Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-21
FIRST VOTE IN SENATE iNDI.
GATES COMMISSION MEASURE
WILL GO THRU.
HEATED DEBATE CALLED OUT
BY SEVERAL AMENDMENTS
Allen. Effort to Make ceurtq Engineers
Subject to Approval 81 State Com
mission Fa,is-Littie Change ~ to
Handling Bridge Contracts = Vote in
the Senate.
Special to Times-RepubIican.

Special to Times republican.
Des Moines, March 21.-Brief con-
sideration OF the highway commission
bin in the senate yesterday hardy
served to show where the lines win be
drawn at the finish. Tie superficia;
indications are that the bill wiil pass
in form not very greatly different
from that IN which it was prepared by
the committee.
An amendment proposed by Senator
Alien TO make the county engineers
appointment subject tottR approval OF
the commission MAS rejected IS TO %.
The argument on when this was re-
iected was that this feature is al
ready fuzzy covered and the provision
III the committee oil! by and under
which the county engineers are subject
to removal by the highway commission
ana at ali times must carry out the
work in accord with HE plans OF the
state highway commission is suffl-
cient check on the engineers.
Senator Weber Wanted to make A
change in the bill SO that Tor ali bridges
Of $500 or over, instead OF $1,000 or
over, bids must be advertised for. This
was rejected as useless proposal.
Senator Chase wanted to cut out the
clause permitting building OF cuiVeris
by day labor or without contracts, and
in supporting this he sarageiy de-
nounced the whole bill. The DISPOSE
ton in the senate appeared TO be 10
make the amendments necessary 10
perfect the bill and 10 reject all others.
The vote of 50. to 8 for the bin showed
that the com niktee is well backed Up
in the senate and Az. basSsae to set
thru the legislatureaxisat is desired.
Lineup on Fioat Passage.
The vote on the bill follows:
Ayes-Ames, Arney, Balkema. Bail
uff, Doe, Chase, Ciarkson. CoNles. Crist,
Crow, Farr. Fellows, Francis. Garrett,
Heald, Jones, Kimbali, Larrabee, Mann
berg. Mates, McColl, McManus. Per
kins. Kuigley, Robinson. Savage
Schrup. Shssan., Smith. Spaulding
Sullivan. Taylor. Thomas. Weber, VIII
son. of Clinton-35
Nays-Allen, Doran. Gillette, Hage-
mann. Legel. Nye. Ream, White. VII
son of Appanoose-S.
Absent OF not vot!ng-Da-rah. De-
Wolf. Dunnegan, Hilsinger. Jewell Neal
IS.
SO the bill having received consu-
tutional majority was declared to nave
passei the senate and its title was
agreed to.
Little Change as to Bridges.
When Allen offered his last amen"-
ment he said that he did not expect
to get it adopted.
The apparent purpose is to pass the
committee bill" he said. Unless ne
committee makes the suggestion not
an Il can be dotted nor I crossed
But nevertheless propose TO make
fight for the things believe are
needed to protect the interests OF the
Ieople in this matter.
Allen charged that the committee Dill
changed the law relating to bridges
very little. little more red tape was
provided. but in the end the same re-
suits would be gotten, he declared.
Arnes Of Tama, a member OF the COM
mitree. and Allen tangled when Allen
introduced his last amendment Ames
declared il was drawn to favor the
bridge contractor. He intimated. but
later denied it was his purpose so to do,
that the purpose of the amendment was
to help the contractor.
II, is the most vicious amendment
that has been offered" Anes declared.
In Heated Exchange.
Smith Of Shelby came to Aliens res
cue for an instant He declared that III
shelby county the people are complain
ing mos, bitterly against the graft In
bridge building The complaint in a
great measure is due to secret methods.
He urged that everything be done open
ard above board.
Allen took the floor when Smith fin
ished.
such illusions as just have been
made against the amendment / offered
ere coward.y." ne declared. Il deny the
allegation made by the senator from
Tara. l demand that he furnish
proof Of the statement he has just
made"
President Harding interfered. He
said il vas against the rules and de-
corun OF debate for one senator to i'm
pugn the motives Of another senator IN
Offering amendments.
Ames offered an apology II his re-
marks were misunderstood. Allen ac-
copied 1t.
The Chase amendment was not dis
cussed at length The senator from
Hamilton explained that he did not
want to see supervisors letting private
contracts for the small bridges. 1t Is
in the building of'them where the most
graft exists, he declared.
Balkema Of Sioux declared passing
this amendment would make the bill
top-heavy. For the third time he
called to the attention Of the senator's
that the bill still must pass the house.
Every amendment tackled onto the bill
would make it Just that much harder to
pass. He intimated any cort OF an
amendment proposed by persons other
than those representing the committee
would serve only to ring tho death
knell for road legislation.
Webbsr's Amendment Lest.
Weber of wapello. wanted to lit
the limit a member of the commission
could draw from the state. This was
opposed and defeated on the ground
that once the gates were opened the
members of the commission would
spend all of their time at nigh val bust :
nesE.
The committee amendments proposed