Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-11
TRAVELLING MEMS BILL REoU.
LArEs SIZE AND CLEANLINESS
OF BED EQUIPMENT.
ROLLER TOWEL BANIsHED
FROM PUBLIC PLACES
License and Inspection Of HosteIriss
Also Provided-Tempsrsne oraani-
nations Working in Harmony For
measurss-Day's Gossip Of the Lsais-
laturo.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. March 11.-Bed sheets
upper one ninety inches long and lower
| one at least ninety inches long
washed and ironed fresh for every
guest. OF clean white cotton or linen
and for-sure Pillow slip on every
pillow whether OF feathers or some
thirg-that's what the travelling men
VIII get when the legislature passes
the bill which has received the APP
prevail OF the state board of health.
the state travelling mems association
and the hotel Keepers association. 1t
also banishes the roller towel, and each
individual towel shall be at least 1ox15
inches in size. These are little Incl
centals in the Kimball bill for licensing
CT hotel keepers and restauranteurs.
The engineer member Of the state
board of health shall be the state in
spector of hotels. and have an assist
ant and they shall make inspection of
all hotels and restaurants and issue IL
censes upon finding them in sanitary
condition and with fire escapes and
other similar things for the care and
protection of the travelling public. Ho-
tells having twenty or more rooms
shall pay IS for the license and smaller
ones 50. Another bill OF same nature
provides code in regard to the re-
spopsibility for care Of valuables by
the hotels.
Temperance organizations OF the
state are found 10 be working in har-
mony for the securing of some new
legislation. They have got themselves
together and have issued a circular in
which they explain and lay stress on
certain bills which. as they say. they
desire to emphasize before the iegis-
lature. These bills are:
The five-year term for dry territory
the same as FIVE years for wet terri
tory. They argue that IL 1t Is fair for
one side 1t Is for the other to have the
status remain for fixed period.
The daylight saloon bill. This has
already gons inS1 the hands OF the SEM
ate committee on suppression of In
temperance organizations stand for
this.
The bill to limit sales by druggists Of
intoxicants to alcohol alone, and to
provide that this can only be sold as
a part of mixture and on a prescrip-
ton by doctor.
The constitutional amendment.
All effort is to be concentrated on
these FIVE measures by the constitu-
tional amendment association. the anti
saloon league, the Business Mems Tenn
perance Association and the w. c. +.
L. They are all also favorable to the
III h,,& vat hoC k
ing 1t at all.
Senator Heald fathers bill max
ing some additions to the authority and
duty Of the state food and dairy COM
missioner, under which it is going to
be possible, in case 1t becomes law, to
shut off the practice Of persons buying
renovated butter and bringing 1t from
the country to sell as real butter right
off the farm and also making II pos
sible to compel rigid inspection of dair-
les supplying milk to cities. 1t is pro-
vided that in all cases where renovated
or process butter is offered for sale 1t
be labeled as such plainly.
little bill that will raise a storm Is
one by Senator Gillette. the substance
of which is that in suits by an estate
to recover on account Of the death OF
person there shall be recovered I'm ad-
dition to such elements of damage as
are recoverable by common law, such
sum as jury may deem proper for the
pain and suffering. both physical ana
mental. suffered by the deceased. be-
tween the time OF the said injury and
the death OF such person, in the same
measure, and to the same extent as
aucn damage would &c cccc"erah!e in
an action brought by such deceased
person had he lived" The bill is one
intended to make 1t just as expensive
to kill man as to nearly kill him.
A bill for an appropriation OF $44o.99
recalls one OF the small unfinished jobs
of the last general assembly. 1t is an
item for the payment Of the cost OF
printing q certain brief prepared by
Clifford Thorne In January. two years
ago Just at the conclusion OF the ia
nous case in which he appeared and
secured the holding up Of the proposed
advance in freight rates all over the
country. He started the action before
becoming a state Official and incurred
his term. The last legislature refused
to pay 1t because there had not been
entered any formal order on the sub
ject by the railroad commission. But
the case was won and somebody will
have to pay a small part Of the bills.
Senator Weber has bill to provide
that a state or savings bank shall not
be held liable for a debt to one borrow
er in excess Of 10 per cent OF Its CAPT.
tai stock, unless the Borrower shall
make and deliver to the bank written
statement Of the borrowers financial
condition for the purpose OF obtaining
credit, and in no event shall such Ia
bility exceed 20 per cent Of the actually
paid I'D capital Of such bank.
Near Catastrophe q Play.