Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-25
BITTER FIGHT AHEAD
OVER STATE AT SCHOOLS
MOST ExAsPERATINo CONTEST
coNFRoNTS LEolsLATuRE,
SAY LAWMAKERS.
plsruRsERs At SEA As TO -
HOW TO START CAMPAIGN
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Have Hard Problem In Inducing Leg
isIaturs to Back Up on Board Of Ed
ueation-spseiaI Bill Proposed by
Some - Anti Education Group at
Some DISADVANTAGES.
,ecial to Times-Repubhcan.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. Jan. 25-Why don't they
start the. college fight? How are they
going to-. get the legislature to back
up on the board OF education and order
continuation of the duplication work in
| higher education?
Members from the college counties
are being asked these questions every
day. Already the lobby is here and
| the work is said to be started. Sem
| ator Chase referred to this Yesterday
( when he said that the committee on
| educational institutions was up against
| the bitterest and most exasperating
| fight in the history of legislation and
probably it would take up all its time.
| The chairman of this committee In the
senate is Mr.. Arney of Marshall. and
| in the house Mr.. Jensen, of Pocahon-
| tas.
| Clearly the fight over where the nor
NAL school bills should go was largely
fight on the college quarrel The
demand that these bills should go to
| the committee on public schools was
| in the interest Of the towns wanting
| normal schools and partly that the
| matter should be got out OF the way
| of the college fight. The senate voted
! % to is to send the Shenandoah bill
to the educational schools committee,
which indicates that on the college
quarrel there MAJ be nearly even di-
vision.
But thus far no member seems to
have figured out just how to begin
the fight against the board Of edu-
cation. It has been proposed by some
that they put in a special bill direct
ing the board Of education, in SO many
words, to reverse itself and abandon
it's position and serving notice on the
board that 1t has exceeded its 5uris-
diction in undertaking to determine
about what shall. OF shall not be
taught at any or all the state educa-
tional institutions. Some bill that will
accomplish just this thing is said to
be in preparation. But members are
slow to urge that 1t be done. Unless
this step is taken the whole thing Is
! likely to be disposed of in the appro-
priations committees when the college
budgets are considered.
In some respects the anti education
! board group is at disadvantage. Iowa
City and Waterloo are represented by
! UeIIlOCIdliC SSildtolS anu <ntAiSS ~ -
new member of the house. The Story
member is a new one. One of the
Blackhawk members is new in the
house. Mr.. Grout alone is second
termer republican who may be ex-
pected to especially look after the
material interests Of his constituents
in the matter Of the college contro-
versy. Probably Senator DeWolf will
really lead the fight in the legislature
to turn the board about.
Senator Chase also declared on the
floor of the senate yesterday that in
this college fight the lobbyists are al
1 ready on the floor and have been ac-
| tive in buttonholing members and Sc
curing pledges one way or another as
to the college scrap. A large num-
her of lobbyists on the subject have
in fact appeared and have been at
work in the hotels as we'll as on the
floors Of the two houses.
|
There is an apparent clash in regard
to sanitary measures before the gen.
eral assembly. The food and dairy de-
partment is on the chase Of the pes
tiferous germ, and the state board of
health claims to be going into the
same realm.
The food and dairy bill is directed
toward all places where food is pre-
pared or sold or consumed In pub
lie way. It gives authority TO the state
to order the cleaning up of restaur-
ants. bakeries, grocery stores, hotel
kitchens. ETC. 1t hits at meat markets
so that employees from whom Infection
might proceed may be kept out.
The board of health measure is d.
rected especially at the pollution OF
streams in the state from sewage and
it contemplates a sanitary survey OF
the state. Inspectors at a per diem OF
s25 day will be in position to order
the cleaning up Of cities and streams
and the prevention Of epidemics.
While the two are distinct matters
it is reported there is some conflict
between them and each one is DESTROYS
of getting ahead of the other.
Something said in the very brief dis
cussion Yesterday over the Schrup res
olution to inquire into the waste in the
distribution of printed matter by the
state suggested that there was a plan
on foot by the republicans to railroad
thru all measures to continue waste.
and there was suggestion that the
election OF a printer ana Dlnoer tHe
other day for second term was all
wrong. This brought forth a denial
from Senator Balkema that there was
any relation between the two. He de-
MED there had been any caucus held
or anything decided; in fact, the
printer and binder election has nothing
to do with the manner or extent OF
the distribution Of public documents.
all Of which is fixed and determined
by the legislature itself. There have
been several investigations Of the
waste and reports made thereon, and
some revision Of the lows, but probably
not all that will be found necessary
While the movement for the shorter
ballot is under way Polk county, thru
: it's representative. Shankiand. Is seek
ing to make the ballots at the prl-
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