Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-04-01
GENArE APPOINTS SITTING COM.
MlTTEE WITH EYE TO AD-
TOURNAMENT.
0AMMIS ~ A TRICK
SEEKS TO slDETRAck BILL
Van Law Succeeds in Having Measure
Made q Special Ordsr-6iil to Tax
Bank Stock Now in Hands Of Gov
ornor-WiIl Go Into Effect This Year
Unless Hung Up in Court.
Special to Times-Republtcan.

Special to Times-Republtcan-
Des Moines, April 1.-The sure sign
of the approaching dissolution of the
legislative assembly came yesterday
afternoon. This or that member may
rise and propose an adjournment res
olution, or suggest that debate be lin
lied, or spend time in telling how tn :
gardens mad the fields are calling to
him to come home: but all this may
mean little or nothing.
The real thing is when the senate
provides for a sitting committee which
Il did yesterday.
The house is great free debating
club and almost anything goes thru
that body; IL is the senate that in the
end makes up the record and says
what's what on the big things. And
% when a sitting committee is provid-
Cd for II means that the senate IS get
ting ready to quit
The sitting committee, which viii
consist of seven men, will take over ali
the duties OF all the committees except
the appropria tions co1rnittee and pro
coed 20 dole out the bills that are
deemed most important II Will keep
d
(which 1t Is privileged TO dump any and
Ill bills
Yestertial when the Chapman res
paution for sitting committee came up
SamMis slipped II a substitute which
provided that when the committee IS
named at the close OF business today
1t shall take over everything, ana that
All bills on the calendar unfaTortbIJ
reported shall be stricken Of The res
olution passed almost before anyone
had time to know what il included.
Even after it had been adopted there
was debate and discussion as TO just
what it meant: but finally on Toll call
a motion TO reconsider was tabled "a
to 20.
Immediately Senator Van Law, de-
CLEARING that the resolution was aimed
particularly at the fve-u1ile limit bill,
had It made a special order Tor :: ~
Saturday by vote OF 20 to IL.
Then Senator Hammiu insisted OF
.irnilar treatment for his bill TO aool-
lsh the state printer and binder and by
q vote Of "a to 13 that was made spe-
cial to follow the five-mile limit bill
The derceness of the conflict over
these bills showed that the situation II
the senate is becoming so strained that
unless sitting committee Is provided
there would be danger OF blocking OF
legislation The house viii probably
name sitting committee very soon to
act In similar capacity for clearing the
house calendar Of the dross.
The bill on taxation OF money and
bank stock has been enrolled and is
in the hands of the governor. Unless
It is held up in the courts in some
way 1T will make possible the taxation
OF bank stocks this year, whereas with
out the passage of the bill no bank
stock in Iowa would have been taxed at
all. The federal supreme court had
Knocked out the law as to taxation of
state and savings banks and the state
supreme court had decided that ma
tional bank stocks need not be taxed If
the others were not. There is much
speculation among the legislators as TO
whether or not the national bankers
will attack the present law. The legis-
lators admit that it gives the national
Bankers some ground for cornp plant be-
cause it undertakes to provide an as
sessment on such property that will
not permit of any deduction on account
Of non-taxaible securities. But they
also say that If the owners of bank
stocks are not satisfied to pay under
knocked out there will be law passed
at the next session that will be even
harder on the stockholders. The as
sessment Of money and credits will re-
main unchanged this year.
The bin for a separate board for the
examination and cerridcation of osteo-
paths has heen made special order for
next Tuesday. For one thing the bill
has gained strength by evidence that
the a1lopaths are determined upon
fighting the bill and will insist upon
controlling absolutely the certihcation
OF osteopaths. 1t appears that the main
matter in controversy is that under the
present regulations it is difficult for
the osteopath colleges to be kept IN
because the requirem ents for entrance
are too high. The osteopaths deny this
and Intimate that the chief reason for
asking q special board is that they de-
sire 70 place their profession on a basis
.:s :net Of other professions and to be
er&1rely independent of the others.
The house Friday afternoon passed
the Whitney bill to give the state labor
bureau control over the labor offices
and such supervision as viii make #
Moore bill to exempt fraternal lodge
buildings from taxation; also a bin to
permit cfdes to establish a publicity
department and appropriate thereforn
. small sum annually; also a bill to
strengthen the law as to bonding com
panies.
The senate passed the bin from the
committee on highways to amend the
law - to the highways It provides
1or abolition OF the office OF county
surveyor and then that the board OF
supervisors may appoint a competent
person to lay out roads aud highways
u fact to be highway engineer wher
1Ao township trustees meet they may
sheet road supervisor and also a gu.
p<rfntendAnt Of road dragging. There
IN. , '0@'
49, 1Ae sens4A passed the house bill t,
s1esa,rs uassri.nsr. 60 -I.purt deatn,
1nsa Tuberculosis
Ansag ths bills passed by the hous