The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-03-14
MISSOURI SOLONS
Pass a Number of Bills, Among
them Stones Senate.
Bill.
Governor Stone Asks for an APP
preparation for the
State Unlver-
sity.
peeial correspondence oil The Kazoo.

JEFFERSON CITY, No., March -
The senate convened at 2 p. m. and
from then till worked faithfully. A
number of committee reports were
made, and several measures passed.
The committee on insurance favor
ably reported two bills of considerable
interest to the farmers of the state.
The first is the bill permitting farmers
mutual tornado and wind storm in
surance companies, to, after they
have a capital of $780, 900, do bust
ness throughout the whole state. in
stead of as present limiting them to
one congressional district. The other
measure, is the bill allowing farmers
mutual fire insurance companies, to
do business throughout one congress
sional district instead of as at present
one senatorial district.
Among the bills passed at thisafter-
Moons session, were the following
The house bill placing all the express
companies under the control OF the
railroad commissioner, Stones senate
bill creating the Office of Excise COM
missioner" for the city Of st. Louis.
the said officer to be appointed by the
governor and to have the exclusive
power of issuing all dram-shop licenses
in that city, Yeater's bill roviding
for the immediate creation of the office
of criminal clerk of Green county and
providing that the governor shall APP
point such clerk to serve until the
general election of 1894. when the
successor of the governors appointee
is to be elected, Senator Rouners
bill providing for the annual assess
ment of real estate; which was defeat
ed a few DAYS ago, was under suspen-
sion of the rules, called up to-day re.
considered and passed.
The bill permitting any five town
ships in a county to petition the coun,
ty court to submit the stock law to an
election, of the voters of the county,
was also passed, as was the house JOINT
and concurrent resolution to submit to
the voters of the state, an amendment
to the constitution permitting counties
to levy an additional tax OF ID cent
ON the one hundred dollars on taxation
for road purposes.
Senator Yeater made an ineffectua
attempt to secure a reconsideration Q
the vote by which last Friday, his bil
amending the law, 50 aS to compe
Cane Girardeau, Sullivan, Linn. Pix
and Rails counties to pay into III
state treasury certain railroad tn
MONEYS withheld by them under au
thority of a law passed in 1868, an
since declared by the courts to he I'm
constitutional.
After this the senate took an &C
iournment until tomorrow morning
HOUSE.
In the house to-day Anderson o
fered resolution providing for s'"
die adjournment of the Legislature a
noon on March 18th. This resolutio
was strongly opposed by Mr.. Fogl
and Others on the ground that tn
business before the legislature was
such condition that an adJournmer
taken at that time might leave SON
of the appropriation bills and oth'
important measures unpas>ed. an
thus necessitate special session
The resolution was not passed.
Several bills were pa>>e'
among them being the beer inspect'
bill, creating the office of beer insPeC
or. who is To have several as,iStan
and is TO inspect all beer manuia
tured in the state. The manutactu
ers of beer are to pay for such lnspe
ton the sum of lcent per gallon
spected. -.
The bill providing that in j,istic'
courts all witnesses summoned f"i
single case shall he included IN {
scope of one subpoena. was al
passed.
The State board of Pharmac
bill failed of passage. .
A Joint and concurrent re>oluti
proyiding for the submission to I
voters of the state, of an amendme
to the constitution. which provio
that in civil cases before all courts
record. 10 jurors out of II may suft
to find a verdict, and that in CT
cases in all courts not courts of reco
five Jurors out of the six shall be $
.ficient to decide a case, was, at
quite a debate, passed. :.
The bill taxing the gross earnil
of express companies was, at
amending it, so as to make the
one and one quarter per cent, pass
as was also the bill allowing W.
CITY and Carterville to consollds
The house then adjourned.
NOTES.