Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-04-03
MISSOURI LEGISLATURE.

SENATE, 2J.-MOst OF the forenoon was
taken up with the consideration of bills report
cd by the committee on revision. A letter
from j. II. Willis, warden of the State prison,
stating that rs his report ON receipts and ex-
penditures had been pronounced by the St.
Louis Globe. Democrat untrue, he requested the
committee on penitentiary to make thorough
examination of his books. The committee on
ways and means reported deficiency bill for
the years 1877 and 1878 and it was ordered to
eugrossment. A report recommending that the
reports Of the State boards of agriculture aud
horticulture for the years 1877 and 1878 be
printed under the supervision of the president
of said board
HousE.--Mr. Spring, from the special COM
mittee to re-organize and reduce the number of
judicial districts in the State, submitted re-
port accompanied by bill which reduces the
number from 30 to %. 1t will save the State
in salaries alone $4,000 per annum. The bill
regulating the interest on money, being the
special order was taken up and discussed at
great length, great many amendments being
offered but voted down. The House came to
square vote, which resulted, ayes, 20; nays,
SO; thus the bill lacked two votes of having
constitutional majority and failed. An effort
will be made to reconsider when there nre
| more members present.
HoUsE.-The bill relating to husband
and wife and the rights of married women was
passed. II authorizes the wife of an insane
husband, or one who is under control Of
guardian, to join with the guardian in tho
| transfer of property. A large petition was
presented for the abolition of railroad commits
soners and the use Of the money necessary
for its support in inviting immigration. The
advocates of usury laws for low rate Of in
tcre5t feel their defeat strongly, and obtained
u reconsideration, which was again lost. There
was nothing further of interest.
SENATE, 27.-The Senate was hard at
work consider ng revised bills, and those of the
following titles were passed To revise the
statutes concerning land boundaries. OF the
evidence of statutes. OF public records and doc
uments. OF executions. Of perpetuatiOn of
testimony. OF witnesses. The following re-
viscd bills were ordered engros,ed for third
reading: Relating to suretics and their dis
charge. Concerning weights and measures.
of letters of attorney. Of inn keepers and
their guests. OF mills and millers. Of actors
on penal lands. OF set-oif. OF contracts and
promises. of eiectment. Senator Morrison
reported favorably bill making the time for
listing property for taxation once in every four
years, instead of once in two years as now.
70 amend the general statutes in relation to
the proceedings in justices courts where the
justice of the peace is a material witness, or
relation tO parties. To amend the act pro-
viding for the prosecuting attorneys.
HoUsE-The House took up and passed tho
Senate bill repeating sections six and eight of
an act entitled IAN act in relation to the social
evil hospital and house of industry in the City
of st. Louis, and the arrest of bawds and pros
titutcs in said city" approved March 2s 1874.
The following were the new bills presented:
An act regulating the assessment and location
of notes and other evidences of Indebtedness.
An act regulating the rate Of interest An act
to amend an act for the preservation of
game. An act to enable certain physicians to
enroll.
SENATE, 2S.-A petition signed by u
large number of ministers and laymen of the
Christian church in favor of n prohibitory IL
quor law. Senator Morrison called up the de-
daiency bill for the years 1877 and 1878.
Amendments were offered to appropriate 81
D0s.0S to cover the deficiency in the appropri
alton for the State University, and $4,000 for
the school of mines The bill was finally re-
committed to the ways and means committee.
Nearly the entire session was consumed in
considering the bill to revise and amend the
general statutes concerning curatOrs, guard
ians and wards, masters, apprentices and serv-
ants, colored apprentices, adoption of children
and change of name.
HousE-The bill creating State board Of
consisting of three persons to be
by the Governor, each at a salary of
Il 800 per annum, and appropriating $4,000
to be expended by them to secure immgra-
tiOn to Missouri, was then taken up, and after
4 brief discussion, put on its passage. The re-
suit was 67 ayes; 4G nays. Lacking cOnstitu-
.ional majority, it failed. The House passed
The Senate bill prohibiting cities aud towns
from licensing gambling bawdy and assigna-
ion houses. The vote was unanimous. An
Ict to enable plaintiffs li;igant to have service
N foreign corporations. An act to create
state Board of Health, and to regulate the
Practice of medicine and surgery. An act 10
provide protection for coal miners. An act to
'mend the law relating TO curators and trus-
ecs. An act to make illegal voting felony.
IN act to regulate the rate of interest.
SENATE, 29.-No session to-day.
HOUsE.-Several bills were passed in the
louse this morning, among them an act in re-
alton to the drainage and reclamation of over
lowed lands and the protection of lands bor-
ering on rivers. A joint and concurrent. .reso-
utiOn petitioning Congress to grant bounty
o the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Missouri cav
Try volunteers. The House bill relating to
rainage of swamp lands being amendments
f the acts of April, 1877, passed that body. 1t
eates to those swamp lands bordering on
ivers. The amendment provides for taxing
he benefit rather than the quantity.
SENATE, 81. There was very slim at
enhance of Senators this morning, and the
usiness transactions was not of great import
nee. Petitions were introduced from citizens
{ Sullivan praying for the extention of the
Ime for the completion of certain railroads
a this State; from citizens of Linn county in
lvor of township organization law; and
rom citizens of Clinton county in favor of
liquor law. Senator Naylor sub
lifted bill as n substitute for all Others re-
Using the general statutes for the inspection
{ petroleum and other illuminating oils. Sen
tor Cottey reported a bill to revise the general
tatutes relating to justices of the peace. The
efficiency bill was reported for the third time
rom the committee on ways and means, and
vas again the subject of lengthy discussion.
was finally laid over until tomorrow. The
judiciary committee reported favorably bill
courts of record to employ expert
cstimony in certain cases, and to allow extra
for the same.
HoUsr-The Speaker laid before the House
communication from the Governor announU-
ng his approval of a number of bills. A resu-
uton was offered directing the committee on
to make thorough examination
,f the books and general management of the
,tate prison, and authorizing the spmmoning
'f witnesses and sending for papers. After
considerable opposition the matter was laid
'ver informally. A resolution was adopted,
eauesting the State Treasurer to furnish the
Iouse with q statement of the amount of
money belonging to the revenue fund in the
reasury at the time of the failure of the Mas
in bank and also the amount of State money
low locked up in that institution. The object
5 to disapprove the public mind of the i'm
ression that the failure of that institution
impaired the revenue fund. 1t is understood
hat all the funds there deposited belonged to
he State interest fund.- and none to the reve-
ue fund. A bill was introduced regulating
he interest of money. 1t provides that five
er cent. shall be the legal rate where no
greement is made, and that ten per cent may
Q taken by contract.
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