Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-19
now revised so that there viii be no
trouble whatever in making q go Of It.


the bill got thru on a house bill with
out being discovered and as a result
boards OF supervisors will be placed
under bonds.
The bill to include under the iefini-
| ton of vagrants persons who camp by
| the roadside and engage in horse rad
ing is aimed at the gypsies. 1t passed
| on yesterday.
| The conferrees agreed on 1900 at
/ tendance as the size for fairs to come
under the law as to reduced rates from
| the railroads.
! One Of the Huff bills finally got thru
| late and it will help in litigation. II
! provides for Il court giving authority for
! Subpoenaing a witness TO so 10 another
state and requiring the trip to all safes
| where similar, provisions are ma lie
| when witness is wanted in Iowa.
| This will in time put q stop 70 se!i.lins
! witnesses across the line into another
state TO escape the necessity for .esti.
! Tying.
A hill passed tnies week n author
iZe special taE in certain cities Tor
the disposal of garbage.
The war on the department Of agri-
culture had some amusing features. II
a. vanished as the days wore on. 1t
is said the efficiency engineers" spent
5000 in GisCt Ver!ng that what was
needed, was a double entry set OF books
like those which have been general.
discarded elsewhere in the state house.
Then az the finish the bill was passed
permitting the board to raise the sal
arg of the secretary, and Chase didn't
even say word against it when the
opportunity came. Still worse. Lun,i
voted for the new $4,000 building on
/ the fair grounds. Thus what was ex-
pected TO be the foundation for much
future political agitation vanished into
thin air.
II IS going 10 cost Clifford 1horne
1859 clean cash OUT of pocket 20 have
gone to the legislative floor of the
state capitol and there 10 have effected
the defeat of the public utilities bill.
He is given credit for the defeat all
right. He is not offering any apologies
But d bill has been passed to repay
him s4i5.99 which he paid out while
fighting ratc case ~ the time he
I became railroad commissioner. II had
got thru both houses; then DeWolf re-
called il from the house and yesterday
he sought to cut the string and let ii
go back so II could be enrolled bu.
( Cowles. who above ali else is allied
with special interests. refused to per
nit IL. So il is probable that Thorne
Will have 10 stand for a loss of s445.99
as the price ne paid for defeating the
utilities bill. It cost a great deal more
than that, however. TO put the bill into
shape as desired by some OF the cor
porations
Herbert A Huff, of Hardin county.
has been doing yeoman service in the
/ legislature during thu winter. Latterly
he has carried the burden OF chair
manship OF the house sitting commit
tee which has been engaged in clearing
UP the calendars and getting ready for
the finish Mr.. Huff intends 10 be
candidate for denomination and cleo.
! tton and also d candidate II elected
| for speaker Of the house next time He
vas unfortunate in that as chairman
of the committee on selection of COM
mittee clerks he is not especially popu-
lar with them. but in other respects he
stands exceptionally high and has
gained steadily until the finish.
Senator Head has been the butt Of
more than one joke because of his
penchant for making speech and
making il too long. bu, ne got it all
back on his critics yesterday when ne
took up the cause of VI. o. Clemens
and made the senate pass the bill to
give him $1,000 Clemens had been in
prison and while out on parole working
! in the boiler room of the institution at
| Oakdale he contracted tuberculosis
Head told the story Of the tragedy
with feeling eloquence, answered every
criticism made and by reason Of his
earnestness and zeal for tne poor man
fairly compelled the senate to back up
on an action already twice taken
So
The senate refused to recall from the
sitting committee the bill TO place tine
telegraph and telephone business under
control Of the railroad commission, or
in other words TO declare these COM
panies common carriers and apply the
law the same as to other common car
riers. Senator Schrup tried hard to get
action but Of no avail The sitting
committee has the bill safely nailed
down.
The bill for an insurance commits
| sioner and separate insurance bureau
| came to lis death in the house after II
had passed the senate. The argument
! was that it was one of the bills the in
/ surance interests desire and therefore
! one not likely TO meet With favor from
| the insured.
| The bill TO define the duties Of the
commerce counsel for the railroad com
/ mission has passed both houses and
will become a law The original law
! left the commerce counsel without
| clearly defined duties and this is in
| tended to make it plain just what ne
has to do. -
! The bill to increase the salaries of
various state officers passed yesterday.
II makes the pay Of the secretary of
state auditor and treasurer $500 a
year as against $1,000 a year now: in
creases the pay of the clerk Of the SUI
preme court from $4,000 to s2.700 a
year; and increases the pay Of the at
torney general from $4,000 to. S. 900.
I This latter is the only considerable
change Iowa now has for the first time
| an attorney general who is devoting his