Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-19
NUMBER NOT so GREAT AS FUSS
OF MouRNERs WOULD
INDICATE.
FEW VERY LARGE MEASURES
WENT DOWN TO DEFEAT
Utilities and Tax Reform Measures
Lead List Of Buried si,s-Majo
Of Those Rejected Classsd as Neither
Good Nor sad-Attack on Aericul-
taral Board Vanishes in Thin Air.

Speciaf to Times Republican.
r .Des Mo!nes, April ls.-The catalog
OF the Thirty fifth general assembly
graveyard contains some notable
titles; but rot as many as the casual
reader has been led to expect from the
fuss that has been made over the
den!seiof pet measures.
Only a few OF the very large meas
ures finally went 10 defeat. The pro-
gram for work was we'll adhered 10,
and the list Of good bills passed IS
much larger than the list of good ard
bad ones defeated. The great majority
| OF bills that Went TO defeat could be
classed neither as good nor bad. Some
pieces 10 order. We guarantee 10 match
OF the most conspicuous Of the de-
feated measures are found below:
The utilities commission bills.
The bill for reform OF the taxation
and assessment laws.
Bills TO provide larger taxation FOR
the construction of permanent high
way.
F'orbidding marriage Of persons of
different races.
Provision for .eInpaneling substitute
and extra jurors
Extension OF the law for removal
from office.
Creation of a legislative reference
department.
Uniform text books for counties, also
state uniformity
Establishment of state custodial
farm and district farms.
Provision 10 hermit men n vote
while away from home.
Permission for women 10 vote on
whether women Should be given fran
chise.
For hdding free masses 10 members
OF the legislative at state fair.
F'orbidding druggists to sell alcohol
! only on prescription.
Divorce cases secret and not TO be
tried for at least q year.
Provision for cross examination of
adverse party. in lawsuit
Authority for appointment of vice
commission.
Change date Of primary election TO
be held in the fail.
Requiring convicts be kept at hard
labor.
Repeal of the Blanchard anti-coIn-
{ pact law as 10 insurance.
Five or six new state normal schools
I 10 be established
! Document editor 10 censor PUBLIC
documents to be published.
| Provision for collection OF vital
| statistics
New state office building 70 be con-
! structed at once.
Provision for teachers annuities
J Inspection and regulation OF private
! Banks.
| Requirement as 20 the size Of train
| crew
Charging Up TO property adjoining
cost Of eradicating weeds.
Making the school township the unit
, Of school organization.
Bill for the regulation Of loan
sharks.
Provision for discharges from bank
rupty in the state courts
Inspection and regulation of hotels
and boarding houses.
Authority for expressing second
choice on the ballots.
Provision for a jury commission 10
select ali juries.
Creation Of state insurance depart
rnent
Fixing qualifications for supreme
and district judges.
/ Provision for majority verdicts in
criminal cases.
! Regulation Of cold storage plants
and labelling Of products.
| Advance printing of bills to go to
the legislature
Board 70 examine for mac:1ano-
/ therapy and osteopa thy.
The direct inheritance tax
| Establishment Of twine plant at
| the state reformatory.
Closed season for quails made per-
manent.
I CHASING telephones and telegraphs
! as common carriers.
! The blue SKY bill.
! The presentation Of the Joint reeo!u-
| ton on clerks and janitors about the
! state house was the signal Cor A fu-
! rore. as usual, in the state house: for
! that is the place wnsre the Legislature
| decides how many little jobs there are
! 10 be given out as permanent things.
| Some Of the departments were greatly
| disappointed. For instance, i. was said
thai the automobile departUcn. would
! be crippled seriously II no more clerks
( were provided than las: year. for the
/ business of that department. has grown
! enormously and the Legislature mas re-
| fused to. transfer this work TO the re-
! spective counties. There was a grea :
deaf of complaining because the pro-
| visions for care Of the state house had
| been neglected in the bill and instead
| OF providing for more real work there
had been provision made in the Gus
todian's department for new soft
snaps. There is hardly depaI tment
Of the state. however. but that feels the
| legislature should have been more lib
eral. The position at the head Of the
retrenchment and reform committee
having charge of the preparation Of
this small bundIet of expenditures is not
an .enviabie one. There are great
many things asked OF the legislature
that are not needed and It is hard fer
the members to discriminate.
The legislature made rewriting 0:
the law which was passed at the las,
session Of the general assembly to pro-
vide for the unsexing of persons wac
might be the parents of inrbeciles. cpl
leptics, insane or criminals. As tbs
law was written two years ago some