Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-17
special to Times-Rpublicsn.

vehicles bill which has had anything
but a. JOY ride thru the legislature, is
expected to pass both houses in much
the same form as originally introduced
BY tho Joint committee on motor
vehicles of the house and senate. 1t
has been in the hands of a conference
committee since Monday but IL Is
understood the committee has reached
an agreement on measure which is
in effect the original bill.
The Dean bill giving the attorney
generals department $4,000 for state
agents which was passed by the house
several weeks ago and was so
thoroughly amended in the senate that
it's friends said it had but little force
came up in the senate again Wednes-
day. The house refused to concur in
the senate amendments and an effort
was made by Senator Balkema to
strike out amendments made in the
senate so as to conform to the mea-
sure as passed by the house. The sem
ate was evenly divided, voting
twenty five to twenty-five, on two diff
ferent motions to strike out two DIFF
ferent Amendments but voted twenty
six to twenty-four to refer the mea-
sure to a conference committee.
The senate defeated a bill late We'd
nesday which had previously passed
the house giving authority to the state
board Of railroad commissioners to
order in spun tracks to a mine, indus
trial plant or similar property. the
cost of said spur to be paid by the
manufacturer or concern asking tor
the spur. Opponents OF the measure
particularly Senator Frailey, OF Lee
county, argued that the bill as drawn
would give opportunity for concerns
which wished to add to spur track
already built thru the initiative and
ability of some other concern to do 50
without paying a proportionate share
Of the cost.
Another bill which went to con-
ference committee in the senate We'd
nesday is one giving authority to
fraternity insurance associations to
organize as stock companies by vote
of the directors confirmed by the ma
.tional convention of the association.
The safe auditors office reports that
it Is having many inquiries as to the
time in which the measure passed py
the present legislature giving IN
creased salaries TO boards OF super
visors takes effect. The bill became
effective April /. according to Joe
Wall, of the auditors office. and it in
creases the pay of members Of the
board from 81 per day to IS per day
and their mileage from five to ten
cents per mile.
Salary Bill Before Senate.
The Iowa senate will probably act
today on bill by the senate COM
mittee on departmental affairs with
reference to salaries to be paid state
employees. The title Of the bill was
introduced late Wednesday and the
bill itself was then turned over to the
printer to be printed in the journal.
The senate departmental affairs has
given out nothing in advance on the
measure for the reason that there are
SO many employees personally inter-
ested 1t was decided action on the bill
might be delayed if its provisions were
given out before the bill came up on
the floor for discussion. The COM
mittee has undertaken to adjust the
salaries paid to the state officials ana
employees. AS has been pointed out
the salaries of the majority of the state
positions are what they were when
the department was first created out
side Of the elective officers. The de-
partments which have been created
by recent legislatures get much higher
salaries comparatively than depart
ments which have been in existence
for some time. Hence there has been
an attempt on the part Of the COM
mittee to adjust these things.
No Road Commission.
Z The senate has defeated a joint reso-
iution by Senator Whitmore, OF
Wapello county, to appoint legisla-
tive commission to look after the ad-
ministration of the new road law and
study it's operation and report back
to the next assembly. Senator Whit
more declared that the state in the
next few years would be expending
$50, e0O, 900 to 800, 100000 annually in
the building Of roads and a competent
commission to cooperate with the
boards of supervisors and with the
state highway commission was neces-
sary to help in the carrying out Of the
laws provisions and to report back to
the next legislature needed changes
The majority of the senators, however,
voted against the resolution on the
grounds as some Of them explained
that the highway commission and the
county engineers together with the
boards Of supervisors would provide
a sufficient number of officials to work
out the law.
Mott Not Reappointed.
The senate late Wednesday con-
flrmed the following appointments
which had been sent to that body for
confirmation late Tuesday:
Board OF education. P. X. Holbrook,
Onawa; D. D. Murphy, Elkader;
Charles r. Brenton. Dallas Center;
board Of control, A. M. McColl, Wood
ward; industrial commissioner, A. B.
Funk, Des Moines; document editor,
Ora Williams, Des Moines; state fire
marshal J, A. Tracy, Sioux City.
The first news reports sent out with
reference to the appointments were to
| the effect that all Of the present men
up for reappointment had been recon-
| mended to succeed themselves. This
| was In error, az to d. c. Mott, member
Of the state board Of parole. now liv-
Ing at Indianola but at the time OF
his original appointment by Governor
Clarke was living in Marengo. Mott
has been a friend of Attorney General
Havner and this is thought to have
been the reason he was not reappointed
by Governor Harding. The governor