Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1845-01-25
From our Jefferson City Correspondent.
JEFFERSON Cry, Jan. 10th, ls45.

inst. the Senate took up the bill, introduced
some time since, by the Senator from RAN
iolph, DR.. Fort, the object of which was
10 explain the Convention Bill, passed at the
last Session of the General Assembly. The
explanation intended to be given was, that
the seventh section fixing the qualification
of members of the Convention, and which
declares that only such persons as are
qualified to sit as members of the lower
House, shall be so construed as not to dis
qualify public officers and others, from
sitting in said Convention. The mover
intending, most clearly, to render, by con-
struction, those persons eligible who could
not now, by law, occupy a scat in either
branch of the General Assembly; but after
considerable debate the Senate defeated
the project.
On the same day, in the House, Mr..
Gamble introduced resolution, the pur-
port of which was to test the wishes of
the House upon the subject of imprison-
ment for debt, which called forth sundry
amendments and propositions, bearing pro
and con upon that subject, and after the
several propositions had been discussed till
near night, the original resolutions and all
propositions to amend were, upon motion.
laid on the table. 1t is not entirely certain
what will be done upon that question, my
impression is, however, that imprisonment
for debt, will not be allowed, nor the per-
son of the debtor subject to arrest, except
in cases where the debtor is attempting
dishonesty to avoid the payment of his
debts, and in those cases the capias or CON-
mand to take the body may be issued upon
the affidavit Of the plaintiff.
In the House, to-day, the committee on
elections asked and obtained leave to make
report upon the contested election from
the county of Pulaski, between Mr. Dodge
the sitting member and Mr.. Henderson the
contestant. The committee did not re.
commend any resolution upon the facts re.
ported for the adoption of the House; the
facts stated would elect Mr.. Henderson by
excluding the vote of one township, which
a majority of the committee recommended
because the poll books had not been kept
and certified to as required by law. The
House ultimately sustained the committee
in excluding the poll books, but immedi
ately thereafter adopted resolution, de.
claring as consequence, that there was q
vacancy in the representation of that
county. That conclusion was to some ex.
tent accelerated from the statements of the
several members of the committee, to the
House, that the names of the judges and
clerks Of the election, in said township, had
in some unknoUn way been placed upon the
back of the poll book long since they came
to their hands for the investigation of this
subject, they having been permitted to lie
on the table of the clerk, accessible to ALL
when the committee were not engaged in
the investigation. Suspicion at once at
tached to Mr.. Dodge, and great majority
of the House seemed disposed to handle
him without gloves, Judging from the vote
adopting the resolution granting him leave
of absence sine die. When the discussion
of the contested election came up, Mr.,
Stringfellow, in argument, took strong
ground in favor of receiving the poll book,
and in favor of Mr.. Dodge, stating that he
was opposed TO the adoption of rcsolu-
ton vacating the seat from that county,
because there were many important ques-
tons coming up, in which the vote of the
county might be valuable; but when the
disclosures in regard TO the poll book were
made, Mr.. Stringfelow, upon the call of
the yeas and nays was amongst the missing.
The resolution passed by the House a
few days since, instructing the mother
bank to furnish an increase of circulation
to the branch at Fayette, came up to day
in the Senate, and sundry amendments
being made thereto, it was finally laid on
the table. The amendments were to the
effect that the increase of circulation ought
to be furnished, if in the opinion of the
mother bank it can be done without violat-
ing the charter, or injuring the interests of
the institution. X.
JANUARY 10, 1915.
Some days since, a petition was presented to
the House OF Representatives, from portion OF
the citizens OF Cooper county, praying the Gen.
eral Assembly to legalize marriage which had