Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-05-23
MISSOURI LEGISLATURE.
tExtr. session.,

MISSOURI LEGISLATURE.
Extra Session.)
JEFFERSON CITY, May l4-SENArE-The SEN
ate convened at p. M yesterday with slim
attendance present.
After the journal had been read and approved
Senator Peers introduced . resolution reciting
telegraphic information to the effect that SEN
ator Morrissev had been killed in st. Louis.
and asking for the appointment Of . committee
Of Eve senators to attend the funeral.
The resolution was adopted, and the chair
appointed the following committee. Messrs
Peers, Norton. Yeater. Kennish and Brewster
Adjourned till to-day.
HousE-The Julian house bill, requiring
railroads to furnish members OF the leglsla-
ture and state onacers with free transports,
ton, was taken up for amendment ana en-
crossed.
Mr. Davis (of Taney) said he believed the
bill was unconstitutional and not within the
scope of legislation mentioned In the gov
ernor's call He moved that 1t be referred to
the committee on judiciary; also, that the
committee be instructed TO pass upon Its con !.
stitutionality. The motion was lost by vote
Of 36 to 50
reading and approving Of the journal yester-
day. motion to take recess until o'clock p
m. was adopted
At the afternoon session the fellow-servant
laws were taken up, and the general fellow
servant law, known the Peers bill, was sub
stituted for the labor committee bill, applica-
BILE exclusively to railroads.
Pending debate on engrossment of the bill
the senate adjourned until to-day.
HoUsE-The Julian house bill, requiring
railroads to furnish members of the legisla-
ture and state officers with free passes was
taken up and ordered engrossment without de-
bate.
Mr.. O'Deu offered q joint resolution fixing
May 81 as q date of final ADJOURNMENT OF the
extra session Mr.. Moran moved that the res
olution be made special order for June at 10
O'Clock, which was adopted by nearly a unan-
tmous vote.
On motion of Mr.. Swanzer, the memorial
services concerning the death of Representa-
tive Old OF Oregon county, was re-opened and
speeches were made by Messrs. De Reign Of
Shannon. The memorial addresses were or
dered printed
JEFFERSON CITY, May 16.-SENATE-The con-
ference committee having charge OF the cleo
ton bill arrived at an agreement yesterday.
and nothing remains now except some unim-
portant "details over which there will be no
contest In the first place, substitute meas
ure will be reported embracing features Of
the Safety committee bill and the Spencer
house bill. The hitch all along has been over
the recorder Of voters for st. Louis and Kan
sas City and the method of appointing elect
ing three commissioners for each city. The
substitute to be reported will Shelve the
recorder of voters entirely. The commits
SionerS are to be appointed for each city, one
by the governor for four years and one by the
mayor for four years. and until after the next
election the governor is to appoint the third
commissioner sixty days before the election.
The two first-named commissioners are
to have equal power in the selection Of
judges and clerks of elections and are always
to represent different political parties. The
p f-1 ,rDafrr TO !
two first-named disagree. and receive SO
day for sixty days. but in no case is either of
the great parties to be deprived of equal repre-
Sentation il the matter OF selecting judges and
clerks of election. The salaries of the first two
named commissioners Of St Louis are fixed at
$, coo year, and the Kansas City commission
erS at s., 500. The third commissioner will be
little more than clerk.
Judges and clerks of election are to each re-
ceive Sd per day, was provided in the Spen-
Ger bill. The substitute bill provides for pre-
c:nct registration. and contains all the impor-
tant features of the Spencer bill and the safety
committee bill in regard to protecting the
purity Of the ballot and Furnishing fraud.
JEFFERSON CITY, May 17.-Yesterday came
very near being another legislative blank. The
house was not in session, and barely quorum
of senators was in town.
The following telegram from Atlanta, Ca,
concerning the fellow-servant legislation, was
received by Gov. Stone yesterday:
Hon. I'm. j Stone and Legislators Of Missouri:
The grand division Of the Order of Railway
Conductors in session in this city, represent
ing 20 900 conductors in the United States, pro-
tests against the Peers fellow-servant bill,
or any law which diScriminateS against
members of labor organizations in the
interests OF railway organizations, that
legalizes any contract by which the employer
is released from legal liability for injury of an
employe on account OF any indemnity or bene-
lit. except where the amount actually con-
tributes to such benefit or insurance by the
employer. E. C. CLARK,
Grand Chief Conductor.
WIN H DANIEL, Grand Secretary.
JEFFERSON CITY, May 1a-SENATE-The
Peers fellow-servant law occupied the atten-
tion Of the senate, but nothing was accom-
plished.
HoUsE-Mr. Jones (of Hickory introduced a
resolution stating that the House OF the Good
Shepherd in St. Louis restraints women and
girls OF their liberty without process Of law,
and concluding with a request that Gov Stone
empower the legislature to enact law to cor.
rect the practice complained of.
Mr. Kyler, of St. Louis, said the resolution
was an insult to the house, and he moved that
| it be tabled, and the motion was adopted with
out debate by viva voce vote.
An anti-lobby substitute was reported to the
house from the committee on criminal juris-
prudence. and adopted. It is practically the
Davidson anti-lobby measure, and is modelled
| after the Virginia law.
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