Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-20
LARGE NUMBER or MEASURES
FAIL TO SECURE LEoisLA-
TIVE APPROVAL.
,REAcTioNARY PROPOSALS.
SENT TO SCRAP HEAP
Several Meritorious Measures Of I'm
portancs Fail Of Passage in tho Final
Round -up-cities Fail to Put Over
Bit to Secure Home RuIe-Non- Par
4. tisan judiciary Repeal Not Made.

Des Moines, April 20-During the
that the Thirty-s sixth general assembly
passed 335 new laws it defeated or al
lowed to expire unnoticed go more
propositions Ninety-two more bills
dropped by the wayside than had failed
to pass the Thirty fifth general assem-
bly,, and in proportion to the totalnum-
Der of bills acted upon, the Thirty sixth
general assembly proved itself less in
clined to make laws than its prede-
cessor.
Among the defeated propositions are
all the Important discretionary bills
the Johnston measure to repeal the
road law and abolish the highway COM
mission, the Miller bill to repeal the
law making county superintendent
elective, the Beall bill to cut down the
extended capitol grounds. In the full
ness Of their strength early in the ses-
sion, the reactionaries in the house
passed each of these bills. They were
defeated in the senate The senate
also defeated the Chase bill to abolish
the retrenchment and reform commit
tee and the Doran bill to repeal the
law levying a special tax on moneys
and credits without letting either get
to the house.
Many Others Lost.
But with these reactionary measures
many propositions of positive charac-
ter went into oblivion. because the ma
jority thought them too advanced, too
expensive, too dangerous, or. perhaps
merely unnecessary, il-advised, or I'M
wise at this time.
The house passed the bill by John
ston, Of Humboldt, creating poultry
bureau Of the state agricultural de-
partment, but the senate ignored the
proposition. The house passed the Hol-
bert bill to eliminate animal tubercu-
losis by gradually killing off diseased
stock, but it failed to get thru the
senate Included in the list of other
bills which went thru the house and
failed to pass the senate are the fol-
| lowing:
Smith farm mortgage bank bill.
Repeal of the non partisan Judiciary
law.
Age OF consent.
Recognition Of chiropractors.
Rayburn inspection bill.
|. Schmedika bill requiring the equip
ment of stock trains with bunk cars
Whitthauer anti-lobbying bill.
Torrens title system.
The house went part way at even
ling up the score by refusing to pass
certain senate bills. Among theseWere
the Allen home banks DILL, the Robin
son bill for guarding the safety OF Wa
ter supply, the Head bill permitting
formation of permanent road districts
for the purpose Of issuing bonds, and
the Anderson Thomas bill for county
uniformity of text books
Failed in Both Houses.
A considerable number of important
measures, too, failed to gain the APP
prevail OF either house. Among these
| were the bills for guarantee of bank
deposits, for regulation Of loan sharks.
for regulation of telephone companies
for home rule of cities. for state In
surance. for minimum wage and MAXI
mum hours for labor, for the finger
print bureau, for censorship Of NOV
ing pictures, for a child welfare bur-
eau, for narrowing Of the highways,
for system Of teachers pensions, for
encoura cement Of normal training
courses in non state colleges, for re-
Reorganization of the departments Of
government. for legislative refer
ence and bill drafting department, for
the temple Of justice, for an immigra-
ton department, for the local aption
plan of liquor selling, for manufacture
and sale of malt beverages, for aboli-
ton Of capital punishment, and for a
physical valuation Of the railroads.
Nine Joint Resolutions.
| Only nine of the thirty-tive pro-
posed joint resolutions received APP
proval Of both houses. The proposition
to submit to vote an amendment to
1.-THE constitution to give Iowa the initi-