Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15
CARROLL WILL SIGN OREGON
PLAN MEASURE DESPITE
PERSONAL OPPOSITION
FRIENDS MADE EVERY EFFORT
TO AMEND BILL TO DEATH
Credit For Passage Of Bill Belongs to
Senator Smith and Representative
klay-Soms Doubt a. to Constitu-
tionality Of Measure = interesting
County Seat Bill Presented.

! Special to Times-Republican.
! Des Moines, Feb. 15.-Governor Car
roll will not interpose a veto to stop
| the adoption in Iowa of the plan OF
| direct election of senators by the
people His friends in the senate have
made desperate effort TO defeat or
amend the oregon plan bill, and all of
the amendments suggested, including
the Allen amendment, were solely for
the purpose of completely defeating
! The Allen amendment which did not
come before the senate but was
attached to the explanation which was
filed by the senator from Pocahontas.
would have had the effect of authorize
ing a candidate for the legislature to
shield himself beyond perfunctory
pledge to be partisan at all times,
which is implied in the system in Iowa
at present. Altho it is stated that
Governor Carroll has been opposed to
the bill as presented, he will not veto
the same.
Credit for the passage of the bill be-
longs with Senator James A. Smith
and Representative Klay. 1t is an open
secret that the bill was prepared and
written at the suggestion of Senator
Cummins, possibly was written by him,
and anyway that it represented his
views as to what Iowa ought to do in
the forward movement of the day.
The attitude OF Senator Hunter.
who voted against the bill, was not
that Of antagonism to the principle
but because Of a conviction that 1t
would be unconstitutional TO thus
evade and circumvent the constitution
At no time was he able to bring him.
self into the belief that the law would
stand in courts, and this may be
true Senators Neal and Spaulding
were in much the same fix
All that is left to do is for the house
to concur in some technical amend
ments made in the senate, and the bill
goes to the governor.
Senator Proudfoot voted against his
own amendment, for the purpose of
laying the foundation for a motion to
reconsider that particular amendment
The bill involved number Of intricate
points of parliamentary procedure, and
it is doubtful if any delay in the bill
can now be caused. Every step was
carefully worked out. The friends Of
the measure out generated their op-
ponents in every way.
| The addresses of Smith and Van
Law especially on this bill were re-
garded as very able statements of the
fundamentals involved.
! The house insurance committee had
an interesting hearing on the bill to
place a tax of per cent on the prem
| iums paid on insurance policies on
companies not authorized to do bust
ness in Iowa. 1t would be provided that
a policy in such a company would not
be valid unless a receipt for the tax
was attached. Manufacturers Of the
state object to this on the ground that
1t would place an added burden upon
them. Then there are several COM
panies having mutual relations across
the state lines that would be adversely
affected. But the authorized insur-
ance companies favor such a bill.
An interesting and innocent bill is
that by Representative Kull, Of Howard
county. It provides that where a coun-
ty seat has been located at one place
for fifty years it will take a petition
with two-third of the voters to start a
! removal fight. The place that the bill
is especially intended to hit is Mills
county and its presentation explains
! why John Y. Stone. ex-attorney gen
eral. has been,here for several days. If
further annoying Glenwood on the
county seat question.
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commission appointed by the governor
has reached that graveyard of the sem
ate judiciary committee. and nervous
members Of city councils needs no long
er worry. The author of the bill had
it on the calendar without recon-
mendation. 1t developed that in the
committee Of which he is chairman
only two votes were cast to recommend
1t, one being his own vote, but after
wards by a sort Of mutual consent or
Iacquiesence he was permitted to place
it on the calendar. When these facts
came to the attention Of the senate the
bill was placed where it will have to be
considered on it's merits by the commit
tee. The other bills on the same sub
| ject are in that committee
! Delega tons Of employers Of labor
from Dubuque, Council Bluffs, Water
loo and other cities appeared before
the committees yesterday to oppose the
| general workmen's CONDENSATION bill
pending in both houses. The bill is pat
termed after laws in Europe and pro-
vides for method Of workingmen Sc
curing compensation for Injuries with
out resort to the courts The labor in
terests are pressing the measure a1ard.
Chairman Mates. Of the senate an
preparations committee, is already he
ginning to try to figure out wherein It
is going to be possible to hold down
the expenditures to within reason. He
has in his hands bills for appropria-
tions which aggregate $1,000, 900 and
over, and there are bills in other COM
mittees calling for over $500, 900. That
IL going . good ways toward using ur
the million and hak at the disposal Of
the legislature. As q matter Of fact
many Of these bills have no show o,
passage, but they indicate how Difficult,
It il to get the matter adjusted. The
board Of education special appropria.
tons call for over 31.07s,00o ana tn
board Of control specials for over g..
oss,ooo.
There 10 to be 4 public hearing OF