The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-03-27
THE CLOSING HOURS.
Many Bills of Importance Acted upon by
the Missouri Thirty Ninth General As


the Missouri Thirty Ninth General As
sembIy.
THEsenate on the lIth confirmed the appoint
ment of w. c. Scarritt and r L. Gregory n.
police commissioners OF Kansas City. The
senate passed the bill providing for u state
board of arbitration to settle differences be-
tween employers and employees. -. Among the
bills passed by the house were: To allow
women to vote and hold the office OF school di-
rector; authorizing county courts to become
trustees in cases OF charitable DequeStS; Peers
bill for general reorganization OF the state
militia; to prohibit the charging of more than
one per cent. IA month interest on chattle mort
gage loans. The house defeated the resolution
providing for n constitutional convention and
the bill for the election of state grain in
spector
AMONG the bills passed in the senate on the
18th were To increase the state fish commits
sion to five members; requiring teachers in the
public schools to teach the effects OF narcotic
and alcoholic stimulants on the human body; to
prohibit the manufacture Of wearing apparel or
other articles in tenement or dwelling houses
except by immediate members Of the family.
In the senate rider was tackled onto the ap-
preparation bill for eleemosynary institutions
which provides that the money can only be
spent where institutions are controlled by allo-
pathic physicians. BY vote OF 81 to II the bill
to reduce freight rates p per cent was defeated.
THE senate on the 10Th passed the anti-pool
room and racing bill as prepared by the Horse
Breeders association The senate passed the
bill permitting judges OF courts to parole per-
convicted OF misdemeanors and sem
fenced to jail The senate also passed the bill
to pay the contingent expenses OF the present
legislative session. amounting to SlSO.OOl The
senate agreed TO the house amendments to the
Vandiver antitrust bill and passed 1t. The
senate voted adversely the Ryder beer
inspection and good roads bill, also
the bill to reduce passenger
fares to two cents mile. The senate declined
to accept a gift from Mrs. Price OF three acres
for a state cemetery The house refused to
amendment
priation bill which practically barred home
Opathic physicians from state institutions.
The house passed the bill to erect q monument
to Joe Bowers" The democrats in the house
killed the bill to appropriate 1880 for monu-
ment to ex-Gov. Marmadul<e. The bill requir-
ing manufacturers OF skim milk cheese to so
label their products was passed
BY vote OF IL to II the senate on the Goth
refused to consider the bill to reduce passenger
fares TO two cents u mile. BY vote of IL to IL
the senate killed the bill allowing jures to fix
O life sentence in the pcnitentiary for persons
convicted OF first degrees murder The bill to
allow juries in criminal cases to separate dur
ing the trial OF case was killed. The senate
passed the bill to punish keepers OF assignation
houses for permitting girls under IS years to
visit their places also the bill to assess promis-
sory notes and bonds 80. The house passed Sem
ator Busche's bill to prevent the employment
of children between the ages of eight and IA in
shops where there is dangerous machinery
nOxious gases Children under eight years old
not to be employed anywhere.
BOTH houses OF the ThirtyNinth general as
sembly adjourned sine die at noon on the 22d.
Both houses passed the amended textbook bill
and it was sent to the governor. In the house
Speaker Farris presented with gold
watch, Mai. Bittinger making the presentation
speech. Aydelotte offered a resolution oppos-
ing the appointment OF any homeopathic physi-
clans in state institutions laid ON the table
The senate by unanimous vote passed the bill
to erect monument to Joe Bowers"