Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-24
TIMES REPUBLICAN, IOWA: MARCH a 1914


Saunders. Mates. Proudfoot. Dcwolf
Schrup. House committee April 4;
Jacobs Harding, Kull. Klay O'Conner
johnson, Crist.
| 1913-President Harding, Speaker
Cunningham, adjourned April 10. SEN
ate committee named April 8: Savage,
Mates, Francis, Cowles, Perkins. viii
son, DeWolf, House committee April
! l. Huff, Newcomb, Barry, Bernbrock.
Halgrims, Scholz. Koontz.
The house committee for 1915 was
appointed March %. The legislature
! probably will not adjourn before the
18th.
A senate committee will be APP
pointed in due time
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Senator Eversmyer has bill that
makes it possible for the water works
trustees, in cities having such bodies,
to Join with the city council in the
matter of fixing rates for water, and
by a vote Of the two bodies in joint
session the whole matter is to be adj
justed.
In the bill which has now passed both
senate and house providing for local
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completion. Votes, for women is in
corporated, for women can vote for
the trustees if they are 81 years old
and own land. But there Is another
innovation in the bill 1t provides for
cumulative voting-guess that's right
by a system under which a man has
paid a large amount Of money on
drainage assessments votes several
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sessment certificate.
A bill by Senator Helmer, intro
duced yesterday, requires that when
candidate for office files his papers
and becomes a candidate he must sign
an agreement that if elected and after
being installed he will not, under any
circumstances, accept a larger COM
pensation for his services as an Off
cial than was the law at the time he
became a candidate. The placing OF
the bill in the files just as the senate
was considering bill to boost several
hundred salaries Of as many county
officials had special application.
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The teachers pensions or annuities
measure is done for, as far as the pres
eDI leg lSldLuT6 Is COlSSilleh' - "Sii@
to defeat second time with forty EIGHT
votes, the same as the first time KEEP
resentative Grason will make no effort
II that direction ct this session. The
bill was urged by a very large number
of the teachers of the stae. 1t had
been so changed as to place the state
under no direct obligation for appro-
priations in aid Of the annuity fund.
1t was, at most, merely a start =; the
direction of an annuity system. But
the house members were afraid to do
even that much.
The senate highways committee
yesterday voted out for passage the
Foster bill which will permit counties
to establish the patrol system of road
maintenance.
The patrol has proved successful IN
several other states, it Is claimed. 1t
provides for placing men on the high
ways and making them responsible for
the repair Of certain number of miles
of road The author Of the bill wished
to compel the counties to adopt the
system, but the committee amended
the bill.
The committee also recommended IA
SOIdDiS H. SAf, PAoN2oaiAe ANh eAAS
establishment of drainage districts for
roads; S. F. 179, providing means by
which owners may have access to their
property, and S. F. 414,Swhich will
compel county engineers to file de-
tailed expense statements.
The Head bill to give cities part
Of the road fund raised In cities and
the Jackson bill providing a stand
ard width for sleighs were recon-
mended for indefinite postponement
The senate yesterday banishsd an
old ghost in killing a bill providing for
garnishment Of 10 per cent of wages
over sos a month. This proposition has
been before every legislature for the
past twenty years, the older senators
say. At each session it is laid@t rest
without ceremony.
When the committee report for In
definite postponement came in Senator
Kimball asked permission to place
the bill on the calendar for consider
alton on the floor. The request was re-
fused. The officials of the Iowa FEEDER
alton Of Labor and other labor or
CARNATIONS opposed the passage OF
the bill.