Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-02-27

offered as substitute for the klay
bill. This is the bill to approve OF the
action Of the board except as t(
domestic science.
This proposal was debated for long
time. Mr. Dixon spoke for over ar
hour and Messrs. Ring and Schol7
spoke for the bill. After much
wrangling over parliamentary ques
lions a vote was taken on the proposal
to substitute and it was lost 80 to 65
This brought the matter back to the
Klay bill to rebuke the board. Pending
consideration the house adjourned un'
til this morning, leaving the bill sub.
ject to amendment.
viii Take Bills Homo.
The legislature will now take a
recess for week. Practically every
member will return to his home Mem
bers of the committee on retrench-
| ment and reform have arranged so
that at least one of their number
shall be here all the time so as to
carry on the work Of making the in
vestigation into the state board OF
agriculture, and securing information
as to various offices in the state
house. Senator Francis is ill In his
room at the hotel and will not be able
to get away, and it is. greatly feared
he will not be able to do any further
work in the session. Members will go
to their homes with many OF the I'M
portant bills in their pockets to show
to constituents and to consult In re-
gard to them. This will be especially
true of the bill for state highway
commission, the bill for public
utilities commission and bills affect
ing court procedure and the penal
system of the state. Several OF the
members will also take home various
school bills to be shown to school peo-
pie during the recess and upon which
to secure advice.
A hearing was given in the railroad
committee of the senate yesterday on
the Farr bill to forbid trespass on rail-
road right-of-ways and grounds. the
bill is substantially the one prepared
by President Miller of the Burlington
railroad and which was printed some
time ago as the one desired by the
railroad companies. Some additions
have been made to it. The bill raised
quite a number of questions, espe-
cially as to the rights of persons en-
gagged in shipping or having casual
business on the right-of-way, and the
fear was expressed that it would, for
instance, make it crime for farmer
to go on the right-of-way to drive his
cattle off should they break through
the fence. One senator objected be-
cause it undertakes to keep the tramps
off the right-of-ways and he said ne
thought they ought to be required to
do all their travel there and not on
the public highways. 1t was explained
bv Mr.. Farr that as a matter Of fact
most of the accidents reported by
railroads are from unauthorized travel
on the right-of-way. .
Lines Drawn on Suffrage Bill.
Senator Cowles, whose brother
owns a Des Moines paper, made des-
perate effort yesterday to get the
equal suffrage bill to a place where 1t
could be decently slaughtered without
the public seeing what was being done,
but owing to the vigilance OF Senator
Allen the bill was saved. Some of the
members of the senate are getting
very nearly to the point OF becoming
real angry about the woman suffrage
question. There is a pretty solid group
standing for the passage OF the reso'
luton and another and smaller group
making a fight to the finish to effect
it's defeat. Probably as soon as the
recess is ended the final contest will
be made and the vote be taken.
A bill affecting the state pharmacy
commission passed the senate yester.
day with some amendments which will
20 back to the house. It restores the
status of the pharmacy commission to
what it was prior to the act OF the
legislature two years ago which In
creased the power and responsibility
of the secretary, and it makes the
commissioners more responsible for
the enforcement of the law. Incident
ally it also increases the per diem OF
the commissioners.
The senate committee on public
health recommended today to the
senate the passage Of the bill relating
to the false advertisements OF med1-
cines and cures, amended so as 60
limit it's action to the advertisement OF
cures for tuberculosis and cancer. AS
originally drafted it referred to any
cure. ...... ..