Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-04

RECORD OF WORK FIRST HALF
OF SESSION SHOWS MUCH
ACCOMPLISHMENT.
MANY MEASURES SENT 70
LEGISLATIVE eoNEYARp

plishsd-Ninstssn Bills Go to Cover.
nor for ApprovaI-lmportant Meas
urss Pending in Both Houses-six
Weeks More Of Lawmaking.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, March 4.-The legisla
tive session is half way thru. 1t has
had a ix-weeks' run and if adjourn
ment is taken at the usual time, which
Is almost a certainty, there will be just
six weeks more.
There was introduced and printed,
prior to the short recess a total Of 344
senate bills and joint resolutions. and
514 house bills and joint resolutions
Perhaps two-thirds of these are dupli-
Gates. or substantially so. so that not
to exceed 400 separate bills have been
introduced.
An easy computation, not perhaps
entirely accurate but approximately
correct, SHOWS the following inter-
esting sacts:
The senate has acted on senate bills,
as follows:
Passed and sent to the house ......36
Indefinitely postponed ...........3O
Placed on the calendar .......... "a
Sent to the governor or ready.
Total .........:.'... 80
The house has acted on house. bills
as follows:
On calendar with committee report. 90
Indefinitely postponed IS
Sent to the senate ...............3 80
Sent to the governor ..............1O
Defeated on vote ................. l
Iotal ........ ......... lo4
The senate has disposed of house
bills as follows:
In hands of committees ..........26
Passed and back to house .........1i
Indefinitely postponed .............. i
Placed on the calendar ............ ?
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The house has disposed OF senate
bills as follows:
In committees or on file .........24
Reported to the calendar ......... 3
Passed and back to senate $4,000. IL
Indefinitely postponed -.......... 2
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| An analysis of these statistics dis
closes that an immense amount Of
committee work has been done in the
first six weeks Of the session, that
a fairly good job of killing bills
has been done, that the calendars are
now we'll filled with important meas
ures. that as yet there has been no
hitch or disagreement Of any import
ance between the houses marking a
breach. and that about the usual num-
Der of bills have been passed prior to
I the customary spring recess.
II The record is one which, SO = the
members say, will compare favorably
with that Of other sessions. 1t shows
also an unusual industry among
the members and in committee work.
Il Bills to Slaughter House.
The reactionary who measures the
usefulness Of his member by the mum
Der of bills not passed has no cause
to complain. Among bills indefinitely
postponed, which is equivalent to kill
ing them, are these:
To change the law as to paying for
moving weeds on highways.
To provide for an additional juror as
a substitute.
To forbid marriage of persons of diff
ferent colors.
Making a rule as to stockholders OF
rural telephone companies.
Repeating the law as to high school,
tuition.
Commission to investigate European
agricultural credits system.
Increasing pay Of county treasurers
Compelling cities to adopt double
platoon system for fremen.
II Increasing fees Of constables in GER
tain cases.
Providing for pay Of township clerks
Making term of office for notaries
five years.
Increasing the exemptions from tax
alton. m
Making changes in law as to munich
pal accounting.
Making new Judge in the Eighteenth
judicial district.
4 Regulating sleeping car berths.
4 Change in distribution of mulct tax.
Creating barber commission.
Requiring assessors to ask women if
they want to vote.
To appropriate for Graduating bee
diseases.
! Change in law as to registration Of
doctors. go
Permitting counties to employ per-
sons in health education.
Change in law as to competency OF
witnesses as to deceased. (,
Providing for medical inspection in
public schools.
To condemn property Tor gravel pits
Bill to prevent auto accidents at rail-
road crossings.
Bill abolishing school treasurers.
Bills for new normal schools.
! Providing for inspection of oil not
kept for sale.
Reporting Of deaths by assessors.
Postponement offthearing in divorce
cases.
Permitting attorney tolrefer to failure
of defendant to testify.
Forbidding false statements in ad-
vertisements.
Requiring acceptance of verdicts In
civil cases by less than all.