Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-12

per annum for each 1000 Of population
Of said city, and for each councilman
the salary shall be 1920 for each 1000
Of population. There is limit, how
ever, Of $4,000 for the mayor and $4,000
for each councilman. Under this ar
rangement the residents of each city
can easily figure it out how much sal
aries will be paid in their respective
communities.
There are 10S survivors Of the Spirit
Lake expedition with which all Iowa
students Of Iowa history are familiar.
and by the passage Of the Chase bill
yesterday followed probably by its
passage in the house, these are to get
| $50 a month pension each from the
state. This will be the first state PEN
sions. They are said to nearly all live
in Iowa.
A bill to authorize and require that
the rudiments of agriculture. domestic
science ard manual training be taught
in all the schools of the state, has
passed on house and now a, bill has
been sent thru the senate to require the
teaching Of how to prevent accidents.
l. is estimated that nearly $50 pages
of the journals of the two houses have
already been taken up with statements
about the various and sundry protests
filed against the passage Of the tax re-
form measures. On some days there
are three or four pages of the journal
of each house taken up with this mat
ter. The petitions, of course. go to
some unknown place where they Will
never be seen again.
Discussion Of the Taylor bill to
penalize for falsehoods about cures Tor
cancer or tuberculosis, and putting IT
in the paper, brought out that there Is
widespread feeling among members
that selfish interests are exceedingly
active in certain directions. Senator
Balkema called attention to the fact
that the bill as it was reported was
entirely different from the bill as in
troduced and further developed that
the senator from Van Buren, wrote
neither of the bills. Then he called at
tention to a certain house bill relating
to the practice of pharmacy which con-
tanned provisions similar to that in the
NSAN>
pletely changed. The inference was
that these and other bills were directly
aimed at the transient and other ven
doris Of medicines and in the interest
Of the registered pharmacists, and that
Il they were adopted it would put the
itinerants out of business and cut off
large revenue for the state. AS
originally prepared the bill would have
prevented, or to a large extent made it
impossible, the advertising of any
medicines of any kind in the papers.
The bill. however. was badly defeated.
Senator Darrah introduced the bill
to provide that Iowa shall be ready to
take advantage Of the constitutional
amendment for the election Of senators
by direct vote Of the people as soon
as it Is ratified by a sufficient num-
Der Of the states. If this bin is passed
and the amendment is adopted prior to
the primary OF 1914 then Iowa can pro-
coed at once to the nomination of a
candidate for senator and his election
| in November without the expense of
calling the legislature together for a
special act.
The bill has passed both houses
which fixes the maximum limit Of a
school fund loan at $4,000 instead Of
$4,000.
A bill passed the senate yesterday
which provides that where a person
has served time in any penal institu-
ton of the state and afterwards it is
i ~ ;s, 1a hal la
paid out of the state treasury for the
time he was incarcerated at the rate Of
81 a day. This might easily result in
pretty big claim against the state.
There have been persons in Iowa re-
leased from life terms who were re-
leased on the theory they were not
guilty. Some years ago the parole
board ordered the release OF young
man from a short term because it was
found, beyond any doubt, that another
was guilty Of the crime for which he
was serving.
The bills for better protection of the
public in regard to various sanitary
and other matters are making some
progress. The weights and measures
bill, which provides for selling things
by weight and not by measure, is on
the house calendar. The cold storage
inspection and regulation bill is on the
house calendar. The bill for sanitation
Of restaurants and other places where
food is sold will soon be reported. The
net weight bill, which requires printing
the net weight of contents on package
stuff, is soon to go on the calendar.
The bill relating to- sale of fertilizers
has no opposition as vet. Another
bill just introduced provides for milk
bottles of uniform size and various
other such regulations.
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