defeated by a vote OF IS
to p in the senate.
Appointed by Governor.
/ Governor Carroll has appointed NJ A.
Ransy of Marengo to be a member of
the governors military staff with the title
Of Lieutenant colonel and to be chief of
engineers. He succeeds Colonel Wharton,
who has left the state.
Injury to Child.
Senator Cummins this morning was nd
ing In an automobile along Grand avenue,
when just ahead OF the auto was a wagon
to which the senator's grandson was hold
ing while riding along on roller skates.
The little fellow let loose and turned so
quickly in front Of the auto he was struck
and knocked down and terribly injured
The boy is years old and his only
gTandchild.
Mine Revision Defeated.
The Cloakrooms were ransacked for votes
for the Clarkson mine revision law bill In
the senate yesterday and the sergeant-at-
arms failed to rustic up sufficient num-
Der The bin lost % to o.