Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-31
lEc,sLAruRE CONSIDERS MEANS
OF PROPERLY HANDLING
5s COLLEGE CONTROVERSY.
JOINT MEETINGS OF
LEGISLATURE PROBABLE
ou..t;on 20 Be Given Fullest corsid.
ertfon and Efforts to Stampede Sen
.@irnsnt Viii Be Frowned Upon-Nor-
NAL School Crowd Compelled to Back
up-lssisIative News.
special To- Times-Republican. ,

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moiues, Jan. 31.-Sone decidedly
knotry problems are ahead OF legislators
IN; dealing with the college controversy.
The. first thing rs to decide how to
GET the matter fairly before the lesis-
lature, and yet not open the door lor
an unseemly wrangle nor yet to permit
Of an effort to overwhelm the legislature
by crowded galleries 6ld manufactured
sentiment. Are there 20 be pubic near
inss? If SO, who is to be heard! Nlll
they be in committee rooms or large
halls?
The college resolutions are now in
the hands of the respective state ecu
cational institutions committee OF the
two houses. where they may receive luli
consideration. Joint meetings are de-
sired in some cases. 1t has ALREADY
been virtually decided that if hearings
are to be had. they must be IN one or
the other of the legislative halls, SO
that all members of the legislature may
attend and be informed.
OF course the state board OF educa-
ton will be invited to appear and state
ing out Of the plans for coordination
of the state educational institutions. A
number of the members say that they
do not know what is proposed and are in
the dark as to the meaning OF some
things. They will ask the board, the
body designated by law to have charge
NJ the college administration, to give
report Of its work.
Then, on behalf Of the various reso-
lutions opposing the work of the board
and colleges representatives of the
various organizations formed for hsht-
ing the changes will be heard. There
have been from one to a dozen OF these
representatives on the ground all the
time, but they Will be asked to make
their statements in public.
But what about college presidents,
members Of the faculty, and others con-
nected with tn colleges? The commit
tees are in doubt as to whether TO IN
vite them and put them to what may
be an embarrassment Of conflict with
their employers.
Whatever is done will be done as
quickly as possible, for all the mem
bers want to get it out of the way as
soon as possible. Representative Car
son, Of Davis county. who is not an
alumnus Of either college, states that
in his opinion there will be some sort
Of compromise offered that will settle
the whole difficulty without any serious
rupture between the colleges and the
state authorities.
Now the entire matter Of state edu-
cational institutions is to be handled
by the committee created for that pur-
pose, at leas. in the senate, and there
will be no longer an effort made to d.
2 vide the work of deciding on new nor
NAL schools from that Of deciding or
the needs and purposes Of the three
state colleges. Senator Arney, chair
x man Of the committee on educational
b Institutions in moving that the normal
Y bills be all referred to his committee
!. declared that unless the committee was
to have the bills which properly belong
to it the committee should be aban'
doned and plainly minated that Il
would do so. He gave assurance tina
the committee is one which will give
fair consideration to all the bills prop
erly before it. Senator'S who represent
constituencies desiring normal schools
4 made haste to back up and give assur'
ance that they mad confidence in the
G 10 its acting. The committee is in fac
q, very strong one; but the significance
OF the action is that it permits handling
the entire problem presented by tn
report of the board Of education by on
committee.
x a bill is in preparation for an anti
j discrimination law as to insurance mat
- ters It will not be, so it is declared
I. = bill to nullity the Iowa anii-compac
s. law. as provided by the insurance com
bine, but 1t will leave the matter s.
that each and every insurance com
pany will be free to engage in competi
fion provided it does not discriminat
= ar to rates on similar lines In differen
M cities or different places. In the pas
the bills presented in behalf of the out
~ aide insurance companies to forbid rat
cutting in insurance all have been
framed that at some place there shout
81 be lodged an authority to decide Wha
81 are fair rates and when this rate
established it must be observed by a
companies thus putting an end
competition in rates. Members sa
that II a fair bill on the subject is in
~ troduced it will have no trouble
~ passing.
Lumber dealers have appeared on tn
scene to consult with members in re
gard to the provisions of the bill to ex
tend the operation of the state unfa:
discrimination law to all kinds Of bus
ness. They point out that dealer VIII
has several yards is at the mercy {
s IN Independent dealer with one var
because the bill would compel tn
ii larger dealer to make the same rate ;
Nil yards and he could not meet cut ra
s competition at any one yard witho'
reducing the price all along the lin
The lumber men want an amendme1
$40 that in case Of cut rates at any OF
Mace the competition can be met.
W. o. Payne, Of Nevada. who In tim
ss past has been aggressively favorable
redistricting Of the state for congre
sional purposes, says probably nothii
s4Fss S1sf rnw be done. "The developme