Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-13
REFUSES 70 PASS BILL ~ ARNEY
WHICH HAD NOT BEEN READ
sY MEMBERS.
LAW As TO SALES OF
STOCKS OF GOODS HUNG UP
Insurance Bill az Passed One Of Most
Important Of Session-Senats Votes
to. Change Date Of Primary From
June to Third Monday in August
Record Number Of Bills Passed.
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adjournment of the legislature is likely
to be about the goth or 21st. A good
deal Of effort has been made to cause
it to appear that the legislature is on
it's last week. Perhaps. But bet
ter guess is that it will still be here
next week.
The fact that the senate disposed or
over fifty bills on its calendar yester-
day but emphasizes the aWkWardness
of the situation. The fact is that one
thing which happened was that the
senate dumped on the house just
twenty-seven bills which the house has
yet to consider. That means at least
fifteen measures almost entirely new
to the house. AS the house didn't get
rid of more than dozen it indicates
that the house, at least, is not gain
ing.
The legislators do not know it yet,
but they are far from the end Only
a few of the older and wiser ones un-
derStand.
Haphazard Work.
For one thing, let the record be made
here and now, that with all the railing,
in campaign times and in newspaper
offices, about. the manner of passage
VI Important UlllS, Lie IcSOiu W hANAi -
was said the Thirty Fifth made in re-
gard to capitol extension wasn't
marker compared with the record of
the Thirty-Sixth just yesterday. Bills
were passed literally by the dozen
without one of them being in fact read.
1t is true some were read but the ma
jority were not. Bills were passed that
came from the house without even a
~ NIT
passed under suspension of the rule as
to having bill read three times on one
day Bills were passed that have not
been written q week. OF the forty
three bills that were actually passed
in the senate there was not, all told,
as to the whole bunch. forty three
minutes of actual discussion, an aver
age Of a minute apiece. They were
passed at.fhe rate Of more than one
for each ten minutes all day. Among
these eresorne OF the most important
bills OF the session.
This is not saying that any bill was
passed that ought not to have been
passed, tho on a majority there were
negative votes: nor is 1t an indictment
ofslegislative methods, but 1t illustrates
the fact, which has often been denied.
that as to the capitol extension bill
of last session there was nothing done
but that wiiicl&@is comparatively COM
mon in legislation and sHothing done but
that isl dones etery session with other
effually important measures. There is
apparently no other way Of doing bust
ness. ~
The senate passed forty three bills,
defeated five and disposed of in other
ways several others.
Votes Money to Farmers.
The house OF representatives voted
yesterday an appropriation Of $780,
900 to pay claims on stock which was
ordered killed II prevent spread Of the
foot and mouth disease or will be
killed in the iaterval before the next
general assembly meets. Earlier in the
session an appropriation Of $4,000 had
been voted for.fthe same purpose.
Should the SSnate pass this second
appropriation tie Legislature will have
given practically q fifth Of the money
it has to the Hight against this dis
ease.
There was little opposition to the
purpose of the bill, as the Vote OF II
to 4 in its favor showed. But it took
the members an hour to agree upon
the wording of it.
HoIbert and Ring Dispute.
The discussion was featured by
tilt between Representative Holbert
and Representative Ring over an
amendment to the bill. The commit
tee on appropriations had changed the
bill considerably from the form in
which it had been drafted by the ami
NAL industry committee, Of which Mr..
Holbert is chairman. Mr.. Holbert
moved that the appropriations COM
mittee amendments be refused and the
bill passed in its original form. The
house declined to take this action.
The chief point at issue was as to
whether the veterinary surgeons who
aided in killing the diseased stock
should be required to secure certificates
from the owners of the stock before
their claims should be pai6. Mr.. Hol-
bert fought against making that re-
quirement. When Ring offered an
amendment to permit payment for
work done before passage of the bill
without requiring the certificates, Hol-
bert opposed it, however. because the
house had not made the amendment by
the procedure he mad proposed.
GrinneII and Vicinity.
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Grinnell, April 13.-Mrs. J. M. Kirk