Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-08
SENATE SERGEANT -AT.ARMs UN.
ABLE TO LOCATE MAN WANTED
As WITNESS.
FREAK PETITION PRESENTED
sY schRUP. OF DUBUQUE
"Many citizens' Petition Legislature
to Quit Playing to the Galleries and
Complete Work-Money Appropr'-
atsd With Which to Pay Efficiency
Enainssrs-Shank Bill Buried.
oecial to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. March s.-The sergeant
alarms Of the senate today reported
that he was unable to locate ]. w.
johnson. who is wanted by the COM
mittee to tell where he got the money
to carry on the campaign against the
tax commission. The committee will
make a further search for him.
A Roast for Senate.
Schrup, of Dubuque, startled the SEN
ate by filing a petition he had received
from many citizens" urging the legis-
lature that instead Of occupying so
much valuable time playing to the gal
leries and in lieu of encumbering the
records with innumerable petitions.
you get down to work and do some
of the things we feel justified In ex-
pecting Of you."
The senate passed the Dunegan bill
to permit voting city bonds by ma
jority vote. also the bill to pay colonel
Rood $500 for work on the Vicksburg
commissions.
New Bills in Senate.
New bills:
BY smith, to define the duties Of
commerce counsel.
BY McManus, to appropriate $76,ooO
for new building at tuberculosis instl-
tuition.
BY Newcomb, to forbid railroads
having more than two trains day that
do not stop at all stations.
By Clark, for uniformity in automo-
bile horns.
BY Brockway, to authorize women to
vote for school officers.
Senator Sullivan today introduced
the bill to provide for arbitration and
Cancellation. OF labor Disputes
St0oo0 Appropriated.
The house discovered today tha'
there was no way to pay the EFFICIENCY
engineers who have been probing into
the books Of the state fair. and passed
bill appropriating $4,000 to pay the
expenses.
The house passed the Stipe bill to
provide that one who has been ousted
from office is ineligible to the same
office for three years.
shankIand Bill Buried.
Following a stormy session the house
committee on the suppression OF In
temperance yesterday afternoon voted
the Shankland bill, providing for the
substitution of the Australian ballot 1ol
the petition in securing consent fol
saloons. for indefinite postponement BY
q vote Of to A.
The action Of the committee was de-
cided upon amid scenes which borderec
closely on disorder. Personalities were
handled back and forth between mem
bers Of the committee without regard
for the usual courtesies and charges
and counter charges were frequent I'M
pugning the motives Of members.
The fight centered around Represent
ative Shankland, author of the bill ant
also member Of the committee. Tht
Polk county representative. Brockwa!
Of Louisa. Power Of Jefferson. anc
Chapman Of Guthrie. all were involved
in the controversy. The Hveliest TIL
of the session, however. took place be-
tween Shankland and Brockway.
Shankland accused Brockway o.
breaking faith and OF being bluffer
He later accused the entire committee
of breaking faith with him. asserting
that an agreement had been reached
to report the bill out to the floor o
the house without recommendation.
As described By one member os th'
committee chaos reigned during the
period when the discussion was at 1t!
height. He stated that motions were
made without regard for parliamentar!
| procedure, and that a running fire o
| personalities was kept up while th'
subject was under discussion.
The controversy was kept UP follow
ing the adoption Of the motion to Kill
the bill The first effort made by an!
house committee during the presen
session to exclude the press and publi
from meeting marked the CLOSING
moments Of the session.