Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-12
MEASURE MAKING POSSIBLE
HARD. HIGHWAYS
FAILS TO GAIN FRIENDS.
BONDING FEATURES AND ONE
MILL STATE TAX REJECTED
House Devotes Entire Afternoon to De-
bate and Bill is Amended to Death
Final Vote is 81 to 31-Gossip Of tho
Legislative Lobbies.
special to Times Republican.

Des Moines, April 12.-The house de-
cided that with all the machinery ready
for the making Of roads 1t is not wise
to furnish any additional funds to be
used for that purpose and the commit
tee bill which undertook to provide
l mill state tax levy to be expended
on permanent roads with q district
system was defeated. 81 Of the mem
nent roads. The bill had been greatly
changed and there was from the first
a determined effort to so butcher 1t up
that it could not be effective if passed
Advocates of permanent roads We're
Interested more especially In the bond
ing and district assessment features OF
the measure.
The house devoted the entire after
noon to the bill Amendments. substi-
tute amendments, more amendments
questions points Of order. appeals and
motions got themselves ali mixed up in
a tumble that kept Speaker Pro Tenn
pore Brady busy Speaker Cunningham
was i'll yesterday and was unable TO at
tend the sessions of the rouse.
The road bill was special order Tor
o'clock and as soon as the house con-
yened II was called. Chairman Brock
wav of the roads and highways com
rnittee explained the bill briefly. He sad
II was practically nothing bat re-
vision OF the road law enacted by the
Thirty-thi general assembly, with
portions of the road bill recently passed
and the drainage Improvement la"
adapted Brockway yielded the floor to
Whitney Of Woodbury. for a detailed
explanation Of the bill.
Substitute Defeated.
A substitute amendment for section
Of the bill filed several days ago by
Kulp of Palo Alta, was called up. The
first section of the bill gave the county
board Of supervisors authority over
road districts and improvement of the
county road system sSamendmene
for section l provided for the establish
ment Of county road district on peo-
ton of 400 resident freeholders. Bruce
Of Floyd presented a substitute TO the
Kulp amendment and with 1t an
amendment TO another section, the
whole thing being intended to relieve
counties from the state road tax when
no perrnane Mt Improvements are made
within their borders.
The chair ordered vote on the Bruce
substitute. Bruce demanded time to
close the debate. The chair said only
the author of the bill was entitled to
that privilege Brockway offered to
yield Bruce three minutes Of the ter
allotted him, but Carson Of Davis OBJ
jected Both Bruce's substitute and
Kulp's amendment were lost.
1hirty-one for Bill.
The vote on the bill was:
Ayes-Anderson Of Greene. Barry.
Bernbrock, Bingham. Black, Bliss. Boz
ettger, Brady Bruce. Cannon. Carson.
Cole, Dixon. Elliott. Eiwood. Erickson.
Fraley. Griffin. Griggs. Hutchtns. Jan'i-
son. Klay, Larrabee. Manning. McRose.
Pic!lford. Ring. Scott Sidey, Steelsmith,
Whitney-31.
Nays-Anderson of Montgomery, At
kinson. Bartle. Bauman Blackford,
Bradley, Brockway. Brown. Buxton.
Chapman. Clark. Craig. Cronbaugh,
Crozier. Daniels. DAWSON, Downey
Doze. Dunlap. Eggleston. Greene. of
Grundy, Greene OF Clinton. Hadley
Halstead. Hansen. Hazen. Heaton. Hell
ming Hunt Huntley. jacobson, Jen-
gen. Jones. Kane, Kelso, Kingland
Kulp, Lounsberry. Lund. Mccullough
McVicker. Meredith Miller, Milton.
Mitchell. Munro Odendahl. Peterson,
Reeve. Rome, Saltzmann. Scott, Sher-
man. Stioe. Stokes Stutt. Thompson,
Townsend Webb, White. Workman-S1.
Absent or not voting-Burt, Cum
ofnpham Erper C,ro1. HalgrimS Ham
ilton. Huff, Kocntz. Lenocker, Leroy.
Newcomb. Power. Rohmer, ScholZ,
Shank!and, Trumbauer-i6.