Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-05
STATE OFFICIALS DEvISiNG WAY
TO PUBLISH ACTS OF LAST
LEGISLATURES,
ATTORNEYS AND OTHERS
ASKED TO SUBSCRIBE
Limited Edition Could Be Made With
out Expense to State-Mine Rescue
Demonstration Made at State Fair
Grounds-Abstract Of Evidence in
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, June 5.-Private pub
licauon of the session laws of Iowa,
1915, may be undertaken yet, and If so,
It can be arranged that the publication
will be in every way official, the same
as before the legislature repealed the
law authorizing such publication.
1t is believed by those who have
made a study of the subject that
private publication of a limited edition
Of the session laws could be made
without expense to the state and at
slight profit TO the publishers. Judge
Ladd OF the, supreme court has given
the matter some attention and would
like to see it done.
1--WE have carefully examined the law
and have reached the conclusion there
is nothing in the way of having such
publication made so that it would be
official he said. There are 1000 prac-
ticing lawyers in the state and third
or half of them ought to be willing to
buy copies right off. We need goodly
number of copies to send to other
states and to foreign countries and
provinces in exchange for their ses-
sion laws for the state library use. The
historical department would use
number of copies. Others would want
them AS the bill was originally drawn
1t provided for publication of the seS-
sion laws and it was dropped out at
the last; but l believe publication of
the session laws could be made in
way to be profitable to some one
The copy for the new supplementary
supplement will all be ready and go 10
the printer within a week or so and
printing will proceed rapidly. The
work may not be done by the lst and
yet it will not be delayed many days
unless held back because of an index
or something of that sort.
The supplementary supplement will
contain great many of the laws in
full, as has been stated, because it
win have to contain all general laws in
fun that are on new subjects. The rest
Will be the amended or changed Sec
tons of the code. or supplement as they
will appear after changes have been
made as directed by the legislature. In
short, L will be the revised sections as
revised and all new matter Of a gen.
eral nature There will be reference
to all the sections that have been re-
pealed. There will be a vast amount
of explanatory matter so that the law
yer willeknow just what happened to
various laws.
The mine rescue demonstrations by
the federal government mine bureau
and by rescue teams from various coal
mines Of Iowa were given at the state
fair park today. A special car with
0r11S in nv he
demonstrators was present. The dem
onstrations attracted a great deal of
attention among miners.
The three state mine inspectors of
Iowa will go next week to St. Louis to
attend national conference of mine
inspectors.
The work on the abstract of evidence
and arguments for the big western
freight rate case is rapidly nearing
completion in the office of the railroad
commission of Iowa. Chairman Thorne
has been devoting himself to the work
literally day and night and has a large
force at work with him. Judge Hen
derson has directed large part Of the
work of making up the abstracts Of
testimony. All this must be in the
hands of the interstate commerce COM
mission printed by June 10. and it has
been a great task. Upon the care taken
and perfection Of the work will largely
depend the success Of the rate case.
The department of public instruction
has been elated over the outcome Of
bond election at Forest City where the
people voted nearly to ! in favor Of
J borrowing $4,000 with which to build
what, will be one of the finest grade
and high school buildings of the state.
The election came at the close Of a
contest in which the opponents did a
vast amount Of fighting against the
Improvement. But Forest City has
school building wholly out Of date and
the people demanded something good.
The department was called upon sew
era1 times to aid in the campaign. The
design is one which was made in Min
neapolis and the state superintendent
OF Minnesota has said the design is one
Of the finest ever prepared.
Members of the board Of control are
at Rockwell City today to see if they
can arrange to buy suitable tract Of
land for the location of the women's
reformatory. The members will look
into all conditions surrounding q num-
Der, Of different tracts that are said to
be available and later decide on where
the refornatery will be placed.
GrinneIl and Vicinity.