The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-05-11
MISSOURI LEGISLATURE.
Work OF the Extra .assion-Tryiug to Pass
an .icctIun !IIl.

VHE senate DID no business At all on May l
and adjourned uulH Friday. tii" %l....rhe house
aGnpir! % resolution re !ucitin2 the state de-
pHrtnICpt 80 Washington u thoroughly irVes-
t:sgtc tie 90 - ~! rN-CoHaal Waller, OF kansas,
now r"nliu !'l ia - FryAra prison. hr David
son introduce = ailpN-icrVlnt, hill identical
Win M IlNkct!g ~olat" bill. Es-Cov. Bob
Taviu-, 81 lcunes,r", wnS invited - speak.
which he as III a pleasant manner. ana the
house adjourned
No business wa transacted bv the senate on
the ID 900. The same mag be said OF the house
for it's session amounted to nothing. \ brie;
session Wa held aud ihc body adjourned to at
tend a bail game. soon after the chaplain
Offered PRAYER. Each house puts in the time
talking aud waiting action b. the ether on the
election bill winch is getting in shape for the
final contest.
THE senate had u brief but stormy session
on the 81. The trouble was over the house bill
appropriatiTg 500 90 for pay Of the special ses-
sion. The bill had boon refcrre | to the aDpro-
priation committee bur it WIS withheld, as
some members declared. fot political purposes.
Senator Lyman dem c.iercd n re solution to
take the bill from the comm. ttee ald refer II
to the committee OF the whole. Three other
democrats. G1odyEoopt: Harrison and Or
card, went with hima and the hsht was lively.
The fifteen republicans ana four kicking dem
ocrats made a majority AMI the bill was passed
by 10 Il II. Tao scaltH then adjourned until
Monday, the eth The house had exactly an
hours session, dUriug which time Juiian's bill
to compel all rdilroai Is In the state to give free
transportation u all state officers ana mem
brrS of the general assembly was sent to en-
groSsmcnt One of his other bills. the anti
lobby measure, was referred back to the com
mittae on criminal Jurisprudence, The house
was not read u take ~ the st Louis safety
committee election bill. and adjourned until
Monday afternoon at ; OtCiOcI.
AFTER the reading OF the Journal In the sem
ate on the 9th. Senator Lyman moved to ex-
plunge from the record an supplementary
sentence in Senator Ieater's speech OF Friday
In relation to Senator Goodykoontz, which was
carried ana the senate Adjourned. ... The house
held "a very brief session in the afternoon. The
election bin. as amended by the senate, was
taken up and the house rejected the amended
bill. The elections committee reported Mr..
Crisp'S election bill unfiVorably. Resolutions
upon the death OF JlneI Is Old, of Oregon
county, were presented and the house soon ad-
journed.
WHEN the senate mot on the dth house bill
No. |, the election bill, with the rejected senate
amendments, WAS reported and a motion to re-
fuse TO reccde was adopted Senator's Dunn,
Love and Mott were appointed as conferees on
the part of the senate Tne committee on labor
reported The railroad fellow-seryants bill The
senate soon adjourned The house had a live
ly tilt over a resolution by MIR. Davidson call
ing upon the lnhof committee to report at once
on the railroad feliog-scrvantS bill. After a
bitter ptrti,ln Rebate the reso ution failed.
Another iieht resulted from q resolution by
Mr. FTCcmln boxing 10 the cutting OFF the
per Gic;a above | Tue abers uf the state board
1t was adopted. The speI';er appointed Messrs.
Jones OF Jackson Robert, son OF Johnson and
Weinhold Of Perry coafc-ees on the election
bill aud The house adjourned