Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-04
Club WITHHELD FROM
Attorney GENERAL
SENATE REFUSES TO EMPOWER
EMPLOYMENT OF SPECIAL
AGENTS.
cossoN DESIRED AID IN
ENFORCING ANTITRUST LAWS
Ha!stead Creates a Di-
version in the House Whom Explana-
ton of Vote is Expunsed From Rec
ord-Move in Favor Of Osteopaths-
Legislative News.
, Times Republican

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, April 4-The senate
failed TO pass the bill TO place within
the hands of the attorney general the
club he needs for the enforcement of
the antitrust laws Of the state. This
was the house bill by Anderson for
empowering the attorney general to
employ out of his contingent fund spe
ing of evidence Of the violation Of law.
Its purpose was to provide for agents
who could go into different parts of
the state. under orders of the attorney
general, where cases are pending in
Volving the larger affairs of state. and
TO aid in securing information in re-
gard TO violations. Its real purpose
as known to all the members was to
secure better enforcement of the anti
trust and similar laws of the state.
In the past two years the attorney
general has had to send out his assist
ants in the law department TO do this
very work. 1t is recalled, also that in
case like the Nillisca murders the
attorney general found himself unable
TO employ detectives to carry on the
work properly, and this bill, if it had
been adopted, would have made pro-
vision for just such cases. The debate
on the bill, however, showed that there
was nervous fear that in some mys-
ferrous way the passage of the bill
would secure better enforcement of
some of the minor laws of the state
and possibly interfere with some Off
Gals in some of the cities of the state.
Hence the bill was unceremoniously
defeated.
Representa- tive T. F. Halsted was
called down by the house for put
ting into the journal of the house, as
an explanation" of his vote against
the public utilities bill, newspa per
article by John MacVicar, of Des
Moines, which had previously been
published, and the explanation was or
dered expunged from the permanent
journal Of the house. Whereupon Mr..
Halsted filed another explanation as
below and put it in the record:
II voted against the public utilities
measure because I believe with John
the GROWING infamy' of d o-called
progressive legislature. Since TO go in
to details as TO the reasons for my OPP
position would be to cover the same
ground as was covered by the Mac
Vicar article from the Des Moines
News. which this body has voted to
suppress, 1 will not take the risk of an
other rebuke by advancing them again,
but content myself with the state
ment that if my mind were incapable
of evolving other reasons the mere
fact that agents OF certain corporations
have spent much Of their time here
this winter urging the passage of this
bill convinces me that the principal
purpose Of the measure is TO deliver
the people of Iowa over to the corpo-
rations so securely bound and shackled
that future legislatures may not be
able TO release them. Also l will take
the liberty to suggest:
Truth crushed to earth will rise again;
The eternal years Of God are hers,
But Error wounded, writhes with pain,
And dies among his Uorshipers."
The senate took the Klay bill which
had passed the house in an emascu-
lated form, and passed it in its original
form, providing for non partisan
election Of judges of the supreme and
district courts. The candidates for
judge. under this bill, viii file as usual.
but their names will all go on ALI the
various party ballots under head Of
non partisan judiciary ticket" and
there shall be nominated at the pri
mary election in this way twice as
many candidates for judge as there are
TO be elected in November In No
verher there shall be a non partisan
judicial ticket with the names of these
nominated candidates thereon from
which the electors select their choice.