The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-06
THE MISSOURI LEGISLATURE.
JEFFERSON CITY, Feb. a-SENATHHThe sem
ate was not in session Yesterday.

/ OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES IQcy were OeSecfaLlQR Lne an
ntyersary Of Washington's birthday, their
interfere with the transaction Of q large
amount Of business In fact, they travelled so
fast over what is known as routine proceedings
that the speaker was compelled to call a halt in
order to prevent injustice and inaccuracies. In
one case Representative Mueller, OF St. Charles,
called attention to the fact that q senate bill
just passed by the house was precisely similar
to q law in the session acts of 1895.
The committee on internal improvements re-
ported favorably on the trust and combine bill
1t is q much more stringent measure than that
now in operation.
House committee on corporations agreed to
report favorably the bill requiring oil telegraph
ic messages to be sent by the most direct route.
R ]. VOlker, local manager Of the Western
Union, appeared before the committe after q
decision had been reached and endeavored to
show by diagrams what he claimed to be the
sbsurdity Of the measure, but all to no pur-
pose.
JEFFERSON CITY, Feb. 24-SENATE-Yester-
day, by a vote Of 81 to 9, the senate ordered the
bill incurred by the visit Of VIM. ]. Bryan to
Jefferson City, to address the legislature, paid.
The bill amounts to 1885.
The senate spent q large part of the morning
discussing Senator Vandiver's antitrust bill,
which proposes to render void contracts made
by pools, trusts and combinations, and punish
by forfeiture of charter and franchise and fning
Of officers any corporation that engages in such
combinations
HoUsE.-By a vote Of 20 to % Senator Peers
bill providing for the i~nfiction of the death
penalty at the state penitentiary, under direc-
tion Of the warden, passed.
The house passed a bill to define, suppress
and punish lobbying.
The house adjourned in order to allow mem
hers IN attend the pOOd roads convention
JEFFERSON CITY, Feb. 25.-SENATE-The
senate yesterday passed Senator klenes bill
prohibiting insolvent firms and corporations
from providing for preferred creditors, and
making the accounts OF inSolvent concerns
q trust fund for the benefit of all creditors;
also, Senator Martins bill making the state
fiscal year begin January 1; also. Senator
DavisSon'S bill requiring manufacturers of
canned goods to mark the date of canning on
their output, and a bill by Senator Klene to pre-
vent adulteration Of candies
Senator Klene's bill, making it larceny to
change the workings on bicycles, passed.
Two important measures, of which Senator
HOhenSchild is the author passed. First is a
teachers institute bill, requiring such institutes
to be schools of methods instead Of the common
branches, and certain qualifications will be
necessary for attendance. There will be
a uniform system Of examination through
OLb N"O oNoNNs AAC Il until
from the hands of the institute and placed
in those of the county school commissioner
and one local teacher, to be appointed by
the state superintendent OF schools. The bill
carries a small appropriation to pay the eX-
pense of holding Institutes in the five or six
counties which have been too poor to afford
such luxurieS. The second bill gives the archi-
tects a mechanics lien for services rendered,
similar to that now allowed mechanics and con-
tractors.
HoUsE-Mr. States revenue bill was called up
for discussion, and an attack was made by Rep
reSentativeS Rubey, Barnett and OFallon
upon the provision for listing notes and
evidences OF debt in detail. Mr.. O'Fallon
held that neither the present nor the pro-
posed law reached the corporations and the
banks, while both were aimed at the indi-
viduaL. Mr.. Rubey said there were men in
his town whose credit would be ruined If
it were known how much they were in
debted to him as q banker, and he felt
sure the same conditions prevailed throughout
the state. A motion to indefinitely postpone
resulted: Yeas, Al; nays, 81. The bill was
Yeas, 20; nays, So.
JEFFERSON CITY, Eel. %. SENATE-The
senate, yesterday, rejected the nomination Of
James NJ Lewis to be police commissioner Of
st. Louis. This action of the senate caused a
general 'jawfest" after adjournment. 1t seems
that q number Of republicans voted with the
'bucking'' democrats for the purpose Of en-
joying the fun of . rumpus among
their opponents. All Of the governors
six nominees for managers of the
industrial home for girls at Chillicothe were
Charles ". Green, the present chief clerk of
the house. The committee failed TO report his
name back to the senate, and it is understood
that several members of the house are reSpon-
sible for the delay.
HoUsE-Mr. Avery, from the committee on
judiciary, reported favorably the following bills:
Providing for the inspection and labelling of
v~inegars, jellieS and all apple products; for the
creation Of the Thirty-irst judicial circuit; for
the filling of temporary vacancies in the office
OF county judge.
The bill to establish q fourth normal school at
Maryville, Nodaway county, was reported upon
fayOrably.
JEFFERSON CITY. Feb. ESSENTIAL an
executive session OF the senate yesterday morn
ing, the appointment of James VI. Lewis as po-
lice commissioner Of st. Louis was confirmed.
\ bill to allow women to become members Of
boards OF education came up, and caused quite
a discussion on woman suffrage. Senator Peers
said he considered the measure the fool
iSheSt kind Of nonsense" and Senator
Morton declared the woman who made
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did not want to vote. Senator DAVIDSON Crep)
said Senators Morton and Gray were afraid if
the women voted the democratic party would
suffer. The debate caused great amusement.
HOUsE-The bill by Mr.. Williams, of Scott, to
prohibit the sale or giving away Of cigarettes to
minors was read a third time and passed. It
carries a fine of not less than so nor more than
500, or by Imprisonment in the county Jail not
to exceed six months.
Nh. Cox. of Oregon, introduced a resolution to
dispose Mr.. Charles W. Green from the chief
clerkship Of the house, and that Mr.. Thompson,
the assistant, be made chief clerk. The allega-
ton in the resolution is hat Mr.. Green has not
given his personal attention to the duties of his
office.
MI. Rebo, of Clark, moved to lay the motion
on the table, which was defeated by a vote Of 90
yeas to 81 nays.
The matter was postponed until the LIST
The Tubbs bill, to place coal oil inspectors
on salary and make them pay the fees they col
lect In excess OF their salaries into the school
fund, was passed.
JEFFERSON CITY, March I.-SENATE-There
were many empty chairs in the senate on the
9th.
Senator Orchard introduced two bills, namely,
the Ryder beer bill and the bill creating the
office Of fire marshal.
The remainder of the time, outside o; engross-
Eent OF a few bills and other routine matters,
WAS taken up in the discussion of a bill to tax
old maids and other freak bills, intended to be
n .unorptS9