Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-02-28

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appropriation bills will be considered
very soon. 100000 will be appropri-
ed 20 pfy for assessing and collecting
the revenue. 100000 will be appro-
priated to pay criminal costs. The
eleemosynary institutions haye been
cut short $9l 900 of their usual appro-
rration. Similar reductions will be
made in some of the other appropria-
tion bills. The committee has recon-
mended that one-third of State revenue
be appropriated for public school pur-
poses. think that bill will pass. This
would benefit all alike. This money
would be distributed to each district as
it was last year.
The bill relating to corporations op-
Grating mines and compelling them to
pay their employees twice every month
and in legal tender. has been amended
so as to include companies or corpora
tons working granite quarries. This
bill comes up for final | assage in the
| House next Wednt sday. / think it
will pass without much trouble.
There is a bill pending in the House
which is of interest to our friends who
live along or near a railroad. The bill
| provides that railway companies shall
be held esponsble for all damages re-
suiting from fire caused by locomotives
or damage that may be caused from
any fire that may be put out by any
section hand or other employe of said
company.
| Hon. Champ Clark has introduced a
bill 10 tax express, sleeping ear, insur-
ance, telegraph and telephone COM
panies two per cent. on their gross
earnings. If this bill should pass it
will increase our State revenue about
one half million dollars per year. Sen
ator Joh nson's express bill, copy OF
which appeared in the columns of the
| REGISTER some time ago, has passed
the Senate and is now pending ia the
| House.
The committee on criminal jurispru-
dence is at work on the dramshop
bills. Ben Deering and Mrs. Cairns
| were here in tie interest Of their bills.
Mrs. Cairns bill provides for Statutory
prohibition, and the Deering bill pro-
| vides for something very similar. There
are other dramshop bills before that
| committee. 1t is thought now that
| the committee will report unfa vorably
upon all the bills and offer a substi-
tute instead
One of the ST. Louis members has
introduced concurrent resolution as
follows:
Concurrent resolution submitting to the
qualified voters of the State of Missouri
an amendment to the constitution thereof,
concerning revenue and taxation.
Be ieresolved by the house of representa-
tives, the senate concurIing therein:
That at the general election to be held on
the Tuesday next following the first Monday
in November, A. ID. 1890, the following
amendment to the constitution of the state
of Missouri, concerning revenue and taxa
ton, shall be submitted to the qualified
voters of said state. TO wit:
SECTION 1. Taxes for state, county, local
and municipal purposes shall hereafter be
levied only upon the value of land exclusive
of improvements thereon. The word i'm
provements shall be held and construed TO
mean and include all buildings, structures,
fences, hedges, bitches, drains, living trees
planted by human hands, aud developments
of mines.
SEC. .. All provisions of the constitution
and laws of this state, inconsistent with
this amendment, shall, upon its adoption
be rescnded, void and of no force or effect
especially call the attention of our
farmers and land owners to the above
proposed amendment to our constitu-
ton.
The House has passed several bills
this week. One of them was Mr..
Turner's bill providing for depositary
for the county funds of each county in
protection of employees and laborers by
making them preferred creditors for
certain claims. The bill is lengthy
SO / shall give only a portion of the
first section as follows:
SECTION 1. That hereafter when the
property OF any company, cOTpOTaIlOn, HTHl
or person shall be seized upon by any pro-
cess of any court of this state or when their
business shall be suspended by the action of
creditors, or be put into the hands of re-
ceiver or trustee, then in all such eases the
debts owing to laborers or servants, which
have accrued by reason of their labor or en-
ployment to an amount not exceeding one
hundred dollars to each employe, for work
or labor performed within six months next
preceding the seizure or transfer of such
property, shall be considered and treated as
preferred debts, and such lab0rers or en-
pleyes shall be preferred creditors. and
shall be first paid in full; and if there be
not sufficient to pay them in full, then the
same shall be paid to them pro rata, after
paying costs.
[ shall give you another bill which
is of interest to our county courts and
county officials. This bill passed the
House last Monday and reads as fol-
lows:
Be it enacted by the General Assembly Of the
State Of Missouri, as foIlolesi
SECTION l. The county courts of the
several counties in this state are hereby
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