The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-03-13
MISSOURI LEGISLATURE.

Condensed Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth
General Assembly in Biennial Session.
AMONG the bills passed by the senate on the,
Sd were: To make the selling of mortgaged
property an offenSe OF the same grade as though
1t had been stolen; giving police judges in third
class cities the same powers as justices of the
peace; providing that all property in the state
must be insured by agents residing In Missouri:
making it a penal ohense to mutilate or destroy
books, accounts or papers with the intention OF
defraudtng; providing for u school textbook
commission which shall purchase q uniform set
OF textbooks for all the schools OF the state.
The bill to prohibit ticket ~scalping was killed.
Senator Miller presented . bill to have each
county pay its own criminal COSTS.
The house passed the bill to increase
the dramshop licenses for state purposes to
S2OO per year. Tn bill requiring all rail-
road companies TO accept cash fares from
passengers was also passed. The bill to
repeal the university endowment and free.
scholarship act was defeated. A steering COM
mittee to revise all bills on the calendar was
appointed Among the bills introduced We're:
Providing for compulsory attendance OF chill
dren at the public schools; regulating charges
and commissions at the stock yards; for an
eight-hour law.
BOTH houses took a recess of two hours on
the 9TH in honor Of the Inauguration of McKin-
ley. Among the bills passed by the senate
were: Increasing the number of state banking
inspectors to three at SI,S00 per year. and plaoe
Ing trust companies under their Jurisdiction:
appropriating Sl5O.000 for a new insane asylum
to be located in the southeastern part Of the
state. Lees bill reducing express charges on
all packages except money p per cent, and on
berries so per cent, was passed by the house.
Among the other house bills passed were the
Making all OF Il mans salary above
40 yer month subject to punishment; providing
that when the parents of any child are proven
to be immoral or unfit to rear the child il may
be taken from them by the county court; pro-
viding that electric street ears must be screened
to protect motormen; authorizing the railroad
commissioners to require railroad companies
to interchange cars when the public interests
require 1t: TO change the fiscal year from De-
cember 81 to June 30: requiring banks to set
apart ten per cent. to the surplus fund until the
surplus fund shall reach - per cent. of the cap
ital stock.
THE senate on the 5th, by almost unanimous
vote, passed the bin TO prohibit dynamite
bucket shops, providing heavy penalties for
the laws violation The senate indefinitely
postponed the bill 10 regulate charges at the
stock yards. The senate also passed the sub
stituta for the present blanket ballot law
and IL was sent TO the governor for his sigma
ture. Among the house bills passed were: Au-
thoriZing criminal and circuit courts to parole
prisoners known to be habitual criminals: re-
ducing the contract rate of interest from eight
to seven per cent; to remove the Office of
state insurance commissioner from st Louis
TO Jefferson City; restricting pool selling TO
race tracks from April 10 TO November l and
making night and winter racing illegal; TO pre-
vent insolvent corporations from providing for
creditors; TO create a bureau OF build
ing aud loan supervision. The house commit
tee ON agriculture reported favorably States
bill reducing commissions charged at the stock
yards. A bill was introduced TO give the state
$780, 900 for maintenance and $40, 900
for repairs for the next two years.
THE senate On the 9TH passed the bill reduir-
Ing the warden OF the penitentiary TO classify
the conViets according to their terms of SEN
tence 80. Among the bills passed by the house
was one to authorize the railroad commissioners
TO fix maximum express rates. One-half OF the
committee clerks were discharged. The bill To
require telegraph companies TO send messages
by the most direct route was killed. A bill
was passed which is intended to prevent the
sale OF cheap jewelry. Davis, of Pike. intro
duced a bill leaving 1t to the jury In first degree
murder cases to decide whether the person con-
victed shall hang or be given a S9-year peni-
Tertiary sentence. Gov, Stephens signed the
bill to protect street railway motormen from
the weather
life insurance companies to put acct
lent clauses in their policies. .. Among the
bills passed by the house were; Martins bill
10 make lobbying u felony; to exempt farmers
mutual hail insurance companies from the pro-
visions OF the general law; requiring all ped
Hers to pay o state license OF $40 TO s25 every
six months 10 give Kansas City one-third OF
money collected from dramshops within the
lily TO he used for boulevards. Among the
bills introduced We're: To provide for a state
board of p%ardons; instructing the attorney
general TO bring suit against the bond compa-
which agreed to secure the state against |
by reason OF the. enort TO remove the state
;apital to Sedalia- Gov. Stephens vetoed the
1il authorizing all hangings Ia he done at the
state penitentiary at Jefferson City.
Sore eyes, no matter how severe or long