Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-03
NOT ONE BILL OF IMPORTANCE
GIVEN FINISHING
TOUCHES.
DOCUMENT EDITOR LAW
WILL SAVE MONEY
List Of Measures Which Passed Sec
ond House During Week-Senate
Son.tiissu ts;ona. cs":.ittee Gets Busy
and Dsposes Of Five Bills Early Vote
on Suffrage Not Considered.
,pecial to Times-Repu5lican

Special to Times Repu5 lican.
Des Moines, April 3. - Within the
past five days, the working days OF
this week. not a single bill that could
be called of first Importance has been
finished up by the Two branches Of the
legislature. The house has so much
leisure on its hands that il took re-
cess for today. The only oil which
passed the second house which might
be regarded as of real value to the
people of the state at large IS the docu-
ment editor bill distinctly a retrench-
ment bill, and it has amendments
which yet call for further roll calls be-
fore it is ready for the governor. The
following is the list Of bills which
passed the second house during the
week and until this morning:
Providing for document editor to re-
wise copy on the state printed matter
and superintend the printing
Increase in salaries Of railroad COM
nissioners to $500.
Revision of pay of guards and clerks
at reformatory and prison.
Directing county attorneys to follow
transferred cases into the county where
venue has been taken.
Providing one additional state home
finding agent for state institutions.
Making II optional with city coun-
ell to publish proceedings of council.
Authorizing collection OF penalty on
taxes only four years.
Reimburse for expenditures for the
Gettysburg trip.
New Injunction law for vice resorts.
ENyra inc of
military service to ten years.
An appropriation for railroad maps.
Increasing support for orphans home
to s13 a month.
Authorizing cities to establish sani-
tary districts and TO tax for street
care and cleaning.
Correction as TO code on sale of
abandoned river beds.
Legalizing act relating TO New
Providence and one at Cedar Rapids
and one land patent.
Nothing conclusive Dor final was
done with regard to highways, taxa
ton. large appropriations, the capitol
extension, nor any other of the large
subjects to be handled.
Both houses spent a great deal of
time on bills that will not be on the
list when the final record is made up.
~ So
The senate committee on constitu-
tional amendments got busy last even
ing and started out with shillaleh
to clean up things. It disposed Of five
bills, so far as Ave men can do SO, re-
porting adversely to all except one,
concerning which Indifference was re-
ported as follows:
Amend constitution TO permit of the
Torrens land title system of registra-
ton. Without recommendation.
Bill to permit woman suffrage
amendment to be voted on by the peo-
pie in June instead Of in November.
Indefinitely postponed.
Resolution to adopt the initiative
and referendum system Of going to the
people for legislation. Indefinitely
postponed.
Amendment to permit Of separate
assessment and taxation Of classes Of
property SO that railroads could be
taxed more heavily by the state. Indef
nitely postponed.
Amendment permitting verdicts by
fve-sixths of jury.
Leading members of the legislature
say that the session will come to an
tie more on which there can be rea-
sonable hope Of agreement and that
would leave only the appropriations to
be considered. President Harding
thinks that it will take until the Goth
to get thru.
1t will be observed that the bills
which contemplate reduction in the ex-
penses Of legislative sessions all refer
to future sessions and not to this one.
After admitting that the governor is
right in his suggestion Of reduction in
the number of employees eli action is
! being put off until it is too late to do
any good now.
n The house yesterday passed the
z Coast Whitmore bill which provides
3 for a reor ganization Of the national
guard of the state. The measure was
4 passed by the senate several days ago
and is now ready for the signature OF
! the governor.
The practical working of the meas