Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-02
PUBLIC UTILITIES
BILL IS KILLED
HOUSE SLAUGHTEES MEASURE
WHICH HAD PASSED
SENATE.
FINAL VOTE LACKS ONE
OF CONSTITUTIONAL MAJORITY
Call Of the House Demanded and Abb
sentees Cause Failure of 6il!-Law-
makers Sing Songs While Sergeant
alarms is Rounding Up Absent
Memsers-vote on the Sill.

: Des Moines, April . Death ended
lie utilities measure was being sub
jected in the house, when Barry. OF
Linn. moved the previous question yes
terday afternoon after the house had
terms of the committee measure. The
vote was 81 for the bill to Al against
it, lacking one of q constitutional. ma
jorit!.
/ Ine crisis came when Jamison, OF
Des MoineS, moved 10 Strike olt the
paragraph 1orbidding municipalities TO
construct a plant in city where there
already Is a similar uti!lt! commission
a declal alton that public conHen!ences
ana necessity requires '.ln.c!pal u,il-
i1y.
Chairman stipe, of the public utilities
committee, protested against the
amendment He said it was contrary
! to the entire spirit Of the bill.
Then Klay took the floor. He said
the adoption OF Jamson's am, ndment
would make satisfactory service inn
possible With the danger that their
permits would be cancelled AZ any time
by municipalities without appeal, the
utilities would be afraid TO pat any
money into improve n-ents he told the
mem bers Of the house. ana pointed TO
the instance OF the Y-s aiuines street
car company and its franchise.
Strike Out Enactirs Clause.
Lund moved TO strike out the enact
ing clause. The effect OF the carrying
Of this motion would have been TO Kin
the hill. Stipa demanded roll cah
and call of-the house.
Twelve me nabers were absent. seven
Of them without leave. The doors were
locked at 3: 80 O'Clock and the sergeant
alarms instructed to bring in the
missing representatives. Fifty or more
me nbers formed chorus and enter
tanned themselves and the others with
songs during the; wait that followed
Their repertoire inc&ded everything
from Hail, haAss1he gangs all here
to ''Neargr. my God IS Tee"
AT 1920 O'clock Speaker Cunningham
called the house to order ard an
nounced that four members were still
absent withou, leave. Whitney moved
TO terminate the call of the house, and
the motion prevailed
Lund's Motion Lost.
The roll cali of Lunds motion to
strike out the enscting clause followed,
and the notion hs, g. 10 81.
Vote on Bill.
Then Barry, Of Linn. moved the pre-
vious question. applying it 20 the Jami-
son anne ndu.ent and the bill. The Tcii
call on the bill was:
Ayes-A nderscn, OF Montgomery. An
derson Of Greene, Barr. Bernbrock,
Bingham, Backford Bliss, BRADY
Bruce, Burt. Buxton. Carson, Chapman.
Cole. Craig Cunningham. Dawson.
Dixon. Enger. Erickson Greene OF
Grundy. Griggs Grout. Halgrims, Han
sen, Helming. Hunt. Huntley, Hutchins.
Jacobs. jacobson. Jensen. JONES'. hlay,
kulp. Larrab bee Leroy, Lenockcr Nc
Hose. McVicke-. Meredith, Munro,
Sewcor1b. Peterson Pickford, Power
Reeve. Ring. Rome, Sharkland Sher-
man. Stipe, Webb. Whitney-54.
Nays Atkinaon, Bauman, Brown,
Bradley. Clark, Cronbaush, Crozier.
Daniels. Downey Dunlap. Eggleston'
Elwood, Greene of Clinton, Griffin
Halstead. Hazen. Hamilton, Heaton.
Huff. Jamison. Kane, kelso. Kingland,
koontz Lounsberry, Lund, Manning
Miller, Milton. Mitchell, odendahl. Salz-
mann. Scholz Scott, Sidey. Stokes,
stutt Thompson, Townsend. White
W-orkman-4l.
Absent or not voting-Bartle, Black,
Boettger. BrocEway. Cannon. Dnze- Ell
liott Fraley. Hadley. Mccullough, Rob
wer. Steelsmith, Trum bauer-l3.
Eight who voted against the Lund
motion. the effect of which would have
been to Kill the bill. voted against the
bill itself They were Atkinson. Griffin.
Hamilton. Heaton. Kingla nd. Manning,
Milton and Odendahl. Leroy voted for
the Lund motion and then for the bill,
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