Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-03-13
SENATOR cuMMlNs' SPEECH ON
RECIPROCITY TO DRAW
MUCH ATTENTION.
FIRST ADDRESS ON SUBJECT
IN CONNECTION WITH PLAN
Expected to Put Some capsiou. Critics
To the Baa-interurban Trolley Car
To Be Regarded as Locomotive, Ae-
cordins to Supreme court-susy
Week Before Legislature.
rmes-Republican.

Special imes-Republican.
Des ), March Ex-senator \.
3. CuH. :, who has been i'll for sew
eral days since his return home, has
been invited to address the Grant Club
OH the 22nd and to present his views on
the Taft treaty and on the general
principles of reciprocity. This will be
the first address upon this subject
alone that the senator has ever given.
In fact. he has never treated Of reci-
procity only in an Incidental way and
then in the most general terms. He
referred to it in one of his Inaugural
veiopmer.t of the plan to free Iowa
from. corporation domination and this
caused a storm. Since the presenta-
ton of the Taft version Of what reci-
procity with. foreign countries means
the sena tor has not spoken on the sub
ject.
Members of the Grant Club were de-
sirous that Senator Cummins be given
opportunity to present his views on
reciprocity to his friends of Iowa. That
doubt: and they also anticipate that it
viii put some Of Cummins' captious
critics to the bad because Of their
gross Misrepresentation Of the views
of the senator.
An nterurhan trolley car is to be
regarded in Iowa law as the equivalent
to a steam locomotive hereafter. The
supreme court says SO In Il case from
Dallas county involving the killing of
horse on the Perry line the question
of the duty OF the motorman was at
issue, and the court held, in substance.
that the whole law as to steam roads
applies to trolley lines in the country,
that where it is required that q steam
whistle" shall he blown on a loco
motive the electric air whistle takes
it's place and the ringing of the bell
may be supplanted by the sounding of
a gong. In short it is held that IT the
legislature had known about trolley
cars and their devices when the law
was made it would have been made to
cover trolley cars as we'll as steam To-
comotives. A curious phase Of this de-
cision is that the justice who wrote the
decision and one other dissented from
the view stated in the decision and eN-
pressed doubt as to the wisdom of
making this ruling.
With calendars already we'll filled
with important bills recommended Tor
passa ge, committees Of the two houses
reported today number OF bills that
will be of general interest in the state.
This means that calendars are sufftci-
emily we'll filed now so that both
r. no l-on h,,c 6ay and
with two sessions a day. if willing. The
present promises to be a busy week.
On Thursday at o'clock, the Dol
liver memorial service will he held and
Robert G. Cousins will be the orator Of
the occasion. This will be held in the
hall Of the house in joint assembly.
Following this there will be a session
given over to "reminiscences by the
mem bers of the Pioneer Lawr1a kers
Association. the same to be in conjunc-
ton with the joint assembly
1t is therefore reasonably certain
hat persons desiring to visit the gen
al assembly will f1nd this week
ood one for the visit. as there will he
teresting sessions every day and on
cost days two sessions day.
A bill that is sure to develop some
o~atorical fireworks goes on the call
cndar of the house today with a unan-
imous recomm endation to favor. This
is the bill by Miller Of Premier former
member Of the democratic state COM
mttee and vice president Of the Amer
lean League for Medical Freedom. to
outlaw the doctors trust and to forbid
combination on the part Of doctors in
regard to fees etc. The house COM
mttee on public health unanimously
decided that this is an excellent meas
ure and that 1t will certainly do no
harm if It is true. as claimed. that no
trusts and combinatio exist among
the doctors. There are no doctors in
the house but it is presumed there
will be persons who will resist the ras-
sage of the bill. and it is certain that
if Charles w. Miller gets chance at
it he will start an interesting debate
on the subject.
A bill was also placed on the house
calendar with favorable recommends
ton to revise the law as to veterinary
matters and to create veterinary
board of commission to have general
charge Of the work in the state.
The Hickenlooper- Ream bill. which
today went on the house calendar,
would affect the food Of miners COM
ing to Iowa each year to work in the
coal fields. 1t would organize three
mine examining boards, one In each
district, to examine and certify as to
the competency Of each and every per-
son who may hereafter seek employ
ment as a coal miner. The purpose Of
this is to shut out Of the Iowa coal
fields the food Of incompetent foreign
labor, wholly unfamiliar with mining,
and thus to protect the workmen Of the
mines. 1t is a notorious fact that the
coal mines are being filed with Italians