The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-30
MISSOURI LEGISLATURE.

JEFFERSON CITY. March ls.-SEEATE-Among
the bills passed yesterday were:
Prohibiting the killing and shipping OF game
for the market.
House bill amending tho law relating to free
public libraries. so that boards Of directors
, may be elected.
The bills appropriating money for the sup
port OF the educational. penal and eleemosy-
nary institutions and for the contingent ex-
peuses Of the state government were passed
practically as they were agreed on in commit
tee of the whole. The general bill had
three new sections added. one allowing
| sI2,000 for the three new judgeshipS created
in ST. Louis, another to pay 3.90l. 10 for trans
\ portation of Missouri troops to the Worlds
fair, and the third setting apart 81 ,0s6.60 for re-
pair Of state arms. An additional 5000 was
added to pay for printing the reports OF the
bureau of mines and geology. This clears the
senate calendar Of appropriation measures.
H~oUsE-Among the bills passed were:
House bill amending the insurance law so
as to provide that suicide can not be plead
as a bar to the collection of life insurance pol
icies.
House bill requiring notes on mortgaged
property to be identified by the recorder when
mortgage is recorded.
House bill requiring justices of the peace and
constables to turn fees and fines over to county
treasury.
JEFFERSON CITY, March a0-SENATE-Yes-
terday the secretary Of the senate was empow-
cred to retain his force ten days after adjourn
ment.
A message from the governor announced the
approval Of senate bill appropriating $500 for
marking the positions of Missouri troops at
the battle of Chickamauga.
At lU:30 O'Clock the election bill was taken
up as 4 special order and debated until the re-
cess hour. AT the afternoon session considera-
| fiOO Of tho alaptiou hill rnc raSrinnad Dahatp
continued until the hour OF adjournment, when
the bill was read a third time and passed.
HoUsE-The house took up and passed Sena-
tor Motifs bill. introduced in the senate at the
instance Of the humane society Of st. Louis,
and which prohibits the employment of chill
dren under II years OF age in any Of the fol-
lowing avocations: Singing. playing on mu-
steal Instruments, rope or wire walking,
dancing, begging, peddling, cQntortionist,
acrobat. rider, or for any immoral purpose or
exhibition whatsoever. An exception is made
in favor OF children singing in churches,
schools. respectable entertainments. etc. A
violation of the law will incur fine of as much
as 500 for the first o1enSe TO $500 for SUISSE
Quent orenses, and two years Imprisonment
in the pcnitentiary.
Representative Higbee's bill amending the
mortgage law was taken up under a suSpen-
sion of the rules by the house and passed. 1t
will no doubt create q stir in real estate loan
Circles. Inc law Is so aLnclueu IQ1L
all real estate sold under the provisions Of any
mortgage shall be subject to redemption by the
grantee in the deed, or his heirs, at any time
within one year from the date Of the sale, on
payment of debt. interest and legal charges.
JEFFERSON CITY, March 21.-SENATE-The
fellow servant law was called up in the senate
yesterday and precipitated a lively discussion.
1t was referred to the committee on railroads,
which is regarded as unfriendly to the meas
ure.
The following bills were passed:
House bill providing for the sale of the St.
Louis asylum for the blind.
House bill prohibiting the entering Of race
horses under false names.
House bill requiring the payment Of wages in
lawful money OF the United States.
House bill fixing the salary Of the state vet
Urinary surgeon at 81 800 a year.
H~oUsE-AmOng the bills passed were:
Senate bill authorizing counties to set aside
corporation taxes. patent medicine taxes, taxes
on escheats and legacies, for creating u free
scholarship fund to the state university.
Senate bill prohibiting counties from taking
INDECENT insane persons from asylumS and
placing them in poorhouSes.
Senate bill giving husband and wife equal in
terest in hOmeSteads in case OF the death Of
either.
JEFFERSON CITY. March 22-SENATE-In the
senate yesterday the bill abOlishing the clause
re quiring $50 deposit for each ward delegation
in primary elections was passed as it come
from the house.
The bill to separate the agricultural college
from the state university was defeated-12 to
~.
HoUsE-The following bills passed:
Senate bill amending the school law so as to
authorize nonresident aX-payerS of a city
school district to send their children to such
school.
San,ta hill raouirino oDarnto-S of minaS tn
keep explosives in strong boxes, so as to OBJ
viate accidents.
JEFFERSON CITY, March 23.-SENATE-Mr.
Freeman's house bill redlstricting the state
into congressional districts, which had been
reported unfevorably, was, on motion of Sena-
tor Dunn. postponed indefinitely yesterday,
sixteen democratic senators voting against
and fourteen republican senators for the bill.
House bill to prevent blindness in children
was reported tavorably by the committee on
public health. taken up for third reading and
passed. The bill provides that midwives and
nurses, or any others in charge of infants, shall
report to physicians or the board of health in
cases where the eyes of newly-born infants
seem to pc affected
HoUSE-The senate election bill was defeat
ed. the republicans voting solidly against it
and the democrats for the measure.
The house accepted the oil painting Of David
Barton. presented by Mr.. A. p. Barton, of
Kansas City land $50 was appropriated to frame
and hang the picture in the hall of the state
house OF representatives.
david Barton was president OF the conven-
ton which ratified the admission of Missouri
into the Union by accepting the terms pre-
scribed by the act OF congress-: and was also
the first Encouragement OF the state; was
speaker OF the first house OF re representatives
after its admission: was the reputed author of
the first constitution, and was the first SEN
atOr elected to represent Missouri in the SEN
ate Of the United States
JEFFERSON CITY. March 25.-The Thirty
eighth general assembly OF Missouri adjourned
sine die at 8 O'Clock Saturday night. As
soon as 1t became definitely known that the
senate and house could not agree upon an cleo
ton bill, nothing remained but to read and
compare the enrolled bills and adjourn.
An ingenious device is being
BROUGHT out in Birmingham for lock-