Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-03

Establishments, garages mol. open. IOf
demonstration or sales, service stations,
hotels eating houses, drug stores, con-
fectionery stores and stands. bath and
boat houses and to transport milk and
cream, or ice, to publish, sell and de-
| liver newspapers, to have concerts and
chautauquas and to open libraries and
museums. All these can be open and
operated on Sundays without special
permission if the law passes
But for playing base ball and operat-
ing moving picture shows and places OF,
amusement where admission is charged,
it is to be up to the people in the towns
and cities of 5000 population and I'M
der to say at an election whether they
want to prohibit such things on Sun
day.
AS amended and finally passed, the
lbin 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 picture
theatres and base ball games on Sun
day submitted to a vote OF the people
at the regular city election each year.
Likewise, after such question has been
submitted and carried, petition OF %
FER cent of the voters can require sub
mission of the question of prohibiting
such Sunday amusements at the next
election.
In claim words, the bill is local op-
ton for cities and towns under G.oOO
people as to the question OF Sunday
lbasey ball and theatres, while in N;'ll
|cities the, necessary things enumerated
4 above are expressly permitted In
larger cities the councils or commits
sioners are given the right to regulate
such things by ordinance without Il
vote of the people.
The vote on the final passage OF the
bin was surprisingly large in its "a
vor. Senator Proudfoot Of Warren
. county led the opposition to the Dill,
and strongly maintained his every iine
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 II votes opposed to it, as follows:
Senators Balkema, Ball, BrOokhaft,
Fellows, Meredith, Nelson. Pitt, PROUD
foot, Ratclitf. Smith, Stephenson. Tay-
lor, Whitmore.
If the modern Sunday bill now pass
es the lower house. it will become a
law on and after its publication.
~ Bills Passed.
Tuesday was rather field day for
debaters, both in house and senate,
With the latter working right along for
nearly five hours to get the Alien edu-
Gators 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 parentage afterward. The county
agents bill is the same as was passed
in the house last week, providing that
in counties where the farmers and 9th
ers create membership fund amount
ing to $1,000 for county farm bureau
or improvement association. then the
board of supervisors of such county
shall appropriate double the amount
so raised to assist apd maintain SAID
bureau. Friends of this bill are de-
lighted with it's passage. They say 1t
will make the farm bureau idea per-
manent thing and will do much to stop
the nonDartisan league idea Of farm Or
panization in this state by giving zoe
farmers something much better.
The chiropractor bill passed with
amendments provided that such healers
Imay have member on the state board
of examiners, and that when appll-,
cants for state license to practice chiro-
pratic shall have passed an eXamina-
ton in certain scientific methods, ana
shall show that they have attended
| some IeCOsuiLc NoiiSSS Va "'>"'"N
chirorratic for at least six months
wear for three years, they shall he en-
titled to license TO practice, provided
said board of examiners passes favor
ably on their application.
The carpenters and plumbers OF the
house will have to fix up this bill con-
siderably to make it workable law.
as it is now badly twisted and distorted
by the amendments tackled onto it Ill
passage.
The house debate was over the olu
and familiar '.Shot-iirers bill' which Is
advocated and pressed by the coal min
ers of the state. In this bill the min
crs seek TO establish responsibility Tor
safety and protection in firing the shot
of powder that is used to blow the coai
out of the ledge away under sronnd
where the miners work. AT present
the miners have this responsibility with
the result that if the shot Is not safely
fired, or il it is not fired at all, the loss
is upon the miners. If the mine owners