The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-02-27
MISSOURI LEGISLATURE.
Condensed Proceedings of the Thirty Ninth
i.enernI AsaennhIX In BiannIal SegalOn.


THE senate on the 18th reported favorably
the bills to permit state officers and Legislators
to accept railroad passes; to permit nine Jurors
to submit a verdict in civil cases; for the adop-
tiOn OF the Cuban resolution and to allow one
railroad company to own stock in another. BY
q vote of 20 to IL the senate killed Grays bill to
prohibit corporations from becoming admins
traitors or executors The senate passed
Busche'S bill to prevent greater interest than
one per cent. a month The house committee
reported favorably the bill to make racing
legitimate sport and to prevent pool rooms
The bill appropriRtin2 81 100000 to purchase
state bonds during the next two years was
passed. Clymers bill to prevent alien land hold
ing passed. ia to /. The house, by almost
unanimous vote. passed the bill which provides
that all boys under iS convicted Of felonies
shall be sent to the reform school instead of
the penitentiary or iails. The house adopted
resolutions asking congress to make liberal ap-
propriations for improvement of the Mississippi
and Current rivers Among the bills intro
duced were: For q commission OF five to at
tend the -Fitzsimmons hstic encounter
in Nevada to learn whether 1t would be well for
Missouri to legsliEe pugilistic encounters.
Whitecotton presented a rigid antitrust bill.
THE senate committee on corporations on
the 18th reported favOrably the bill to prohibit
ticket scalpiug. The senate passed the bills for
reorganizing the state militia, for electing police
judges in third-class cities, and to create the
office OF supervisor of building and loan asso-
Citations. The senate confirmed the nomination
of A RoZelle as labor commissioner -. In the
compel insurance companies which collect pre-
miums in the state to deposit ol0 with the in
Surance commissioner and have el0 900 in bank,
and to allow foreign corporations to acquire
real estate, but compelling them to sell it within
three years. These bills were favorAbly re-
ported: To repeal the blanket ballot law and
providing that the state shall print ballots for
each political party; fellow-servant bill to in
clude every concern using dangerous machinery
which employs 40 men or more; to prohibit
ar ats nj fr0m fSSufn0 cnrtincAtea
asking the speaker to appoint a committee to
visit the Corbett-Fitzsimmons prize fight
Among the house bills introduced were: To
create a board OF pardons; TO compel depart
ment stores to pay tax of $50 on each line of
goods carried; to provide for the better securi-
ty of travellers on passenger trains.
THE senate on the 10Th ord cred to engross-
ment the bills to prohibit the killing OF horses
for food; to build monument to Thomas H
Benton. and to prevent candidates from being
slandered just before election The following
bills were passed: Prohibiting justices Of the
peace from taking dispositions or acting as no.
taries in cases pending in their courts; appro-
prating 81 800 for monument to Daniel
Boone: to submit constitutional amendment
to authorize the collection OF an Inheritance
tax: to allow ten jurors to return O verdict In
stead Of I2 and to abolish the grand jury sys-
tenn. except where one is especially called
by the Judge for criminal cases
bill was introduced to compel railroads
to stop passenger trains at or near county
seats. =. The house spent six hours In debating
the university endowment bill and It was finally
recommitted, 40 to ST. The house voted to un-
seat Baugher rep) of Washington county and
to seat Dr. Eaten (dem). Crisp, Of jackson.
introduced bill to compel telegraph companies
to send messages OF ten words for Is cents and
o bill to compel cemetery companies TO spend
one-fourth OF the money they receive for lots
each year to beautify the cemetery grounds and
keep them in order.
IN the senate on the Goth Gray introduced q
bill to compel trust companies that sign bonds
to maintain a deposit equal to so per cent. OF
the amount of bonds they have signed e. The
house. by a vote of 80 to I2 passed the bill to
make the union soldiers home at St James an
eleemosynary institution and appropriating
$4,000 for its support The same action was
taken regarding the ex-confederate home at
Higginsyille. Lee introduced q bill to compel
employees to pay wages semf-monthly. The
textbook committee reported favor ably bill
creating a textbook commission. At $3.50 p.
m. both houses met in joint session and listened
to an address by William J. Bryan, of Ne
braska
THE senate was not in session on the ed.
Ia the house Powers bill for0idding all but
naturalized citizens of the United States to
perform marriage ceremonies was passed IT
also passed the bill forbiddins the public exhi-
bition OF cripples and deformed persons or ami
mails. Among the bills introduced were: To
repeal all laws for the protection OF wild deer
and turkeys: to encourage emigration and
manufacturing in the state by investigating the
forestry; requiring persons intending to engage
In the saloon business to give 80 days notice in
O newspaper: appropriating $500 for q monu-
ment to United States Senator Buckner in
Cape Girardeau county; making persons selling
liquors to minors subject to civil damages. The
house committee on internal improvements re-
ported substitute antitrust bill