Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-17
INSIST ON GRAND
JURY EVIDENCE
-
MEMBERS OF HOUSE COMMITTEE
PROPOSE TO LEARN ALL IN
PARDON SCANDAL.
KENNEDY TO BE GIVEN
OPPORTUNITY TO TALK
Provided He Refuses to Oivulse Jury
Testimony Other Witnesses From
Ida Grove viii Be cslIed-Judi.
oisry Committee Has Taken No
STEPS to lmpeaeh Secretary Allen.
I I'm Times R-.nhl.ean.

Special to Times r. publican,
Des Molnes March 1.-THE present
week in the Iowa Legislature promises
TO be featured nv the Hath9un probe
the continuation Of the investigations
10y the departmental affairs committee
4 Of the senate and the Introduction and
possible consideration Of the road bill
Both branches II the assembly are
working hard To- clean up the bills on
their calendars and get as many meas
iues reported oal as possible before the
sitting committee Is appointed and be-
gins the process % throwing into the
discard thr bills considered not es-
peciaIly important II IS expected sit'-
4 ing committees Will be appointed with
, In another week or ten days.
Judge J. l.. kennedy, OF Sioux CItE'
. Who was the prosecutor in the Ida
. Grove grand jury probe; Charles HAM
Uton. court reporter at Ida Grove ana
also tho clerk o. the grand jury, who
have been subpocnaed to appear be-
fore the house investigating commit
lee. are expected to Dc among the FIRST
to be eN4mIr<d II is question
whether or not these witnesses can he
required to diyulgc what came out in
the grand iary proceedings. Chairman
T. =. Harrington. Of the house ludic-
airy committee. has threatened TO IN
dertake 20 have repeal measure pass
ed ahrogn ting. the law which requires
that grand tlr, evidence he kept out
Of subsequent Investigations.
In case these first witnesses sum-
moned do not Giyulge the evidence 1t
is probable that all OF tic lmportan'
witnesses who appeared ,>efore tn" Ida
co4nty grand ilpS in its pardon probe
will he called before the house com
mIttce.
TIT, senate departmental affairs
committee i not through with its work
IN the secretary OF states office, Sen
ator HoIiocgel. the chairman. declares.
However, senator Holdoegel reiterates
that all talk Of impeachment proceed
inEs against Secretary w. : AlIe.n has
been outside of the committee and has
at no tlmr come from the committe"
Itself
Tc EGualize Salaries.
This committee has been working
hard on the equalization OF salaries
about the state house and a report on
this matter is looked for before the
week is over. The report probably
will be in the nature Of = bin which
Will provide for the equalization which
I the committee considers ! eCessary. II
nilI probably recommend increases foI
/ the majority os the employees for The
next two wears.
Both senate and house passed i'm
/ portant bills this past week. some OF
/ which were all but lost sight Of in the
news dispatches thru The prominence
given the disclosures about the state
house.
The nonpart,sa san Judiciary law went
thu the house Tuesday last and thru
tire senate Wednesday and went down
f. to governor the following day. In
,.ury n the governors Office c 70
whether or not the measure had been
signed elected the information that
tho biz r'ith others was being checked
over for possible errors before presen-
t.tiCr 10 the governor.
Extension of the Perkins law to
adults, providing free medical and sur
gical care at the state university hos
ypital al Iowa city 10 = ose who need
! It out are ana bic 70 pay physicians and
surgeons bills, has 5ctzr authorized by
| the legislature. Aha biH providing for
| this was known Is the Haskell Klaus
| bill Ex-senator Haskell. OF Linn com
! ty, and Representative Klaus. of Dcla-
| ware. 1t went thru the senate un, nj
mouslY having previously passed trc
! house. and on recctviug the governor
signature md on publication will Da
! como operative This law Las prov en- Z
! Todscnd to many Iowa children cs-
( pe"idlly crippled children.
! The WicE3nan bill by Representa- tive
J. +. Wichman. Of Hancock county
! prohibiting boards 81 supervisors from
t@uthorizing publication Of official pr,
ceedings in foreign language newspa-
pers. has passed both the house and
senate and will become a law on the
governors signature.
| oThe bill by Representative Wormley
Sf Plymouth county, increasing schoo
tuition to IS per month which pupils
from outside districts must pay Ia:
also passed both branches OF the as.
Sembly. pa
Memorial Bill Certain.
The bill by Davidson, of Page. which
has passed the house. provides tina
each county can build memorial build
lings to its soldiers and sailors by au
lthorizing thru a vote of the people
bond issue by the county supervisor!
to purchase land and erect a memora
building. It-is thought the senate will
without doubt pass this measure. Thi
will make possible memorial building
IN every county OF the state. On peti
ticn Of fifteen per cent Of the lega