Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-10
4EojsLArIvE HAS LARGE GRtST
or UNcoMPLETED BUSINESS
TO DISPOSE OF.
MAY NOT ADJOURN ON
TENTATIVE DATE FIXED
Assembly "aHes Record cf Sticking
Closer to Business Than Many OF Its
Predscessors-Some OF Most imPor.
eant Matters Disposed Of During
Week.

Special to Times
Des Moines, April 10.-During the
mast week about seventy bills were
passed in the senate and about fifty In
the house. There has been steady work.
But even now, with adjournment very
near at hand. the finishing work has
mot been great, and there is disposition
to wait.
If the legislature adjourns on the
nth, a week from today, it will have
had Just as many actual working days
as the session two years ago which
opened two days earlier and closed two
DAYS later, the difference being in the
recess adjournments. Since the 4th of
March both houses have been in session
every day except Sunday, and the last
two weeks have held afternoon sessions
nearly every day. No assembly has
ever stuck closer to business than this
.cne.
While bill passing has not been con-
spicuous, yet it has been demonstrated
chat many important measures have no
show and their presence has been re-
moved. For instance, the retrenchment
and reform committee plan for cabi-
net for the governor went to defeat;
also the farm mortgage banks, the
plurality nominations for Office at the
primary, and many other things. The
bill for document editor went to the
xovernor and was signed promptly. 1t
81 in line with what he has urged for
economy and retrenchment. The bill
for q state board Of audit will soon go
TO the governor. That means closer
supervision Of expense accounts. The
senate passed a bill forbidding any
state official or employe from accepting
any fee for any service anywhere con-
nected with his Office. That cuts of
graft. The bluesky bill has been
passed again. and it matters not what
the supreme court does with the case
before It. There is to be examination
and oerttdcation Of public accountants.
Hereafter there viii be q budget system
for state finances, or at least start
that way. The dry bills have all been
disposed Of except the one which would
conhscate an auto If a bottle OF beer
happened to be found there, and this is
In tho inside pocket Of the chairman Of
the house stfters. The military code
bills are not quito finished up nor are
the bills revising a. to salaries Of
I county officials, but they can be I'M
ished very quickly. Railroad employees
win get pay twice q month and the
grocer and baker in railroad towns will
be happier.
Tho expected happened and the bill
20 recognize ohtropractdc and permit
that form of the art OF healing went
down to defeat in the senate. The
Perkins bill was taken up and a house
bill substituted and straightway
amendments were showered upon it.
When it was fixed up to suit everybody
nobody wanted it and 1t did not have
quite enough to carry it thru.
It h anticipated the river pollution
bill will get lost In the house sitting
committee. That Is the present pro-
gram. It passed the house by good
majority. The bill, as a law would at
least start the movement to have the
Iowa rivers and streams cleaned up
and compel all new sewage system to
/. be erected without regard to running
water.
strengthen the department of county
accounting, which has been the means
Of saving to the taxpayers hundreds of
thousands Of dollars already. A little
more money was wanted for the de-
.partment. The house tackled on All
amendment which abolished the whole
department, then defeated the bill-all
of which shows that the house Is not
quite reactionary on everything.
The Allen bill for home banks
passed the senate nicely. It Is scheme
for banks that will take the place Of
pawnshops. to large extent, and afford
opportunity for small loans under
proper supervision.
Hereafter the inmates Of the institu-
zion at Knoxville will get 81 a day in
stead of 10 cents for their labor when
they work for the state. The bill has
Yassed both houses.
The important bill by Senator Crist