Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-19
cial 10 Times Republican.

| Special 10 Times Republican.
! Des Moines, March 19.--The bin TO
! fix the size of a train crew and to limit
the number of cars in a train. has had
some hard going in the committees The
! bill was urged especially. by the rail
road brakemen and TO a degree by the
railroad conductors. 1t fixes the num-
Der of persons who shall constitute a
train without full complement of
men as provided IN the bill. The train
men have made q hard light for it and
the railroads have fought the bill! hard
er than any Other and claim that it
! would be serious drain upon them TO
comply with il. The bill went to d
subcommittee of the senate railroad
committee and this committee has
failed TO agree. There are those who
favor it and those who oppose. and
Senator Robinson intends to propose
as a substitute that a bill be passed
placing the whole matter in the hands
of the railroad commission with au-
| thority 10 investigate and determine
upon rule which would be fair. Mr..
Robinson believes that it would not be
possible for the legislature to inform
Itself as 10 what would be right nor
to lay down a rule that would not work
a hardship on someone: while the rail-
road commission might be able to de-
eide the matter in such a way as to be
! satisfactory to all concerned.
| The house committee on claims. thru
| Chairman Charles Miller. yesterday
| presented the house with a proposal in
the form of bill. relating to the claim
! Of one NJ. o. Clemens against the state.
| Clemens was a laborer employed ty
! the state at work on buildings at the
state sanat oriurn at Oakdale and While
| so engaged became afflicted with tu-
bercuioss. 1t is almost certain that
his maady was due TO the contaSion OF
the place. He has asked the state for
an appropriation. The legislature has
! been reluctant to set the preceden: Of
paying a claim OF that kind where the
responsibility Of the state IS not any
better established. But the claims COM
| mittee has proposed as compromise
| that Clemons be sent al stat. expense
! to DR.. Erie dmann. IN New York, to be
! cured. If that Is possible, or 30 be re-
ieyed so far as any relief can be Civ
| en-. 1t is understood that Clemens viii
accept this In lieu Of direct appropri-
alton. Tho Miller bill was sent TO the
appropria tons committee with instruc-
tions TO act Immediately.
The bill. which has passed both
| houses to curtail the state In the NAT
| ter of taking a part of the pension
money of the veterans at the soldiers
home, will be published this week and
become law in time to take erect pe-
fore the next quarterly pension pay
ment at the home. This will leave the
veterans at the home with all their
pension money. and make a cNfeTehce
of about 50, 500 in the amount they VIII
have for personal use.
The attitude of the committee on re-
| trenchment and reform in regard u
suppor. OF the state fair was clear4S
foreshadowed in the speeches by two OIL
it's members yesterday in the mouse on
the bill to put the state board OF ss-
riculture into politics by peFmlttins
district election of directors instead Oh
! election at large. Mr.. klay ana MI
| Jacobs declared their unbounded con
fdence in the state board OF agriculture
| and indicated that the investigator VI
the committee had not disclosed any :
| thing in the nature OF a scandal nor
ANYTHING that would warrant . r;N"-
;r,ion in the manner of organization
IF the board 1f there was any tflls
wrong with the board of agriculture,
eaia Mr.. Jacobs, surely 1t would sho"
nm IN evidence that there We some
thing wrong with the state fair. NO"
7rh.t is the matter with the state -air ::
Nothing. /, is the biggest and best lar
~ the country What we ought 70 ne
interested in is the result, and the re-
suits OF the board are shown IN the
eair To make a change now merely
for ,he sake Of change. and based u9cH
susrdc,on and rurnor, would be to take
Tho risk of iessening the efficiency q
the Management That was the arsu-
ment which won and effected the oe-
feat of the Blackford bill.
The senate complimented the State
Historical Society at Iowa City by the
massage Of a bill to increase the an
nual allowance The society now gets
$4,000 a biennial period for support
and the bill makes it $4,000. Senator
Jones made the statement to the senate
that the society now has a library
which would sell for more money II put
IN the market than was put into 1t by
the state and its value is increasing
| The bill to require the labelling OF