Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-01
THIRD WEEK OF SESSION FINDS
BUSINESS FURTHER ADVANCED
THAN USUAL.
BIG QUESTIONS PLACED
IN HANDS Of COMMITTEES
College Row and Roads Legislation in
Danger Of Becoming Mixed-colIess
Men to Use Influence as Trading
Stoek-lens Debate Probable on
Some Measures After March 1.
Special to Times Republican.

! Special to Times Republican.
| Des Moines. Feb. 1.-The close Of
the third week of the session of the
Thirty general assembly finds
work further advanced than perhaps
ever before.
! There have been introduced abou,
! $50 bills in the senate and 200 in the
house, or in all probably $50 separate
| bills.
Practically all the larger matters Of
legislation are now before the legislat-
u-e-appropriations. taxation. public
utilities, roads, schools. law reform. re-
districtins. primary law changes, IL
quor questions. women suffrage work
| mems compensation, the college quar-
rel.
Much committee work has been done.
A number OF bills Of no great import
ance have been reported out and some
, have been passed in one house or an
ether. But all the main questions have
been placed in the hands OF sub-con-
mittees 10 be worked out carefully, and
real work is being done TO this end.
today on account OF the death OF the
senator from Butler will not adversely
affect the progress made. Committees
are going right ahead with work.
1t is probable. according 10 the talk
Of the Hobbies, that all the big measures
which vitality affect the people, will be
brought out Of committees prior 10
March l, and some of them will receive
a good deal OF preliminary debate
then, that the legislature Will take a
short adjournment so the members can
go home and discuss with their con-
stituents these important bills. 1t is
because Of this contemplated program
that a great deal of hustling is being
done.
f, Already there is heard gossip about
| exchanging support for this or that
| group of measures. For instance. 1t
! is declared that the advocates Of the
! resolutions to condemn the board OF
| education and reopen the college mat
! ter are saying to those who want nor
| nal schools that unless the latter help
| in the former fight they will get moth
ing. On the other hand it is being
pointed out that those who are zeal
J Gus in insisting the legislature shan
| compel the board Of education to re-
! verse itself and so out CT business are
! also the radicals in demanding hish-
way legislation, and there Is danger Oh
the two things becoming mixed to the
| disadvantage Of both. And as between
legislation affecting the liquor laws OF
the state and legislation affecting var
| ious ether matters there is field for
| trading that is not being overlooked.
| Il is expected that the coming week
| the contests In both houses will be dis
| posed Of. There seems to be little DOUBT
that Kimball will be seated in Potta-
wattarnie county, but the other sena-
! torial contest is anybody's race as yet
| The seated members in the house are
most likely to retain their places.
| Committee reports for the immediate
nresen, will be confined to bills that
are easily disposed Of none Of the Big
ones being ready for presentation.
F! Tho news from Capt. ". A. Duck
worth, newly appointed custodian of
| the capitol, is not very reassurins, ana
,bere ia fear that he will not be able 10
FIJI the position to which he was ap-
I pointed. nc 10 AZ az NA
cano+or Chase has figured it out that
,ha additional tax burden imposed Dy
| ,be hill, of the tax commission, il
! q donted without change, would be
! about s250,00o a year The salaries Oh
rho county assessors or supervisors
! alone would amount TO s12a.o'o. ne
| has received protest agains: the meas
ure on this account.
| o,e Of the board of control DIS
strikes out of the code the requirement
that the stone breaking done by con-
v;cts at Anamosa shall all be by hand
| with hammers. This change "oulo
make it possible to legally use good
stone crusher that has been installed
at the reformatory.
Probably as soon as some OF the
makers Of packaged foodstufts near
about it the usual lobby will appear
70 fight the Robinson bill which pro-
noses to require that food sold in pack
ages in this state shall be branded with
the net weight of the contents OF each
package. At present the law merely
lreouires that if so branded there shall!
be no misbranding as to weight. 1t is
aimed especially at butter packages
which are not branded but which are
sold as of pound weight.
The senate railroad committee WIFI
next Tuesday have a hearing on the
Doran bill to fix by statute the number
Of persons who shall constitute a train
crew in Iowa: also on the Chase bill