Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-05
LOWER BRANCH OF IOWA LEoIs.
LATuRE PASSES O'CLOCK
cLoslNo MEASURE.
SALOON INTERESTS HAVE BILL
AMENDING THE MOON LAW
schrup offers Measure to Provide For
One Saloon For Every 100 sionsrs OF
Observation-Disclosures Committee
Employ. Financial Exports to Ex.
ammo State Departments.

Special to Times-Republican.
Des Moines, Feb. 6.-The house to-
day passed. So to 80. the bill for day
light saloons, fixing the closing hour at
Z o'clock.
Senator Schrup introduced bill TO
amend the Moon law so that tnere
could be one saloon for every one nun
dred names Of qualified voters VINO
have signed the petition OF consent III
each city.
Powers. of jefferson county. spoke
in favor Of his measure
Fraley. OF Polk, voted against the plih
of Polk was absent. CRIT
fin and Whitney, of Sioux CITY, vote"
a gainst the proposed law, and boettser
voted and spoke against the measure.
The law as it now passes the mouse
prOyides that saloons may % open
only from Z a. IN. until p. m. rms
same measure passed the house two
years ago by a lesser majority and was
killed In the senate.
Sna.Lar, cunningham voted for the
measure. w
tions, jails. hospitals and asylums are
filling up with people who are curseu
by alcoholism.
Business Engineers Employed. !,
The committee on retreAchment ana
reform today hired the f1rN of QUAIL
Parker g. CO., of New Yoyk 70 uhoe.
take the task OF making full lnVesti-
CATION of the administrative depart
ments of the state house, with view
of recommending ECONOMIES IN the
handling CT the, state business. ana the
firm will. commence next Monday. IL ~
anticipated there will be genera
shaking up in the departments.
] with. thirty Department. to e1amine
and investigates fhe comfnfttee beiieve
The work will prove, bis undertakihs
ana for that reason the contracting
firm viii be required to put large
force of experts on the Job. 1t IS de-
sired to have The task completed pc-
fore the present session expires IN or
der shat the respective committees
NAV report the results Of the invesu-
CATION to the branchss'of the lesisia :
ture.
In discussing the. matter Chairman
Klay said that he was not able 10 pre-
dict what changes would be made IN
the administration of the states ar
fairs. THAT win depend" he said. ''oh
the report made by the efficiency en-
gineers Their findings Will, of course
govern the committee to large extent
in any action it may take.
an so large a business as that OF a
great state like Iowa there are un-
re 1f economy
can be brought about thru an efficient
No such investigation
has been conducted since the state was
admitted to the union. There Is no
doubt that it will prove paying in
vestment for tho state"
Senate Banishes Lobbyists.
The senate banished the lobbyists
today. Senator Chase asked for en-
forcement of the rule. he declared
senators had been greatly annoyed by
Of special interests
working on the floor during sessions.
President Harding directed the ser
geant at arms to exclude all persons
not properly admitted by card. and an
he would strictly enforce the
rule from this time on.
,. Gillette Probably Wins.
The committee counting the ballots
IN the Cohur.l: Gillette contest finished,
ana while decision has not yet been
rendered it ooks like Gillette has won.
He is forty-eight ahead on the undis-
nuted ballots and if all of them are
c ounted lie sill still be ahead. The
result depends on the decision as to
these ballots
House Refuses to Conpromise.
Altho the house committee on cdu-
cational institutions has refused to
agree to a compromise on the fight
against the board OF education. the
senate will attempt to carry out its
program At O'Clock this afternoon
the members of the senate committee
and members of the board OF education
will get together. Two reasons are
assigned by the senators for the failure
of the house members to agree to the
plan. They are: The representatives
do not want a weight like the school
question hanging over their heads when
election time comes around again. The
senate suggested fthe compromise and
the house Is not prone to take up with
ideas that do not originate in the house
or apparently originate in that body.
The failure Of the house TO enter into
a COMPROMISE with the board OF edu-
cation probably means that the whole
question will be fought out at public
hearings
curbins the Supreme Court.
A measure requiring the unanimous
opinions of the supreme court to make
an act Of the general
assembly, and the trial divorce bill
were passed by the house shis morning.
They now require only the concurrence
of the senate. Representative Whitney
made q strong speech In Dehalf of his
bill regulating the authority Of the
supreme court, which he declared
should not be superior to the body
which was given the, right by the con-
stitution to prescribe It's powers.
The. house disposed Of an amendment
which gave the court power to declare
an act unconstitutional on three