Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-09
LEGISLATURE NOT LIKELY TO
ATTEMPT MUCH coksTRuc-
TIVE WORK.
REAcTIoNARlEs MAY
SHOW SOME STRENGTH
Economy and Conservation Talk Al
ways Heard Preceding Sessions and
Is Not New--Road Fight to BE Gem
tered Against Highway Commission,
as TWO Years Ago.
Special 10 Times n publican.

SSSPSCldt- ~ i lIuc SfISs puOi.~au u. t,sr
y Des Moines, DC. 9TH re is more OIL
less speculation and GOSSIP as to wnat
the legislature winch esavehes IN jan.
s will 90. It is b,l..g Pr. a.cted that
the Thnty-s>v.nin gsaesai as. c::!hls
" i'll he conse. va.Iy ~--s4ln.- say rsac
lionary. Tia, economy in state at
fairs will be empaas.Z-,., tn, lne ses-
sloii Wiz be q -.i.iJa.a,..e.S snUrt one
ana not muc.I .s.u..ou WA De intro
ouced., q
Inere are some Cd timers however
who Say .,nJ, a.. tn4s taik soiiiias nat
ultil, that .L H, Invre or less Common
bSioIe e,e.y l>sisi...ure meets to talk
economy ana c.nssrNa ,iOh anu in tact
the leglsia.u.es mos't s>neraliy start
our win tnUse very ideas IN mind Be
fore the ei.a Ut the Session, however,
there is m.re iiDe.ai spIill, appro-
priatlons arr :passeu winch at tnv nIs st
OF the session ala not nave the gnost- Or
snow and Laws get by watch NOBODY
at first beneveo mad any chance.
But there are eItam matters which
the leg stature will pEss upon wi,nous
prohibition has 20 be acted upon Tor It
was passed by The Tnlrty-sixth and
handed down 10 the Th4r,y-seventh. IL
is quite generally ag. eeu nat this will
pass the legislature. There is such a
pig majority Of drys among the leglsla-
tors that it is SAID even some OIL the
vets will favor The amendment.
Rvads to. Be Issue.
Then there IS gooa roads. The road
fight will be conferred against the hugh
way commission as 1t was two years
ago. There are lew who would ahoi-
ism the commission entirely, in TACT
there are quite number Who would
do this if they thought it were POSI-
Die, hu: & large numhsr of the commits
SONS opponent, realizing they have
but little chance OF abollsnlns it, would
SO curtaii its power as to nullify it
in so 1ar as having anything TO say
about county work Is concerned.
The state wide primary law has been
severely criticized IN recent months
and many who have heretofore been its
friends are. questioning it's wis dom as
it now exists. There is very apt to be
some legislation regarding this law.
Senator Clement F. Kimball, Of
Council BLUFFS, believes this law should
be amended so that only state officers
would be voted on at the primary. the
selection of candidates for county Of
fices would then be left to conven-
ton.
The manner of doing the state print
iEg and the state binding will agaia
come up. There is some discussion or
having the state do its own printing
and binding This would mean the
erection of building and equipping
it with modern machinery for both
printing and binding and then oper-
ating it as state business.
The adjustment of certain Boards is
more or less gossiped about. 1t is be-
ing suggested that the work of the
state board of parole should be taken
over by the board of control and the
parole board abolished. The sugges-
ton Of the educational survey commits
sion that the office Of state supjerin-
tendent Of schools and the state board
of education be combined is talked Of.
1t is suggested that all Of this work
could be conducted thru the office of
the state superintendent Of public in
struction.
Legislators are dropping into town
every day or so now, engaging places
to live during the session and visiting
around little to get the trend of what
is going on. They all expect to be
ready for business on the second Mon
day in January.