Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-04-03
JEFFERSON n
SENATE.

SENATE.
March % Several petitions forr
constitutional amendment prohibiting
the manufacture and sale of alcoholic
liquors were presented Senator Nor
rison, from the committee on ways
and means, reported back the defici-
ency bill with amendments. The
amendments we're adopted and bin
ordered to be engro. sed. Senator
Hockaday moved a reconsideration
and offered an amendment t. appro-
pirate 81, COS, O8 fer Indebtedness Of
the State University by reason of de-
ficiency for the years 1877 and 1878.
Senator Ball!ngal said the amount
would have to be paid out OF the
general revenue and he was opposed
to it and offered an amendment that
it be paid out of the school fund.
Senator Headlee offered an amend
ment which vas read for information
appropriating $4,000 to pay The de-
ficiency for the support of the school
of mines for 1878. The bill with
amendments wasre committed to CON-
mittee on ways and can
March 29.-ihe taxable wealth of
the state exclusive of railroad and
bridge property Is returned to the
state boad of equalization is $685.
624, 423.
HOUSE.
Marcel 2S.-The substitute for the
bill classifying property for taxation
was passed. The bill prohibiting any
officer or agent of the state from ne
gotiating, assigning, transferring or
hypothccating the bonds of the STATE,
school, and seminary funds vas pass
ed unanimously.
March 3Q.-Mr. Arnold moved to
reconsider the vote by which the i'm
migration bill failed to pass; carried.
MI. Bashaw said that lands in Mis-
souri,, the hest in til. state were sell
ing absolutely for nothing, and no
one was authorized to make our va
ried advantages of soil and climate
and our vast mineral resources known
20 the people OF other states. We
want men to come 10 Missouri with
money and buy farms and open up
mines. We want those men In the
East now farming on lands worth
from SIS TO 500 per acre who are
dissatisfied, to sell those valuable
lands and come to our state and buy
just as good lands for Il few dollars
per acre. There are farms now in
this state which can be bought for Il
sum insufficient to cover the i'm.
provements o fthem and the reason is
that we have more farms than We
have men able to cultivate them.
Gentlemen have been crying retrench-
ment and reform on this floor even
since the Legislature convened, and
yet, when such a measure calculated
20 immeasurably benefit the people
comes up they also cry out against
it. Men who owe everything they
have to the state are through the
press stigmatising US rs a robber state
and we have no one authorized by
the state TO stand up in our defence.
Mr.. Riley said he could not conceive
the use Of q board of immigration.
In l847 immigrants poured into
Missouri, and yet no board Of immi-
grafton was in existence at that
time. He thought it only n scheme
to make holes for pegs. The bill was
passed by a vote of ~ TO 80. This
bill provides for n board of immigra-
ton of three commissioners to be
taken from northern and southern
Missouri and the city of st. Louis by
the Governor at a salary of $1,000
per amman who shall visit. such
states as may be necessary and use
the means committed to them to prop
erly present the advantages afforded
by Missouri to persons d%esirious to
secure homes in the West; with
power to employ such other agents
for the like purpose as may be nee
essary and enter into contracts with
railroads and steamboats, as to the
Transportation of immigrants, and
also TO open books and solicit sub
scriptions of money or such material
aid as may be needed and to form
auxiliary boards in all the counties OF
the State, and for thesepurposes there
shall be an appropriation of not less
than $40, 900 annually.
j. B. Clark at the old Singer office,
keeps the best sewing machines in the
world with all the late improvements.
Second hand machines to rent. Aft.