Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-04-19
JEFFERSON CITY LETTER.

CITY. April II. 1879. (.
rn,rop IsrELL1GENcER:-The legis'
,.tiva events of the past few days nave
been fraught with much interest o's
thew had mostly been foreshadoweo os
nr.,;o,, action on the part OF the house
The impeachment question oe'ns W..
one of most Importance. will speak OF. "
frat II had been made the special order
for last Tuesday morning. but OWING 70
the absence of Mr.. Taylor, OF st. LOUIS
chairman OF the committee which recon
manded impeachment, action was De-
ferred until Wednesday. Wnen u"
came the seats OF members were
found to be more fully occupied tnan
tbey had been since the senatorial con-
test. 131 members: answering to the'f
names. The lobby was filled with in
terested spectators. many Of whom were
LADIES'. who seemed to take a deep IN
terest in the proceedings. Promptly at
the arrival of the hour Mr.. Taylor
called for the special order. when was
announced, when Mr.. Louthan. OF Lewis
county, moved that the proceedings DO
postponed for one week. supporting his
resolution in q short speech. Mr.. NC
Intyre responded that no delay was DE-
sired by those who were opposed to I'M
peachment, and without delay. the sub
ject having been previously July o's,
cussed, the vote was taken, and resulted
as follows:
Ysss-Messrs. AldrldGe. Anderson. Andrew
B~ckner, Berry, Bonham. Booth brewer.
Brown, Buford. Burrows, Chepowetn. Slouu'
Cooper, Cowan, of Christian. Cowan' OF hon'
Craig, Dsde, Dawson. Drum, Dryden fostef'
Freed, Gray, Greer, Hall. Haynes' Hsrrisan'
Harrington. Harrison, .Hynes. Ingram 'onn-
son, Knight, Larimore, Lockhart, Lynn macA-
ey, Msnistre. Miles. Morrison. Mott. Muud' OF
ST. Louis, Mccormick of st. Louis, Mccormick
of Washington. McElvain. Mckinney' IA'aei'
Pehle, Pepper, Phelan, Pollard. Powell. Key
nolas. souder, Smith ,oi Cedar, Spring, Talbot.
Taylor, whitaker, Wiley, Younger-es.
Nays-Messrs, Adams, Arnold, Bashaw. Ber-
rymau. Bohsnnon. Boulware, Brady, Bryan
Campbell, of Atchison, Carleton. Carroll, Chill
ton. Chitwood, Geek, Coleman. Collins, Cook.
Coz. Creager, Crow, Crowther, Dale. Davis,
DIercks, Dougherty, Ellis. EWING, Farr,
Finks, Gwynne, HAYES, Hale. Ham.
Hubbard, Helm, Kendall, Kneisley, Lesueur'
Louthsn, Mabrey, MAIN, Molsr. Mudd' Of Lin
coin, Mcdaniel, McGarry, Mcintyre Mchll'
O'Malley, Organ, Patterson, Of Linn, Patterson
| OF Schuyler, Pollock, Powers, Price, hagan'
| Rawlings, Riley, Saunders. swank, Iesis'
| Turner, vanCleve, Waggener, Wels' "eS-
Rsndt, wind.s. wisby and the speaker-as.
OF those voting mo" Messrs. Adama
and Bohannon are greenbackers, and
Mr.. Crowther is a republican. all the
rest being democrats. The wisdom Of
this action will. l think. be demonstrated
before the expiration of Col. Gates term
It will save the state endless complica'
tons, an expense of forty or fifty thou
sand dollars for a fruitless impeachment
and, it is hoped, all. or nearly all Of the
amount which has been je~opardized BY
the failure of the Mastin bank. which
could only have been further leopard
lied by impeachment.
Col. Gates has given a new bond
under the law passed by the presen
general assembly. and it has been ap
proved by the governor.
The final settlement Of the question Q
the relocation of Asylum No. 2 tool
place last Friday night in committed G
the whole. Your representatives decline
placing Limrick Lawn before the hous
for the simple reason that after the re
port of the committee. as printed in tn
=. Intelligencer. the result was a toregon
conclusion, and they did not desire.
make buncombe speeches and a usele'
struggle. The battle had been tougl
and lost before the meeting of the con
mittee.
The governor, it will be remembers
early in the session, appointed as :
Louis police commissioners, Messr
= Armstrong. Ladd and Neidlet,. b
only the first named vas confirmed
the senate. Just when the public W
!, least looking for such a thing. his e
~cellency Yesterday sent in the names
John D. Finney and Leslie Moffat. a!
the senate Immediately confirmed t
- appointments. The Office OF police CO
missioner in st. Louis only pays o
=. thousand dollars a year, but it is und'
stood that great political power attach
to The position.
Mr.. Harrington has offered a 10
=. and concurrent resolution looking to
submission of a constitutional amer
- ment to the following effect:
The house of representatives shall he compo
10 of three times the number of senators ana e
senatorial district shall be entitled to three I
re, resentatives. the terms of whose ONCE sinai
4 4 as follows: That In the year 1882 there shall
m. elected in each senatorial district three rel
ILL sentatives. one tor the term OF four years
the two each Tor the term of two years; and In
M. wear 1881, and ever thereafter oiennially ther'
had In each of said districts there shall be ele'
,eo- two. representatives, one for the term OF
the wears, and one for the term OF two ye
,icb and the candidate having the hig
one number of votes shall be declared elected
lin four years, anu the canoidate nasins tIe
mn highest number shalt be elected for two -
mae and the resolution further provides that
voter may cast IS many votes for one candi
as there are representatives TO be elected,
may distribute the same among the eAnd
as he sees lit.
iast There are, no doubt, some rea'
'ner why this might be a good plan to Sc
In representatives, but l doubt its meet
lsci' ing with favor. There can be no
of doubt that the lower house Is
large, and that its character and cap'
tor the work would be largely augm
resk ed by diminishing its number
'are, Intelligencer favored a house numbe
ch in 80 members when the question
scot being considered by the convention,
NJ o' 1t was right:
ar,nr The following bill "for the better
lection of coal. miners has been |
I'd. duced in the house by Mr.. Vanc
of Macon county. 1t will be of int
,Is, to very many of your readers:
Be It enacted by ths General Assem-.
- the State Of Missouri, as Jollo,o,:
Section !. The owner or agent OF ever
olo mine shall make. or cause to be made,
M q curote N or nIan of the workings of sue