Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-03-11
SENATE AND HOUSE HAVE OPPO-
SITE VIEWS ON LIQUOR
LEGISLATION.
HOUSE PASSES BILLS,
SENATE VOTES THEM DOWN
Lower Branch Of Assembly Will Pass
Five-MiIe Limit Sill, Which Will
Fail in Upper 8ranch-Schoo| Treas
urers to Continue to Draw Their An
nual Pittance.
special to Times Republican.

lslation affecting the liquor traffic was
shown In the two houses yesterday
The fact is that the house can pass al
most anything labeled Temperance"
and the senate will Kill almost anything
SO labeled The temperance people are
is quite fixed for doing almost anything
desired. while the other fellows are
watching the senate, which is well set
for defeating anything that looks like
tightening up on the liquor business
The house spent a lot of valuable
time in playing with the fivenlile limit
bill. BY error or accident the house
received a report on the bill by Smith
of Adams, fnrbidding saloons within
five miles of The university, just before
adjournment for the recess, and adopt
ed it without really knowing that the
adoption meant the death Of the bill
Another bill was in committee Yes
terday the motion to reconsider was
taken up A half dozen different roll
calls became necessary to eet the bill
and report on the calendar. Efforts to
refer, to postpone, to adopt and TO lay
on the table. all had to be voted down;
and finally the bill was made special
order for next Thursday morning. This
means that al that time the hill viii
te considered. and either then or soon
afterwards will be passed.
Similar bills still repose somewhere
in senate committees and when the
house bill crosses the corridor IT Will
go to a committee for burial.
In the senate the Cowles bill raised
~ inv a1+noat the
same sort of discussion as the Sammis
bills in regard TO removing restrictions
from the liquor traffic. But when the
vote came it was seen there Was diff
ferent alignment. In fact, ii was broad
ly hinted that the trouble with the
c, wles bill was that II was one OF those
liberal measures the saloon men do not
want, for 1t would make it easier for
the wholesale druggist to get into the
liquor business and compete with out
side dealers. Al present the Iowa job
Der Is handicapped and can not COM
| pete with the outsider. But the bill
was beaten. apparently because this
! handicap is one Of the things wanted
by somebody.
| The action o: the senate in placing
| on the calendar with an unfavorahle
report, but as a special order for next
Thursday, the prohibitory amendment
resolution, means that members are
perfectly willing to hgh, it out right out
ION the floor of the senate and vote it
down squarely. which probably will be
done. There is no doubt whatever tina.
the majority sentiment of the senate
! is against submitting proposal for
| statewide prohibition.
! That the school treasurers Of the
/ little country school districts who get
/ salaries of $40 q year for handling
school funds have been very busy the
past year was shown in the senate yes
terday afternoon when the senate de-
feated the bill to place school funds in
the hands of the county treasurer to
draw interest for the benefit of the
public the same as county funds now.
The bill for interest on county funds
passed last year without a vote In OPP
position. The principle Is much tine
same, it was pointed out, in regard to
handling school funds, but the bill re-
| ceived only fourteen votes and had
twenty-four against.
| In the debate it was pointed out
by Senator Balkema that the saving
| to each county, on an average would
| be about $500 on salaries OF these
| ScnOOl ITedSETtIS anu tIlC eeA'ii - SAAH
the interest probably $1,000 wear TO
each county. Senator Weber figured
| il even better making the saving on
| salaries for the entire state 100000
wear and profit in interest about $780,
600 year.
| The only effective argument against
the bill was by Adams. who insisted
that the removal of the funds from the
| hands of the farmers who are now
school treasurers would so long way
| toward taking away the sentimental
rea sons for deep interest in school at
| fairs. 1t is proposed that the 1uhos
shall go to the county treasurer, then
| back TO the bank in each community,
but it would be worth more to the
schools on the whole to nave the
money in the hands of the farmers and
others in .aoh re:Ghhnrhood to act as
school treasurers.
The vote on the measure was az 1ol-
lows:
Ayes-Balkema, C1arkson, Francis
GilliIland, Hammill, jewell, Larraoee'
Malnlberg, Neal. Proudfoot, Ream'
Saunders, Van Law and Weber.
| Nays-Allen of Pocahontas, Ames'
Brown, Chase, Cowles, Crow, Dun
negan. kirkpatrick, Gates, Nccoil'
Mccullough. Mates, Parshall. Qulgley:
Sammis, Savage, Shrup. Smlth Oh
Mitchell Spaulding. Stuckslager, Sui
Ivan, Taylor. White and Wilson.
The Dolliver memorial service VIII
be held next Thursday afternoon at
q o'clock and the toWnhouses have al
ready arranged for joint session at
that time Robert G. Cousins, OF TIP
ton. is to be the orator, and expec-
tation IL that he will give an Grafton
on the subject that will be worthy OF
the occasion and the man. The COM
BETTER THAN SPANKING