Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-04-04
SENATE REPEALs
EXTENSION TAX
CAPITOL GROUNDS TO BE LEFT
uNcoMPLErEp lF HOUSE
ALSO ADOPTS BILL.
ALSO DEFEATS PLANS
FOR TEMPLE OF JUSTICE
Sill to Make Use Of Torrens System
Of Land Titles Optional Adopted by
Senate - Speaker Pitt WithhoIds
Ruling on Legality Of Tablins Su-
preme Judseship Bill.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, April 4.-The senate of
the Iowa legislature yesterday afternoon
passed the Whitmore bill to repeal the
capitol extension tax by vote Of 26 to
81. If this bill is passed by the house
all future taxes for capitol extension,
which have yet five years to run and
amount to $150.OOO per year, will be
annulled 1t also defeats the Kimball
measure, passed by the senate about 4
week ago. to erect a temple Of justice,
as the kimball bill provided that the
capitol extension tax was to be used for
this building.
Should the house concur in the SEN
ate action the capitol extension grounds
would be left incompleted. Not all the
grading has been finished. None of the
new grounds have been put into grass;
(some of the buildings are yet to be re-
moved and the drives are not finished.
The vote on the Whitmore bill to re-
peal the tax was as follows:
| Ayes-Ball, BroXam, Chase, Coburn,
Foster, Frailey, Gibson. Greene, Hale,
Haskell, HoldoegeL Kingland LATER,
! eCompte. Indy, Lytle, Mitchell, Price,
Ratcliff, Rule, Schrup, Smith, Thomp-
ison, Voorhees,, White. Whitmore. Total
rs.
/ Nays-Adams. Arney, Balkema, By
!ington, Caswell. Edwards, Enger, Evans.
Fellows, Foskett, Grout. Helmer. Henig-
baum. Kimball. Newberry. Proudfoot.
Stephenson, Taylor, Van Alstine, Will
son, Parker. Total 81.
The senate passed the bill by the
committee on land titles providing for
the Torrens system Of perfecting, regis
tering and transferring titles to real es-
tate. This bill was originally introduced
in the senate by Senator Kingland of
Wjnnebago county. The use of the
Torrens system is OPTIONAL
The senate spent practically all of
the morning yesterday in the discussion
of the Chase model injunction bill,
framed after the federal bill known as
the Clayton act. At 1880 Senator
Chase secured seventeen senators to is
sue a call of the senate before the vote
was taken on the matter. At 1:15 two
of the senators, Senator ,Frailey, Of Lee
county and Senator Thompson, of Des
Moines county, had not been located SO
Chase on motion postponed further con-
sideration on theb bill until today. This
would exempt labor unions from being
enjoined in cases of strikes except when
property was endangered and where
there was no other protective remedy
In the law.
Speaker Pitt did not make his ruling
yesterday on the vote by which the bill
for an extra judge was laid on the
table in the house last Friday. He had
his ruling ready and had previously
stated that it would be made Tuesday
but he said yesterday there was not a
large enough membership present in
the house so that he had decided to
withhold his ruling until some other
time. He said he would wait until
something like a full house attendance
was present. He will rule that the
point of order was not we'll taken and
another fight on the bill will be precipi-
tated.
Representative Arch McFarlane, of