The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-01-27
THE LEGISLATURES.
Some of the Multitude of Bills
Being introduced and Their
Prospects of Passage.
Personal Points About Striking
Members.

tative Coots of Platte county has in.
trosuced a bill providing for the
publication of all laws hereafter en-
acted by the general assembly in two
newspapers In each county of the
state; provides, that only such laws
as define crimes and prescribe pun.
ishment by fine or imprisonment
shall be SO published. By this act it
Is made the duty of the secretary of
state to send duly certified copi-s of
all such laws as soon as approved by
the governor to the county clerk in
each county Of the state, WIN shall,
within thirty days after the adjourn
ment of the general assembly, cause
the same to be published in two news
papers in his county, to be design ated
by the county court.
This is ore Of the fairest aud most
reasonable provisions ever introduced.
1t has for its object the lessening of
crime, because it is well known fact
that many laws are passed, infiicting
severe penalties upon violaters of the
same aud which we are not mala in
Sc, as the lawyers say, and it seems
like great injustice to infict such
punishments upon those who have
never bad an opportunity to know
that such laws exist, merely because
ignorance of TIE law excuses no man.
There are now five distinct concur
rent resolutions pending. Taken in
the order introduced, they provide
for amendments to the constitution:
CD For constitutional constitution /; |
(2)exempting 5000 worth of house
hold and personal property from taxa
ton 90 amending the bill of rights
by authorizing jury verdicts on the
vote of ten jurymen in all cases ex-
cept treason and murder (4exempt-
ing debts to the amount of $4,000
from taxable property Co providing
for the election of United States
senators By direct vote of the people.
Those claiming to know what they
t liz about say that the resolution
regarding the election of the United
States senator by the popular vote is
foolish. and the wonder is that it was
not ruled out of order by Speaker
Pro Tenn. Florea. The constitution
of the United States provides for the
election of senators, and otatoo how
they shall be chosen, and the Missouri
gentleman should have referred the
matter to congress and urged that {
congress so legislate. The resolution {
will not be heard of again, as the
committee will toss it out with large {
list of other trash that will find its ]
way to their hands.
Senator Newberry's bill permitting
churches and church property to incor- I
porate is needed law year ago Kan {
sas City church went before the courts
to ask for incorporation papers and r
the judge ruled that the papers conld t
not be granted, as there was no law i
for such papers. The only point in S
the law is the amount of property in a
the limit. The bill allows one acre a
In cities and five in the country. a
Two amendments have so far been t
offered, reducing the limit-one to 81
actual ground occupied. C
w. A. Via of Phelps has introduce n
ed a samewhat remarkable bill. He d
wants to abolish the seduction under ii
promise of marriage law from the t.
statute books. He thinks that if a "
girl is foolish enough to be betrayed Ct
under promise of marriage, she de- c.
serves no sympathy, and that a great
deal of useless litigation is occasioned RI
over girls endeavoring to establish f
their character or secure a husband i
Or dollars, and that a great many d.
young men are the victims Of bad and G,
women. Mr.. Via says that b
girls from good families rarely trou- u
bic the courts with complaints of CT
this character, but that nine out of IL
ten of them are bad girls.
John B. Breathitt has been a little re
nervous for some days. Sevaral b.
members have got it into their heads as
hat the railroad commissioners and te
he inspection bureaus are of no prac- L
ical use, and this idea seems to pre- W
vail among the farmers, and several fir
bills are now ready to be offered abol- of
shing these offices. Abiel Leonard, W
Who was "a candidate for the legisIa- l.
ure in Saline county before the DEM af
'cratic primary, is here with a bill OF
eady to put in, and is only looking ST
or strong man to take it up and ar
,ut it through. Mr.. Leonard made sic
ia canvass ON the idea that the Office al
vas useless expense, that cost too tn
nuch. Mr.. Leonard was baaten by sic
fr. Eubanks. Mr.. Breathitt says re.
hat the movement amounts to tn