Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-02-25
COMMIT Tee SPIT.
OVER JUDGE BILL
EFFORTS TO sgcuRE>RePoRT ON
MEASURE RESULT IN
DEADLOCK.
EFFORTS OF FRIENDS
or SILL FRUSTRATED
c Committee 10 Make Another Attempt
to Reach an Aerssmsnt--Joirt Com
r,ttee Working to Perfect Second
airy Roads Section Of Highway I'm
! provsmsnt Measurs--Reeord Dill.

Dcs Moines. Feb. 25.--All efforts 10
report out tho Price bill providing fs
the repeal Of the nonpartisan judicRr!
law failed in the meeting OF inc
elections committee Of the Iowa stare
senate Monday. Three separate ana
distinct votes to get the measure o"
the floor of the senate In SOME form
or other. were defeated.
\ The bill. which is known as senate
file No. 6, and which was introduced
in the legislature early In the session.
was referred by the semitic electlons
committee to a subcommittee iWhos.
members were Senator'S Anderson U,
Green, Stephenson. Of RinGgoid. ana
Smith. of Madison. This subcommittee
reported back to the main committee
Monday recommending indefinite post
ponement as the ma ority report ana
n minority report was also submitted
recommending the measure out lor
passage.
Senator Price. the author of the
bill, in an address TO the committee
urged that since there were two other
measures in the hands Of this com
mittee touching on the nonpartisah
judiciary law. that all three Of them
he reported out without recommends
ton. After some informal debate
Senator Proudfoot. of Warren county,
moved that all three OF the DIS De
reported out without recommendation
but this was defeated. Senator EDWARDS
of story county then moved that the
Price bill be reported out for inde-
finite postponement. This was also de-
feated. This was followed by motion
by senator Smith, of Madison county
that the Price bill be reported out
without recommendation, which motion
was also voted down
The senate elections committee VIII
hold another meeting late today ana
an effort will be made to get some
sort of report on the floor of the
senate before the legislature adjourns
for its spring recess.
Perfeetins Road Bill.
The Joint subcommittee which is
drafting the road bill lis now deVot-
ing especial attention to further pro-
visions for the Improvement of town
ship roads or secondary roads mot a
part of the primary system. None OF
the present revenues used for town
ship roads will he taken for anything
other than their present use il the
present plans of the road committee
are carried opt. II is possible that
some provision may be made for ELI
mination of unused roads thus cutting
down the expense Of road maintenance.
1t may also be made possible for the
townships to give their people oppor-
tunity to vote on permanent improve
ments to connect up with some prl-
mary road in their vicinity.
An attack was made on the Hauge
blue sky law introduced in the house
by Representative Hauge of Polk
county in house committee hearing
Monday Afternoon. Business men
present declared that the measure dis
couraged promotion Of legitimate bus
mess concerns and on the other HAND
would revert to the benefit of bankers
in that it would keep the funds which
usually seek investment in the bank
vaults No action was taken by the
house committee on the matter Of re-
portinA out the measure.
The Havner appropriation of $4,000
for state agents which was to have
come up in the senate today as
special order has been postponed un-
til March 9Th in view OF the fact that
the attorney general, who is especially
interested in the measure, is at Ida
Grove attending the Rathbun probe.
A Soldier Record Bill.
The, senate Monday passed the bill
by Representative Larson, of Mohs-
gomery county, which has already
passed the house requiring that SOL
diers discharged from the army record
their discharge with county auditors.
The purpose of the law which will
now go on the statute books on being
signed BY the governor is to provide a
way for keeping the soldier records
straight for future reference. 1t was
explained on the floor of the senate
that much trouble has been experienced
in Strengthening out the records of
civil war veterans who had applied
for pensions because their discharge
papers had been lost and there was
no official record Of their discharge.
This law will make possible an offi-
cial record even tho the soldier
should lose his discharge papers.
The senate passed a bill by Senator
Holdoegel of Calhoun county, which
provides that in cities where voting
machines are used a board of three
members only instead Of five be APP.
pointed in precincts where only one
machine is used.
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