The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-03-06
MISSOURI LEGISLATURE.
Condensed Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth
General Assembly in BlennIaI Session.


gradients in candles; requiring all canned
goods used for food to have the date of their
manufacture stamped upon the cans; prohibit
ing the obliteration or alteration of marks
placed upon bicycles and tricycles for the pur-
pose of identifying the same providing for q
commission erect monument to Thomas
II. Benton and approprating 81 800 therefor;
giving architects the benefit of the mechanics
lien: to constitute the assets OF insolvent cor
porations a trust fund for the benefit of credit
ors and to prevent preferences of creditors by
insolvent corporations The senate referred
back to committee the bill giving the state
board . of health complete control over
the granting of medical certificates and
to determine what is legally chartered
medical institute in Pood staLding =. The
house by vote OF 91 to 20 passed the bill pro-
hibiting railroad pooling; also n bill fixing the
rate ON potatoes vegetables and berries at ai2 a
car load for the first 25 miles and s2 q car for
each additional - miles. Among other bills
passed we're: Raising the age OF consent from
l8 to 81 years; requiring mine owners to employ
none but sober men to handle machinery around
mines; limiting the number OF peremptory
challenges in criminal trials States bill to
compel the listing for taxation OF all notes and
mortgages was ordered to engroSSment. The
house killed the bill to prohibit child insurance;
also the bill providing for state fire marshal
ON the 25th Gov. Stephens sent to the assem-
bly, message urging an appropriation for an
exhibit at the Tennessee centennial The SEN
ate passed the following bills To compel
sheriffs to send prisoners to the penitentiary as
der II shall be employed in any manufacturing
establishment where the work Is dangerous to
health; providing severe penalties Tor selling
horse flesh as meat; to appropriate ii BOO for
monument to eX-Gov. MarmaduSe; making 1t u
miSdemeanor TO mix grain Of different grades;
placing bond investment companies under 1uris-
diction of the building and loan department
and requiring them to deposit 100000 each as
security: creating state board OF charities OF
six persons two OF whom shall be women
approprating 5000 for a monument on the
Shiloh battlefield in memory OF Missouri troops
on both sides who took part in the battle. In
executive session the senate defeated the nomi-
nation of Gen. James NJ Lewis for police COM
missioner at st. Louis. Morton's textbook
bill was sent to engrossment- The senate de-
feated the bill limiting the amount man can
pay in any one year for life insurance for his
family to $3.50 The house and senate con-
ferees the ex-soldiers homes bills came
to agreement and both bills were
passed and sent to the governor. Among
the house bills passed were the following:
Compelling teachers in common schools to
teach the evil effects of tobacco and intoxicat-
ing liquors; authorizing the penitentiary war
den to classify convicts according to their be-
havior; to legalize the practice OF osteopathy
as taught in the Kirksville school of osteopa-
thy: to prohibit railroads from using gates on
passenger coaches; to permit the court in the
trial of divorce cases. to appoint disintereSted
attorney to that there Is no collusion be-
tween the parties: to remove the insurance
commissioners ofice from st. Louis to Jeffer-
passed the resolution introducted by Bohart
(dem.) denouncing President Cleveland for his
failure to sustain Consul-General Lee in the
latter's efforts TO protect the rights of Amert-
cans in Cuba. The bill to establish a fourth nor
NAL school at Maysville, Nodaway county, was
reported favorably. BY a vote of l06 to 2S the
house defeated the bill to restrain animals from
running at large. The bill authorizing the ar
rest OF any persons found hunting within in
closures was also defeated
THE senate on the 2eth refused to engross the
bill to permit women to become members Of
the board OF education. The bill appropriating
one-third of the ordinary revenues Of the state
for school purposes was passed The senates
action in refusing to confirm James Lewis as
police commissioner of ST. Louis reconsd-
cred and he was confirmed. bill appropriate
ing $780, 900 to build an insane asylum in south
east Missouri was sent to engrossment... The
house ways and means committee reported
substitute university endowment bill, provid-
ing for an endowment of 81 100000 in Ave per
cent certificates of indebtedness to run six
years, and providing for free tuition Wards
bill for assessing street railways was passed, 81
to 3D. The bill placing graduates OF the Kansas
City law school on equal footing with state uni
versity graduates was also passed. Among the
other measures passed wereI Making it o mis-
demeanor to sell cigarettes or cigarette
paper to minors; making the ONCE
of coal oil inspector in St Louis and Kansas
City salaried offices; permitting servants and
lnborers to file suit in justice courts without
giving bond for cost. The house passed q reso-
luton felicitating Maj. Bittinger upon his Sc
lection as minister to Switzerland resolu-
tion to depose Chief Clerk Green from once
went over under the rules. The bill brohibit-
ing members Of the legislature from riding on
passes was killed. A bill was presented for an
appropriation Of &, 900 for q home for aged and
infirIn negroes at Kansas City. Clarks pure
food bill was killed. Representatives Russell,
Crisp, Hess, Jones and Tribble were appointed
q committee to investigate the swamp land dis
trict in southeast Missouri
SENATOR PEERS on the 9th presented Q bill
in the senate providing for state board OF par
dons, to consist OF three membe rs; Vandiver
to fine widows and old maids who refuse to
marry bachelors or widowers 500 to $500 An
antitrust bill was faVorably reported. which
proposes to place insurance companies that
form u pool under the same restrictions as
other pools. In the house Sickles, of Putnam,
presented bill for the improvement OF county
roads by means of convict labor. bill was
tinue schools six months in each year under
certain conditions
SENATOR MOTT presented a resolution in the
senate on the 1st to allow the city OF st. Louis
to issue bonds to the amount of SIC, ,000, 900 In
excess of its existing Indebtedness. The SEN
ate passed the bill repeating the Ryan primary
election law. Gov. Stephens sent q message to
the senate withdrawing the name OF Charles
w. Green a member OF the board Of man
ayers of the industrial home for girls ~ Chilli
cothe 70. The house passed 10 engrossment the
bill appropriating money for the support
maintenance and Improvement Of the state
tion TO depose Chief Clerk Green from his posi-
tion was taken up and discussed but the mo-
tion was lost, IL to g.