The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-01-30
OUTLINE POLICIES
PUBLIC UTILITIES
THE COBURN-GILLeTTf CONTEST
FIRST QUESTION is COST OF
MAINTAINING COMMISSION.
Cigarette is Struck by the kulp Bill
- Senator Weber Would Give
Loan and Trust Companies Pow
err to Act As Administrators.

Des Momes, Jan. 29.-There will be
a meeting of the Senate Public Utili.
ties Committee this afternoon at
which time, it is stated, the commit.
tee will begin the outlining of its
policies. 1t has been decided by the
committee that before beginning the
actual draft of bill they will decide
upon certain policies and announce
these from the committee. To
avoid confusion and misunderstand-
ling the committee has adopted the
rule that whatever information is
given out shall be as coming from the
committee instead of from any indi-
yidual member.
1t is rumored that the first question
of policy to be taken up today will
be relative to the cost of maintaining
the proposed utility commission. The
expense of maintaining it must either
be taken from. the general funds of
the state raised by general taxation
or by fees levied against the utility
corporations which come under the
supervision of the proposed commits
sion. While none of the members
would commit themselves yesterday
afternoon it is rumored the commit
tee will incline to the latter policy
and will lay down as it's first rule that
in drafting the committee measure
the provision of support must be so
drafted as to compel the utilities
governed to bear the burden. This
would relieve the farmers and all
other general taxpayers from bear
ing any of the burden of maintaining
department to govern utilities.
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Counting of ballots commenced
this morning in the Coburn-G Gillette
senatorial contest from the Forty
sixth senatorial district composed of
Cherokee, Ida and Plymouth counties.
The committee has laid down the
rule that as ballots are counted, or
presented for county, attornies must
make their objections, If they have
any. All disputed ballots are to be
laid aside uncounted and will be
counted last after the disputes have
been Settled. In this way no an.
nouncement will be made as to the
standing of the contestants until the
final disputed ballot has been decided
upon and counted.
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Representative Walter F. Jensen
of Pocahontas county is preparing
for Introduction in the Legislature a
bill to prevent the publishing and
advertisements of an Of
fensive nature. He is trying to draft
his measure so as to cover magazines
and periodicals sent into the state
from other places and will according
ly include in the bill a penalty for
any person to sell a periodical con-
tanning offensive advertisements.
A blow at the cigarette is struck
by Kulp of the house in the bill he
has just introduced prohibiting the
use of tobacco by students OF county
high schools. His measure provides
that any student of a county high
school found using the weed" shall
be expelled from school. His bill
contains no reference to corn silk,
whip.stalk or dock-seed.
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Senator Weber of Wapello county
this morning introduced bill giving
to Iowa Loan and Trust companies
the right to act as administrators, eX-
ecutors, trustees and guardians by
putting up an approved bond with
the court, just as individuals now do.
He urges that many people prefer to
leave their affairs in the hands of
we'll established organization of this
kind rather than to some individual.
Thursday morning at IL o'clock is
the time definitely fixed for test
on the liquor question in the senate,
the resolution memoriali2ing Com
gress to pass the Kenyon bill, being
made a special order for that time.
When the resolution was brought up
Tuesday an effort was made to avoid
a vote by referring it TO the commit
tee on the suppression of intemper-
Gnce. The motion to do this, how
eve.. was lost by a vote OF Is TO %.
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Sunday amusements of all kinds,
including baseball, football, dancing
and all other popular Sunday amuse.
ments are put under the ban in a bill
introduced in the House of Repre-
sentative Townsend of TraerA A
similar measure has come up almost
every session for the past ten years
apd ALWAYS aWakens the enmity of