Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-23
SENATE plsPosEs OF LARGE
PART OF ANTl.LiouoR
BILLS.
NINE RESTRICTIVE
MEASURES ADOPTED
~ Designed 70 Aid in Making State
Dry When MuIet Law Repeal Goes
Into Effeet-Bill to Provide State
Agents Pendns-House Appoints
Sitting Committee.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to TfmeS-Repupncan.
Des Moines, March 23-The senate
has finally disposed of most OF the big
booze bills which have been before it
for some time. Those that are passed
provide, in brief, for the following:
Seizure and confscation of autos and
other vehicles engaged in Illegal car
rying Of liquors.
Making an injunction on account of
liquor illegally sold apply in statewide
manner and not merely in judicial dis
trict.
Forbidding carrying more than pint
of whisky or quart of beer in suit case
or grip while on a train
Making second offense of violation OF
prohibitory law punishable by year in
reformatory.
Making second violation of an in
junction punisha Bile by year in refor-
matory.
Forbtdding solicitation Of liquor and
treating solicitor as a bootlegger.
Prohibiting collection of bills on il
legal sales and permitting such col
lections for legal sales.
Requiring that railroads shall keep
public. record Of shipments and de-
livery Of liquors.
Authorizing sheriff to serve notice OF
imposition of tax where liquors have
been sold Illegally and notice !s by
three persons.
These are the main new features In
the legislation for making the state dry
after next Decem Der. The bill in re-
gard to seizure Of automobiles was
greatly modified on the floor OF the
senate, and it will not interfere with
tourists crossing the state and hav-
ing bottle along. The officer making
the seizure is also required to file
warrant and he Is charged with great
care in making arrests.
The only one Of the excessively dry
measures yet to be acted on is one to
provide state agents for the enforce
ment Of the new Ia wunder direction
OF the attorney general.
TIE house this morning goes under
the rule Of sitting committee. The
sifters are:
Thomas F. Griffin. Sioux City, Wood
bury county.
Arch W. McF,arlane, Waterloo, Black
hawk county.
Samuel c. Wayman, Waucoma, Fay
cite county.
William =. Moore. Guthrie Center,
Guthrie county.
n g. Roberts, Mount Ayr, Ringgold
county.
]. W. Sullivan. Algona, Kossuth
county.
James e Jameson, Burlington, Des
MoineS county.
The placing Of the affairs OF the
house in the hands Of q receiver came
sooner than expected. The house OF
the Thirty sixth general assembly will
at least break one record-it will have
operated longer under a sitting COM
mittee than any legislative body in
Iowa history. IT has not been usual,
anywhere, to name sitting committee
until the date Of adjournment Is prac-
tically in sight or that there has de-
veIoped an actual deadlock, or for some
other extraor binary reason. Late
Monday the string tied to the resolu-
ton for a sitting committee was cut
and Immediately, evidently by precon-
certed arrangement, the committee was
named by the speaker as indicated
above.
The house sifters take charge to-
day. after the committees have re-
ported, the calendar as It stands to-
day being undisturbed.
Tho committee is dry" committee
by to 2. so the temperance legis-
1ation seems to be safe SO far as the
house is concerned.
The committee is to with the
newly organized Johnstonian party on
the issue Of abolition OF the highway
commission. But two Of the Johnston
ians are recognized as being not very
firm in the faith.
There was surmise that possibly
the haste In appointing the committee
was &c kill OF some reform measures,
like the Allen "redlight" bill, or to pre-
vent passage Of the bill for a vote on