Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-19
to keep abreast, Of the teaching pro.

to keep abreast. Of the teaching pro.
gram.
The Bartle bill to require a medical
certificate as prerequisite for mar
r!age certificate appears to have got
| lost somewhere in committee. The
bill provides that no persons with
| tuberculosis, insanity. feeble minded
or an infectious disease, shall be per-
| mitted to get married.
Representative Griffin has introduced
q bill for the long and short haul" idea
in regard to rates on railroads. 1t
would make 1t possible for railroads to
meet competition at junction points
without violation Of the law even by
ignoring the straight mileage basis for
all traffic.
The death Of Senator Gates left Sem
ator Mates to be chairman of the COM
nlittee on suppression of intemperance
for the senate. The absence Of Senator
Jewell has imposed on Senator Smith
the duty Of handling the public health
measures. Absence of Senator Francis
caused the affairs OF the judiciary
committee to fall 70 Senator Sullivan
temporarily.
Senator Boe's bill to forbid the cir
culation Of any card, poster, or other
campaign literature of any kind on
election day or primary day, might. if
embodied in lax, compel daily news
papers to suspend publication and join
the saloons in going out of business on
that day of the year. 1t is broad in
character and refers to campaign lit
Ne-ature without description or detail.
Mr.. Hagerman, the newly elected
senator from Butler Bremen district. is
expected here by Thursday. which
would be the earliest day the state
board can count the vote and declare
the election His election restores the
senate Political proportion TO that
which il was before the change in the
Poltawattan.ie district.
An accusation OF intinl;Gating wit
nesses was made by F. NJ. Sargent, at
torney for the Rock Island railway
against the legislative committee of the
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers
in a hearing before the house commit
yesterday afternoon.
Sargent stated that he had brought
engineers, employees Of the Rock Island
system, here TO testify against the bill
co"' before the railroad committee re-
curing the equipment OF ali engines
with electric headlights ard frost glass.
They had been warned. ne said. after
reaching the capitol building, that II
ia he, 'aI
from the brotherhood.
The interstate commerce commits
sion,' he said, lis nov engaged in
the electric headlight. If you pass this
bill, It win tie up the railroads so that
II viii be Impossible for them to adopt
any other light for two years, no mat
ter how great its superiority may be-"
Members OF the legislative commit
tee" Of the brotherhood Of engineers
were present and usgsdTthat the bill be
recommended for passage by the COM
mittee. They said that the measure
had been endorsed by every chap pier of
the brotherhood in Iowa and Illinois
Attorney Sargent, in discussing the
measure, said: I brought engineers
here to talk TO you today who are OPP
pOSeO 10 the electric teSCIlgNI ana the
frost glass. They could have told you
from their own experience why this
bin should not be adopted.
After arriving here at the state.
house they were informed that if they
spoke here they would be subject to
expulsion from the brotherhood. They
are now out in the corridors and
around the state house
The Brockway bill eliminating drug
store permits was recommended out
for passage by the house committee on
the suppression Of incompetence yes
rerday afternoon.
The bill provides that drug stores
can handle only raw alcohol and NAV
dispense that only on the prescription
of a physician. Applicants also are re-
quired to sign a blank showing when
their last purchase Of alcohol was
made anr at what drug store.
Regular prescription forms must be
secured from the office of the county
auditor, these numbered consecutive
ly. Physicians issuing prescriptions
must keep carbon copies TO De turned
back 10 the auditor. The original must
be returned by the druggist making the
sale.