Iron County register., 1899-05-25
THE MISSOURI LEGISLATURE.
PrnceeainEs of The Fortieth General AS
senhIy.

PrnceeGinGs of the Fortieth General An.
senhIy.
JEFFERSON CITY, May I6.-Th4 house,
yesterday, receded from its amendments
sessment feature was eliminated, and an
ans endnnen. added relating to the taxa
tion of franchise values.
The house again voted TO limit the ap-
preparation 10 $4,000 a year FOR support OF
the national guard.
The Vandiver bill prohibiting central
committees from filing vacancies by ap-
pointing candidates who are not of the
same, political faith passed the house. no,
The Wilson bill requiring separate con-
yentions for the nomination of judges or
the supreme and appellate courts also
passed the house.
JEFFERSON CITY, May t7.-t,ov. Ste
phens has signed the Slate department
Louse. yesterday, with a message merely
Stating that he had approved the meas
ule. The bill will become Il law at the
en6 of so days after final adjournment.
1t 10 expected that before that time the
department stores will take up he mat
ter. into court on the question OF consti-
Owing to the fact that the present laws
relating to grave-robbing have proved in
effective, the senate passed bin which
ha / been recommended by the revision
committee. 1t provides heavy fines and
Imprisonment for the oTenSs
The house passed :. oil introduced by
Senator TanQy to provI0e for the payment
of $500 to Heck Thomas as a reward for
killing Bill Doolan, notorious outlaw.
1t will be recalled that DooIan robbed the
bank at Southwest City. IN -McDonald
Doolan at the time. Thomas pursued the
gang of outlaws .persistently, and sue
of Doolan, showing his breast had been
rfddled with buckshot, We're exhibited to
members of the house. The bin was
passed in the senate in april, and is ready
for the governors signature.
Senator Bavissons wine-ceom bill was
passed in the house. 1t was amended,
however. by striking out the word dis
reputable before the word wine room.
JEFFERSON CITY, May 1S.-Yesterday
the Bohart bill, distributing the foreign in
surance tax money now in the state treas
ury, amounting to $233, 900, among the va
rious counties of the state and city of ST.
Louis, was signed by Gov. Stephens.
The house passed the senate revised bill
relating, to peddlers and their licenses.
ents. patent rights, patent medicines,
lightning rods, merchandise, except pi-
amos books, sewing machines organs,
tural or horticultural products shall be
licensed as peddlers
recting the state treasurer to refund all
franchise fees or taxes paid, in accord
ance with the provisions of the act OF 1895,
as amended by the act of 1897, providing
for the endowment of the state university
and for the establishment and endowment
OF free Scholarshtps in every county. Tha
sum OF S43.564. 10 is appropriated out of the
state treasury, chargeable to this fund.
Senate revised bill 21 introduced by
Senator Dowell, by request of the revis-
ing committee. relating to levees, passed
the senate. \ new section is Incorporated
in the chapter providing that whenever
the right OF way snail be obtained over
not more than one mile of any railroad
right of way in any one place by volIn-
tary REIMBURSEMENT of the same or by
condemnation proceedings, it shall be the
duty of the railway company or person
owning the property to construct its road
bed or embankment as high as the top of
nnint InG te'ee wlcnGut ops 9penlngs between the
road track or embankment, and if any
person or. corporation fails to SO construct
its embankment after the building of an
adjacent leVee, person or corporation
shall be liable in damages for all injuries
sustained by the levee district, or any per-
son by reason of it's failure to so CON
struct its embankment.
JEFFERSON CITY, May 19-The street
railway consolidation bill passed th6, |
house yesterday afternoon by a vote of
81 to 80, after scenes or excitement and
confusion. The emergency clause was
aisC adopted by vote of SO to IS. The
bill now goes to the governor. A sem |
s;tt1onal scenes We're precipitated by the
St'jen!eil I ~ oI NJ. JehkinS, i, OF Jasper that
the street railway bill.
the act declaratOry of revision the house /
receded from its amendment cutting down |
the number which shall constitute the
Il to ten, and passed the senate bill.
Upon the representation of Mr.. Rubey. |
Or Macon, that the bill to appropriate
$4,000 for a state exhibit at the Pan
American exposition al Buffalo was un.
constitutional. the house indefinitely post
The house passed the Mott change of |
venue bill. The bill was supported by |
the St. Louis real estate exchanges. 1t |
will have the effect of expediting the trial |
OF change of venue cases, and thereby |
save much in the way of costs to land |
lords.
JEFFERSON CITY, May 2O.-The |
house yesterday refused to adopt the con-
ference committee report on TIE appro- |
priation bill carrying the militia item. |
~ a. hn T1rti oil
guard be allowed $4,000 for the two years. |
This, the house would not agree to, and |
pointed. This is the fourth conference |
committee report on this bill that the /
house has refused to ADOPT.
The house slaughtered the senate re-
vised bill treating of insurance laws. The
bill was Indefinitely postponed by a vote
that was almost unanimous. In conse-
Quence of this action, this particular
chapter will not be revised, and the chap
ter will remain as it stands The bill con-
ure of which Senator Morton was the au-
thor. and which the house Indefinitely
ure required mutual life insurance COM
panies to file annual statements of SAL
aries paid to officers and other expenses.
When the house learned that this meas
ure had been introduced into the revised
bill it fell on the latter measure and sent
it to the morgue in hurry. Mr. Pope
and a few others pleaded for the bill, but
The house reconsidered and passed the
bill to establish a colony for the feeble
minded. and appropriating $50, 1000 for the
purpose.
JEFFERSON CITY, May 22.-Gov Ste
phens vetoed the Farris anti-schoolbook
trust bill. and also the measure to pre- !
vent justices of the peace from retaining
notary fees. The national guard appro-
priatiOn was increased to $50, 900.
The Nesbitt election bill, applying to
ST. Louis, was passed, amid much excite
ment.
Returned TO Port n Second Time.
Ponce, Porto Rico, May 22.-The Uni
ted States transport Meade, which
while leaving this port Monday last
with the Nineteenth infantry, struck
a sunken wreck outside the harbor,
which caused serious leak and neces-
sitnted her return here left mort Sat-