Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-30
MISSOURI STATE NEWS,
The State Legislature.

The state Legislature
II the Senate. on the 18th. the bill revising
:he law relating to Probate Courts was recon
sidered and passed. The adjournment resolu-
ton was called .p and amended SO as to pro-
vide that no bills should be passed after noon
of the 22d. The House amendments to the g.
viSed bill relating TO cities, towns and villages
were taken up and all but two were concurred
in. In the House the revised bill ''of the Re-
form School for Boys was passed; also the
revised chapter "of crimes and criminal pro-
cedure," with Senate amendments. Joint and
concurrent resolution No. II was called up by
Mr.. Brooks, of Carroll, and passed. The reso-
luton gives legislative assent to the Agriculs-
ural College to receive the appropriation of
$4,000 recently granted il by the National Coz
gress. The Senate amendments to substitute
for House bill $780, the Eleemosynary Appropri-
alton bill were refused concurrence.
THE Senate, on the Goth. devoted the day to
the reading of enrolled bills. The only impor-
tant business done was to take up and concur
in the House amendment to the bill revising
the law on cities towns and villages. In the
House the Senate amendments to the House
Anti-Pinkerton bill were cOncurred in. Senate
bill appropriating $4,000 to erect monumen t
over the grave of the late John S. Marmaduke
Governor OF the State, was defeated, and so
was the House Compulsory Education BILL A
report from the Senate that it had adopted a
resolution asking the appointment of COM
mittee of three from each house to examine the
how far that body is behind with the work of
reuision, aroused the Indignation OF the House.
and the only business thereafter transacted
was the delivery of imprisoned speeches. in
the course of which Il remark of Mr.. Flanagan
that the Senate could "go to the devil was
warmly applauded.
IN the Senate, on the 2lst, the Conn Milk In
spection bill was finally passed. The Senate
refused to concur IN the House bill reducing the
annual salary of the ST. Louis coal oil inspector
to Il, 900 per year. The revised bill relating to
the Industrial Home for Girls at Chillicothe
was defeated. In the House a resolution was
adopted that the Th1rty-iifth General Assem-
bly, adjourn sine die ON Friday, the gath, and
that no bills be passed after noon of the ed.
Bills were passed as follows. The Conn Milk
Inspection bill; the revised chapter ''of guard
ians and curators' Senate bill abolishing the
fee system in the Acknowledgements office.
The revised chapter "of the public safety"
with two new sections as follows: Every
public han, opera-house, hotel or other
tenement building, two more stories high.
shall have provided to each stairway
used by and for the public hand or side rail
to protect persons in ascending such stairway.
1t shall be the duty of the chief of the fire de-
partment in all cities and towns to visit all
hotels and lodging houses at least every three
months, and to investigate whether the FRO
visions of this chapter are duly observed. and
to report all violations of the same to the city
prosecuting attorney for prosecution. In cities
or towns not having a chief of fire department,
it shall be the duty of the marshal to perform
the duties imposed by this section. State and
municipal courts shall have concurrent juris-
diction of any prosecution arising under the
provisions of this chapter. Any officer who
shall fail to discharge the duties imposed by
this section shall be liable to removal therefor.
Mr.. Silver's joint and concurrent resolution
providing for two additional judges of the Su-
preme Court, and to divide that body into two
divisions, civil and criminal, was passed.
THE Senate spent the day on the 2?d reading
bills. The adjournment resolution was amend
ed by inserting Tuesday. May IS, at twelve
0 o'clock, the time for adjourning the Thirty
fifth General Assembly No business Of inn
portance was transacted by the House beyond
concurring in the Senate amendment to the ad-
journment resolution fixing Tuesday, the 2Sth
at noon, as the time for final adjournment. The
revised revenue bill and the revised bill 'of
drainage and bitches were defeated.
THE Senate devoted the sess on of the 23d to
reading bills at length. In the House the
morning hour WIS devoted to reading the usual
adjournment resolutions, complinlenting the
chiefs of the various clerical stats, etc. The
revised bill "of liens was passed, as was the
bill taking Montgomery County out of the
Western district of the Court Of Appeals and
placing it in the Eastern. or St. Louis district
A resolution that no more bills be voted on
after the pending session was adopted.
the oath the report OF the committees on en-
rolled bills showed that both houses were up
with the work with the exception of one small
bill, and this settled the adjournment question.
and the Senate amendment to the adjourn
ment resolution was quickly killed and ad-
journment fixed for higl noon. Both houses
spent the most of the time in exchange OF
fluctuations and humorous speeches. The
joint and concurrent resolution, introduced
months ago by Mr.. Davis, of Adar. repealne
the statutory enactment torbidding legislative
officials and judges from availing themselves
of the benefits of reduced rates. excursions,
etc, which had lain forgotten until it was
thought it had been buried, was resurrected
and railroaded through both houses, being the
last bill to receive the signatures of the pre-.
siding officers.
Appointed and Confirmed
The Governor sent to the Senate and
that body confirmed the following nomi-
nations:
Louis.
Curators of the State University-G. F. Roth
well Randolph County; b. NJ Dilley. Caldwell;
Jackson: J. r. Hinton, Boone: C. H. Hardin
S. NJ. Breckenridge, ST. Lou S: E. G.
Phelps: R. b. Oliver, Cape Girardeau.
Managers Boonville Reform School-John R.
Walker, Cooper: w: F. Bell. Galloway, Clint
Tillery, Clay; c. E. Leonard and w. W. Will
Jams, Cooper.
Managers of Fulton Insane Asylum-Dr. J.
H. Howard Samuel Harrison and j. S. Watson,
DR.. Lester Hall, Saline; Robert
Clark, Howard.
Managers Institute for Deaf and Dumb, Full
ton; General John A. Hackaday, Samuel Ded.
man, Frank Dessert; Macon, j. d. Pitt; Pike,
James DurOsS.
Trustees of St. Louis Blind Asylum-Benj.
3lewitt. Frank r. O'Neill, DIR. H. NJ Post; ST.
Louis: E. w. Stephens, Boone; Marshall Ar
mold. Scott.
Board of Geological and Neurological Sur.
vey-Prof. F. b. Potter, of Washington Univer-
sity: Prof. George C. Broadhead. Of Columbia,
ex-State Geologst: Dr. j. H. Britt, of Clinton,
and r. A Blair, of Sedalia.