Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-27
RULES COMMITTEES OF BOTH
HOUSES WORKING TO Ex.
PEDITE MATTERS.
NO BILLS AFTER MARCH I
is ONE SUGGESTION
SUCCEEDING SUGGESTIONS May Sec All
Bills in Hands Of Legislators When
Session Convenss-Rule Proposed to
Permit Calling Bills Out Of Commit.
tee
pecial to Times Republican.

Special to Times HepuDlcaH.
| Des Moines, Jan. Pillow to get
| better results in legislation and to avoid
the congestion in the closing week of
| the general assembly is a program In
which the rules committees Of the two
| houses are much concerned now.
! Senator Perkins at the head of the
! senate committee favors plan for
limiting the time of Introduction OF
bills. 1t is proposed that after a GER
tain date-say March mo individual
member may introduce a bill. That
| would compel all members to get their
| bills in right away and give the COM
| mttees time to act.
! With a bill limit rule in force it
would then be possible to get new mat
ter before the legislature only by &C
| ton Of committee. In case OF such
| legislation as might seem absolutely
! necessary, or that might be made nee
| essary by something gone before, me
| committees would act.
Another rule is contemplated which
would apply to future sessions. but not
| now. to the effect that members would
! be permitted to transmit to some prop
| err state officer in advance of the meet
! ing of the legislature the bills they in
tend to introduce, and they would be
, printed and on the desks of the menu
bers when the session opened. This
would give the committees something
to work on right at the start.
Another rule intended to prevent tie
no ri g
it proper to recall from committee
bv majority vote any bill sent to a
committee, OF course this can be done
now, but in the absence OF rule~lt IS
regarded as a discourtesy, while with
rule it would become the common ana
proper thing. The custom of hurying
| bills in committees would therefore
| come to an end.
| All this is for the purpose OF pian-
| ming to hasten and to make more per-
| feet the legislation desired. Every oio
member appreciates the 1mposs,plilty
of intelligent legislation in the last
week of the session when the work IS
| niled ND on the desks Of members anu
hills are rushed thru without the pos.
sihility of careful consideration. IL
ANYTHING can be done to prevent i'i'e
! so the members are saying, II WIZ We
step in the right direction ana oe q
s;en that the legislature really lh'eIus
! to be progressive.
Senator Robinson is greatlS i1l.el
estad in the proposal for ne" sea'e
offca hri1ding. His bill contemplates
tho purchase Of the remainder OF the
r.le hlock southeast Of the capltoi'
,rbare tho food and dairy building no"
..o,as and the erection thereon OF
s25O 600 office building to be useo loi
the subordinate offices and bureaus Va
,ba state An alternative proposition
is that IF q building for the supreme
court HIT this would not remove the
,ocessitv for an office building, winch
is inevitable.
The cold storage regulation bill "h1cn
b,s been prepared by the food ana
r, dairy department, provides that any
eoodstuff taken from cold storage
| house and offered for sale must NC
labeled cold storage goods Nothlhs
ran he left in storage over one year
When placed in storage II is 10 DC
| labeled showing the date OF aof''lssAoii
Licenses are to be issued 10 stoia
plants upon inspection as TO sahltais
conditions and there is provision ioi
freouent inspection and making IL al
offense to place any tainted or l1hpuie
stuff in storage.
| Senator Chase and Representative
| Greene. of Grundy, have fathered the
hill to direct the state board OF educa
! tion TO establish at the Homeopath
! DEPARTMENT of the state medical collese
at Iowa City chairs on surgery ana wv
other bracnhes Of medicine. MI. Greene
is deeply in earnest in THIS mater "
having the chairs established there. ne
states that the action taken by the
hoard of education in consolidating
some Of the chairs is for the purpose
| If DESTROYING the Homeopathic college
and looks to complete abandonment
"There are at least four hundred thous-
and neople of Iowa." he says. who are
patrons of the physicians who practlce
the homeopathic treatment, and theS
are entitled to some consideration. we
do not believe that their college should
he broken up and be disbanded. II Is
not true that In these studies Where
tho chairs have been abandoned there
;s tho same teaching as in the allopath-
ic college. Neither is it true that any
reason Of economy should prevail FOL
abandoning the homeopathic college
The cost to the state for education OF
the students in homeopathy is much
less than for those in the other college,
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The Allen joint resolution proposing
an amendment to the state constitu'
tion proposes repeal of the clause
in regard to franchise and substitution
Of another which makes no reference
to sex distinction In matters OF SUI
frase. This is the resolution that vii
be adopted by the legislature. There
is not doubt whatever about it's being
passed by the senate. The senate com
m1ttee is not very favorably disposed
hut few Of the members care to stand
in the way Of taking vote on tn.
matter. In the house there are TIVE
resolutions The house committee il
very favorable to the proposal and viii
, report whatever is presented to then
j in best form. Inc HaIgrlms Dill i