The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-03-14
MISSOURI spLoNs
The Senate Adjourned and the
House Put in Time.
Special correspondence Of The Bszoo.
SENATE.


JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, March IL
There was no session OF the senate to-
Ilay the House however worked As
{ usual, that is to say they put in con-
siderable time but accomplished little.
\ The morning session opened with III
PRODUCTION of report from the com
mittee ON Clerical force, dispensing
after March 18th, with the service of
80 of the clerks now employed by the
House. This resolution was called
forth bv the fact that it has been for
some time been matter of common
report that the positions occupied by
the great majority Of the clerks were
practically sinecures.
In fact it has been stated that some
of the clerks although they have
drawn their pay with great regularity
have not been within the City oi
I jefferson since the commencement of
the session. \ number who were
here for while have been absent
} at home for the hast three % four
: weeks. and during the discussion his
morning committee chairman
stated that his committee clerk had
never done a. stroke of work and that
what little there wa to De done, by
the chairman had himself performed
Despite OF these well known facts
jtbere was persistent fiIlibustering TO
7 prevent the adoption Of the com
mbtee's resolution, and action on
III htory motions occupied the time
q til 10 o'clock for which hour the
for the relief of Gorlen {. Bar
H-ft had been made Il special order.
Drabelle. who was anxious that all oil
the clerks should he retained, then
rose and called for the special order.
which call of course temporarily dis
posed of the resolution pending.
The partisans of the resolution of
the committee on clerical force, how
ever, were largely in the majority in
the house and the before mentioned
bill appropriating sos due TO Gorden
G. Barnett, acting sheriff Of Clarke
county was taken up and expeditiously
passed as was alsoMOOres of Mississippi,
bill amending the law respecting
Levee districts in Southeast Missouri.
The clerical force committees reso-
luton was thus left the business be-
! fore the house, and despite some
further filibustering tactics, was at
last forced through by vote of ayes
us, and noes 30. The great mass of
the clerks will thus have to walk the
plank on the same day that the
members, commence work at a dollar
a day.
Senator Hines senate bill provid-
ing that the officers and directors of
Incorporated banks, as well as private
bankers shall, whenever requested to
do SO, submit to the secretary OF state
a sworn statement of the condition OF
the business of the bank at the close
of the day the statement. is made, and
also providing that the statements
made by private bankers shall be
(xerifed by affidavits of three OF the
banks depositOrs, was called up
! nd an amendment offered by COots
hich requires the three depositors
& aking the examination and state
ent as to private banks, to also take
n oath to in no manner, save as the
law requires them, disclose the condi-
ton of the account of any depositor,
was also passed.
The house then took arecess.
The fellow servant bill, defeated in
the senate Yesterday, will, it is expect
ed, be reconsidered on Monday. Six
senators were absent when it came up
on + riday and as it lacked but three
votes of passage. it is hoped that with
a full senate the bill may yet be
passed.