Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-18

| may decide to continue the district
system. This was of such Importance
| that the bill was laid over until Thurs
day.
Senator McManIs has fathered bill
to permit sale of ice cream in the hot
| months of summer Of lower grade than
which Is sold in the winter time. 1t
permits cream with a percentage Of
butter fat as low as per cent in the
summer months. The law now provides
for IL per cent. 1t is claimed that
Fourth Of July ice cream is generally
made without very much cream in it
anyway.
The Whitney bill which has now
passed the house and goes to the vir-
; tually estops an insurance company
from setting up as defense to an in
surance claim that the insured did not
tell all the facts about his property, as
for instance in regard to Il mortgage or
other policies. but places the burden on
the company of asking questions about
these things and getting the replies
down in black and white. 1t is intend
ed to knock out lot of technicalities
in insurance controversies.
Appropriation bills introduced on the
house side do not foot up quite so large
as those on the senate side. Chair
man Larrabee of the house committee
on appropriations stated on the floor
of the house that the aggregate is
something over s5,SSO,ooo, but this
does not include the salary increase
bills and some others
Chairman Larrabee favors a straight
n1illaee tax to care for a number IF
things that the people want but wnicn
will cost money.
i don't want to throw a monkey
wrench into the wheels of progress"
he said. but if We are going along the
road let us take the binders off,
He called attention 10 the fact that
there is before his committee. for in
stance, bill to appropriate 100000
for installation of an Industrial depart
ment at the state prison in response to
The demand for prison reform. and this
will take a SIS mill levy: a bill for
100000 Tor u colony for epieptics
which will take 2-5 of a mill levy for
some time: large sum covering
series of years for improvement of the
flee building. which will take q. half CT
l mill levy: for aid to consolidated
schools $4,000, with double the amount
later, which will take ITO of q mill for
the first year and IL thereafter: pro-
vision for increase in the bonus for
schools for normal instruction which
will take Is of mill more.
Now what we have got TO do" sale
st,ac
and similar things by m;,lage tax.
Then the man who goes to pay his
taxes will know exactly what ile is pay
ing for. We will not have TO rob the
general fund 20 pay for these neces-
saries. The people do not objecs 10
paging taxes If the taxes go to some
coed purpose, but they would like 10
know just what the taxes are for and
they have right to know"
Mayor A. A. Smith, of Sioux City. is
i here. He is especially Interested on
! behalf of Sioux City in two measures.
| one, and most important, is The oil TO
permit cities to levy a special tax
mills is the limit in the biil-fc! the
! support Of the fire department. The
! other is in the defeat OF the public
utilities bill. "a least in its present
| form.
We are suppIanting all our horse
wagons and apparatus with automo-
I bile trucks and latest and osSt equip
ment in Sioux City" said the mayor.
We ought not to take it from the ger
eral fund. Dies Moines is the only city
that has stood ou- against this Dill. and
Des Moines ought aot to STAND. N the
way AS for the .ublic utilities Oil, II
| would put a crimp in US. and we nave
! cur utilities in fine condition now and
| the city getting about $4,000 year
| from Them
The fve-mile limit bill! Wen: thru
the house with a whoop when 1t GOT
| fairly started, tho it took good deal
| OF maneuvering to get it to a vote. IL
received e6 votes cut Of IL possible lVe.
| The bill puts the iowa City saloons OUT
J of business after Sept. l next. or "oulo
| if the senate would pass it-whicl is
! entirely improbable. The bill row goes
! to the senate where it will be used as
buffer in the game Of forcing the SEN
ate 10 pass the bill to settle the college
| controversy.
The teachers pay bill Saiti passed
| the senate would compel Salaries OF
from s32 to $50, according 70 the schoi-
| astic attainments of the teacher. ms
/ chief objection .'4ised to 1t Was that II
seemingly ignores the fact that some
| times the value of a school teacher 3
! not measured oy The percentages
| shown in the test. The bill Is patterned
after the Indiana law which IL Is de-
! clared has worked very well in in :
! creasing the wages of tine teachers ana
securing better grade of work.
The house committee on appropria :
| tions yesterday afternoon recommended
out the Saltzmann bill for passage car
rying an appropriation of 100000 for
the establishment of binding Irvine
| e. o;tbar the AnanDS2 reform .