Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-02-25
MEMBERS OF LEGISLATURE TO
GO HOME TO LOOK AFTER
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
INCIDENTALLY WILL
FEEL PUBLIC PULSE
Record Shows House Passed Larger
Number Of Bills While Senate Has
Been Busy Killing Unnecessary
MISUNDERSTANDING Advocates in
Way of Making Serious Blunder.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Feb. 25.-The legislature
is now ready to take the customary
spring recess. Adjournment Will be
taken over until March 3. to give time
for the members to go home and attend
TO various duties incident TO the first
of March. such as taXpaying, farm
leases, etc. Incidentally the members
viii have opportunity to hear from the
home folks as TO various bills that have
been proposed.
The general assembly has been pro-
ceeding in leisurely way. The house
has passed the larger number of bills
but many of them are Of character
that means they Will not be finally sent
to the governor. The senate has done
more committee work. and has done a
larger job of killing bills, tho its calen-
dar is still small. The house has been
holding some afternoon sessions, but
the senate very few. Until there is a
large calendar of bills ready for action
there is little need of two sessions a
day.
The hearings have been largely on
bI!lS ctlICtlILIS special lItcIGSlS- lt
insurance and railroad men have been
conspicuous. The miners have been
here and the mine operators. There
has not been much as yet on the schools
or colleges. The appropriation bills
have been considered only in a small
way, none of the big matters as yet
received attention The retrenchment
and reform committee has been hard
wi is- ~.
thing definite on any of the matters be-
fore ii. This committee decides on the
extra help and other matters of ex-
penditure. 1t has been listening to
matters on the threadbare printing and
binding controversy and the troubles
of the state board of health The re-
port of the retrenchment and reform
committee of the last legislature is to
be printed in extra copies of the journal
for distribution.
The senate has shown a disposition
to stop every now and then and quarrel
over something. The matter of hiring
an extra janitor has been thrashed out
three separate times and is back where
it started. The time spent in discus
sion will cost the state more than the
whole batch of janitors.
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a prospect of only five or six weeks
with the big bills and make history
rapidly.
Unless the advocates Of votes for
women are little careful they are GO
ing to make a fatal 5lunder even yet.
Yesterday resolutions We're introduced
i, a
prevail of the joint resolution for the
amendment in Two sessions. and then
declaring that the same IS hereby or
dered submitted 10 the people at the
regular primary election to be held in
the year 1915 in the manner prescribed
by section l106 supplement 10 the code.
1913" Now while the supplement does
provide that when a constitutional
amendment is 70 be voted on etc. it
shall be printed on a separate ballot,
and the manner of printing there is
great lack Of def1nitencss as 10 the pro-
ceedings; and besides. il is recalled that
g primary is not an election and only
those who are registered and recorded
as affiliated with certain parties are
eligible to vote at said primaries. The
same question would come up that
arose when IL was asked how the in
dependent or non-partisan voter was
going to cast ballot for judge Of the
supreme court at the. primary. The
courts had to do a lot # twisting
around to make it possible for such
persons to get in on the ba!lcting- Sup
pose il is found that certain OF the
qualified voters Of ne state are not
eligible TO vote at the partT primaries