Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-22
GENERAL SAYS GAR
AGES AND SERVICE STATIONS
MAY OPEN ON SUNDAY.
ADDED INSTRUCTIONS
TO COUNTY ATTORNEYS
Growing in Favor Of Calling
Special Session Of Legislature to Re.
,e.I Rlue Ststutes-Havnert to Make
No Effort to Enforce Anti-Tipping
And Other Deadletter Statutes.
.Dcrial to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. May Ex-Governor
Harding may be petitioned to call
special session OF the legislature 10 re-
peal the Sunday closing laws. Agita-
ton along this line, started. in Webster
City, is reported to be spreading.
Whether the attitude of the members
will have changed since adjournment is
a question. All movements started 10
modify or change the Sunday laws IN
the last legislature were defeated, not
withstan ding the fact that the attorney
general and others attempted to ger
the laws modified.
The attorney general is drafting an
other letter to county attorneys on the
Sunday law taking up some of the mat
tiers concerning which there has been
more or less question. He declares
that il is not the intention of the law
TO close garages or automobile SER
vice stations. as they are expected 70
serve the travelling public and the oIo
law permitted places where the traVei-
Ing public was TO be accommodated IN
providing that livery barns and such
places be kept open. Neither is 1t
meant to apply to railroad trains.
1t is reported that the mayor OF Col
fax went 10 the station there and m
formed the agent that the trains were
not 10 run on Sunday. Hotels are OF
course. permitted TO be operated on
! Sunday under the present law.
rot 10 Enforce 6nlI-TippIns Law.
In reply TO questions as TO whether
| or not he would enforce the anti-tip-
ping law and other laws now on the
statute books which have remained
dead letter for some time the attor-
nev general replied that so far as the
anti-tipping law is concerned there IS
grave question as 10 whether or not II
| Is constitutional and that its constltu-
| tlonality is soon 10 be tested out in the
supreme court
| He declares further that the SUNDAY
closing law was made an issue in the
| last legislature and that he at that
! time urged its modification or amend
ment but that the legislature refused 70
change il and therefore both hiInseh
and the county attorneys nave no
other alternative than TO enforce IL
According TO the reports coming IN 10
the attorney generals office the small
| Ter towns and communities Of the state
quite generally observed the Sunday
closing law this past Sunday. In the
larger places, however. there were
many arrests. especially at Sioux City,
Council Bluffs and Ottumwa-
| The attorney general has declared
that associations of business men or
others who plan together TO remain
open on Sunday may be found guilty OF
conspiracy which Is a penitentiary Of
Tense. Parties found guilty Of con-
spi-acy may receive as much as three
years IN the penitentiary-
! Il Is expected that Municipal Court
Judge Meyer will rule Wednesday on
| the cases involving the amusement
men and baseball men and on the fol-
| lowing day on the cases involving the
| merchants His rulings, no matter how
made Will probably ne appealed to an d
the cases carried TO the higher courts,