Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1919-03-05
ACTIVITIES Of THE
State LEGISLATURE
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meet modern conditions. The painful
operation took place in the Senate or
Monday of this week when bill Of
fered by the Committee on Cities and
Towns came up for passage. 1t was
Senate File No. 225, and provides
with amendments, about as follows
A fine of five to twenty-five dollars
for violation of the Sabbath laws
with the following exemptions:
1t will be legal to operate railways
telegraphs, livery stables, auto bus
ses or other transportation, undertak-
ing establishments, garages not open
for demonstration or sales, service
stations, hotels eating houses, drug
stores, confectionery stores and
stands, bath and boat houses and to
transport milk and cream, or ice, to
publish, sell and deliver newspapers,
to have concerts and chautauquas and
to open libraries and museums All
these can be open and operated on
Sundays without special permission
II the law passes.
But for playing base ball and oper-
ating moving picture shows and plac-
es of amusement where admission is
charged, it is to be up to the people
in the towns and cities Of 5000 pop
ulation and under to say at an cleo
ton whether they want to permit or
prohibit such things on Sunday.
AS amended and finally passed the
bill makes it possible for twenty five
per cent of the voters of any town or
city under 5000 to have the question
of Sunday operation Of moving pic
ture theatres and base ball. games on
Sunday submitted to vote OF the
people a tthe regular city or town
election each year. Likewise, after
such question has been submitted and
carried, petition Of Is per cent Of
the voters can require submission
of the question of prohibiting such
Sunday amusements at the next cleo
ton.
In plain words, the bill is local OPP
ton for cities and towns under 5000
people as to the question Of Sunday
baseball and theatres, while in all cit
les the necessary things enumerated
above are expressly permitted. In
larger cities the councils or commits
sioners are given the right to regu-
late such things by ordinance with
out a vote of the people.
The vote on the final passage OF
the bill was surprisingly large in It's
favor. Senator Proudfoot of War
rem county led the opposition to the
bill, and strongly maintained his every
lire of defense till the end. Senator
Parker of Des Moines led the fight
for the bill. On final passage of the
bill there were but Is votes opposed
to it, as follows: Senator's Balkena,
Ball, Brookhart, Fellows, Meredith,
Nelson, Pitt, Proudfoot, Ratcliff,
Smith, Stephenson, Taylor, Whit
more.
If the modern Sunday bill now pas
ses the lower houses it will become a
law on and after it's publication
Tuesday was rather a field day for
tlebaters, both in House and Senate,
with the latter working right along
for nearly five hours to get the Alien
educators bill, the chiropractors bill
and the county agents bill out of the
way. All three bills were passed,
though even the friends Of the chiro
bill doubted its parantage afterward
The county agents bill is the same as
was passed in the House last week,
providing that in counties where the
farmers and others create member
ship fund amounting to $1,000 for
a county farm bureau or improve
ment association, then the board Of
supervisors of such county shall"
appropriate double the amount so rails
ed to assist and maintain said bureau.
Friends Of the bill are delighted
with it's passage. They say it will
make the farm bureau idea a perma-
nent thing and will do much to stop
the non-partisan league idea Of farm
organization in this state by giving
the farmers something much better.
The chiropractor bill passed with
amendments provided that such heal
ers may have member on the state
hoard Of examiners, and that when
applicants for state license to prac-
tice chiropractic shall have passed an
examination in certain scientific meth
DDS, and shall show that they have
attended some recognized college or
school of chiropractic for at least six
months a year for three years, they
shall be entitled to license to prac-
tice, provided said board Of examiners
passes favorably on their application.
The carpenters and plumbers Of the
House will have to fix up this bill
considerably to make it a workable
law, as it is now badly twisted and
distorted by the amendments tackled
onto it in passage.
The House debate was over the old
and familiar "shot-firers bilP' which is
advocated and pressed by the coal
miners of the state. In this bill the
miners seek to establish responsible
ity for safety and protection in
firing the shot of powder that is used
to blow the coal out of the ledge away
under ground where the miners work.
At present the miners have this res
possibility, with the result that if the
shot is not safely fired, or if it is not
fired at all, the loss is upon the min
ers If the mine owners or operators
have to see that. this shot is fired