Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-05-04
MISSOURI LEGISLATURE.


In the senate Joseph p. Johnston, Of
Warrenshurg, was elected official reporter
on the 2ith. The committees on enrolling
billsand accounts, were authorized each TO
employ a clerk, and the secretary was au.
tharlzed 10 employ a minute clerk, a jour
nal clerk, AID a docket clerk. The bill
introduced by Senator Heaston to reds-
trict the state was read second time,
when the senate adjOurned-In the
house resolutions of respect for the mem-
ory nf the deceased members from ROlla
and Dunkliu counties, hessrs. Priest and
iiarkly, were read and passed by rising
vote, Messrs. Parker and Mckay deliver
Ing hrle' eulogies on the memory Of the
i0Tmpr and Carleton tribute OF some
length TO the memory of Harkly, when
the house adjourned.
The senate convened on the 25th, and
adjourned without transacting any busi-
ness, after a session of less than ten min
utes-ln the house three new bills, en-
titled acts to divide the State of Missouri
into fourteen representative districts,
were introduced, and resolution was
adopted extending sympathy to the people
of Brownsville for the suffering caused
by the tornado.
The house held a brief session on the
2j.h. After prayer and the reading of the
journal, n message was received from the
governor calling the attention of the egis-
lature to the necessity for the reappOr-
tionment Of the state into representative
districts. IN conformity with the pOpula-
ton Of the various counties as ascertained
by the official census of 1880, and recon-
that the legislature adopt such
means rs may be necessary to conform the
representation of the various counties In
the house Of representatives to such GEN.
Su' He also recommended to the legisla-
turn the appropriation of $1,000, to be used
IN dclrayiEg the necessary expenses (other
than attorneys feeS) incurred by the state
In It's litigation with the Hannibal and
St. Joseph Railroad company, and that
said sum be placed at the disposal Of the
GDG commissioners of the state, to be
used by them for the above purposes as
occasion may require.
The senate held q session of fifteen min
ltas duration on the 9th, and the house
passed a resolution endorsing the COVER
IOr'5 course In the removal of Jesse
lanes.
The senate held brief session on the
S'h and adjourned without transacting
my business until Monday-ln the
lnuse, Speaker Bashaw gave his ruling on
he Jesse James resolution offered by Mr.
i9rham, Of Andrew. He spske at some
eIg,h, but dwelt light on the cOnstitu-
ioDGl prohibition under section % of ar
iC!e 1. Mr., Upton, of Polk, introduced a
isolation that Missouri is to be cOngrat.
ated on the removal of the notorious
0rtit, jesse James. After long and ex-
tied discussion the motion was ruled out
{ order. an appeal was taken from the
ecision, and the vote resulted ayes 50,
ayS 40.
In the house, April 90, the Jesse James
3 olutions were again taken up and again
u!ed strictly out of order. Mr.. Dawson,
rom tho committee on ways and means,
Introduced substitute for the house ap-
rOpriatOn bill. 1t increases the amount
, 1900, $1,000 of which is to dsfray the
ypcn.es Of the Hannibal and ST, Joseph