Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-04-10
MISSOURI LEGISLATURE.

room in which said office shall be kept, and to
furnish all fuel, books, stationary, ETC., used in
and about said office, and all deeds or instru-
ments affecting real and personal estate in
said range thrty-three, shall be recorded in a
we'll bound book, to be kept at said Office in
Kansas City. Mr.. Phelan represented an i'm
mense petition from the ladies of st. Louis
praying for the passage of prOhibitory liquor
law The remainder of the session was con-
sumed in the consideration of bills revising
the general statutes, and the following were
passed: Concerning letters of attorney. Con-
cerning actions by U. S. collectors of revenue.
Concerning inn keepers and their responsible
ties to guests.
HoUsE.-Mr. Gwynne achieved great tri-
umph to-day in the passage through the House
of his bill to regulate the sale of liquors by
druggists. 1t is n stringent BILL and it ia be-
lieved will to n considerable extent remedy
what is now great evil. After considerable
discussion the House passed bill to amend
section 3, of chapter 200 of the general stat
utcs, entitled "Of Offense against the lives and
persons of Individuals The matter is of so
much Importance that the amended section is
| given in full, as follows: Persons convicted of
murder in the first degree shall suffer death,
or shall be punished by imprisonment in the
penitentiary not less than fifty years, and the
verdict of the jury shall say whether the pun
| shment be by death or imprisonment; and
those convicted of murder in the second degree
shall be punished by imprisonment in the
penitentiary, not less than ten years. The bill
providing stringent penalties for persons fail
| ing to give in to the assessor all their bonds
notes, mortgages and money on hand, for tax
alton, was discussed the balance of the fore
noon session. and an adjournment was effect
ed before It came to vote.
SENATE, 2.-The deficiency bill was for
the fourth time reported by the committee on
ways and means. Several amendments were
offered and voted down, and the bill was or
dcred to engrossmcnt. The House bill fixing
the compensation of the secretary of the SEN
ate and chief clerk of the House at 80 per day
each, passed. House bill making 1t unlaw-
full to kill California quail for period of five
years passed. Senator Muckey reported in
favor of the passage of a concurrent resolution
fixing the time of adjournment sine die on the
7th of May resolution to postpone further
consideration of the resolution to the first of
May was carried A message from the govern
or was read announcing his approval of the
following bills: Concerning improvements;
concerning frauds and perjures; concerning
fraudulent conveyances; concerning hdbedS
corpus.
HousE.-Mr Bouham called up his resolu-
ton directing the committee on penitentiary
to investigate the management Of the peniten-
tiary under the present warden. After long
debate the resolution was adopted. con-
current resolution concerning certain lands
once donated to aid in the construction of
the Iron Mountain railroad, but which re-
verted to the United States because the road
was not constructed on the line of the original
survey, was passed. About $1,000 acres are in
yolved and the resolution requests our Sena-
tors and Representatives in Congress to urge a
rc-donaton OF these lands, in order that they
may be thrown open for settlement. Mr..
Cowan, Of Holt. called up the marriage license
law, on which there ensued lengthy discus
sion. After the adoption of number of
amendments the bill was re-committed. The
following new bills were intrOduced An act
authorizing elections to settle and define coun-
ty boundaries when in dispute. An act au-
thorizing the employment of convict labor in
the improvement of the Agricultural and Me
chanical College farm. An act in relation to
roads and highways. An act to regulate the
admission Of patients in the State Lunatic Asy-
lum. An act to repeal the law encouraging the
destruction of grasshoppcrs. At the afternoon
session of the House the concurrent resolution
submitting to the people in 1880 an amend
ment to the constitution, prohibiting the man
ufacture and sale of Intoxicating liquors in
this State, was ordered to engrossment, which
insurcs its passage.
SENATE, 3.-ScnatOr Morrison called up
the Senate substitute for all bills relating to
the State Treasury, and had il recOmmtted to
the committee ON ways and means. The bill
to enable counties. cities and towns to c0mpro-
mise their Indebtedness was taken up and
discussed the entire forenoon. The principal
point in the bill is that which requires that
before any compromise shall be valid it must
be submitted to the people and receive their
endorsement.
IL. A.
tee on criminal jurisprudence reported
adversely ON bill relating TO dram
shop license 1t so amends the pres
ent law that any petitioner asking for
dramshop license must have paid State or
county tax. The bill was laid over. Mr.. COwan,
of Holt reported favorably on bill to allow
physicians who were in regular practice prior
and up to the passage of the act of 1874, and
failed to register within the time prescribed
by that act, to register between now and jan
uary |, 1850. 1t was ordered to engrossment.
Mr.. Davis, from the committee on ways and
means. reported back the bill to tax merchants
and manufacturers on their sales, instead of
the stock on hand. The bill passed and ap-
plies only to st. Louis.
SENATE, 4.-The President appointed
Senators Phelan and Edwards, of Lafayette,
to superintend the cancellation of certain
State bonds The deficiency bill for the years
Senate then went into committee of the whole
on the revised criminal code, and continued at
this work the entire session.
HoUsE.-Mr. Tevs presented a petition from
citizens of johnson county praying for legis-
latiOn that will confne the working of convicts
within the walls of the penitentiary. Mr..
Collins from the committee on federal re-
lations, reported concurrant resolution
memorializing Congress to provide n civil
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Mr.. Wiley from the special committee, report
ed articles of impeachment against State Treas
| urer Gates. Mr.. Taylor offered the following;
| Resolved, That the House of Representatives
do impeach Eli jah Gates, treasurer of the State
of Missouri, for high crimes and misdemeanors
in office, and of official disconduct and for the
purpose of obtaining the trial of the same,
adopt the articles of impeachment reported to
| the House by the special committee heretofore
appointed by its speaker to prepare and report
articles of impeachment against said Elijah
Gates, and request that the Senate, in due sea-
| son, inquire into and try the same.
ReSolum further, That the clerk of the House
transmit to the Senate these resolutions and
the said articles of impeachment.
The articles and resolutions were ordered
printed, and their consideration was postponed
until Wednesday.
SENATE, 5.-There no was session Of the
Senate to-day.
HoUsE.-Mr. Anderson, from the committee
on reform, reported without recommendation
the bill introduced by Mr. Powell, Of Macon,
| fixing the rate of interest at and per cent.
1t was ordered to be engrossed. Mr.. Hall,
from the same committee, reported adversely
on bill relating to bastardy. Itprovides that
| on the oath of the mother the man alleged by
| her to be the father of the child shall support
it. 1t was ordered engrossed. The bill to
bring jackson county under the uniform law
governing probate judges after the expiration
of the present probate judge expires, was or
dered engrossed. Mr.. Wsby, from the com
mittee on internal improvements, reported
favorably bill to abolish the board of rail-
road commissioners, and on this proposition
the whole forenoon was consumed in debate.
The brains and intelligence of the House seem
ed to be all on one side-in favor OF
the report of the committee, and Messrs..
Wisby Campbell of Atchison, and
Riley, with clearness and an array of facts
that none could question, showed how utterly
useless and at the same time how expensive
the board had been. The opposition was ram
bling and incoherent, but in this instance, as
in almost every other in the Missouri House
of Representatives, prejudice prevailed over
reason and common sense, and the House re-
fused to order the bill to engrossment. 1t was,
however, pretty eaectually demonstrated that
the railroad commissioners have no chance to
procure the passage Of any law which shall
give them absolute power over all the railroads
in the State, to be used, II they so choose, for
their own enrichment and to the lasting injury
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